This video shows Kelly Clarkson singing the U.S. national anthem to open the 2012 Super Bowl between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots.

This performance is either laughable or boring, depending on your tastes. What it most certainly isn’t is good. In any way, shape, or form.

For starters the U.S. national anthem is treated with such reverence, with people looking to the skies and holding their hand to their hearts, that I always end up giggling.

As for Clarkson, she delivered the lines without drama (boring) but then added her own little vocal riffs toward the end (laughable). And all from a woman who was discovered on one of Simon Cowell’s crap talent shows.