Lauren Alaina flubs National Anthem lyrics; Scotty McCreery caught lip-syncing
Lauren Alaina sang the National Anthem at the Packers-Lions game Thursday night. CREDIT: AP
It was a tough day for the top two season 10 “Idol” contestants.
Lauren Alaina forgot the words for a moment to the National Anthem before the Lions-Packers game Thanksgiving. She was supposed to sing “at the twilight’s last gleaming” but started to sing “through the twi…” Her brain must have realized she sang the wrong word and she froze. After about three seconds, she skipped “at the” and started with “last gleaming.” She then finished the song without incident. “It’s all in how you finish,” announcer Joe Buck said.
She owned up to it on Twitter soon after:
Thank you everyone for the kind words. But the truth is I messed up. I’m gonna spend the rest of the day being thankful for all my blessings
And winner Scotty McCreery didn’t start his cue on time during his lip-synced portion of “A Trouble With Girls” at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Yes, everyone I saw yesterday at the parade was lip-syncing so that’s not the issue. He just missed the first three words of his song so he made it really obvious:
I saw him on Channel 2 WSB-TV last night at the Macy’s Great Tree Lighting at Lenox sing “Christmas Cookies” with no problems and he sang live. On Twitter, McCreery didn’t comment about the lip-syncing issue but did say he enjoyed Atlanta:
great time at the show tonight for Macy’s in Atlanta! now time for some thanksgiving grub!
Here’s the first season 11 “Idol” promo with actual contestants (but no singing):
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118 comments Add your comment
Sam-A
November 28th, 2011
11:08 am
PS: Way to go Dawgs!
Rickster
November 28th, 2011
11:09 am
When I watch X-Factor…. from the judges, to the host, to the announcer, to the contestants…. I keep thinking to myself…
“THIS is the best they could do?”
I can understand Simon – it’s his show. If he wants Paula…. it’s his show.
But out of thousands of contestants, and doubtless hundreds of announcers that auditioned… and the numerous music figures that undoubtedly had to call Simon to express interest, we’re to believe that these are the best they could come up with?
Simon’s totally blown five million bucks.
Rickster
November 28th, 2011
11:12 am
XF would have been a perfect venue for Harry Connick Jr. He really enjoyed the mentoring he did on Idol. Would have been great to see him rather than LA Reid.
JTesla
November 28th, 2011
11:25 am
The first thing I wondered when I read that rumor is who would he replace? So, he already thinks that someone needs to get the boot. I doubt it would be Paula when I watched she actually did better than the other two.
We already know that a new host is on the way.
Deirdre
November 28th, 2011
11:35 am
I agree! Of the 4 judges, Paula has been the best. Nicole is useless and LA has no stage presence or ability to see past his particular brand of music.
As for the host, I think Simon went for looks in hopes that us girls would go a little gaga over him but, frankly, I kinda like my guys to have a little personality. The anti-Seacrest has none!
Mercedes S.
November 28th, 2011
11:39 am
Sam-A, the ensemble of “The Closer” is too good to let go – something will come up!
I was bored stiff by “Hugo” or at least the first hour of it. I knew of Georges Méliès since film school, of course, and enjoyed that part, but the bland kid got on my nerves.
Mercedes S.
November 28th, 2011
11:45 am
Deirdre, I envy you your catching up of the “Walking Dead” – good existentialist questions brought up in last two episodes.
TEASER and SEMI SPOILER – Sophia is found!
Deirdre
November 28th, 2011
11:46 am
Sam, The Walking Dead returns in Feb.
Rickster
November 28th, 2011
11:52 am
Went to see “Puss in Boots” during the holiday week. The part about Humpty Dumpty was kinda stupid… but the cat ROCKED!
Rickster
November 28th, 2011
12:09 pm
Going back to a comment made by “Frommie” – the big scandal about Milli Vanilli was that other people sang the songs they lip-synched to. AND… they won a Grammy for it.
That’s a BIG difference than the fact that Scotty was lip-synching to his own song.
Sam-A
November 28th, 2011
12:12 pm
Mercedes: I found “Hugo” a little slow, but wasn’t really bored with it. It was so visually interesting, I made it thru unscathed by boredom. I loved finding out that the filmmaker was real. I’ve seen that little film of the moon and the rocket many times, so kinda had a feeling there must be something to him more than a fictional character. Needless to say, loved the scene where the mean little boy daschund “found love” – that little girl was so beautiful. Did you notice the boy dog’s mama was the Giantess Head Mistress of Beaux Baton from “Goblet of Fire”?
Deirdre
November 28th, 2011
12:21 pm
On the animated list, I am looking forward to Tin Tin
Deirdre
November 28th, 2011
12:57 pm
In American Idol news, Hollywood Week begins on Dec. 11 and contestants who pass muster will then go to Vegas(why, I ask) for the Cirque du Soleil challenge…Michael Jackson songs….where the top whatevernumber for this year will be named. They will return to their homes by 12/22. At this point, Joe’splace will be frantically(and successfully) finding out the spoilers for the top whatevernumber it is this year.
Count on spoilers before the end of 2011.
JTesla
November 28th, 2011
1:30 pm
American Idol 10 times better than X Factor, even with the three clowns coming back.
Mercedes S.
November 28th, 2011
1:31 pm
Speaking of animation, I really liked “Arthur Christmas”, even though I’ve had my fill of Christmas movies, new and old. But this “Christmas” is made by the “Wallace and Gromit” people, so the animation is clever and the dialogue full of quips only adults would get.
And speaking of Tin Tin, I’m about to start Susan Orleans new book “RIN Tin Tin”…
Mercedes S.
November 28th, 2011
1:32 pm
Can’t WAIT for American Idol to start
Rodney Ho
November 28th, 2011
1:50 pm
New blog entry!
Sam-A
November 28th, 2011
2:11 pm
Saw Susan Orleans on Today this weekend. I used to watch Rin Tin Tin series when I was a kid. More interested in that book than in the movie “TinTin” – I just don’t like those films that look like humans/scenery painted over to become cartoonish.