--- title: World Series: Staind Singer Aaron Lewis Messes Up National Anthem description: He offered an apology shortly after the mishap canonical: https://time.com/3541223/world-series-game-5-staind-singer-national-anthem/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-27T15:30:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:05.282Z og:title: Watch Staind Singer Aaron Lewis Botch the National Anthem at the World Series og:description: He offered an apology shortly after the mishap og:url: https://time.com/3541223/world-series-game-5-staind-singer-national-anthem/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Staind Singer Aaron Lewis Botch the National Anthem at the World Series twitter:description: He offered an apology shortly after the mishap twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Lead Singer of Staind Is Very Sorry He Totally Screwed Up the National Anthem by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 27, 2014 3:30 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 27, 2014 3:30 PM UTC Aaron Lewis, a.k.a the guy from Staind — you know, the band that had [that song ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=araU0fZj6oQ)“It’s Been a While” in the early 2000s — found himself singing the national anthem at Game 5 of the World Series Sunday night. Unfortunately, though, his performance stained (get it? STAINED) his reputation, since he totally screwed up the lyrics. (He once [heavily dissed ](https://www.youtube.com/embed/8v%5FBgvsU5fI)Christina Aguilera for botching the song. Karma?) Lewis was obviously really embarrassed about the whole thing, and posted an apology [on his website:](http://aaronlewismusic.com/news/230153) --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3541223/world-series-game-5-staind-singer-national-anthem/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3541223/world-series-game-5-staind-singer-national-anthem/"},"headline":"The Lead Singer of Staind Is Very Sorry He Totally Screwed Up the National Anthem","datePublished":"2014-10-27T15:30:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:05.282Z","description":"He offered an apology for fumbling the lyrics at Game 5 of the World Series","url":"https://time.com/3541223/world-series-game-5-staind-singer-national-anthem/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","Music","National Anthem","Kansas City Royals","world series"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3541223/world-series-game-5-staind-singer-national-anthem/","name":"The Lead Singer of Staind Is Very Sorry He Totally Screwed Up the National Anthem"}}]}] ```