Ashlee Simpson's Lip Synching Disaster On SNL
Posted by Nadia on 10.25.2004
Ashlee walked off in middle of performance...
Ashlee Simpson was discovered to be lip synching during her "Saturday Night Live Performance" when the audience heard her voice -- singing the wrong song -- while she held a microphone at her waist.
Her record company claims a computer glitch is to be blame and she blamed her band for the incident, which cut off her planned performance of the song "Autobiography" on the show.
Simpson had performed her single "Pieces of Me" without any problems earlier in the show, but when she returned for her second number, her band started playing and the first lines of her singing "Pieces of Me" could be heard again.
She looked momentarily confused as the band continued along with the song and the pre-recorded 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."
Geffen Records blamed the incident on a computer glitch. Instead of some pre-taped electronic percussion, the recording of "Pieces of Me" started mistakenly performing, according to a statement.
