priorities!
let's forget for a moment that bush and his administration let 380 TONS of majorly enormous killer bomb material (which has probably been used in most of the car bombs and attacks in iraq in the past months, and ONE POUND of which brought down the pan am lockerbie flight) get completely looted away during the war because of mismanagement, ass-hatted-ness, and general incompetence. that's just yet another fuckup in a long string of terrible decisions, lack of accountability, and total disregard for reality that the bush administration has been guilty of. i mean, blogger please. THAT's not news!
the REAL event, the total scoop that happened over the weekend that EVERYONE should be talking about is this:
Teen queen Ashlee Simpson withered through an unfortunate Milli Vanilli-like meltdown on "Saturday Night Live'' the other night when the poor punkette was caught lip-syncing to her own song!
The little sis of "Newlywed'' bubblehead Jessica Simpson, who has been criticized in the past for her flat live vocal performances, belted out her first song, "Pieces of Me,'' without a hitch.
But when Ash returned to the "SNL'' stage for her second number, the track (vocals and all!) of "Pieces of Me'' began to play again, revealing that the manufactured MTV darling had been lip-syncing the first time around as well. Oops!
As the tape ran, the mulleted songbird did an awkward jig on stage while her band bravely feigned a hard-rocking posture to the music. And after a few moments, a mortified Ashlee fled the stage!
When the cast of "SNL'' came out to bid the audience good night, guest host Jude Law tried to explain Simpson's slip-up.
"What can I say folks, live TV,'' the hunky Brit shrugged.
One blogger on Simpson's official Web site claimed to have backstage information leading up to the gaffe.
"Ashlee can't sing. She tried all day Friday, but was whining to her voice coach. They decided to leave her mike (sic) on so she could sing along to the track, but after the first line or two of the first song, (they) turned her off cause she was awful,'' wrote Barbscoop.
"So, as of the first song, all the mikes were off. Now, they had the wrong song queued up for the second song, obviously. . . . They were going to turn on Ashlee's mike so she could sing the real song, but decided not to because the band was just playing the first song. The guys were smiling cause they were simply thinking "What a (bleeping) cluster (bleep).''
what a fucking clusterfuck indeed. letting tons and tons of bomb material get away, most likely follwing in the deaths of hundreds of civilians and soldiers, ain't nothing compared to this. ashlee lied, how many died?
watch it all here. we must hold ashlee accountable!
update!: ashlee has previously HATED on lipsyncing. from a lucky magazine i/v:
LM: What are your takes on lip-synching?AS: I'm totally against it and offended by it. 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.
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OK, let me just respond to this. It's a disastrous policy, definitely, to use a voice support track. No doubt. The problem that Ashlee has is that she sometimes strains the hell out of her voice because alot of what she does is in a range that causes strain, strain that while most of the time sounds cool, adds a little crackle to the voice, when overdone it can ruin your voice for a day or two. There's a balance that you have to achieve. She's suffering what many gospel singers I've known have had where they've over done it at an early age and now can hardly speak much less sing. What she needs to do, if her career can be salvaged, is to not sing 24 hours before a performance, and not strive to have the voice of a 58-year old blues singer.
But the real story here is that if you're a true showman, er..showperson, the show must go on, always. No matter what. She should have, knowing that the track was going and the band, highly intelligent dudes from the OC that they are, were gonna keep playing, she should have faked an alternate edit to the radio edit. Problem is, her mike was completely off...not allowing for this emergency option. She could have rapped a little, danced a little, introduced her band and thanked her fans. Instead, she quit. Which in the music business is more unforgiveable than simply using a fake track.--s
let's be honest though...i mean, really, ashlee is no gospel singer. for those of us that religiuosly watched the ashlee simpson show, we discovered that she truly has an awful voice. when she was singing in the studio she was absolutely terrible. i'm not exactly sure how they ever got her voice to sound good on the cd. what sucks the most for her is that even though only like 1,000 people actually stay up for the second performance on SNL, the whole world knows now.
the best part is the feeble, stop-and-start dancing she does. oh lord, the dancing...
I never wanted to bone her as much as I did her older sister anyway, but I don't understand what the problem here is...
sure the band started playing the wrong song (and she accuses them of this at the end which isn't a terribly classy move) but it's not like her vocal track started playing...there is just some background vocals, I don't think this presents any clear evidence that she was lip-synching.
I never really cared whether she was actually singing those songs anyways, but did I miss something?
her vocal track did start playing, i think:
Singer Ashlee Simpson left the "live" out of "Saturday Night Live" this weekend in an aborted performance that culminated with the singer scrambling offstage after viewers heard her recorded voice -- singing the wrong song -- while her actual mouth stayed shut.
point is: ashlee simpson is a lying, flip-flopping lip-syncer. we can't trust her any longer.
I'm not convinced, I watched the video and in the orginial performance of that song there are two voices singing that first part, we could plausibly assume that at least one of them is the actual Ashley and the second is a perfectly ethical pre-taped background voice. Then, in the second performance, we only hear one voice, couldn't that be the backup vocal we heard originally?
Sure she's a lousy performer but that was never up for debate. By the way, its pretty funny that whatever this post was originally supposed to be about (bombs, or something? i forget) got obfuscated by my more than normal interest in your satirical pop teen reference.
no, this post was all about ashlee. it's obvious which is the more important point here.
i think that what she used was a vocal guiding track, as far as i can figure out. basically it's not entirely lipsyncing, but it's a prerecorded version of the song, which you can either lipsync to or sing along with, and it amplifies your voice/covers up the crapiness.
anyway, if she wasn't lipsyncing, why was she so incredibly flustered/embarrassed?
I think the real trick is that her mic was turned off when she started singing. Or "singing." Man, I was watching that while half-drunk after UT and Boston victories, and I think Susan and I laughed for probably harder than any SNL-viewer has laughed in three decades.
WaPo, basically laughing at AS.
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