Please tell me you saw the truly awful performances by Kelly Clarkson and Ashlee Simpson. Hopefully, that should be the final nail in both of their coffins. And what was up with the Anarchy symbol on the giant mock drum set? Ashlee and Kelly are, like, so punk rock.

Stax said:

Thank you for mentioning that. I don't even know where to start with that.

I diffidently want 2 know what was really going on with that sad performance. It appeared that the mic or sound system was malfunctioning. I haven’t read my paper yet. Hopefully it will give them some excuse 4 the sad ass performance by those over exposed wanabee rock stars.

truely sad.

at least the audience booed. I'm so glad that people are really seeing how talentless that girl is.

i was sorry i missed the show because the u2 video was shown at the end. now i'm even more sorry that i missed it because i do loves a travesty of a live "performance".

I'm not a big Kelly fan, but it's not fair to lump her in with Ashlee Simpson.

She made it based on her voice, not who her sister is.

andyman91 said:

That's a fair statement. At least Kelly can sing and doesn't have to lipsync.

kisscamille said:

Poor Kelly had audio problems!!! But she was totally singing live-there was a backup track doing the harmony in the chorus but she was definitley singing live...poor girl saved herself by taking her ear plugs out. I can't believe I am going ot say this...but I think Kelly Clarkson rocks.

purplegypsy said:

I don't think she rocks and I don't really like her music, but I will admit that she has a good voice and her own tits and that's saying something in the current music biz

I'll say this about Ms. Clarkson, she has a better voice than I do.

I just don't understand why Ashlee gets invited to everything.She truly sucks.I mean,there are others who I don't really like,but I get the appeal.I don't get anything from her and she either lipsyncs or sings along with pre-recorded tracks,like at that game.It's why I don't go to hip hop concerts because it will suck.(save for a few TRUE artists).She doesn't do well live.Is that hard to understand?Just let her do her insipid tv show,record kiddie punk,mug in commercials and vids,and leave it at that. Now,Kelly can sing and I like one of her songs they play during spinning class.They just screwed up the sound last night.

I jumped up like a rabbit to grab my remote an dchange the channel as soon as I heard this line up, utter rubbish. Why does Asheee ( spelled wrong on prupose ) continue to exsist in the pop spectrum?

Stax said:

kelly's cool peeps....what song did she do? was it "since u been gone" ( ),or that shitty princess diarys song?

rockwilder said:

Her dad HAS TO BE blackmailing somebody to get her these gigs

Stax said:

Hey, now, watch it. I kinda like Kelly Clarkson's new single. She's got the potential to be a true bad-a*s, but then again, Nikka Costa might just could sang the songs she wrote better'n'that.

You make MEY,,LA LA LAAAAH,,
YA MAKE me ,,,UHH UH UHHH
ya make me wanna Scream.

I really wish she HAD lip synched this performance. I feel sorry for her. The poor girl is nowhere near ready to be an entertainer but her label is going to force feed her no talent down our throats until they get 2 platnium albums out of her.

then they will drop her like it HOT

This article is hilarious


http://music.msn.com/beac...02be7a4ba4


*****

MUSIC

Ashlee Simpson’s vocal malfunction
Making viewers long for the days of Janet Jackson's breast


COMMENTARY
By Michael Ventre
MSNBC contributor
Updated: 1:13 p.m. ET Jan. 6, 2005

In this case, if Ashlee Simpson had flashed a breast, the FCC probably would have let it go.


After all, agencies of the federal government are there to protect the citizenry from any sort of injury or harm. Ashlee’s performance at halftime of Tuesday night’s Orange Bowl in Miami was about as close as a singer gets to committing aggravated assault. If she had only taken a lesson from Janet Jackson, the world would be talking today about the exposure of a boob rather than a fraud.

Much of the blame for this fiasco falls upon ABC, which hired this female Gilbert Gottfried to headline the halftime show for college football’s ultimate game, matching No. 1 USC against No. 2 Oklahoma. If the Sooners are despondent today after absorbing a 55-19 bludgeoning from the Trojans, they can take solace that each and every one of them could have taken the halftime stage dressed in drag and mooed like a cow and still induce fewer boos than Ashlee did Tuesday night.

First NBC invited Ashlee on “Saturday Night Live,” where she tried to fool the audience by lip-synching her way through a song, but failed. Now ABC. Don’t these networks have a Standards and Practices office anymore? Don’t they care about the welfare of our children? Don’t these network executives realize that a performance like Ashlee’s could produce imitators? Are they unconcerned about copycat Ashlees?

Slack-jawed awe
Ashlee’s singing sounded like a cross between a political prisoner being tortured and a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.



I watched the Orange Bowl Tuesday night, like millions of other Americans. The first half was all USC. When halftime arrived, I sat at the kitchen table, watching the TV from a room away. Because of the distance, the sound seemed lower than it was if I was right there in front of the screen. I started to enjoy a fine meal. I felt safe and secure.

When Ashlee came on and began to perform, though, I literally dropped my fork. Then I cupped my hands over my ears, but it didn’t help. Ashlee’s singing sounded like a cross between a political prisoner being tortured and a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.

I desperately searched for the remote so I could hit the mute button, but I must have misplaced it. But I also couldn’t believe that someone didn’t rush the stage and stop her. The local police. The FBI. Homeland security. Even an angry mob of vigilantes. Instead, they just let her keep going. I’ve never felt so helpless or vulnerable in my life.

I happened to look out the window and noticed that some of my neighbors were running down the street, their hands over their ears, screaming for help. I wanted to help them, I really did. Yet I was gripped by horror and disbelief. I was practically catatonic. For their sake — and for mine — all I could hope for was a swift end to the halftime show.


Shrieking like a hyena giving birth, she closed her “song” with something that approximates the phrase, “you make we wanna SCREAM!” And then she waited for applause.

Instead, she got boos, the kind of irate and vindictive boos that usually occur after a pro wrestler taunts a crowd. Through the cacophony, the gentle strains of “You suck!” could be heard. Ashlee was escorted off the stage and through a tunnel, and let’s just say the Indiana Pacers were received more warmly by Detroit fans when they walked toward the locker room after the brawl.

Just go away now
I consider myself a tolerant person. I accept the talented and talentless equally. I realize not everyone can sing like Sinatra or Streisand. Usually, I applaud the effort, even if the result is unsatisfactory. On the handful of occasions when I have been at a karaoke bar, I clap my hands supportively for each and every participant, regardless of how pitiful their attempts. That’s just the kind of guy I am.

But I believe there are limits, and Ashlee has crossed mine, and I believe, the world’s. She is using her status as the sister of Jessica Simpson in order to carve out a career for herself. How anyone can listen to Jessica, let alone Ashlee, borders on the stupefying. But I see stories on the news all the time about con artists who separate people from their life savings. I know there were scads of gullible viewers who tuned in to watch Geraldo Rivera open Al Capone’s vault. I realize that humans are flawed, and sometimes those flaws can have disastrous consequences.

What I hope and pray for now is that Ashlee will go away and leave the public alone. On behalf of the world community, I implore her to pursue another career. There are many avenues for a young woman of her abilities. Pig farmers need wranglers. The U.S. Forest Service has many outposts in remote areas of our nation’s parks, where one can make all the noise one wants and not be heard by another soul for miles. And if she’s determined to remain in the entertainment field, the horror genre in Hollywood could always use a good screamer.

But Ashlee must cease and desist her professional singing career immediately. The lip-synching angered many. The Orange Bowl debacle undoubtedly caused thousands to seek counseling. What does she want next? Is she setting up some sort of blackmail scheme: “Give me $10 million or I’ll keep singing”?

If that’s the case, I’m prepared to donate generously. I don’t think I’m alone.

© 2005 MSNBC Interactive

Christopher said:

Um, I have no idea.

that

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CalhounSq said:

That was one of the funniest things I have ever read.