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Post by GatorVball on Oct 24, 2004 16:35:03 GMT -5
Did anyone else see her get exposed as the next Milli Vanilli on Saturday Night Live last night? It was funny.
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."
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Post by sonofbarcelonabob on Oct 24, 2004 17:35:04 GMT -5
I liked Milli Vanilli. Still have their CD and still listen to it from time to time.
Both members proved they could, in fact, sing. Although it sounded nothing like the studio album released in 1990, they did a creditable performance on the old Arsenio Hall show.
Fabrice Morvan is still performing as a solo artist. Rob Pilatus, sadly, died of a drug overdose. Rest in Peace, Rob.
As for Ashlee Simpson, big deal. I never listened to her anyway.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 24, 2004 17:40:17 GMT -5
See now... you've got Juilliard music graduates who can barely eek out a living while no-talent dumbphuchs like the Simpsons and Spears and heck, let's just lump all the hip-hop rappers into the mix, making millions and millions. That's America for you: everyone has a chance (this is the key)... a chance... to make millions without talent, brains, or skills.
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Post by sonofbarcelonabob on Oct 24, 2004 18:12:55 GMT -5
See now... you've got Juilliard music graduates who can barely eek out a living while no-talent dumbphuchs like the Simpsons and Spears and heck, let's just lump all the hip-hop rappers into the mix, making millions and millions. That's America for you: everyone has a chance (this is the key)... a chance... to make millions without talent, brains, or skills. Entertainers and musicians are two entirely different professions. I would have thought that even a wannabee elitist like yourself could have figured that out by now.
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Post by islandgirl on Oct 25, 2004 4:28:36 GMT -5
I saw her on SNL and it was pretty funny.
Bad enough that she was caught lip-synching but her inability to deal with the gaffe in a professional way says a lot about her entertainment skills. Poor thing!
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Post by Noname on Oct 25, 2004 13:04:40 GMT -5
Ashlee Simpson to Sing Live Again Tonight By DAVID BAUDER, AP
NEW YORK (Oct. 24) - Singer Ashlee Simpson gets another chance to sing live - perhaps - on national television Monday after walking off "Saturday Night Live" in a does-she-or-doesn't-she lip-synch moment.
Simpson is scheduled to perform in Las Vegas for NBC's "Radio Music Awards," scheduled to be televised at 9 p.m. ET.
The 19-year-old was the talk of the Internet after Saturday's show.
Her record company blamed a computer glitch and she blamed her band, 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 was holding her microphone at her waist at the time. Simpson 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 that instead of some pretaped electronic percussion, the recording of "Pieces of Me" started.
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.
Simpson's walk-off joins the lore of other unexpected music moments on "SNL": Elvis Costello stopping and changing songs on live TV, and Sinead O'Connor tearing up a picture of the pope.
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Post by FloridaPerson on Oct 25, 2004 13:33:25 GMT -5
The american public sucks at choosing entertainers.
There was nothing entertaining about her prior to this incident.
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Post by Dante on Oct 25, 2004 17:22:25 GMT -5
The american public sucks at choosing entertainers. There was nothing entertaining about her prior to this incident. I don't like the spelling of her name either. I keep wanting to take my big fat grading pen and scribble it out.
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Post by cougarize on Oct 27, 2004 4:22:53 GMT -5
I saw her on SNL and it was pretty funny. Bad enough that she was caught lip-synching but her inability to deal with the gaffe in a professional way says a lot about her entertainment skills. Poor thing! She's still a teenie bopper, how do you expect her to react?
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