How many people caught the major mess up last night on Saturday Night (Live)? For those who missed it - Ashlee Simpson was the musical guest. When she first sang I told the people I was watching that I had 3 comments:
1. She isn't really singing
2. She can't dance
3. She has a big nose
Based on those 3 factors we decided the only smart move was to switch to the baseball game for a few minutes. Luckily by the time she came on for her second "set" the game was over (GO RED SOX!) and we were able to catch this SNL gem:
She is about to start singing and all of a sudden the words from her first song start coming through over the speakers! She gets all flustered and the band just starts to appear to go with it and play the song that is coming over the speakers. She stands there looking stupid for a moment or two and then finally walks off the stage.
Ok- so she was lipsynching the whole time, not the biggest deal in the world, after all many great artists have been known to do it such as Milli Vanilli, but the fact is that the show IS called Saturday Night LIVE. Still, I can accept that if one doesn't really have the talent to go and sing live and is just being placed on stage by her father than she may need to have some pre-recorded help (I can't see how that nose can allow her to sing anytime, but that's a different question). The real problem comes at the end of the show when she goes ahead and apologizes - not for messing up, not by admitting that she was faking it, but rather by blaming it on the band "they started playing the wrong song and I didn't know what to do so I just did a Hoedown" ???????? I think she owes a major apology to her band members for trying to shift the blame on them. Sometimes one had to step up and accept responsibility for their own actions.
(If anyone finds a link to the video of this please send it to me!)
Posted by ravomess at October 24, 2004 10:52 AMhttp://www.deansplanet.com/multimedia_ashlee_simpson-snl-disaster.html
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Posted by: dabrettman at October 24, 2004 11:53 AMThanks for posting the video link!
Posted by: ravomess at October 24, 2004 12:19 PMCheck Blogdigger also; the first mentions of this made their way into the index around 1:30 last night, and the video hit the Media feeds (blogdigger.com/media) by today.
Posted by: Greg at October 24, 2004 07:26 PMI watched the entire show except when I turned it to fox to see what was going and missed the flop. I knew she was lipsynching when she first did 'Piece Of Me'. Why the heck was her band playing it again a second time? It was obvious she was lipsynching but her band did mess up. Thanks for the video link.
Posted by: Yirga at October 24, 2004 07:34 PMI was going to say that in America, you're forgiven anything if you're hot. After seeing the video clip (courtesy of dabrettman) I don't think she'll benefit from that. But, she has the voice of a slut, so that may be her redemption and keep her in our hearts and minds.
Posted by: argyle at October 26, 2004 07:10 PM