Ashlee Simpson blooper at SNL

[Lennon]

I don't know about you guys, but I just found out about this

Ashlee Simpson Caught Lip-Synching (She has no talent!)
Posted by: Admin on Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 01:18 PM
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Teen songbird Ashlee Simpson had a microphone malfunction on "Saturday Night Live" last night, scurrying off stage when a production glitch caught her lip-synching the wrong tune.


The pop star, younger sister of singer and TV star Jessica Simpson, sounded great belting out "Pieces of Me" in her first segment on the show. It was the same song that she butchered at August's MTV Music Video Awards, drawing withering reviews for a flat, out of key performance.

But the triumphant moment turned into a debacle when she came out to debut the song "Autobiography" for a second set. But whoever was responsible for piping in a studio-engineered rendition for Simpson to mouth screwed up, playing "Pieces" once again.

The raven-haired beauty hopped around briefly, then slinked off the stage as her hapless band half-heartedly faked away. It didn't take long for critics to vent their rage on Ashlee Simpson's official Web site.

"Finally, you're exposed for the fraud that you are," wrote an E-mail poster named drdrewby minutes after the embarrassing performance. "You have cheated your fans and people who actually thought that you had a lick of talent. You should quit the music business because you are now and always will be a complete and utter joke."

Said CowboyJeff99: "I knew she sounded like crap live, so I was 'wondering' what was going on when her voice sounded just like the radio edit."

When the cast of the live show came out to bid the audience good night, actor Jude Law tried to explain Simpson's slipup.

"What can I say folks, live TV," Law shrugged.

A still-humiliated Simpson apologized to her fans - and blamed her band for playing the wrong song.


Note: At least on American Idol, the contestants try to sing... perhaps William Hung should have been the guest musician this week.... He at least makes an effort.

 

[$teauA]

I saw it happen live, it was just great especially since I can't stand her , oh and she blamed her band hahahaha if I was them I would ditch the bitch .

 

[Lennon]

haha yeah, I just saw it. The look in the band members was priceless :funny:

 

[Vagegast]

http://www.collegehumor.com/news/ashlee_snl.wmv

 

[ManU2000]

Originally posted by Vagegast
http://www.collegehumor.com/news/ashlee_snl.wmv

hahahahahaha, man I hate that bitch.

 

[rony31]

ya, saw this live too... I was like "didn't she just sing this song?" then I saw her lips moving and I'm like

I've always hated this bitch, just a shadow of Jessica

 

[bjmenge]

The video stops right before the song starts.

 

[SRB]

a shadow... not even... at least jessica has the right features to cover for the fact nobody cares about her music. ashlee doesn't look good, and compared to some other pop "stars/singers" (whatever they're labeled as) she doesn't even scratch the surface of good looks. at least now she's publicly humiliated for the fact that she is a fraud. i just hate these dumbass bitches and their music...

 

[Hakeem]

oh man that sucked

poor girl. I actually found her cute and I do like the Pieces of Me song

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Ditto, I think she's cute and I liked Pieces of Me. And if you think everyone always sings live, you're completely off base, but no, Ashley Simpson has no talent whatsoever.

 

[Voltaic Borusse]

Serves that annoying bimbo right.

 

[bjmenge]

Sweet, I got the clip to work finally.

Haha, she looked so dumb hopping around like that. I doubt she'll perform live anytime soon, on any show.

 

[bjmenge]

Did 'SNL' Gaffe Expose Simpson Vocal Aid?

Sun Oct 24, 7:38 PM ET

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

NEW YORK - Singer Ashlee Simpson (news)'s "extra help" may have been exposed when a "Saturday Night Live" audience heard her voice — singing the wrong song — while she held a microphone at her waist.

Her record company blamed a computer glitch and she blamed her band for Sunday morning's incident, which cut off her planned performance of the song "Autobiography" on the network comedy show.

Simpson had performed her hit single "Pieces of Me" without incident earlier in the show. When she came back a second time, her band started playing and the first lines of her singing "Pieces of Me" could be heard again.

She looked momentarily confused as the band plowed ahead with the song and the vocal was quickly silenced.

Simpson made some exaggerated hopping dance moves, then walked off the stage 35 seconds into the performance. NBC quickly cut to a commercial.

"What can I say?" guest host Jude Law said with Simpson standing next to him at the end of the show. "Live TV."

"Exactly," Simpson said. "I feel so bad. My band started playing the wrong song. I didn't know what to do so I thought I'd do a hoe-down."

Her record company, Geffen Records, said there was a computer glitch. Instead of some pretaped electronic percussion, the recording of "Pieces of Me" started mistakenly performing, the record company said in a statement.

But it sounded suspiciously like a guide vocal that's a common — although almost always unspoken — concert aid. Either the singer "lip synchs" by mouthing words to a backing tape or has a live microphone and sings along to the tape, making the voice sound more powerful than it is.

Such vocal tricks have been used before on the show, making "Saturday Night Live" not entirely live, said a show insider who spoke on condition of anonymity.

A Geffen spokeswoman did not immediately return a call for comment.

Simpson's walk-off joins the lore of other unexpected music moments on "SNL": Elvis Costello (news) stopping and changing songs on live TV, and Sinead O'Connor (news) tearing up a picture of the pope.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041024/ap_on_en_tv/people_ashlee_simpson

I love the excuses. How can it be the band's fault, when it was the wrong vocal tape?

 

[Parra Power]

maybe it was a self-parody sort of thing?


it would have been better if it sung the whole verse :P

 

[Hans]

I can`t stand those Simpson`s sisters. Their whole freakin` life is a freakin` reality show.

There`s only one good Simpson familly on TV and that`s "The Simpsons" . . .

 

[ngyc]

i think is quite normal. lots of hk singer done this before and been criticize by public said they not profession enough. but fans don't care about that as long as their idol have the handsome or pretty outlook they want. some of them, don't even know how to sing.

 

[PhiLLer]

Yeah but that's HK and asians in general. They get excited about poo in a shoebox.

Ashlee Simpson...well, let's just say I'd still hit it
But I hate those "Rock" singers nowadays such as Ashlee Simpson. The songs are as pop as can be yet they still try and pass it off as rock just because it's got an electric guitar in there somewhere.

 

[leungtl]

Originally posted by PhiLLer
Yeah but that's HK and asians in general. They get excited about poo in a shoebox.

*ahem...*

 

[Jacky]

Originally posted by ngyc
i think is quite normal. lots of hk singer done this before and been criticize by public said they not profession enough. but fans don't care about that as long as their idol have the handsome or pretty outlook they want. some of them, don't even know how to sing.

HK "pop singers" haven't been the same quality as 10 years or more ago. They are now based more on marketability. Whoever is more pretty/beautiful/sexy or handsome etc. are being marketed. It's unfortunate tho that those that can sing don't have the look to go with it.
Right now the korean pop scene is awesome.

back on topic.....
LOL that chicken dance that ashlee simpson did was funny.... bwahahaha

 

[John_Arne_Riise]

Originally posted by Carlos*y
HK "pop singers" haven't been the same quality as 10 years or more ago. They are now based more on marketability. Whoever is more pretty/beautiful/sexy or handsome etc. are being marketed. It's unfortunate tho that those that can sing don't have the look to go with it.

Too right. And i ****en hate it. Its a shame that something sells more because of the way they look rather than whatever 'talent' they may have. Its clear proof that what happened with Asslee Simpson is no doubt going on amongst other singers in the charts. Its a farce, and the general public are being brainwashed into thinking so-called 'artists' like that stupid bitch on SNL can sing.