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Xtina Is Sorry, Still Loves America, Booze
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Jen Carlson
Published Feb 7, 2011
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Staten Island native Christina Aguilera is sorry for botching the national anthem, okay everyone. Calm down. She says, “I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through." And Fergie, who totally wet her pants that time and whose band gave an even worse performance at the Super Bowl last night, wants you all to back off, saying she's only "human." She also admits that her own performance last night was not perfect (noting it was "pitchy"). But hey, she's just human! She's just a human getting paid absurd amounts of money to sing well!
Meanwhile, rumor-mongerers are wondering if Xtina's lyrical malfunction is a sign she needs to go to rehab—allegedly "Christina's drinking has some of her friends worried."
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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