And kerry blaming the guard member for his flubbed opening pitch.
Is it any wonder she's a kerry/edwards supporter?
Posted on 10/24/2004 6:33:29 PM PDT by truthandlife
Singer Ashlee Simpson's "extra help" may have been exposed when a "Saturday Night Live" audience heard her voice - singing the wrong song - while she held a microphone at her waist.
Her record company blamed a computer glitch and she blamed her band for Sunday morning's incident, which cut off her planned performance of the song "Autobiography" on the network comedy show.
Simpson had performed her hit single "Pieces of Me" without incident earlier in the show. When she came back a second time, her band started playing and the first lines of her singing "Pieces of Me" could be heard again.
She looked momentarily confused as the band plowed ahead with the song and the vocal was quickly silenced.
Simpson made some exaggerated hopping dance moves, then walked off the stage 35 seconds into the performance. NBC quickly cut to a commercial.
"What can I say?" guest host Jude Law said with Simpson standing next to him at the end of the show. "Live TV."
"Exactly," Simpson said. "I feel so bad. My band started playing the wrong song. I didn't know what to do so I thought I'd do a hoe-down."
Her record company, Geffen Records, said there was a computer glitch. Instead of some pretaped electronic percussion, the recording of "Pieces of Me" started mistakenly performing, the record company said in a statement.
But it sounded suspiciously like a guide vocal that's a common - although almost always unspoken - concert aid. Either the singer "lip synchs" by mouthing words to a backing tape or has a live microphone and sings along to the tape, making the voice sound more powerful than it is.
Such vocal tricks have been used before on the show, making "Saturday Night Live" not entirely live, said a show insider who spoke on condition of anonymity.
A Geffen spokeswoman did not immediately return a call for comment.
Simpson's walk-off joins the lore of other unexpected music moments on "SNL": Elvis Costello stopping and changing songs on live TV, and Sinead O'Connor tearing up a picture of the pope.
http://www.collegehumor.com/news/ashlee_snl.wmv
"May have"?
Is this like "The CBS memos may have been fakes"?
Does the news media ever take a stand on anything that does not bash Republicans?
I have things in my belly button that are smarter than her...
I pretty confident that Frank Sinatra never used a "vocal aid" in his performances.
people trying to defend her because 'everyone does it' should get a grip and realize SHE BLAMED HER BAND for the trouble. She's not only an untalented singer, she's scum who will blame others for her problems. Kinda like john kerry, who she supports.
I saw a big lump on her back!
Huh? Jessica Simpson? Who's that? I thought the headline meant OJ Simpson.
In that case...Never mind...
He did - they were called 'smokes and booze'. ;)
Yes, the sound was authentic, even though her voice was faked.
Her singing was "fake but accurate?"
Dang, that was funny, especially when the vocals started up at the beginning there and she obviously had no clue they were about to start.
I quit watching the show years ago because it sucked so bad; it still does.
The guitarist meant to hit the fuzz pedal and accidentally hit the "Ashlee Simpson's last song" pedal. Whoops. It happens all the time.
anyone know of a quicktime link I can view? I can't seem to get that link to work for me for some reason.
"The guitarist meant to hit the fuzz pedal and accidentally hit the "Ashlee Simpson's last song" pedal. Whoops. It happens all the time."
Heh. Must be a new line of pedals from BOSS.
I don't know if you caught it, but once she left the stage the band started to kick in and they were grinning at each other.
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