Ashlee Simpson "Talent Malfunction" on SNL

[dawgmusic]

Originally posted by davepeck
Yahoo! News: Simpson Dad Blames Acid Reflux for Gaffe

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<marquee> I say, WE CAN DANCE! WE CAN DANCE! EVERYBODY TAKING THE CHA--A--A--ANCE... THE SAFETY DANCE! IS IT SAFE TO DANCE! </marquee>

the faces on her and Jude Law are priceless...

[freddiewaht]

seanie,youll be doin that stupid dance all damn night then!!!!!lol

[boombox]

Just seen the whole thing plus interview up on easytree - http://www.easytree.org/torrents-details.php?id=11772 - for anyone with bandwidth to burn.

[FrankZappa]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6790938/

Ashlee Simpson booed at Orange Bowl
Football fans jeered singer’s performance

NEW YORK - Ashlee Simpson’s Orange Bowl halftime performance was a lemon, according to the 72,000-plus Miami crowd. The 20-year-old singer received a discernible chorus of boos following a performance of her song “La La.”

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“You make me wanna scream,” she sang before the audience jeered.

Simpson was among a trio of halftime performers Tuesday night in a game that saw Southern California overwhelm Oklahoma 55-19. The camera cut away from her face as the booing began.

The negative vocal reaction came months after Simpson’s performance on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” which revealed she used background vocal tracks. The mishap was later attributed to acid reflux.

However, the Orange Bowl crowd did have a reason to cheer. The Walt Disney Co. gave a theme park ticket to every fan. The giveaway, a promotion that could cost as much as $4.3 million if all the tickets are used, is in honor of the 50th anniversary of its Disneyland park in California.

The second season of Simpson’s unscripted MTV reality show, “The Ashlee Simpson Show,” premieres Jan. 26 and will capture the “SNL” appearance and preparation for her first nationwide tour, which begins Feb. 18 at Los Angeles’ Universal Amphitheatre.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6791368/

Ashlee Simpson’s vocal malfunction
Making viewers long for the days of Janet Jackson\'s breast
In this case, if Ashlee Simpson had flashed a breast, the FCC probably would have let it go.

After all, agencies of the federal government are there to protect the citizenry from any sort of injury or harm. Ashlee’s performance at halftime of Tuesday night’s Orange Bowl in Miami was about as close as a singer gets to committing aggravated assault. If she had only taken a lesson from Janet Jackson, the world would be talking today about the exposure of a boob rather than a fraud.

Much of the blame for this fiasco falls upon ABC, which hired this female Gilbert Gottfried to headline the halftime show for college football’s ultimate game, matching No. 1 USC against No. 2 Oklahoma. If the Sooners are despondent today after absorbing a 55-19 bludgeoning from the Trojans, they can take solace that each and every one of them could have taken the halftime stage dressed in drag and mooed like a cow and still induce fewer boos than Ashlee did Tuesday night.

First NBC invited Ashlee on “Saturday Night Live,” where she tried to fool the audience by lip-synching her way through a song, but failed. Now ABC. Don’t these networks have a Standards and Practices office anymore? Don’t they care about the welfare of our children? Don’t these network executives realize that a performance like Ashlee’s could produce imitators? Are they unconcerned about copycat Ashlees?

Slack-jawed awe
I watched the Orange Bowl Tuesday night, like millions of other Americans. The first half was all USC. When halftime arrived, I sat at the kitchen table, watching the TV from a room away. Because of the distance, the sound seemed lower than it was if I was right there in front of the screen. I started to enjoy a fine meal. I felt safe and secure.

When Ashlee came on and began to perform, though, I literally dropped my fork. Then I cupped my hands over my ears, but it didn’t help. Ashlee’s singing sounded like a cross between a political prisoner being tortured and a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.

I desperately searched for the remote so I could hit the mute button, but I must have misplaced it. But I also couldn’t believe that someone didn’t rush the stage and stop her. The local police. The FBI. Homeland security. Even an angry mob of vigilantes. Instead, they just let her keep going. I’ve never felt so helpless or vulnerable in my life.

I happened to look out the window and noticed that some of my neighbors were running down the street, their hands over their ears, screaming for help. I wanted to help them, I really did. Yet I was gripped by horror and disbelief. I was practically catatonic. For their sake — and for mine — all I could hope for was a swift end to the halftime show.
Shrieking like a hyena giving birth, she closed her “song” with something that approximates the phrase, “you make we wanna SCREAM!” And then she waited for applause.

Instead, she got boos, the kind of irate and vindictive boos that usually occur after a pro wrestler taunts a crowd.  Through the cacophony, the gentle strains of “You suck!” could be heard. Ashlee was escorted off the stage and through a tunnel, and let’s just say the Indiana Pacers were received more warmly by Detroit fans when they walked toward the locker room after the brawl.

Just go away now
I consider myself a tolerant person. I accept the talented and talentless equally. I realize not everyone can sing like Sinatra or Streisand. Usually, I applaud the effort, even if the result is unsatisfactory. On the handful of occasions when I have been at a karaoke bar, I clap my hands supportively for each and every participant, regardless of how pitiful their attempts. That’s just the kind of guy I am.

But I believe there are limits, and Ashlee has crossed mine, and I believe, the world’s. She is using her status as the sister of Jessica Simpson in order to carve out a career for herself. How anyone can listen to Jessica, let alone Ashlee, borders on the stupefying. But I see stories on the news all the time about con artists who separate people from their life savings. I know there were scads of gullible viewers who tuned in to watch Geraldo Rivera open Al Capone’s vault. I realize that humans are flawed, and sometimes those flaws can have disastrous consequences.

What I hope and pray for now is that Ashlee will go away and leave the public alone. On behalf of the world community, I implore her to pursue another career. There are many avenues for a young woman of her abilities. Pig farmers need wranglers. The U.S. Forest Service has many outposts in remote areas of our nation’s parks, where one can make all the noise one wants and not be heard by another soul for miles. And if she’s determined to remain in the entertainment field, the horror genre in Hollywood could always use a good screamer.

But Ashlee must cease and desist her professional singing career immediately. The lip-synching angered many. The Orange Bowl debacle undoubtedly caused thousands to seek counseling. What does she want next? Is she setting up some sort of blackmail scheme: “Give me $10 million or I’ll keep singing”?

If that’s the case, I’m prepared to donate generously. I don’t think I’m alone.

shockingly, her web site, http://www.ashleesimpsonmusic.com/
had nothing to say about this incedent.

[davepeck]

http://www.lipsync.us/

you\'ve GOT to see this site.. it\'s an entire site dedicated to AS bashing, as a direct result of the SNL incident. there\'s video downloads of the orange bowl performance.. apparently IF you listen closely you can hear someone scream "YOU SUCK" at the 20->22 second mark.

and apparently her official site had a forum on it, but after the halftime incident, the forums were pulled off the site.. :lol:



14:59....

[ChrisF]

I saw video clips from the half time show and snl on comcast.net this morning in the entertainment news.  After they show the clip there is a commerical for Rhapsody, the music service that comcast runs. They were using ashlee simpson videos in the advertisement. Why would they use her to advertise their music service right after they do a story about how she cannot perform?

[boombox]

She performed "live" on BBC Top Of The Pops on Friday night ie prerecorded earlier in the week. Couldn\'t be bothered to check for lip syncing though. It appears she\'s trying to build a new fanbase in the UK now she\'d been exposed as a faud over with you. No doubt the idiotic Radio 1 listeners will think she\'s "wonderful" and buy her crap, thus ensuring she will have a victorious homecoming gig!!

[boombox]

Oops, that should be fraud! (not editing to avoid merciless attack)

[skalnbyc]

Originally posted by boombox
Oops, that should be fraud! (not editing to avoid merciless attack)

Ashley Simpson is terrible.

Have preteens really been buying her albums, posters, fragances (most celebrities eventually get a fragrance) etc. ?

[boombox]

This should give you all a laugh - found it when googling to find out just how popular she is over here. The people on this UK board actually take her seriously. Any chance of my earning honorary citizenship of the US - at least some of you there have seen the light.

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?p=3204153#post3204153