After yesterdays "kind" article on the foxnews.com web site:

http://www.prince.org/msg/8/119780


Another good one today...I love this "let's give these non-talent performers what they deserve" mob mentality that has developed

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Grrr! ... Ashlee Simpson Lip 'Sinks'
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
By Mike Straka


Is anyone surprised that Ashlee Simpson (search) can't sing?

I mean come on, we reap what we sow. I'm not talking about crops, I'm talking about the 15-minute culture of celebrity we live in today.

The result is Simpson and any number of other manufactured pop stars, Real-ities and dime store actors.

In case you've been living under a rock the past few days, "singer" Ashlee Simpson was caught with her microphone down — on her hip actually — live on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" when the wrong "backup" track played for her second performance of the night.

Simpson had planned to sing "Autobiography," but instead, the lead vocals for "Pieces of Me," the song she "sang" earlier, played. Not knowing how to handle the technical snafu, Simpson danced a jig and took leave of the stage, leaving her band to play out the remainder of the segment.

"SNL" cut to a commercial.

At the curtain call, Simpson inexplicably blamed her band for playing the wrong song. I guess that was just in case none of us had Tivo or weren't sober when the segment really played out. Hello!


I'm sure her band was surprised to hear it was their fault that their lead singer is a phony, but then again she disses her own sister Jessica (of MTV's "Newlyweds" fame) in a lot of her music, so the band shouldn't be surprised that when the Simpson hit the fan, Ashlee blamed somebody else. How very celebrity of her. And how ironic that the song that was supposed to play is titled "Autobiography."

"SNL" couldn't have scripted that one better, being this could end Ashlee's short career.

There used to be a time when one needed to prove one's self before getting a gig as big as "Saturday Night Live." These days all you need is an established older sister (see Nicky, Jamie, Haylie), a stylist, a record producer and a song track to become a star.

The real Grrr! question, however, is will "SNL" spoof Ashlee's lip synching on their show in one of their future comedy bits? I doubt it.

This kind of stuff just warms my heart.

VinaBlue said:

Let the real music revolution begin.

OdysseyMiles said:

I really hope that is what happens as a result of all this.