It’s a momentary glitch that singers everywhere fear: the dreaded voice crack.
So when Alicia Keys belted out the opening notes to her iconic anthem If I Ain’t Got You during Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show — and warbled, ever so slightly, before recovering — it was a vulnerable, but for many, relatable moment about the realities of live performances.
But if you watch the NFL’s official YouTube video or Apple Music‘s video of the same performance, the crack never happened.
“No hate to Alicia Keys, but I remember that voice cracking last night,” one TikTok user said in a video with 9.5 million views.
The NFL video, viewed over 17 million times on YouTube as of
