It's every singer's nightmare.

You're about to perform -- singing for a big-deal event to a backing track with a choir when -- nothing.

Silence.

A burst of music for a moment. Then nothing.

All eyes are on you, but there's no music.

Literally, the WORLD is watching you.

What do you do?

Well, if you're a boss like Carrie Underwood, you wait for a short while for the technicians to get the track going. And when they don't, you start singing "America the Beautiful" at the Trump Inauguration acapella -- without music -- and make it a sing-along with all the big-deal guests gathered there.

Former presidents and first ladies.

Supreme Court justices.

Members of congress.

Titans of tech.

And after her flawless performance, she gesture-claps to everyone in the Capitol Rotunda who joined her in the not-planned sing-along.

 

 

Now, I'm not speaking to the appropriateness of Carrie Underwood singing at the Trump Inauguration -- that's her decision and her fans on both sides of the aisle can decide for themselves whether that was a good move for her.

But just the fact that under this very high-pressure moment -- and with no backing music -- Carrie Underwood NAILED "America the Beautiful" live, before a global audience.

AND she helped "out" big wigs who didn't know the words to what is arguably America's second national anthem.

Damn, girl. That was a boss move.

Kudos.

 

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