# SNL - Ashlee Simpson Lip-Sync Catastrophe

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-ashlee-simpson-lip-sync-catastrophe/270872>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 24, 2004, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-ashlee-simpson-lip-sync-catastrophe/270872 "2004-10-24T07:54:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-ashlee-simpson-lip-sync-catastrophe/270872/1 "2004-10-24T07:54:45Z")

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Did anyone else see this? In her second performance on tonight’s SNL, Ashlee Simpson came out on stage, and suddenly her voice came out before she had the mike to her lips. She stopped, the voice faded away, and then she did this awkward little dance around the stage. Then her voice came on again, she started to try to pretend she was singing, then she left the stage. The band kept playing for a minute or so until they cut away.

At the end of the show, she claimed that her band started playing the wrong song. Totally classless to blame it on the band to hide the fact that she just blew her lip-sync cues, or had a technical problem, or whatever.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-ashlee-simpson-lip-sync-catastrophe/270872/2 "2004-10-24T07:55:40Z")

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There’s another thread about this, at the moment it’s right below this one… there are files of the disaster and of her ‘apology’ as well.

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-ashlee-simpson-lip-sync-catastrophe/270872/3 "2004-10-24T08:19:13Z")

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\<Emily Litella\>  
Never mind.  
\</Emily Litella\>

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snl-ashlee-simpson-lip-sync-catastrophe/270872/4 "2004-10-24T08:21:21Z")

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> [@Sam Stone](#):
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> At the end of the show, she claimed that her band started playing the wrong song. Totally classless to blame it on the band to hide the fact that she just blew her lip-sync cues, or had a technical problem, or whatever.

It was totally classless. One wonders if her dumb fans will buy it. Doesn’t matter much, since it’ll be all over the news soon.