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Lifestyle => Tha G-Spot => Topic started by: white Boy on January 15, 2005, 10:58:27 AM
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Ashlee: All Apologies
Fri Jan 14, 9:05 PM ET
By Charlie Amter
Is it possible 78,000 football fans at Miami's Pro Player stadium simply didn't care for Ashlee Simpson (news)'s vocal stylings when she was rounded booed during the Orange Bowl (news - web sites) halftime show?
Not according to the singer.
Simpson again tried to spin--if not hoedown--her way out of a national embarrassment this week by telling MTV the many reasons why she believes she was the subject of a hugely negative reaction among the football faithful watching USC and Okalahoma during the Jan. 3 BCS Championship Game.
The raven-haired popster, who blamed last year's Saturday Night Live lip-synching debacle on (a) her drummer and (b) a bad case of acid reflux, came up with a whole bunch of explanations for the booing this time out, and none had to do with her shrieking, voice-cracking performance.
"There were no ear monitors when we went on stage," Jessica's little sis told MTV.com.
"And trying to sing in a stadium where you can't hear yourself is kinda hard," the 21-year old added.
In the end, though, she did manage to soldier through a live rendition of "La La," a tune off her debut disc Autobiography. But if a bad sound system is at fault for her closing boos, what explains the jeers at the start of her performance?
"I was facing the Oklahoma Sooners [which had a bigger crowd on hand], and I was rooting for USC, and they played a clip of it, so maybe it was that those people didn't like me," she postulated.
The singer even offered up a strange sort of apology. "Maybe they were booing at me, maybe they were booing at the halftime show because the whole thing sucked. If they didn't like the performance, and that's what it was about, then sorry to them."
But apologies are simply not enough for some music fans, who recently started circulating an online petition demanding that Simpson quit her music career posthaste.
"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," the Stop Ashlee Simpson petition reads. "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." So far, more than 14,000 people have endorsed the sentiment.
Last year, an organization called H.O.P.E offered a Ashlee Simpson CD swap, in which former Simpson fans in New York could exchange their Simpson discs for a CD of what the group calls "one of higher entertainment quality."
Simpson can only hope crowds for her upcoming tour will be more sympathetic--the jaunt kicks off Feb. 18 at Los Angeles' Universal Amphitheater.
im biased casue i think shes hot, and i know she sucks, but i dont wana see her disapear 8)
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wheres that petition at
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http://www.petitiononline.com/StopAsh/petition.html
almost 20.000 signatures ;D
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20254 total
2.5 minutes later
20312
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20347 Total Signatures now
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Ever since i saw that ashlee simpson show, ive wanted her music career to fail.
and if her career fails, maybe she'll consider doing porn
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hopefully
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20603 Total Signatures
;D
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20883 Total Signatures
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i think as soon as that jawn went on yahoo, the petition is more and more popular
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22612 Signatures Total
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LMFAO look at this entry
Name Additional Comments
14. William Hung She sucks, she sucks! oh baby, 'cause she sucks, she sucks.
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im biased casue i think shes hot, and i know she sucks, but i dont wana see her disapear 8)
when she was blond, she was hot, or above avrage. it made me watch her show. but when she died it black, she looks fucked up. i don't know, it makes her nose look bigger or something
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i signed
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lmao
i'm most definately signing :)
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32843 Total Signatures
not many people like her then
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actually that leaves quite a few people unaccounted for; thus making your comment unfair and judgemental
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i was number 33,869, peace.
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33909 <---Thats me!
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lol at the booing.
Funny as fuck.
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37111.
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signed
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it made it on collegehumor.com
they just keep coming
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whoa lol 111515 Total Signatures
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whoa lol 111515 Total Signatures
wow
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^ thats prob the amt of records she sold
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im #120393
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126389 with my sig