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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."
Controversy[]
- Video of the incident
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 thought I'd do a hoedown."
On October 25, Simpson called in to the music video show Total Request Live and explained that due to complications arising from severe acid reflux disease, which had
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Lorne Michaels Explains Ashlee Simpson’s Infamous SNL Lip-Sync Fiasco in Unaired 60 Minutes Clip: 'Accidents Happen'
Nearly 20 years after Ashlee Simpson’s infamous lip-sync snafu on Saturday Night Live, we’re getting a better picture of how Lorne Michaels reacted to the public blowback in 2004.
The latest episode of CBS News’ new podcast 60 Minutes: A Second Look features never-before heard outtakes from the long-running news magazine show’s October 2004 profile of Michaels and SNL’s season 30 cast — including more of Michaels’s comments on Simpson’s performance.
“I think accidents happen. I think that's the nature of live television,” Michaels, now 79, told 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl in the unaired clip.
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Stahl and her crew were famously on the SNL set the week of Simpson’s October 2004 guest appearance on the show, capturing footage of her leaving the stage in tears over the state of her voice after rehearsal.
They were also there for the show’s live taping, when a technical mix-up caused the audio track for her song “Pieces of Me,” which she had already performed, to begin playing during her second musical performance of the episode, revealing that