deleted user 27.10.2004 23:58 |
...her great SNL fuck-up. Comments welcome Full Transcript Of Ashlee Simpson Interview On Tuesday morning, NBC's Katie Couric sat down live with singer Ashlee Simpson to get Simpson's side of the story on her lip-synching gaffe on "Saturday Night Live." Couric: "Saturday Night Live" was not so live when Ashlee Simpson went to perform her second song of the night. She was caught off guard when her own voice track came on from her first song of the night. Simpson walked off stage after doing a little hoe down and following that technical goof. She's been catching a lot of flack and she is here to tell her side of the story in an exclusive interview. Couric: This has been a crummy couple of days for you? Simpson: Yeah. … It's one of those situations. All rehearsals -- we have clips from all week long -- my voice was in great shape. I was so ready to go. Saturday night came at six o'clock. I have severe acid reflux. It started acting up and I could not speak or talk. But most artists on big shows do that (sing to a backing track) and I had never done it once. Couric: Explain what that is. Vocal guide tracks or backing tracks. Does that mean you are lip syncing? Simpson: No, I was singing with the track. Like on the first (song). I was singing with the track but my voice was not strong enough to hold up the song alone. My dad was like, 'honey, you have to do it.' He put my vocal doctor on the phone with me. 'You have to. (Singing) will ruin your vocal chords.' Couric: When you listen to someone performing live and they have a backing track, do you primarily hear the recording or the voice of the artist or does it depend? Simpson: You hear both. The sound bites fade in and out depending on how your voice is. I have never done it before. The first time I do it becomes a massive deal. It was something I could not control. My drummer who I love and adore accidentally pressed the wrong button and did not set up the song. Couric: Is he still your drummer? Simpson: Yes. I love him. Everybody makes mistakes. I didn't know that and I did the hoe-down. Couric: This must have been so upsetting for you because this is a big break to be on "Saturday Night Live", to be the featured artist and to have this happen. It must have been mortifying? Simpson: It was definitely upsetting and mortifying. I get comments like now , (I'm like) Milli Vanilli. I write all of my own music and perform from my heart. I am always singing on any show I have ever done. Singing as hard as I can always. This was a situation where I was in trouble like with my voice. Each in the rehearsal I was singing and I am holding my throat. Couric: Sounding like a munchkin? Simpson: Yes. And it was very unfortunate. What is even more unfortunate is a am being compared to that when there are artists that even at the awards show last night had backing tracks. People, listen to this! Your favorite artist. Couric: But it's a dirty little secret? Simpson: It's horrible. I think for me it was something. Couric: This was at the Radio Music Awards where you made a joke about it. Simpson: I figured why not make a joke about. I am not worried about it. I know that things happen and not everybody is perfect. You can't help it if you lose your voice. It doesn't mean you can't sing or don't write your own music. Couric: You have been very open about how much work it took you to get where you are today. You did an MTV reality show about it? Simpson: Yeah. And the acid reflux was on the reality show, too. Couric: Do you feel like fans will be forgiving. Your Web site has been inundated with comments some positive and some negative. What are people saying? Simpson: I have tried not to look at them because this has been -- it's hard. There are comments that are good and bad. I hope my fans know, especially the ones that come out to my shows, they know it's live. I never had to do that. The on |
iGSM 28.10.2004 00:11 |
All through that interview Ashlee Simpson had her mouth closed. Coincedentally the drummer was found floating upside down in a local river earlier today. Notice how she kept saying 'I love him to DEATH'? Hmm! Make sense now? |
deleted user 28.10.2004 00:12 |
*cough* *cough* Can you spell LIAR!!! That was not a back up track, that was totally lipsyncing, total LIE! |
iGSM 28.10.2004 00:15 |
I think I can spell lier. Nope. I can't. Mind you if I were living off my sis' fame then, yeah, I'd lip sync. Fuck it. I wouldn't even appear. Just have a computer screen with my image on it and then start singing. |
Lester Burnham 28.10.2004 00:47 |
I would pay to see that. But in fake money, of course. |
Daburcor? 28.10.2004 04:34 |
Monopoly money!? :D I GET TO BE THE TOP HAT!!! |
deleted user 28.10.2004 04:58 |
oh...my...fucking...GOD!! i had to read about this 4-5 times on livewire and i come here and read about it... heh i guess people must really like ashlee simpson... they're giving her endless attention... hehe i mean, i like ashlee, but come on, do i really need to hear about a fucking backup track 100000 times? |
Monte: Liquorice Years 28.10.2004 05:46 |
dont make me say my usual comment..... *tries to control herself.....* SHE'S A FUCK WIT!! oh god, i should try to stop saying that, but why when it works so well for everything as if you'd lip sync! what a fuck wit! i praise elton john (and roger taylor, for backing him up) on the whole madonna thing, or ethal, or whatever she calls herself these days (i recommand fuck wit). im glad he spoke up! some one should of! i just wish it was me!! theres my 2cents Monte |
Mr.Jingles 28.10.2004 08:42 |
<font color ="maroon">Fallen Angel</font> wrote: i mean, i like ashlee, but come on, do i really need to hear about a fucking backup track 100000 times?You like Ashlee, Nina?? I thought you had better taste than that. I know you like punk, but it's more than obvious that Ashlee Simpson only uses "punk" to promote an image, while her music is nothing more than the usual bubblegum pop crap. She's nothing but a poser, a fake, and a fraud. I mean, C'mon... even Barbara Streisand sounds more punk than Ashlee does. |
deleted user 28.10.2004 12:24 |
All she does is be who really is not she. Or something like that. |
MexQueenFM 28.10.2004 13:26 |
iGSM wrote: All through that interview Ashlee Simpson had her mouth closed.Shoot her in the spine |
Matti 28.10.2004 15:13 |
I thought it was a joke at first- when she just stood there and then went off the stage. and then I realized what happened and laughed at her. |
iGSM 28.10.2004 19:56 |
< Hey, that's my gimmick. I'm yet to see this but can imagine it would be extremely amusing. Did the SNL guys say anything? Ugh, SNL has gone down the slide since all the 'funnys' left. |
LiveAidQueen 28.10.2004 20:34 |
She disgusts me. |
Mr.Jingles 28.10.2004 21:02 |
PaulPenney wrote: 5150 eats pooAshlee Simpson fan in da house! |
LiveAidQueen 28.10.2004 21:05 |
Hey! |
The Real Wizard 29.10.2004 01:17 |
If one loses their voice, then they should make do with whatever they have got left. Freddie did it in '82 on SNL, didn't he? Funny how her voice went on her at 6pm, and there magically appeared a vocal track to play back, in case such a thing happened! Riiight. At least she is very articulate. I'll give her that, as most of these teen singers can barely put a sentence together. |
deleted user 29.10.2004 04:50 |
Mr.Jingles79 wrote:yes, i like ashlee. so? fuck, i like Reba McEntire! i have a wide range of music taste...<font color ="maroon">Fallen Angel</font> wrote: i mean, i like ashlee, but come on, do i really need to hear about a fucking backup track 100000 times?You like Ashlee, Nina?? I thought you had better taste than that. I know you like punk, but it's more than obvious that Ashlee Simpson only uses "punk" to promote an image, while her music is nothing more than the usual bubblegum pop crap. She's nothing but a poser, a fake, and a fraud. I mean, C'mon... even Barbara Streisand sounds more punk than Ashlee does. |
Mr.Jingles 29.10.2004 08:39 |
Sir GH<br><font size=1>ah yeah</font> wrote: At least she is very articulate. I'll give her that, as most of these teen singers can barely put a sentence together.To me she seems worse than the average teenager. But there's no doubt that she's about as dumb as the stereotypical rich skank who can't say one single sentence without using the word "like". |
Mr Mercury 29.10.2004 11:02 |
She had "acid reflux"? As Jim Royle would say, "my arse". Nuff said. |