hammerstein ballroom. nyc. my friend invited me and i was hoping to see a milli vanilli moment (girl you know it's, girl you know it's...) favorite moments included her "acoustic set," her absolute butchering of the pretenders' "brass in pocket," blondie's "call me" and madonna's "burning up," and the moments in between when she said "good night" and her encore of "peices of me" when not a single person was clapping or requesting an encore.

sure, the show sucked. however, all the pre-pubescent girls who trampled me after the show trying to get a t-shirt seemed to love it ... so, who am i to hate?

You go to an Ashlee Simpson concert and you don't bring a bucket of rotten tomatoes? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?!?!?!

don't waste (rotten) tomatoes

did she do her famous "i screwed up on SNL" jig? i think that should have been a new dance craze.

her encore of "peices of me" when not a single person was clapping or requesting an encore.

found1 said:

what, were all the girls in there speechless from asslee's stunning "performance"?

AWESOME review. I'd love to see that mess for free

vanity69 said:

I thought she was being perped as a "major artist" not an over paid cover band.
Or could it be that she/management's ashamed of her "original" material?

Strange any way you look at it.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

vanity69 said:

the thing is, when she did songs from her own cd, they sounded....well, good for her. however, when she tried to cover songs by others, that's when she really started sucking. it made me skeptical about whether she was actually singing when her own songs were playing...

i know her mike was on, though, cuz she said the stupidest shit in between songs. like before the "acoustic" set (i had doubts whether the band was miming), she was like "um, i, um, like love u guys. ur the greatest fans. now, i'm gonna show u how we, um, like, write our songs. my fans are the best!!!" oh, and the whole show, there's this like huge picture of ashlee as the backdrop and she's singing all front and center while the band hides behind these curtains on the side of the stage.

she didn't do her snl jig. she mostly just strutted around the stage like a crippled mick jaggar. however, during the "drum solo" portion of the show, she shook her shit furiously like a hyperactive beyonce/ciara.

she made her band hide behind a banner of her face?!?

this show's sounding more priceless by the minute.

Let's face it, as cute as Ashlee is, she's not meant to be a singer. She and her dad oughtta realize it and accept the SNL incident, being booed at the Orange Bowl, and always losing her voice as a sign, and try to get her onto some OC-like show.

guitarslinger44 said:

Okay, my breakfast is on it's way back up

guitarslinger44 said:

I think that's the smartest thing anyone's ever said about her career.

ummmm....have you seen ashlee on 7th heaven?

which reminds me: jessica was in the house last night, too. she was sitting and watching in some box (without nick, it seemed). however, she disappeared once it appeared that everyone in the crowd was paying attention to her, taking her picture, and chanting her name instead of paying attention to ashlee. shortly thereafter, my friend turned to me and said, "no matter how much ashlee sucks, she might actually be more tolerable than jessica to listen to these days." i couldn't really disagree with her.

oh yeah, ashlee also covered "celebrity skin" by hole and actually did a good job sounding like courtney love...not that that's saying a lot.

vanity69 said:

well, at least the girl can grunt. see, maybe if they sat ashlee down with some hole and distillers and joan jett and runaways albums and didn't try to make her into some kind of manufactured mall punk/pop princess hybrid, she might be able to use her limited vocal talents and actually create an image for herself that comes across as genuine and not half-assed and clueless. but that'll never happen, so let her do her jig.

Let me just say that, for going to this show, you make me wanna SCREEAAAAAMmuh!

VoicesCarry said:

booooo...

You make me wanna la la in the kitchen on the floor/I'll be your French maid where I meet you at the door/I'm like an alley cat/Drink the milk up I want more/You make me wanna/You make me wanna scream

that's kinda nasty for teen pop, i suppose...

actually, the performance of "la la" was kind of weird. it started off all slow and had a cabaret-type flow. ashlee comes out with a pink feathered boa around her neck and starts trying to be all seductive and shit to the audience and is like on the floor grinding. the thing is: everyone in the audience (except me) is a 12 year old girl, so i wasn't sure who she was trying to entice. it made me wanna

good god! You deserve to go blind and deaf!

vanity69 said:

that's just wrong. Actually, for the Orange Bowl game they had her change her lyrics to La La, cuz supposedly it was too "dirty" for t.v.


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you're all really mean to ashlee. she's so talented.

vanity69 said:

riiiight

mrdespues said:

that's probably the first & only time her name and the word talent will ever be used in the same sentence.

Xavier23 said:

i was kidding.

mrdespues said:

Me too

Xavier23 said:

ok.