Well, At Least It Wasn't Acid Reflux This Time
Ashlee Simpson has stated her theory of why there was booing at the Orange Bowl. Emphasis mine.
You'd think being booed in such a public forum as the Orange Bowl would be traumatic, but the singer/actress insists she's unfazed.
"There was some booing that went on after the halftime show was finished," she said. "If they didn't like the performance, and that's what it was about, then sorry to them."...
Simpson has a few theories herself about why boos were heard following the closing line of her song "La La," "I want to hear you scream!"
"Maybe they were booing at me, maybe they were booing at the halftime show 'cause the whole thing sucked," she said. "I was facing [the Oklahoma Sooners], and I was rooting for USC, and they played a clip of it, so maybe it was that those people didn't like me. You never know. But I can't make everybody happy."
Simpson also pointed out that for this performance, the circumstances were less than ideal.
"There were no ear monitors when we went onstage," she said. "No floor monitors. And trying to sing in a stadium where you can't hear yourself is kinda hard. My sister [Jessica] was like, 'I don't know how you just did that! I performed in stadiums, and if I didn't have my ears, I would have freaked.' "...
"I go from having a #1 album and things going great and all of a sudden something like SNL happens and boom! You're faced with how mean people can be and criticizing you and stuff," she said. "But I've learned a lot about myself through all of this. It's like, I'm not perfect and I'm not going to be perfect. I'm still 20, and a new artist, and I will only grow. And I look forward to continuing to not listen to what one person says and making good music."
Well, more negativity is coming. KATC reports on an online petition addressed to Geffen Records and others:
To: Geffen/DGC Records & JT Simpson Entertainment
We, the undersigned, are disgusted with Ashlee Simpson's horrible singing and hereby ask her to stop. Stop recording, touring, modeling and performing. We do not wish to see her again.
She cannot match the sound of her voice that can be found on her CDs, when she sings live. She simply yells the words (sometimes the wrong ones) into the mic.
We are so sickened by her "performing" that we are taking this opportunity to demand that she stop.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
As of early this afternoon, there were 7,738 signatures to the petition. A few examples:
2. Samantha Ashlee is a horrible singer. She doesn't dance or play an instrument - - her only job is to sing and she can't even do that.
6. Jerry Couch Ashley is an ugly, no-talent manufactured 'star'. And I use the term star loosely. She must be stopped.
14. William Hung She sucks, she sucks! oh baby, 'cause she sucks, she sucks.
15. Susan McKeever That father of hers is truly the one to blame for fabricating this kid into something she could never hope to be. How does he sleep at night knowing that he is responsible for making his daugher look like a complete fool for what? a quick buck? I understand he is a man of the cloth clearly he and I do not worship the same God shame on him.
21. Milli Vanilli We're glad there's another lip-synching fraud in the business besides us! And you remember how bad we were!
25. Meg She's using her sister's talent to heighten her career, she had to nerve to blame others not responsible for her lip-synching (it was truely her fault), and she embarrassed herself at the Orange Bowl by getting booed. Take a note from the record exectutives that released Kelly Osbourne's contract Geffen/DGC, and do the same with Ashlee.
36. Bart Simpson Homer, please change our last name to Flanders or something so they want think we're related.
7711. noonie I'd like to see Avril Lavigne repeatedly kick the ever-loving crap out of Ashlee! Now that would be something I'd pay to see...look into it Mr Geffen
Ashlee's dad Joe received some more criticism, courtesy the Boston Globe:
If an innate tenet of parenthood is to protect one's offspring, why does Joe Simpson insist on repeatedly tossing his youngest child to the wolves?
That's Joe Simpson, father of the alarmingly untalented Ashlee Simpson. Ever since her lip-synching debacle last year on ''Saturday Night Live," the pop star wannabe has been a perpetual punch line, and the disparaging words grew even more ferocious after her screechy, off-key performance at the recent Orange Bowl halftime show. By the end of her song, ''La La," a spectacular chorus of boos rained from what sounded like a good portion of the 70,000 people in attendance.
Before the camera quickly cut away, Ashlee looked so stunned it was as if someone had backhanded her across the face. Now, Ashlee will begin her first headlining tour next month, and it'll be tough not to feel some sympathy for her since it's her greedy father who, in his capacity as her manager, keeps offering her up for public ridicule.
Having struck gold with older daughter Jessica and her reinvention as a dumb blonde on the MTV reality show ''Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica," Joe Simpson, the show's executive producer, immediately began foisting kid sister Ashlee on us, like she's part of some two-for-one package deal. Before you could say nepotism, Ashlee had her own self-titled MTV show (which, like ''Newlyweds," returns for a new season Jan. 26) detailing the making of her debut album, ''Autobiography." That she didn't have a lick of talent was instantly apparent, but there was her father encouraging her to sing songs in various ways.
Still, Joe Simpson's smug vision was validated when Ashlee's album entered Billboard's 200 album chart at No. 1; it has since sold more than 2.5 million copies....
Last summer, I saw Ashlee perform on the second stage at the KISS concert, and...[s]he made Britney Spears sound like Aretha Franklin.
Behind all this is Joe Simpson, a former Baptist minister who gave up his calling to pimp out his daughters as pop stars....
Yet, one has to wonder just how much national derision he can expect Ashlee, who's barely 20, to endure. (This sample from Jay Leno: ''I guess you know they had two problems during the Orange Bowl halftime show. Kelly Clarkson's mike wasn't working, and Ashlee Simpson's was.")
Then again what should anyone expect from a father who isn't beyond promoting -- and commenting in unnerving detail -- about his daughter Jessica's sexiness. In a GQ interview last month, Joe said, ''Jessica never tries to be sexy. She just is sexy. If you put her in a T-shirt or you put her in a bustier, she's sexy in both. She's got double D's! You can't cover those suckers up!"...
Rather than follow her older sister's boilerplate pretty blonde route, Ashlee dyed her hair and sells herself as a raven-haired fist-pumping rebel for those who find Avril Lavigne too musically challenging. All well and good, except Avril, behind her surly affectations, has some discernible talent. All poor Ashlee has is a father pushing too hard and too fast....
Meanwhile, The Powers That Be cement Ashlee's personality status by tangential references. She popped up in this story about the Boston Celtics:
Paul Pierce was once a true captain, picking up the slack whenever his co-pilot, Antoine Walker, just wasn't up to the task. He said the right things, he did the right things, and above all, he played the right way.
Now, Captain Paul is singing a different tune ... something much closer to Orange Bowl boo-ee Ashlee Simpson than the beautiful bellows of Beyonce.
But everything's fine in Ashlee Land:
Even More Ticket Pre-Sales
1/11/2005 3:22:50 PM - by geffen
This Wednesday Jan 12 at 10AM Local Time the following five shows pre-sales will happen:
3/13/05
Massey Hall
Toronto, ON
4/6/05
House of Blues
Myrtle Beach, SC
4/8/05
House Of Blues
Orlando, FL
4/12/05
Murat Theatre
INdianapolis, IN
4/14/05
Family Arena
St. Charles, MO
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