Yup. And I agree with Chastain. The blame goes to SNL for agreeing to let her lipsync. it’s not like they didn’t know she was gonna do it…
Maybe it’s the start of an insidious campaign (carried out by sound professionals, many of whom are musicians, themselves) to embarass the lip-synchers and foment the return of real musicians! 
I can dream can’t I?
There’s no way she’s the first artist to do this on SNL. I would expect they and NBC don’t give a shit, they just want acts that are popular. As such, like I said above, I hope this does damage to the Britney scene and lets some more real musicians get heard. I don’t expect lame pop music to go away, but trends come and go and I hope this is a big sign that this one is going.
The funny thing is that Ashlee is supposed to be one of those “Anti-Britneys”, isn’t she?
Probably, but it’s all a marketing gimmick. Britneys and Anti-Britneys are part of the same musical SubShit Continuum, one that consists of particles unrelated to people with real musical ability.
Starving Artist, I think it’s highly likely Simpson was advised to blame her band of nobodys. Whether that’s true or not, it’s classless and shows how selfish and unprofessional she is. The band take a back seat to her because she’s the star, they do their jobs, and when something goes wrong she blames them because they have no defense? That’s pathetic.
Agreed
Also agreed.
Well, whoever advised her fucked up. All it does is fan the flames. Everyone knows what happened.
They should have advised her to make a self-depricating joke.
Being perfectly serious, I agree. I don’t understand who thought it was a good idea to tell her to go out there and blame her band. People would have LOVED her if she’d made a Milli Vanilli joke.
Then again, I guess not being able to come up with anything better than “my band started playing the wrong song” is a testament to SNL’s creative bankruptcy for the last 10 years.
Doesn’t it seem to you to be a desperate excuse by a teen? Any writer or producer, ANY, should have come up with something better.
She was blonde before she was a singer. The “anti-Britney” is just another gimmick.
Anyone catch what she was saying? After she blamed the band, she kept going on and on, but I couldn’t hear her over Jude. The only thing I really heard was a sentence fragment that included “… but I’m still…” but I could clearly understand anything else.
“Could not clearly understand…”
Sorry.
When I said I thought she might have been advised to blame the band, I meant by her management or people, not SNL. And she actually did make a self-deprecating joke.
Here’s my attempt at it:
JUDE: Ladies and gentlemen- what can I say, live TV.
ASHLEE: Exactly. I feel so bad, my band started playing the wrong song. And I didn’t know what to do, so I thought I’d do a hoe-down. (Does imitation of her own stupid dancing.)
JUDE: (Opens mouth, looks like he’s going to say something, gestures to her.)
ASHLEE: I’m sorry-
JUDE: Ashlee Simpson!
ASHLEE: It’s live TV, these things happen-
JUDE: (trying to wrap up) The cast!-
ASHLEE: But I’m standing next to Jude Law. (hugs him)
[JUDE does ‘see my movie’ spiel, Ashlee mugs and mouths ‘I’m sorry,’ show ends.]
:eek: Wow, Silver Fire, you started a second page just to correct a typo? I’ve posted to correct typos before too, but is it really worth starting a second page?
Just blame it on your band and move on.
wow, not sure what is more embarrassing. The lip-syncing snafu or the monkey dancing.
“Sorry! That was the wrong song! It was supposed to be ‘Blame it on the Rain!’”
“If I didn’t know better, I’d swear my soundman Fabrice did that on purpose.”
Where’s the self-deprecating joke in there?
She could easily have made a non-specific apology without blaming the band. Something like: “I’m so sorry for the screw-up with the second song. I didn’t know what to do, so I just did a hoe-down…”
I am with Jess I was cringingly embarrassed for her and felt bad for her right up until she blamed her Band. I know they had about 6 panic stricken minutes to get the story straight – but now, for me, it isn’t about the crime it is the cover-up :
Like we didn’t know she was totally processed? But what we really didn’t know before was that she would sell out semi-good studio musicians, presumably her colleagues if not her friends, to save her own a$$.
You saw what I saw. The musicians in the band looked like they were amused by it. Ashlee’s the one making the money and she’s the one who can’t sing live.