It's 'synch' or swim for Ashlee Simpson
NEW YORK (AP) — It's synch or swim for Ashlee Simpson on her second go-round on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

The vocally disparaged singer will perform this weekend, almost a year after the SNL audience heard her voice — singing the wrong song — while she held a microphone at her waist.

Even though lip-synching has been around for years, the incident resulted in Simpson being lampooned as an example of today's style-over-substance culture.

Simpson's manager-father, Joe Simpson, has said she used "extra help" because acid reflux disease had made her voice hoarse.

The 21-year-old singer will perform songs from her upcoming album, I Am Me, according to Simpson's website.

why is she famous? Her and Paris should make a suicide pact

i'm really glad she's getting a second chance, because i really can't think of any other artists out there right now who could use the airtime.

Anxiety said:

I agree

At this point, why even give her any lip service? People should just ignore her & hopefully she'll go away & we can all look back at all this Ashlee Simpson business as a bad dream .

"SYNCH OR SWIM" - I LOVE THAT

jthad1129 said:

meltwithu said:

What a load of crap! I have had acid reflux disease 4 many years and at no point did it ever affect my voice. What a cheeseball thing 2 say.

paisley2002 said:

please don't say that... it's my only hope that she eventually loses her voice altogether

paisley2002 said:

I agree

Cold-blooded...

I thought SNL would have more class bookin lip syncers isnt goin to do any good

plus her new song ater peakin at #24 has already started to decline on H100 althought its gettin time on MTV.

I dont see the new album goin anywhere this time around

i hope they at least have some really clever skit or staged incident that will make it worthwhile. but considering SNL's commitment to suckage over the past few seasons, this probably won't be the case.

SNL just knows they'll get good ratings because of the controversy.

I'll watch, but only because Napoleon Dynamite is the host, and I'm turning it off after the news (hopefully before Asslee sings).

andyman91 said:

if i'm even TEMPTED to watch this weekend, it'll be for the napoleon dynamite dude.

Napoleon's hosting? SWEET!

Will Ashlee do her ho-down, too? That stupid dance had me rolling.

uPtoWnNY said:

they should bring out fred armisen as prince to do an erotic hoedown while she performs.

I don't get it. In her case isn't lip-syncing preferable to her actually singing? Didn't she actually sing at some football game, and got booed by 60,000 people?
Bottom line, it's just sad this talentless girl is getting so much attention. The deal her dad made with the devil musta been SWEEEEET.