Beyonce Says She Sang to Pre-Recorded Track at Inauguration

The mystery of whether Beyonce lip-synched the National Anthem at President Obama's inauguration is solved: She said today that she sang to a pre-recorded track.

Calling herself a "perfectionist" at a press conference tied to her appearance at the Super Bowl on Sunday, she said that she decided to sing to a prerecorded track becasue "I did not have time to rehearse with the orchestra. It was a live television show, and a very very emotional show for me, one of my proudest moments, and due to the weather, due to the delay, 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."

She said that the use of a prerecorded track is "very common in the music industry" and that she was still "very proud of my performance."