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Charlie Puth understood that if you want to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl<\/a>, you don\u2019t just wait to be asked to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl. Sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands. Puth submitted a demo<\/a> to Roc Nation earlier this year, eager to sing what he called the \u201chardest song ever written.\u201d Puth seemed, perhaps, to be realizing that this was the hardest song ever written in real time as the camera zoomed in on him and his keyboard out on the field on February 8. Dressed in what were probably very expensive versions of normal-looking clothes (a leather jacket, a collared shirt, a tie, and jeans) and sporting his signature forehead curl, Puth gave the camera a nervous smile and launched into \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d by way of some jazzy little notes on his keyboard. \u201cI\u2019ll never claim to be as good of a singer as Whitney Houston ever was,\u201d he tweeted<\/a> when his performance was announced last December. \u201cBut I assure you we\u2019re putting a really special arrangement together- in D major. It\u2019ll be one of my best vocal performances.\u201d It\u2019s always immediately nerve-racking the second it becomes clear that someone is going to put \u201ctheir spin\u201d on a song so famous, but Puth\u2019s rendition of the national anthem was soulful and gentle. When the song ended, Puth stepped back from his keyboard and looked up, clearly overwhelmed, at the crowd and the sky. It might be the hardest song ever written, but he made it look easy.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Photo by Thearon W. Henderson Charlie Puth understood that if you want to sing the national anthem…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[22751,41602,93,137330,61,60,278,138402,43,7492,138486,138485,94826,135986],"class_list":{"0":"post-288765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bad-bunny","9":"tag-charlie-puth","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-halftime-show","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-national-anthem","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-pop-music","18":"tag-professor-puth","19":"tag-star-spangled-banner","20":"tag-super-bowl","21":"tag-super-bowl-lx"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}