Ashlee Simpson to Sing Live Again Tonight

[karyn]

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Ashlee Simpson to Sing Live Again Tonight

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

NEW YORK - Singer Ashlee Simpson (news) gets another chance to sing live — perhaps — on national television Monday after walking off "Saturday Night Live" in a does-she-or-doesn't-she lip-synch moment.

Simpson is scheduled to perform in Las Vegas for NBC's "Radio Music Awards," scheduled to be televised at 9 p.m. ET.

The 19-year-old was the talk of the Internet after Saturday's show.

Her record company blamed a computer glitch and she blamed her band, which cut off her planned performance of the song "Autobiography" on the network comedy show.

Simpson had performed her hit single "Pieces of Me" without incident earlier in the show. When she came back a second time, her band started playing and the first lines of her singing "Pieces of Me" could be heard again.

She was holding her microphone at her waist at the time. Simpson looked momentarily confused as the band plowed ahead with the song and the vocal was quickly silenced.

Simpson made some exaggerated hopping dance moves, then walked off the stage 35 seconds into the performance. NBC quickly cut to a commercial.

"What can I say?" guest host Jude Law said with Simpson standing next to him at the end of the show. "Live TV."

"Exactly," Simpson said. "I feel so bad. My band started playing the wrong song. I didn't know what to do so I thought I'd do a hoe-down."

Her record company, Geffen Records, said that instead of some pretaped electronic percussion, the recording of "Pieces of Me" started.

But it sounded suspiciously like a guide vocal that's a common — although almost always unspoken — concert aid. Either the singer "lip synchs" by mouthing words to a backing tape or has a live microphone and sings along to the tape, making the voice sound more powerful than it is.

Simpson's walk-off joins the lore of other unexpected music moments on "SNL": Elvis Costello (news) stopping and changing songs on live TV, and Sinead O'Connor (news) tearing up a picture of the pope.

[ofdarkblood]

Hehe, that was too funny.

[killerkat]

i wanna see the footage

[Lange]

Oh that was some funny shit... Here is the video SNL VID

[ForrestBlack]

DOH!

[killerkat]

she looks so fukin stupid in the video ,HOWDY YALL GRAB YOUR PARTNER DOSY SOW HAHHAHHAHHA

[Trotter]

And I was almost concluding that she had more talent than her sister, but i guess when you dont actually sing, you cant make that arguement.

[Tequila Zaire]

HAAAHHAHAHAHAHA.....gotta see that footage.

[Trotter]

im sorry, but i watched the video again and i cant help myself " Duh im ashley simpson and im a moron. Ive been in a band for how long and instead of taking charge like a big person i stand there like an idiot and look at the fucking floor. Nevermind i could have told MY band to stop playing and do it again, since im in charge of MY band, ill just walk off stage and leave them hanging there."

[Kidthorazine]

the reason the band didnt stop is because they arent real they are robots i mean look at them, usually if your singer storms off stage you stop playing especially if you are just a backup band for said siger...

[Beloved1982]

Oh my God! I'm laughing so hard right now. I have always thought she had no talent and never liked her personality. This whole music industry is like some big kiddie family. Everybody's brother and sister is hitting the radio, whether they can really sing or not. ~sighs~ Oh well...Thats my two cents.

[hewhoisagod]

............... now that just gives me wonderful songs in my head like "Girl You Know It's True" and "Blame It On The Rain"........... ahhhh memories