Beyonce admits Inauguration Day lip sync

Beyonce faced the music at a press conference Thursday before the American football championship Super Bowl, admitting that she did lip sync when she performed the national anthem on Inauguration Day.

Beyonce faced the music at a press conference Thursday before the American football championship Super Bowl, admitting that she did lip sync when she performed the national anthem on Inauguration Day.

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The singer said she's a perfectionist and wanted her performance for President Barack Obama to be a memorable one. She called the day emotional.

"I practice until my feet bleed and I did not have time to rehearse with the orchestra," she said. "Due to no proper sound check, I did not feel comfortable taking a risk. It was about the president and the inauguration, and I wanted to make him and my country proud, so I decided to sing along with my pre-recorded track, which is very common in the music industry. And I'm very proud of my performance."

She opened her press conference in New Orleans with a live rendition of the national anthem. She asked those at the conference to stand before she belted "The Star Spangled Banner," and after she said with a laugh: "Any questions?"

The halftime performance became a main focus of her afternoon press conference, even though she'd likely rather concentrate on questions about her set list for Sunday and her upcoming HBO documentary, Life Is but a Dream, which shown for the media just before Beyonce spoke.

Beyonce has teased photos and video of herself preparing for the show, which will perhaps be the biggest audience of her career. Last year, Madonna's halftime performance was the most-watched Super Bowl halftime performance ever, with an average of 114 million viewers. It garnered more viewers than the game itself, which was the most-watched U.S. TV event in history.