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Ashlee Simpson
Ashlee Simpson (born October 3, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter who rose to prominence in 2004 with the success of her number-one debut album Autobiography and is best known for appearing on her MTV reality series The Ashlee Simpson Show from 2004 to 2005. She appeared on Saturday Night Live as a musical guest on October 23, 2004 where she performed "Pieces of Me" and was originally going to perform another song (see controversy below) and on October 8, 2005 where she performed "Catch Me When I Fall" and "Boyfriend."
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On the October 23, 2004 episode, her first performance, "Pieces of Me," was performed without incident, but when she began her second song, "Autobiography," the vocals for "Pieces of Me" were heard again—before she had even raised the microphone to her mouth. Simpson began to do an impromptu jig, and then left the stage. During the closing of the show, Simpson appeared with the guest host Jude Law and said: "I'm so sorry. My band started playing the wrong song, and I didn't know what to do, so I
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Ashlee Simpson Reflects on ‘SNL’ Lip-Syncing Incident: ‘It Was a Humbling Moment For Me’
Ashlee Simpson has the benefit of hindsight when it comes to her infamous 2004 appearance on Saturday Night Live. Speaking on the Broad Ideas With Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen podcast, the singer explained that the performance, which saw her lip-syncing her single “Autobiography,” taught her how to pick herself back up.
“I had done my rehearsal the night before and then I woke up the next day and I couldn’t speak,” Simpson explained on the podcast episode. “I saw the voice doctor that day and I had two nodules beating against each other. That day I said, ‘I will not go on, I don’t care. I can’t speak.’ Meanwhile, I’m not saying this. I’m writing it down because I can’t talk.”
However, Simpson said her label encouraged her to perform with the pre-recorded vocals. “My band’s never practiced this, this is not going to go well,” she explained of her r
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Ashlee Simpson Says 2004 ‘SNL’ Lip Synching Fiasco Taught Her About ‘The Power of No’
It was the performance heard ’round the world. Or rather, not heard, but played on tape. Almost 20 years after the second most-famous lip synch scandal in modern pop history — shout out to Milli Vanilli — Ashlee Simpson dropped by the Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson and Olivia Allen podcast this week to relive that moment in 2004 when her Saturday Night Live debut turned into a car-crash viral moment before such things even existed.
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“I’ve never talked about or said, but it’s like the other thing is, learning as a woman, when you say no, or as an artist or a human or whatever, that day I said ‘I will not go on, I don’t care. I can’t speak,’” Simpson, 39, told the hosts about the night in Oct. 2004 when she was the musical guest on SNL amid serious vocal issues that caused her to lose her voice before showtime.
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