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General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: Evil Monkey-Tom on Oct 25, 2004, 12:07:27 PM
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Ashlee Simpson's Lip-Synch Lapse
In case you don't know by now, Jessica Simpson's little sister, Ashlee, who happens to have the No. 1 album in the country, had a singing malfunction on Saturday night that may end her career.
Ashlee, the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live," was the victim of a snafu when someone in the control room pushed the wrong button and the same song she'd sung in her first segment began playing again.
Ashlee, who had obviously lip-synched the first song, became confused. Her band tried to switch back into the first song, but Simpson just gave up, did a weird little jig and shrugged off the stage.
Later, at the end of the show, she had the audacity to blame the band for playing the wrong song.
It's no surprise that this latest pre-fabricated pop star can't sing live (and at this point has no shame either).
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,136454,00.html (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,136454,00.html)
She joins a rather stellar group of mostly female peers who have been manufactured by managers and record companies. They don't write their own material and they don't sing it either.
They've been created in studios and then sent on the road as karaoke acts. Their fans would be mighty surprised to hear many of the pop stars of today attempt to sing without technological augmentation.
That's why you don't hear or see most of these alleged stars trying the "Star-Spangled Banner" at sports events or even attempt to chime in at jam sessions following awards dinners.
I reported in this column three or four years ago how, at the conclusion of a Clive Davis pre-Grammy dinner show, certain pop singers remained in the audience rather than be exposed on stage.
The ones who could sing did: Patti LaBelle, Mary J. Blige, even Justin Timberlake. The ones who couldn't, or who were too frightened, remained in their seats.
Let's put it this way: In the last five years, though they've often been present, I've never heard Britney Spears or Jennifer Lopez even so much as hum out loud without a full stage set-up, dancers swirling about and lots of back-up singers.
But I have been lucky enough to see Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Alicia Keys, Julia Fordham, Joss Stone, Carla Thomas, Ann Peebles, Natalie Cole, Mary Wilson, Cher, Cyndi Lauper, Valerie Simpson of Ashford and Simpson fame (no relation to Jessica and Ashlee) and many others rise to the occasion without a tape or a computer disk in sight.
So here's a reality show guaranteed to get ratings: All of today's pop stars "unplugged," with just a microphone and an accompanist. We'll do a "sing-off" and see who really has the pipes and who has been faking it.
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Wow.
Don't forget my number..[size=8]number[/size]
Love will see us through
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Who wants a clip?
http://www.collegehumor.com/news/ashlee_snl.wmv (http://www.collegehumor.com/news/ashlee_snl.wmv)
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Saw it live and laughed my ass off!!
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I was wondering what the fuck was going on. I was thinking, 'Didn't she play this already,' then I figured it out. I'd still fuck her.
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:) Damn that is funny.
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Fuck her soon, before she gets teh AIDs
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Haha. Beautiful.
A board I go to, along with Something Awful, and a few other boards, invaded her personal message board on her website.
The madness hit 10,000 posts. Simpson posted a few times and got flamed to hell and back.
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http://www.contemporaryinsanity.org/video/ (http://www.contemporaryinsanity.org/video/)
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Haha. Beautiful.
A board I go to, along with Something Awful, and a few other boards, invaded her personal message board on her website.
The madness hit 10,000 posts. Simpson posted a few times and got flamed to hell and back.
Damn now I need to go find her website.
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i saw that video like 10000 times today in the news
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Ashlee Simpson said that a chronic gastric disorder was the cause of her lip-synching miscue on "Saturday Night Live" this past weekend. The singer said that acid reflux disease caused her to lose her voice and rely on a backing tape for her
performance.
"It's so embarrassing," Simpson said when she called into "TRL" Monday (October 25), "because it sucks. The total situation was a bummer. I made a complete fool of myself."
Simpson said that she suffers from a chronic condition of "severe" acid reflux disease — a condition in which the stomach's liquid content regurgitates into the esophagus — and that it began acting up at around 6 p.m. on Saturday, causing her to "completely [lose] my voice." Her doctor advised her not sing, stating that she would damage her voice, and her father insisted she take it easy by using a backing track, a common (if seldom acknowledged) concert aid that allows singers to either lip-synch to, or sing along with, a guide-vocal track. "My dad was like, 'I'm sorry, you have to sing along with the backing track,' " Simpson said Monday.
Though Simpson's first performance in the show — her hit "Pieces of Me" — went off without a hitch, the second, "Autobiography," was derailed when a pre-recorded track of her voice (singing "Pieces of Me") began playing while Simpson was holding her mic to the side and had her mouth closed. When the track came on, Simpson tried to dance a little jig instead, but after about 30 seconds, she exited the stage as her band continued performing. The show cut to a commercial.
At the end of the show, host Jude Law tried to help Simpson brush the moment aside by shrugging, "What can I say, folks? Live TV." For her part, Simpson initially placed the blame on her band. "I feel so bad," she told the audience. "My band started playing the wrong song. And I didn't know what to do, so I thought I'd do a hoe-down. I'm sorry. It's live TV. Things happen. I'm sorry."
Joe Simpson, Ashlee's father and manager, told Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM, "Just like any artist in America, she has a backing track that she pushes so you don't have to hear her croak through a song on national television. No one wants to hear that. Every artist that I know in this business has had vocal problems at some time, from Celine [Dion] on down. So you've got to do what you've got to do."
Ashlee said that she wasn't happy with the decision to use a backing track, and emphasized that it's not something she normally relies upon. She's performed live on television on previous occasions, including MTV News' pre-show to the Video Music Awards, "By the Shore," and the Teen Choice Awards. And in fact, Simpson had rehearsed the song live on Thursday (see "Ashlee Simpson Preparing To Take On Tara Reid").
"I was so upset," she said, "because I have never done that before. But my voice wasn't strong enough. I couldn't even speak."
During the show, a further mishap made the backing track obvious to everyone when, according to her record label, a "computer glitch" triggered "a cut from her album" to play instead of a drum cue. Simpson placed the blame a little more squarely on her drummer, saying that he was the one who "pressed the wrong button."
"I didn't know what to do," she said. "I just froze. My band kept playing the song, like they were always told [to do]. We all went into a state of shock. 'Omigod, what do I do?' So I did the hoe-down and then I ran off."
Simpson has since been widely attacked for the snafu, with an interview she gave to Lucky magazine coming back to haunt her. When asked what her take on lip-synching was, she had told the magazine, "I'm totally against it and offended by it. I'm going to let my real talent show, not just stand there and dance around. Personally, I'd never lip-synch. It's just not me."
Simpson's official Web site has been flooded with more than 12,000 posts, many of them negative. Initially, it appeared that Simpson was responding to the posts — blaming her hectic work schedule for wearing down her voice — but a spokesperson has since claimed that the posts were not written by the singer.
To make sure a similar snafu doesn't happen again when she performs live on Monday (October 25) for the Radio Music Awards in Las Vegas, Simpson said she got a cortisone shot in her lower back "and I'm much better."
"I hope I get a chance [to return to 'SNL']," she added. "My voice is so much better now. Sorry about that."
The Radio Music Awards in Las Vegas are to be broadcast live on NBC at 9 p.m.
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:lol:
I am so going to hell.
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She's ugly.
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She's ugly.
It's not a very good picture, and I'd still fuck her.
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Every picture I've seen of her, she looks like a demented hobbit from the lord of the rings. There are many hotter chicks out there, with alot more talent than this waste of life.
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It's being slightly overblown about the lipsync because I'm certain more people than we think probably have used it so that should end the whole "ha, she lipsyncs her career is over!!111" stuff. Not that I'm defending Simpson. I can't stand her sister but I've never even heard any of Ashlee's songs to begin with. The excuses were stupid (they kept changing, the fuck?) and so was that jig. The minute it messed up, they should've just gotten right back on their feet and performed the song they were suppose to... assuming they could do it, of course.
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And she's not the prettiest thing but she looks kinda good in this picture....
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And this one. She better not cave in and get a nose job. A pig nose wouldn't solve her problems anyway. Keep the beak!
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I still think she's ugly.
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i like this one.
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nice boobie shot.
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nice legs shot.
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What's up with picture #3? She's too rich to have any corttage cheese on her thighs!
If the acid reflux thing is true, I can sympathise. That shit hurts. Buuuut, there's all kinds of treatment & preventative medication for such. If she hasn't availed herself of such, which I can't imagine, since she's had it diagnosed, bleh on her for being so careless with her moneymaker. <_<
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:lol:
I am so going to hell.
I didn't get the joke at first.
Then I noticed she was holding a Milli Vanilli album.
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I like Ashlee Simpson, I thinkt that she's prettier and has better talent than her dimwitted sister. Jessica oversings too much, I wouldn't be surprised if she hasn't lip synched before.
But it's a well-known fact that Britney lip-synchs and nobody made such a huge deal out of it.
I feel bad, I'd be so embarassed that I'd probably cry. I felt bad enough at drill team competitions when the team or performer's music had to be started over because of a malfunction.
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Can you sing, Chelsey?
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What's up with picture #3? She's too rich to have any corttage cheese on her thighs!. <_<
I just like you broads know that rich or poor there's nothing wrong with cottage cheese on your thighs!
Isn't that right Miss Piggy?
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Mod that, ladies.
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Man, that frog had a pretty sweet deal
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Can you sing, Chelsey?
No, not really. But I was saying that if I was in that situation.
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Chelsey is definately more hot than that troll.
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I wouldnt call Ashlee a troll but Chelsey is hotter.
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No one's immune to the cheese thighs. Tyra Banks even admits she has that same problem.
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Can you sing, Chelsey?
No, not really. But I was saying that if I was in that situation.
Yeah, well. You're as qualified as you really need to be to make it in this particular business.
Although you're probably not stupid, so nevermind.
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No one's immune to the cheese thighs. Tyra Banks even admits she has that same problem.
i think paris hilton might be...
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I meant more like "Cheese thighs don't know the difference between famous or not, or rich or poor. They just happen to who they happen to."
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I would eat cheese of of Ashlee's thighs.
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I meant more like "Cheese thighs don't know the difference between famous or not, or rich or poor. They just happen to who they happen to."
Huh. I thought money & surgery could change just about anything. That's how much I know about aesthetic alteration. :P
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Cottege cheese thighs don't really happen to rich people because they have personal trainers and are the first to try out a crazy new diet.
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I would eat cheese of of Ashlee's thighs.
Well I don't think that's feta coming outta her bikini's, but go and try it.
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Well I don't think that's feta coming outta her bikini's, but go and try it.
Oh, thanks. Flashback to that freak girl telling us about her mom's dirty-dildo-induced vaginal problems. :wacko:
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dirty dildo? That's fucked up. She got a yeast infection from her own dildo.
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Mmm, incestous sex toys which are dirrrrrrrrrrty.
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No one's immune to the cheese thighs. Tyra Banks even admits she has that same problem.
ewwwww i'll die!
anyways, i think shes a bitch, she complain like a fucking bitch about how everybody likes her sister more and shit, and like how she became what she is by herself, but there she goes during a video(a bad one btw) about her and her sister. if it wasnt for jessica she wouldnt be shit. she doesnt even sing that good, shes average
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She's ugly and can't sing. Faye agrees, so it's gotta be true.
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A LOOOT of people are average singers. Most of the "hit" stuff that gets radio time is mediocre in terms of true musical talent. It's all about packaging.
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I'm an average singer. Give me money.
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I'm a bad singer so I should get more.
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As long as Nuri dresses up all goth and sings country or something, she's set.