Ashlee Simpson BUSTED!

[TrueAmerican]

Her lip synching started without her lips moving. She ran off in embarrasment.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

1. I saw that, too! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh!!!!!!

[Roland99]

52. VIDCAP!!

http://www.siscom.net/~petreman/lipsync.avi

[Mojambo]

55. That is one of the saddest things I've ever seen

That stupid dance she did. What the hell was that?

After watching it, I actually feel a little sorry for her.

[Tony_Illinois]

74. That Stupid Dance

really was pathetic. But I hardly felt sorry for her. What I saw was another lying cheat exposed for what she apparently is. That phony little dance was intended to appear spontaneous and real--she even started it twice--but when the singing was not queued up properly, the whole thing just fell apart.
Much like GWB's efforts to present many fictions as real but often being exposed for the fraud he is.
--Hooray for Hollywood

[captainjack]

80. she's so pretty

seriously, she's beautifool, er, was when she was a blonde - only blonde i ever actually thought was purty. i feel sorry for her too.
it's so freeper-like - blame everyone else for your screwup!

[Mojambo]

2. What? For real?

Was this on SNL?

I'm out on the west coast.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

6. Yup.

[meisje]

3. Blasted, you beat me

[Unstuck In Time]

4. Is that what happened? I only looked up when I noticed she stopped singing

Weirdness.

[SmileyBoy]

5. I WISH I COULD'VE SEEN THAT!!!

PLEASE somebody send me a video link once it's available!!!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

8. I wished that had happened to Britney Spears (I hate her!).

[Davion]

7. Oh please please please

Let them leave that in for those of us out west!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

14. The guys in the band tried to cover for her by playing their guitars

really loud. Then, they cut to a picture of Jude Law and then to commercials. When they came back, they went to a skit. This will be on the news, I'm sure. Bwah ha ha!!!!!!

[Cooley Hurd]

67. It's gonna be on CNN very shortly...

[Dukkha]

70. It's there now

http://www.cnn.com

This is so funny. You can stick a fork in her ass she's done!
Where's your Messiah now!

Oh, and take you braid dead no-talent sister with you!

[Atman]

9. They skipped the whole second musical number!

Went to commercial, then came back into a skit! Ashley is done. AWWWW!

[Paul Hood]

10. They played the same song she had already done.

SNL shouldn't have people on that are gonna lip synch.

[meisje]

13. most of them lip synch

[Gothic Sponge]

11. I saw it!

She was so embarrassed, she just slowly walked off stage.

[Kahuna]

68. "Slowly???" She hauled ass!

nt

[Roland99]

12. Lip Syncher Gets PWNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

15. SNL gets punk'd.

[Mojambo]

16. This might come close to topping my favorite lip synch

disaster, Milli Vanilli.

I loved that one! It just kept skipping.

I can't wait to see it out here on the west coast. I hope they don't cut it, but I suspect they will.

[SmileyBoy]

21. For LA?? Oh yeah, you bet they will.

:(

[LoZoccolo]

17. I wondered what went on.

I went over to the kitchen and heard like the first line and then get back and saw the guys playing guitars without her and I'm like hmmmm...

I wonder if these "Bear City" skits are some emergency fodder for such an occasion.

[My Pet Goat]

34. SAME HERE !!

I couldn't bring myself to watch the musical guest so I jumped on the computer and had SNL has background. Something did not sound right and I caught the last part where the band was just playing. Looks like I missed out on a SNL moment. :-(

[LoZoccolo]

37. Oh it'll be all over the internet in like an hour.

Well, maybe a little bit longer, but I remember the Janet Jackson boobie sun was out within an hour.

[DS1]

84. hahah, they were exceptionally bad weren't they?

:evilgrin:

[Floogeldy]

18. Wasn't that the FIRST song she performed?

I think they accidently re-played the first song instead of moving on to the second one.

[girl gone mad]

19. I was wondering why she wouldn't try to sing, even if her voice..

isn't great.

My husband said she probably didn't even have a live mic.

[NYC Liberal]

63. Or why didn't she just start lipsyncing the song...

even if she had already done it?

Guess she just froze or something.

[Roland99]

20. Who's got the VIDCAP?!?!?!?

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

23. Yeah right, "My band started playing the wrong song" my ass!

[LostInAnomie]

31. No joke

"My band started playing the wrong song" = "Someone started playing the wrong voice track"

[Pirate Smile]

36. I turned the channel after it went to commercial. When did she

say the band started playing the wrong song?

[progdonkey]

49. closing credits

As the credits rolled, Ashlee said, "I am soooo sorry. The guys in my band started playing the wrong song." So, not only did she get caught lip-synching, but she blames it on the only actual musicians on stage.

[Cats Against Frist]

22. I don't know what the fuck is going on in this world

The fact that me -- a very non-TV-watching-except-for-news person has to hear anything about that dumb bitch or her man-faced sister -- neither one has talent, they're the definition of low brow, and you and me and all of us are going to see each other in hell for even typing in words about them.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

26. This will be on Countdown, I bet.

[Unstuck In Time]

29. Who is her sister? n/t

[Mojambo]

33. Jessica Simpson

You know, the one that is borderline retarded.

It's a pretty thin borderline too.

[Unstuck In Time]

35. Okay, got it. Thanks! n/t

[norml]

40. So is Ashlee for Bush too?

His act is even worse than her's.

[mvd]

54. Actually, Ashlee isn't

http://www.dailyceleb.com/production/?view=event&eid=2517&cap=ashlee+simpson

This should redeem her a little. :-)

She has a few good songs on a generally mediocre CD Autobiography. Her voice changes so much on that CD that her voice is likely enhanced - the lip-synching is not a surprise.

[gulfcoastliberal]

105. Borderline....

as I recall, the artist who sang that paved the way for these types of no-talent (except for the casting couch) "performers". Hence her affinity for Britney.

[NuttyFluffers]

48. well i kinda expected to see y'all in hell with me...

but i sure do enjoy wallowing in the cess when a 'princess' falls in the pig pen!

:evilgrin:

[Tiberius]

72. LOL

Harsh! See you in Hades.

[gpandas]

81. tell us how you really feel. lol

[Roland99]

24. What a COP OUT!!

"My band started playing the wrong song"



LMAO!!!


Who was SINGING the wrong song?!?!



LOL!!!

[DS1]

25. NEVERMIND, IT'S THE BAND'S FAULT!

SORRY!!!

whatever

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

28. Blame the band? No, blame the tape recording, dumbass!

The band plays their instruments...they have talent...you don't sweetheart.

[Gothic Sponge]

27. Yeah, Blame your band!

What a ______!

[bloodyjack]

71. Seconded

Big, lying, no-talent ______

[Kire]

30. so I take it this was on Saturday Night Live?

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

32. Yes, during the second "set."

[PROGRESSIVE1]

38. Pop Culture should be dead after tonight.

But it will still be with us tomorrow morning.

sad.

[girl gone mad]

65. Wouldn't it be wonderful..

if people actually revolted and the record execs were shamed into signing talented musicians rather than "talent"?

Sadly, it didn't happen after Milli Vanilli, so I don't expect it to happen now.

[LoZoccolo]

39. This song review site is already getting comments about it!

http://www.tophitsonline.com/reviews.php?songid=6424

[My Pet Goat]

43. Lol...check this one out for instant reaction:

"Ashlee Simpson, just got BUSTED!! Lip Sync'n on SNL!!, I could tell on the first song that she was lip syncing!! WOW, that was Hilarious, better than any sketch all night!! lol MILLI VANILLI YOU ARE NOT ALONE!"

[UpsideDownFlag]

41. where? when? i wish i coulda watched it. nt

[UpsideDownFlag]

42. hey, don't knock Ashley Simpson! her record went platinum, you know!

she is a talented, courageous young women.

*snicker*

[LibLover]

88. Her next album will go.....

Aluminum!

(I admit it. I enjoyed the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.):eyes:

[vinnievin777]

44. That's why they call it pieces of me

Because she has pieces of her song all over the place.
I left my website in the review thing so they can see pieces of Bush.

Vinnie Vin
http://www.vinnievin.com

[SideshowScott]

45. BWHAA-HA-HA! I love it when no talent hacks get exposed!

The only person i feel sorry for is the sound guy, who at as im writing this is getting his ass chewed out im sure..if i was in NYC id find the guy and buy his drinks all night.
Whats wrong with the recording industry was on full display on SNL tonight.
So cheers to the sound guy who by accident just sunk a multi million dollar carrer of a bush loving hack!

[Borgnine]

46. Haha, that was one of those SNL moments that will live in infamy.

Like when Charles Rocket said "fuck" or Sinead O'Connor tore up the picture of the Pope.

To be fair, a lot of these pop performers lyp synch in live performances. Not that it makes it right, but it isn't quite on par with Milli Vanilli (who never actually recorded their music to begin with). I actually felt sorry for her. Maybe it'll inspire her to actually perform from now on.

[Roland99]

47. Video he-uh! Get your ice cold video he-uh!

bah...first link started the cap too late.

http://www.askross.com/ashlee_simpson_SNL_lying_beotch.avi

Requires DivX 5.1.1

[Lorien]

50. "Forget about the election, we've got our pointless distraction

of the week"!

First thing I thought when I saw her walk off stage.

*sigh*

[rockydem]

51. Aren't they repukes, that whole family?

[high density]

53. Hilarious!

I leave the room during SNL's "music" segments because I generally can't stand the music, but that is just priceless. NBC must have been pissed.

[kayleybeth]

56. collegehumor.com has the video

Too funny...

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

[LoZoccolo]

57. Shit looks like they yanked it already. n/t

[LoZoccolo]

60. Found another one!

http://www.skoopy.com

[Zynx]

62. That link has a bunch of porn ads to pay the bills.

Does have the video though. Just don't click on any of the pretty ladies.

[mountainvue]

103. That links to gay porn. n/t

[NYC Liberal]

58. I was at the show tonight, and the reason was that

she forgot the words to her OWN song during the dress rehearsal!!

[Catch22Dem]

82. Then why does the voice track continue AFTER she stops "singing"

???

[NYC Liberal]

106. Um, because they played the vocals for the wrong song.

They played the ones for "Pieces of Me" again, instead of "Shadow."

[ofrfxsk]

59. Who the fuck cares?

Some spoiled rotten no-talent millionaire forgets her lyrics and all hell breaks loose. Think, folks.

[grace0418]

61. I'm so glad there was a thread about this

I wanted to laugh about it with someone but didn't want to get laughed AT for bringing it up. Thankfully, someone did it for me! ;) The weird part was that we weren't even watching SNL. We were about to watch a dvd when we turned the tv on just as Jude Law announced her second song. I asked my husband "Is that Jessica Simpson's sister?" and he said he didn't think so and while we were trying to figure it out we ended up seeing the funniest clip on SNL in a long time! That was classic. We didn't stick around to hear her excuse, how lame!

[digno dave]

64. any quicktime links???

[Quetzal]

66. As of tonight, I've stopped watching SNL

And it is not because of the whole Ashlee Simpson incident - their comedic skits are depressing to watch.

And they have already pulled their message boards off of the internet. It just shows how much they cater to their corporate clients.

[FlashHarry]

69. Vidcap here. Dowload and enjoy!

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

It was working as of 10:00 a.m. CST.

I can't wait to hear what Eminem says about this next week on SNL! He lambasted Britney Spears for lip syncing the last time he was on. Now there's clear evidence about Ashlee S!

Don't know about others having trouble with the link. I'm on a Mac, and when I clicked it, it simply launched my Windows Media Player and started playing. Hope this works for everyone.

[SmileyBoy]

87. That was BEAUTIFUL!!! Thank you!!!

Looks like the band was just trying to keep on playing...

[FlashHarry]

104. Poor guys. Did you see 'em smiling.

They must've been sweating bullets.

[SemperEadem]

107. that's the beauty of being a musician...

turn up the volume and shred!

They didn't need her, she needed them. This goes to show just how unprofessional and out of her depth this idiot is... riding her lame sister's coattails like the country really is interested in the manufactured less-than-no-talent little sister to the manufactured no-talent older sister. There is no way that girl should have needed a voice track IF she truly was a singer (she's a vocalist, not a singer)... by this time, she should be able to sing that song in her sleep and backwards at the same time. If not, then she should have had the words in the teleprompter or on a sheet of paper on the ground by her mike stand. But walking off the stage like that was the height of unprofessionalism.

Same thing happened to Paula Abdul about 8-10 years ago--she was on some show--her voice track bombed and she had to actually sing, which she couldn't. That show sank Abdul's singing career like a lead balloon.

[mconvente]

73. OMFG!!

HAHAHA! It looks like the band did it on purpose - they're all laughing and smiling at the end! HAHAHA!!! I mean she isn't even that good a singer, but lip syncing - man that's weak. hahah what a loser.

[Liberal Veteran]

75. Why can't singers just fucking SING?????

Instead of trying to do all this choreographed Michael Jackson dancing all over the stage, they should just sing.

Then they wouldn't have to worry about the damn lip-syncing.

I went to go see Whitney Houston in 80's and she can't dance for shit and she didn't try too, but I didn't buy the tickets to see her dance.

[NYC Liberal]

77. I know!

I'd rather listen to someone who doesn't have a PERFECT voice (really, who does?) than some fake bullshit.

[Tiberius]

76. Ashlee quote

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.

- Ashlee Simpson in Lucky Magazine

[mconvente]

78. yeah, until

puke record execs said the only way you can make any money is to shake your ass like a panzy and let us control the music. so when money is involved, morals go down the crapper...

[noise626]

79. A question to all my fellow performing musicians out there....

....back me up on this:

Let's say that yes, it was your band that caused the mixup (I'm even willing to set aside the lipsyncing for a sec). What you do in that situation is either sing the damn song they are playing or stop them, call out the right song, and dive into it. What you DO NOT do is WALK OFF THE FUCKING STAGE!!!!

Oh Ashlee...you really need to work those small clubs in front of disinterested audiences for awhile before you get to the Big Show :)

pax
ant

[Tiberius]

83. Nail, head.

I've been playing the clubs of Boston for about ten years. I've played through bleeding hands, broken snare drums, and bad feedback.

One time I was playing a house party and we blew a fuse. I was fronting that band; I turned the the drummer immediately and gave him the whirley-bird, as in "DO NOT STOP!" I jumped off stage and hit the circuit breaker and the show was back on.

The lip syching screwup was no big deal, these pop musicians all do it. But to walk off the stage, and then later blame it on your band... that just exposes her as a talentless hack who has no idea what she's doing.

I'm sure that the hired guns who are her backup band will be fired. Not because they did anything wrong... it'll be because they all want to strangle that little wench. Putting them onstage with her would endanger her safety.

[BruceWane]

86. Yep......Ashlee needs to learn the #1 rule.............

..........of ALL live entertainment.

"The Show Must Go On". Not exactly a new idea, but apparently forgotten.

You NEVER EVER abandon the stage, whether that "stage" is a live audience, TV, or radio. When the shit hits the fan, you improvise with shit and make shit as entertaining as possible.

There's plenty of times when those off-script improvisations end up being truly classic entertainment. But those moments require a talented entertainer.........

[tjdee]

89. Exactly right.

That's what irritates me the most about this (again, laying aside the boring pop music and the lip syncing).

You don't just WALK OFF. But I guess that's what happens when your sister is a major star and you get a music contract for, basically, that reason.

[Endangered Specie]

93. I agree... thats actually when SNL is funny...

is when something goes wrong/haywire and they have to keep going or reimprovise what to do, aamof, Im sure most the 'classic' moments are THOSE type of moments.

And these people try to tell us to pay $16 for this bullshit.

[noise626]

97. or as my man Henry Rollins once

"NOTHING CAN GO WRONG UP HERE"

If you haven't heard it, check out his story about forgetting the lyrics to a song while performing in front of a festival crowd in Austrialia, and what he did to cover up for it on his CD Think Tank. Amazing :D

Oh Ashlee, Ashlee, Ashlee...stay in pop music where that sort of thing is somewhat tolorated. Get the back to the MTV, wench!!

pax
ant

[johnnie]

96. I agree

I have never walked off stage in 20 plus years. I have had a lot of times where I would have liked to, but you have a job to do
The thing about this incident is...the band covered her ass just fine but she doesn't have their professionalism. She could have gone with what was going on and half the people wouldn't have ever known. I don't know any of her music and I would have just thought that the song sounded a bit like the first one.
Blaming the band for what happened was just uncalled for. I bet they split from her...I would.

[SemperEadem]

108. you're right on the money

first off... how does everyone else start playing on cue the same notes of the same song in the correct key if there wasn't an agreement to the song they were performing? Where was Simpson when the agreement to do the song was made?

But you are right--she does need to do some time in front of a disinterested audience trying to talk over her while she's singing for a few years instead of riding her sister's coattails to the big stage when she truly was not ready to do that. The experience of working small venues would have taught her the proper protocol in a situation like that.

I once was performing at a small coffeehouse and the audio system was going buggy (playing acoustic guitar and singing). The dude running sound said to me "I hope you've got an instrumental you can do while I fix this"... I did. I played the instrumental while he worked out the kinks... and as it turned out, I had to do without a mike because their amp crapped out.. after a while, the woman behind the counter asked me if I could turn my mike down because I was singing loudly and I told her "I don't have a mike--that's me projecting". It was a funny moment.

[NYC Liberal]

85. Someone just emailed me this:

:D

[Endangered Specie]

94. Ahhahahah!

[liskddksil]

90. Could this foreshadow the upcoming election?

The fraud finally gets busted. Interesting.

[NYC Liberal]

91. Hmmmm....

Red Sox go to the series.
A fraud is exposed.

I think so! :bounce:

[liskddksil]

92. Also Bush

[Endangered Specie]

95. This by association... proves that SNL really does suck...

They try to maintain that 'clubby' setting... well, you lip sync in the clubs Ive seen/went to and you eat beer bottles!

I actually am reassured when a band screws up, or something goes a little haywire... that way you know they are genuine (human)

Like when a mike cuts out and you still hear the guys voice unamplified, or the guy misses a word or hits a wrong note.

Its not about keeping it perfect, its about NOT giving up!

[dmayo]

99. Poor Jude Law

had to go along with the fraud too.

[Endangered Specie]

98. Lets see how many rules she broke:

1 - Getting on because of family (Bush-Yalesque)
2 - Lip Syncing (bad, but nothing really unexpected)
3 - Trying to dance your way out of it (that don't cut it honey)
4 - Walking off the stage (aint that the golden rule of performing?)
5 - Walking off the stage, slowly (cmon, if youre going to do it, DO IT FAST!)
6 - Blaming it on the band (now that is the one that really makes me sick, worse than the other 4 combined... Thats like Henry Ford calling his workers lazy.)
7 - Acting like a ditz (icing on the perverbial cake)
8 - Looking like a medium range hooker through the whole process (pretty standard these days, but still -2 points)


Any others????

[THUNDER HANDS]

100. that is quite possibly the most hilarious thing I've ever seen

It was like a slow-moving car wreck, complete with bad dancing!

WTF, was that dance about? Was her next song going to be Cotten Eye Joe?

[NYC Liberal]

101. LOL

[DS1]

102. It's almost IDENTICAL to the Dance that busted Milli Vanilli

Maybe it's a cursed maneuver, that you can never do while lip synching