Saw a live special on her as she was preparing to debut her new single. Watched the sound check and news flash boys and girls....she CAN'T SING!!!!
She's pretty and I like her song but that's about as far as her talent goes. MHO.
Yahoo! reports,
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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.
"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.
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.
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After she realized she was busted, she did this little dance which I have posted here for you to laugh at. Great stuff.
<font color="#000002" size="1">[ October 25, 2004 01:38 AM: Message edited by: Jigsaw ]</font>
Saw a live special on her as she was preparing to debut her new single. Watched the sound check and news flash boys and girls....she CAN'T SING!!!!
She's pretty and I like her song but that's about as far as her talent goes. MHO.
It would have been funnier if she had gotten about halfway into the song and then it hit a "loop" just replaying the same line over and over and over... LOL!
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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You know what would have even been funnier, is if they sped up the tape and made her sound like one of the chipmunks. ALLLLLVIIIIIIINNN!Originally posted by cincygreg:
It would have been funnier if she had gotten about halfway into the song and then it hit a "loop" just replaying the same line over and over and over... LOL!
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My jaw dropped when I saw it. So unexpectedly funny, especially after we criticized her for lip synching the first tune.
What a career buster. Ashlee is the Milli Vanilli of the new millenium.
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