Singer Rachel Platten has apologized for seriously screwing up the national anthem ahead of a soccer match over the weekend.
“Still feeling so embarrassed about this. I’m so sorry to everyone – once again,” the 36-year-old singer tweeted Monday, along with a link to her story in People magazine about the “embarrassing” incident during the singing of the national anthem at the NWSL game between the Utah Royals and the Chicago Red Stars.
still feeling so embarrassed about this. I’m so sorry to everyone – once again.https://t.co/69mGL9t88N
— Rachel Platten (@RachelPlatten) April 17, 2018
In the video shared on YouTube, you can hear the audience try to help her out as she forgets the words to the second line twice.
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“I feel really embarrassed, honestly. I’m having a hard time forgiving myself, but I’m working on it. It was incredibly, incredibly embarrassing,” Platten shared. “I’ve been trying to retrace steps of what happened … it has just been hanging over me.”
“I was so nervous going into it,” she added. “The anthem is such a big deal; it’s probably the most important song for our country. I always get nervous because it means so much because it is so powerful. I always want to do it justice, do a good job and give people the exact version they expect and they want.”
“I have done it a bunch of times, but I stepped in front of the people and I felt the expectation,” she continued. “I was ready to open up and do it, and my mind just went blank. I was trying to explain it to my husband: It was like a test that you know all the material to, you study so much and you get in there, and your mind doesn’t cooperate.”
“I was proud that I was able to finish … I actually can’t believe I didn’t forget more words and that I was able to complete the song,” the “Fight Song” singer explained. “So I’m kind of shocked.”