Ashlee, Don’t Give Us Lip Service
We know someone out there who is reading this must’ve been watching Jude Law on SNL. We didn’t even remember he was on the show until someone just asked us why we weren’t watching it. Ooops.
So we just went to the tv, and turned it on to hear the faint strains of “Pieces of Me” by Ashlee Simpson…but Ashlee wasn’t singing. She was just standing on the stage giggling, and walking around confused. Yet her voice was still singing the song. She finally just walked off the stage. Her band continued to play. Some of them were smiling. What the hell just happened? Was that just a vocal track? Did Ashlee Simpson just suffer a very public lip-synching accident on SNL?
We quickly texted Uncle Grambo for guidance, but no response.
UPDATE: She just came on at the end and muttered something about her band “playing the wrong song” blabhablabhalhah and something about doing a “hoedown.” We don’t know, we were in the other room. Someone with a longer attention span could probably explain this better.
SECOND UPDATE: We’ve been informed by Fo that the song she and the band “played” during the first musical break was “Pieces of Me”…Guess we’ll never know what she was going to lip-synch next.
1. Anonymous | 10:20 pm on October 23rd, 2004
They played the wrong backtrack, she got confused and ran away.
2. Anonymous | 8:50 am on October 24th, 2004
watch it here! http://www.collegehumor.com/news/ashlee_snl.wmv
alison x
3. Anonymous | 11:44 am on October 24th, 2004
you would’ve loved the show. they did a number in the monologue talking about how hot he is. i thought of you the entire time thinking that you were definitely glued to the tube although i was wrong
the sky captain skit was priceless. he was instructed to bite a fireball.
- johanna
4. Anonymous | 2:43 pm on October 24th, 2004
i work at snl and was hanging around backstage when “disaster struck.”
we had called it many times during the day after hearing simpson’s atrocious voice (the fact that she screams, rather than sings, has caused her a speaking voice which sounds more like that of bea arthur than a pop princess). after “hurting her voice” in rehearsal, a doctor was called in and there was a hushed decision to go with the pre-taped recording of her voice.
after the mania occurred, ashlee’s entire PR crew (brilliantly) chose to stand in SNL’s main hallway and coach her in what to do. “it’s 1:00,” someone mentioned to her, “even if you don’t feel like it.”
after deciding to apologize to the audience, her creepy-as-fuck daddy pitched a suggestion that was quickly shot down by her staff.
and her blaming the band for the error didn’t go to well with them either, as i saw on their faces during her impromptu “apology.” the bandmembers are all decent guys who, as far as i could tell, were placed in a different dressing room and chose to keep their distance from day until night.
it seems as if ashlee simpson is haunted not by the shadow of her golden older sister, but by the shadow of pre-recorded vocal tracks. sabotaged!
5. orangebufanda | 7:18 pm on October 24th, 2004
CHEAK OUT http://orangereport.blogspot.com/ FOR MORE ON THIS
6. Anonymous | 10:25 pm on October 24th, 2004
http://uweb.ucsb.edu/~jmliu/lipsync.wmv