# Ashlee Simpson: Now It Get's Ugly **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855 "2005-01-27T01:52:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/1 "2005-01-27T01:52:13Z")
[200,000+ people have signed the petition for her to shut up.](http://stopashlee.com/) > [@](#): > > To: Geffen/DGC Records & JT Simpson Entertainment > > We, the undersigned, are disgusted with Ashlee Simpson’s horrible singing and hereby ask her to stop. > > Stop recording, touring, modeling and performing. We do not wish to see her again. > > She cannot match the sound of her voice that can be found on her CDs, when she sings live. > > She simply yells the words (sometimes the wrong ones) into the mic. > > We are so sickened by her “performing” that we are taking this opportunity to demand that she stop. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/2 "2005-01-27T01:55:09Z")
Where do I sign? ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/3 "2005-01-27T01:55:23Z")
Yeah, it’s horrible how they’re being forced to buy her CDs and concert tickets and… what? Oh. ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/4 "2005-01-27T02:34:03Z")
> [@Raygun99](#): > > Yeah, it’s horrible how they’re being forced to buy her CDs and concert tickets and… what? Oh. I’m pretty sure most people at the Orange Bowl didn’t go to see her. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/5 "2005-01-27T02:45:10Z")
> [@Duderdude2](#): > > I’m pretty sure most people at the Orange Bowl didn’t go to see her. One commentator pointed out that football fans are the kind of folks who cheer when someone get’s _hurt_, so they’re taste in music can’t be all that great. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/6 "2005-01-27T02:54:46Z")
I don’t particularly like the girl (except on a primal level) but that is sort of harsh. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/7 "2005-01-27T03:36:55Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > One commentator pointed out that football fans are the kind of folks who cheer when someone get’s _hurt_, so they’re taste in music can’t be all that great. That only happens in Philadelphia. Granted, it shouldn’t happen anywhere, but most football fans hate to see players get hurt, even ones that play for the other team. ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/8 "2005-01-27T04:58:24Z")
Is she truly that bad? I’m not sure if I’ve ever actually heard her sing. That implies to me that her presence isn’t as pervasive as many other horrible singers or groups (Creed, I’m looking at you) that are or were absolutely unavoidable. ---
**Author:** ![fc1114](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@fc1114](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fc1114)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/9 "2005-01-27T05:04:30Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Now It Get’s Ugly Gets?? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/10 "2005-01-27T05:05:09Z")
[Here’s](http://www.ebaumsworld.com/ashleesimpsonboo.html) a clip of her at the Orange Bowl - it’s only the last few lines of her song, because the clip is meant to showcase the booing, but those few lines are definitely a representative sample of her performance that night. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/11 "2005-01-27T05:34:56Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > That only happens in Philadelphia. Granted, it shouldn’t happen anywhere, but most football fans hate to see players get hurt, even ones that play for the other team. It happens in legitimate sports as well then? Philadelphia was once home to ECW, the largest hardcore wrestling organization in North America, and it’s renowned for its bloodthirsty fans and unfriendly crowds. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/12 "2005-01-27T05:52:23Z")
I read somewhere that the booing occurred not because of her singing but because she, as a USC fan, was shown in a video clip on the big stadium sceens cheering USC while she was singing from the stage and facing the Oklahoma side of the stadium. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/13 "2005-01-27T05:56:49Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > It happens in legitimate sports as well then? Philadelphia was once home to ECW, the largest hardcore wrestling organization in North America, and it’s renowned for its bloodthirsty fans and unfriendly crowds. [Yep.](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/news/1999/10/11/philly_fans_ap/) > [@](#): > > By cheering Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin as he lay motionless on the turf Sunday with a neck injury, the fans brought the city’s reputation for boorishness to new lows. It disgusted even those who thought they had seen it all in the “City of Brotherly Love.” But in every sporting event I’ve been to, the fans will cheer a player coming off the field with an injury, regardless of which team he’s on. The majority of Philly fans do so too, but enough of them are classless louts to give the city a reputation. ---
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/14 "2005-01-27T06:02:05Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > It happens in legitimate sports as well then? Philadelphia was once home to ECW, the largest hardcore wrestling organization in North America, and it’s renowned for its bloodthirsty fans and unfriendly crowds. Sheesh… you act like you’ve never watched pro football. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/15 "2005-01-27T06:05:40Z")
Irving, however, had a reputation as a complete and utter arsehole. Spoiled, miserable brat. Maybe the fans reaction was tasteless but this is still a free country and the handwringing by the likes of ESPN smacks of hypocrisy. Simpson is a manufactured popstrel who has been marketed to the hilt and provided a platform due to collusion within the industry (marketing & record companies with direct ties to radio and music television). Payola was just the basement and not the ceiling of corruption within the music industry. I’m delighted that she is being pillored because she genuinely has very little talent (I can walk 4 blocks north to Schuba’s on Belmont and Southport and here some really talented musicians) and more light needs to be shed on this sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/16 "2005-01-27T06:08:36Z")
here = hear etc. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/17 "2005-01-27T06:19:51Z")
Her singing at the Orange Bowl sounded like one of the bad _American Idol_ auditions. ---
**Author:** ![SiouxChief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@SiouxChief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiouxChief)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/18 "2005-01-27T07:03:48Z")
She’s still human, for crissake. Just don’t buy her album if you don’t like her. If she doesn’t make money for the record label, she’ll go away. ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/19 "2005-01-27T07:11:00Z")
> [@SiouxChief](#): > > She’s still human, for crissake. She’s a human who’s clogging up my TV screen. As she’s in the public eye, there is no reason that we can’t express either our distain or, if it exists, respect for her. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855/20 "2005-01-27T07:16:44Z")
> [@sweepkick](#): > > Sheesh… you act like you’ve never watched pro football. :rolleyes: Not by choice, no. Your point? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ashlee-simpson-now-it-gets-ugly/286855.md?page=2)