Ashlee Simpson's Saturday Night Live Disaster
"Comfortable and confident" lip-syncher Ashlee was sabotaged on live TV! Someone encode that shit please.
ASHLEEGATE UPDATE: Watch the incident and the apology (Windows Media, via College Humor). You may now dissect in Zapruder-like detail.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Somewhere on Ashlee's official hate board, MTVNews found this new apology purportedly from Miss Simpson herself:
"I can't cancel something like 'SNL' You and I know that even if I synched on it or not, I'd still get seen by millions, maybe even make a few more fans. I'll hold my head high and say I think it was silly of me to do it, silly of me to blame the band, I was just so f---ing embarrassed. But I don't think it did me much harm, and people will see that soon."In a second post titled "I'm trying!" she even responds to the haters:
"Seriously, I don't sleep much for a start, and with flying from A to B and flying all over the f---ing place, it's just getting to me. And it showed. Joke is on me, you seem to enjoy it. I know what I said [in Lucky about disapproving of lip-synching], but when I get as worn out and beaten down as I do, sometimes I do not have the energy or the voice left. I have almost lost it due to nonstop moving about. So it is the only option."Don't forget Ashlee performs "live" on tonight's 2004 Radio Music Awards (NBC 9/8c), making it the first time there has even been a reason to watch.
Calling all Photoshop whizzes: take a stab at this shirt, e-mail to me, and I'll post the most clever ones.
LAST UPDATE I PROMISE: Ashley called in to TRL today and told Gideon Yago:
"It’s so embarrassing, you know? It sucks because that day I had severe acid reflux. It like started acting up. The rehearsals were going amazing and I completely lost my voice at six o'clock that night. My dad was like, 'I'm sorry but you have to sing along with a backing track.' A lot of artists do that but I was so upset because I've never done that ever before. My voice wasn't strong enough. I couldn't even speak and my doctor was like, 'You can't! You're going to blow out your vocal chords!' It was my first time and I made a complete fool of myself because my drummer actually pressed the wrong button."There you have it, straight from the hoarsest mouth. Acid reflux = so not cool.
Posted at 12:53 AM
Tags: Ashlee Simpson | Saturday Night Live
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yeeesssss! haha, god, PLEASE don't leave that out of the west coast broadcast!
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heavensent. i'd like to shake the hand of whoever's responsible.
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I KNEW YOU'D BE ON TOP OF THINGS.
someone must have it. MUST. oh man. ohhh man.
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It. Was. Awesome.
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her apologies and excuses at the end were priceless. I can't believe she blamed her band for beginning to play the wrong song. COME ON! It was so obvious that she was busted lip synching.
that was some great tv history shit.
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incredible.
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also i must add "my band started playing the wrong song..." yes..the wrong some that you started singing too randomly without opening your mouth.
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ryan cabrera totally set her up.
did you see tina fey and amy poehler consoling her at the end? as soon as it happened i thought to myself, what will stereogum say?
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see, i knew she was lip-synching! stereogum didn't believe me, but i proved him wrong! whatevs, though. i still love her and her sexy dance moves. JUST KIDDING. she dances kind of funny.
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can we stage an intervention in re: the boots? awful.
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during the first song, i thought "wow, such an even cd-like tone to her voice!" then woooopsy, snafu!
is the guitar/drums/etc recorded too? if those faux-hawked dudes stopped strumming, would the music go on?
will tweens even care she lip synchs? everyone has already accepted the fact that britney does it.
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lol @ ashlee simpson's life.
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http://www.collegehumor.com/news/ashlee_snl.wmv
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http://www.siscom.net/~petreman/lipsync.avi
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From Lucky Magazine interview:
LM: What are your takes on lip-synching?
AS: I'm totally against it and offended by it. I'm going out to let my real talent show, not to just stand there and dance around. Personally, I'd never lip-synch. It's just not me.
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Oh my word. Just saw the video clip....what a riot...those band members looked like they were going to laugh their asses off later. I wonder if Daddy Simpson will make some heads roll for this one. I was babysitting (stupid college jobs) and flipping through channels and ran across her singing...guess I changed it too soon or had already passed this segment! Shit, wish I could have seen it live. Her humiliation is priceless. Sorry, but she's had her "career" handed to her, so I refure to feel like a cold-hearted bitch for taking joy in her discomfort :)
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ahahahha is her band even playing? those dongs look like theyre faking it too.
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Yeah, she didn't have her own career anyways. She lives off her sister's fame, can't sing, and, apparently, can't dance. About time someone realized she was just another Milli Vanilli.
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that's what she gets for attempting to touch my man. BIATCH.
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btw... why was she dancing around like an elf?
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naw dude, its a leprechaun jig. get it right. do this, download any flutes-only track, then mute the video and watch it. then masturbate. i did.
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Duh, that's, like, the first rule of show biz: when the track you're lip synching to cuts out, dance the hornpipe.
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this i am sure of: jessica was laughing her ass off.
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THIS IS SO TOTES LOLETOWNE I MIGHT DIE! OMGZ THAT DANCE! THE SMIRKS ON THE FACES OF BAND MEMBERS! THE CUT TO A PIC OF JUDE LAW! I'M LOLLERSKATIN ON A LOLLERCOASTER TO THE LOLOCAUST BABY!!!! 4REALZ!
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When we were watching her first performance we started arguing about if she was lip synching or not. Case closed.
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she was so obviously lip synching the first performance. if you listened carefully you could hear her singing over the track at the very beginning and then someone decided *ok she sucks* and just cut her actual vocal out all-together. but what happened for the SECOND performance was priceless.
my band played the wrong song? puhlease, more like "someone played the wrong track on my CD! BoooooOOoo hoo!"
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Anybody know where to download the priceless performance? Pretty please??
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http://www.siscom.net/~petreman/lipsync.avi
http://www.reyox.net/lipsync.avi
http://www.collegehumor.com/news/ashlee_snl.wmv
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http://www.collegehumor.com/news/ashlee_snl.wmv
it takes so little to be famous nowadays. other people control every move you make, you don't have to write your songs, or even sing them. will it ever snap back to the other side of the continuum?
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Those links don't work or don't exist. some one please, i've gotta see ashlee go down! :-)
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does anyone have the clip at the end where she is apologizing and blaming her band?....Thanks so much
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so far, i've only seen an audio clip of the apology at the end:
http://www.askross.com/Ashlee.avi
and kelly, the link i put above does work. i just double-checked it for you. :)
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maybe its because i have an ibook, but none og those links have worked for me. Please help!
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thank you so much for that hilarious clip.....what a loser blaming her band for playing the wrong song....even if they did...she was still lip syncing to the wrong track!!!....bwahahahaha
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my roommate and i were getting drunk while watching SNL tonight and laughed our asses off when her second performance got all fucked up. and why does she dance like she wants to be gwen stefani, anyway?
even funnier, she was in dallas last weekend and was at the mall where i work. she walked by our store twice and we laughed at her both times.
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Ok so that was fucking ghetto. On the west coast version they edited out the part where her lip synch vocals started playing. It just made it look like her band was playing the wrong music. Thank god for TIVO's on the east coast.
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Yep, just saw the West Coast version. Edited out the audio, yet kept the irish jig. Lame.
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My god, watching that clip has to be the ultimate definition of schadenfreude. It almost hurts - almost - to watch the rather inexplicable if not pathetic dance she begins doing post-fuck.
Nothing left for me to do but dance - got canned heat in my heels tonight, baby! Ah-OOoooOOoo-whoaaaaaaaaaaaa
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um, no one is going to mention what they put on instead -- the fucking thing with the bears?!?!!?!
ashlee, not only do you suck, but you tried to blame your band. that's just poor form. they had every right to laugh at your lip-synching ass, and i'm glad they did. it's got to be some new level of hell to have to play backup for that girl. gaaaah.
still, funniest thing i've seen on snl...ever. yeah, ever.
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they removed the vocal from the west coast so she just looked like an idiot dancing around while her band was laughing. seems like daddy simpson wanted to make sure nobody out here knows his little girl lip synchs her songs. god bless the internet!
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"i didnt know what to do, so i started doing a ho-down" There is a God.... and He loves me very much.
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Video, in mpeg format:
http://amysrobot.com/archives/2004/10/ashlee_simpson.php
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i can't believe they edited it out for us west coasters. thank god for the internet.
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From my website:
An Open Letter To Ashlee Simpson.
Hey Ashlee!
What's up? It's Jake! You don't know me, but I think you're totally awesome. Of course I've only seen you on your TV show and heard your album and stuff, but I bet that you and I have a lot in common! Hopefully at some point in the next eight to twelve months, we'll get a chance to hang out or something. I also totally want to make you a mix-tape! Don't worry. I know the whole boy/girl mix-tape thing carries huge implications. This would just be as friends (I do think you're really cute though)! Oh, and it would actually be a mix CD, not a mix-tape. Home recording technology has advanced in the last couple of years. Mix-tape just sounds better, right?
I'm writing because I saw what happened on "Saturday Night Live" and I just wanted to say, don't worry about it. I know there's probably some stupid people out there who think you were lip synching or something, but they're totally dumb and don't realize that you were just doubling your vocals with a backing track to get a full sound, and someone's finger obviously slipped and played the wrong track. I totally got your back if anyone tries to say any shit about you.
Anyway, hope you're having a good time at the after-party! I was gonna come out tonight, but I'm really tired and honestly, I didn't want to meet you for the first time at some steakhouse in midtown. I'm sure there will be cooler circumstances for us to hang soon. Rock!
Talk to you later!
Your friend,
Jake Fogelnest
P.S. If you're looking for a cool CD to buy, check out "Raw Power" by Iggy and The Stooges. It's pretty rad.
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i like to call it the "i got something stuck in my pantz" dance.
it's so painful to watch.
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While I'm sure you all gathered\ignored what I was saying, I should probably specify that when I said "to watch the rather inexplicable if not pathetic dance she begins doing post-fuck" I meant post-fuck UP. I have no idea as to whether Ashlee Simpson does a jig or any other kind of dance for that matter post-coitus.
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if you have a ibook and the links wont work try these:
http://66.98.154.85/simpsonfuckup.mpg
http://66.98.154.85/aftermath.mpg
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According to her official website, Ashlee's scheduled to perform on Monday at the Radio Music Awards:
"Ashlee Simpson will be performing for the upcoming Radio Music Awards, airing live from Las Vegas on NBC October 25 at 9 p.m."
You think she'll make sure the band's performing the right song this time? :)
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those of you that have Tivo's, remember to set them for this next performance. i have this wonderful feeling something horrible is going to happen again.
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Does anyone have an online video of the beginning of the first song she performed on SNL? People have said that you can hear her start to sing along with the prerecorded vocal track, but then they cut her microphone.
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Funniest thing I've ever seen. I've never laughed that hard. That jig. Holy crap. That was funny. I've never seen a career evaporate like that. It was so fast. So perfect. She's so talentless. It think I'm going to find religion because of this...
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if you look at the apology, darrell seems really bummed out over the whole incident but maya's there to cheer him up.
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~m1hjjaap/snlaftermath.mpg
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Quick question: was that really the wrong song the band was playing? Or did the vocal track really not match the music?
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doesnt anyone have a working quicktime of the performance? PLEASE!
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it looks like there are links up, as well as a forum for it at http://ashlee.us/
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Just had to add that I've watched it like 4 or 5 times. This will be the thing I watch when I think MY day's been shitty. Her dancing is painful and hilarious and I loooove this clip for-e-ver.
THANK YOU GOD.
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I read a link off of amysrobot.com that explained what happened pretty decently. Go to http://amysrobot.com/archives/2004/10/ashlee_simpson.php
and click the "disecting the clip" link in the second to last paragraph.
He basically writes that the guitarist switched and started playing "Pieces.." to try and save the song.
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The ironic part of her blaming the band is that the band worked with the problem while she just gave up and walked off stage like a moron. The band looked just as confused (and amused) as her, yet they kept their cool and kept on playing instead of standing there with a dumb look on their face saying "DADDDY!! This isn't the way we planned it!!" There were a couple of good points she could have recovered and started singing that lame ass song, but the lack of Simpson brain cells must have prevented her from problem solving. Sigghhh. Whatever happened to real artists, like BB Mac ;)
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It's because the band members are all professional musicians. Record companies hand pick their musicians for both their LOOK and their sheer ABILITY. I'm sure they're all fantastic musicians and know what to do when the shit hits the fan.... poor little Ashlee doesn't, clearly enough.
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Pieces... pieces... pieces of shit....
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abso-fucking-lutely brilliant.
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I can't believe she blamed her band. What a loser. Does she think we're as dumb as her sister to believe it's there fault?
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Oh that is too hilarious!! Now that you've been exposed as a talentless hack, Ashlee, will you please do us all a favor and GO AWAY. Daddy Simpson would have better luck training a monkey to lip-sync than you.
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OK, this is just TOO much. At art school the first thing they teach you is to play (or sing) through your fuck-ups. Every amateur hack in the world knows that. And with all the media training and shit she's been through, there's no way she can't know what to do when the shit hits.
SO, that leaves us with two explinations...She is either so unable to sing that risking singing live would expose her as the fraud that she is and garner a media backlash of vanilli-esque proportions, or that her mic was made out of chocolate, and she was made to lip-sync against her will by NBC. Either way, there's a million things she could've done. Were I her, I would've stopped the song and launched into a ripping version of Radio, Radio, Costello-style...
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Maybe the band members did it out of frustration. Look how smug they are... I love it.
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What pisses me off is she is blaming the band and if you watch the clip - they start Shadow. I have it Tivo'd and rewound the bastard about 5 times immediately. They are playing the right song. It's because she can't sing strong enough they had to start the cd with her vocals, obviously with the band playing so she doesn't lose her place, and it's pathetic.
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her "band started playing the wrong sonng?" that is absolutely no reason to hop around like a leprechaun!
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That's just... unbelievable. Sheesh. -shakes head-
There goes the reputation...
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What a fucking fraud.
Fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud.
I hope this is the end of her career, even though I respect her for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in "The Hours."
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Oh man. Last night's SNL was great, for only one reason.. Ashee freakin Simpson fucking up. The show itself has sucked for a long time. The only thrill in watching it is that someone is going to fuck up, since it is live TV (on the east coast). This ranks up there with the CD "skipping" at the Milli Vanilli concert. Notice how those guys handled it, they ran off the stage. Sound familiar? HA! Anyway, my point is that I watched a few episodes of Ashee's show and knew there was something up with the whole "singing" thing. She can't sing, but they you could see on the show that they were trying to work around that fact. Like the episode in which she "strained" her voice? You know how that happens. If not, I'll tell you that it happens when someone that can't sing is fighting their own inadequacies to hit the notes. Think of yourself in the car, or the shower, trying to sing along to Whitney Houston. "Hey, I can sing just as good as Whitney!" Wrong! Now I ask, is anyone in the media going to pick-up on this fiasco? Not Viacom stations, I think. They've invested too much in this lipsyncer. Then again, when the ship is sinking it's not women and children first, it's executives first. I don't see how anyone could continue to have a career after something like this. Milli Vanilli didn't. Hell, one of them offed himself.. that's how bad it got for him.
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Funniest thing to ever happen in the history of live television. I haven't laughed that hard since Castro damn near killed himself the other day when he dove into some chairs. But he was a 78-year-old man, so I felt kinda bad for laughing as hard as I did.
But Ashlee is a rich, spoiled, coat-tailing, talentless fraud who tried to con a bunch of unsuspecting teens in the name of capitalism. Now the whole world knows that Ashlee stole money from her fans, because they all believed they were getting somthing that was never really there.
That little jig thing she did? Funniest thing I've ever seen. I'm going to call it the holy-shit-my-career-is-so-fucking-over dance. She does it so well, I'm going to try to watch it again without peeing myself...
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one more thing and then I will have to tear myself away and do some reading for organic chemistry....
The two fellas on the guitar look like they could barely contain themselves. And whoever was operating the SNL camera captured it beautifully. Too good to be true. I bet those guys are still laughing their asses off right now.
And doesn't her band look so appropriately punked out? You know, little mohawk, edgy tie and jacket, etc....not too far from the mainstream...just a little "funky" and "edgy" like Ashlee the punk-rock indie songstress ... ahhahahahaa
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probably this will be the only funny thing that actually happens this season on snl.
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THERE IS A GOD!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ashlee's hoedown makes the dancing of Elaine Benes look genius.
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Well, in Ashlee's only defense here... this is totally different than the Milli Vanilli thing and cannot be compared at all. Milli Vanilli weren't the actual people singing their music when they lip synched. Their voices were never actually used. That is why the lost their careers in their "Scandal". Ashlee Simpson does sing her songs and the recordings are her, though surely they are digitaly enhanced and cleaned up like most recordings today. Many recording artists' do lip synch during performances, or sing to their own tracks. This is not unusual. Now, how she responded to this, she is deserves criticism. She walked off which was totally unprofessional. I know she's young, but she should have been trained better as to what to do when something like this happens. Her band did the best they could to save the situation for her and she failed herself. For her to blame it on her band after, well....I think she was quickly instructed to do that. I don't think she thought it up on her own, but that doesn't take away her ultimate responsibility for it all. I am not a fan of hers at all. I just happened to flip on the show while she was performing her first number, and my brother mentioned that she was lipsynching. I said "who cares" and changed the channel.
Her career is not over if she handles this situation in the media the right way, so the future of her career is up to her.
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That's what happens when a person don't deserve to be in the same room as Jude. Bwah.
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Finally! some comedy on SNL's new season! After watching this I had a sudden erge of shower with some Irish Spring, while eating a bowl o' 'them Lucky Charms...
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how much do you want to bet dollars to donuts that eminem makes a reference to this during his performance next week?
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Classic. Moments like those must be cherished-only so often do you get such a hateable "celebrity" making a fool of themselves, and be completely secure in the fact that you need not feel one drop of remorse. I laugh.
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STOP IT, HYPOCRITES! Let's face it. We loved to build her up and now we love tear her down. We all watched the show, we all bought the record and we all have been enjoying Ashlee. She's just a poor, little girl who is exploited and abused by record company exes and her own family. Father Simpson is devilish.
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Watchout Hillary Duff and Lindsay Lohan you might be forced to turn on your mics
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Also, if you look at Jude, he's about to crack himself! haha
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"Many recording artists' do lip sync during performances, or sing to their own tracks. This is not unusual"
And all those "many" recording artist (and they shouldn't be called artists) that lip sync are all frauds...period. No artist worth their weight lip syncs live.
So it was not only how she reacted to it, but the fact that she did it in the first place.
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boo to ashlee!
not only is it unprofessional to blame her band...but far worse to not try to get through the screw up & finish the song. i know i've auditioned for stuff, hit a bad note, but you keep pluggin away!!
if it is even comprehendable, the 'talented' jessica simpson has so many leeches squiring away talent & trying to capitalize in every venue possible, someone was bound to fail eventually.
on the 'ashlee' show, ashlee yelled at her mom, saying i know this is hard, but i'm giving up movie & tv auditions & roles. well, i saw her in 'the hot chick' & she was not very convincing at all. in fact, she only had one actual line...
she should just give up already.
i hope the musicians in her band can move past this and salvage their careers...if they can.
papa simpson needs to cut the ties.
he should have let her go to ballet school instead of following jessica around & living in her 'shadow'. this is joe simpson's fault.
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