Following up on her October SNL disaster, Ashlee Simpson was booed rather heartily after her Orange Bowl halftime performance, as discussed here.
This girl has more alibis than Pete Rose:
- "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." [MTV]
Article comments
1 - Dawn
Well, it's not like she molested young boys for years and slipped into a self-absorbing psychosis of creepiness like other pop icons.
Heck, she didn't even murder some hostess she picked up at a blues bar.
She just lipsynched and acted like a knucklehead, hardly a major offense in the grande scheme of things, dontcha think?
2 - Eric Olsen
I agree
3 - Eric Berlin
She's probably already drafting the teleplay of her "Behind the Music"... downfall... followed by redemption!
Kids today are savvy, I guess. At least some of them. I think she's taking the advice of her press people, is what I'm trying to say, I guess.
Which for her is probably the smartest thing she can do.
4 - Eric Olsen
I have to think a little more about the implications of havign the reality show: it really is like a security blanket and no mater how badly she fucks up, it's just material for the show
5 - The Proprietor
These guys did just fine without monitors with a loud crowd in a stadium
6 - Eric Olsen
yeah, but they didn't have the pressure of a famous big sister!
7 - Eric Berlin
Eric -- look at Anna Nicole Smith. She turned her train-wreck life into reality gold (or Fool's Gold).
Have you heard her "I'm baaaaa-ck!" commercials? It's like fingernails running down chalkboards... in my head.
8 - Eric Olsen
a woman both bovine and porcine has at least lost weight and returned to the only assets she ever had
9 - oddmanout
Anna has THE biggest nipples. Those pups
are the size of a silver dollar w/ what
looks like a miniature thumb right in
the middle. WEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAW!!!!!
I would marry her in a minute if she'd
only just ask me.
10 - Eric Olsen
I'm not sure a union based upon expansive nipples would last
11 - Eric Berlin
Ah, but those first twenty minutes would be magic, no? At least for the Odd Man, it would be...
12 - andy marsh
maybe not expansive nipples...but man that checkbook of hers!!!
13 - Eric Berlin
Andy - she may not be rolling in it as much as you think. She recently lost an appeal on the $80 million-or-something-from-the-super-old-now-dead-dude case.
In other words: she better hope that those Trim Spa checks keep coming.
14 - andy marsh
bummer - I thought she was a billionairesse or something. If she's not loaded, she's to much of a pig for me!
15 - Eric Olsen
she had seen the writing on the wall about the inheritance money - why do you think she bothered with Trim Spa and dumping the 69 lbs?
16 - Mark Saleski
man, maybe it's just me but i find anna nicole smith to be completey revolting.
that slurred speech and...ugh...whatever.
17 - andy marsh
It's not just you Mark!
Is that all it was Eric? 69 lbs? I'd a thought it was a 169!
18 - Mark Saleski
i caught one of those danged trimspa ads a coupla nights ago...the one where she says "do you like my BODY?".
gross, i wanted ta vomit.
19 - Eric Olsen
Andy, 69 is an entire GYMNAST, dude.
20 - Craig Lyndall
It is disappointing because back in the day before I ever heard her talk, she was really hot in Playboy and all those guess ads.
Some people weren't meant to have speaking roles I guess.
21 - Eric Olsen
or to gain 69 lbs
22 - andy marsh
I never looked at it like that Eric! You're right...damn...an entire gymnast??? A lot of woman! She must be at least 2 or maybe 3 gymnasts!