I think the band started playing the right song, then the sound engineers or whoever turned on the vocals to Pieces of Me. You can't really hear it on the clip you have, but when she looks back at the drummer it's because she can hear her voice singing Pieces of Me, but she isn't singing anything there on stage. The band switched to Pieces of Me because her vocals that were being piped in were not matching the song they were playing.

I recorded the show so today I went back and watched her first set, where she sang PoM, and you can hear her voice plus the studio voice at first, and then she stops singing and starts to lip-sync. I know she can't sing, I've watched her show before, so I'm not really surprised about that. I just think it sucks that she blamed her band for playing the wrong song. Why would they play something they've already played? So now we know that she wasn't singing the first song live, and she wasn't going to sing the second song live either. But it's fun to watch her do that stupid dance and walk off the stage.
Do you remember when her sister and Nick Lachey were on SNL? They had a sound snafu too, but their's was in the opening bit. Nick's microphone didn't work. I'm not crazy about Jessica either, but at least she was really singing.

When it was on last night I wasn't really paying attention to it. I was just listening to it but when she wasn't singing I looked up at the TV and was like "what's going on?" For a moment I actually thought to myself "she is as dumb as her sister after all." I thought she forgot the words or something. I was really confused. Then she said her band played the wrong song and I kind of felt bad for her until this morning when my sister pointed out to me that she was in fact lip syncing. Her band didn't play the wrong song. The audio people played the wrong tape. She lip sanc the first song and was going to lip sync the second until the same thing that happened to Milli Vanilli happened to her.

I am no guitar expert but I don't think the band was even playing their guitars. They were just pretending they were. The guitarist at the end even looked like he was having a hard time keeping himself from laughing. Ashlee only said her band played the wrong song because she didn't want to admit she lip syncs. I feel so lied to. Maybe if she would learn to sing then she wouldn't have to lip sync and this whole problem could have been avoided.

I think that the band was playing but with some guitar also on the voice track. What really sucked is that her band tried to help her out and make the best of a bad situation by starting to play Pieces again and then she blamed them for screwing up when they didn't even start playing it until her pre-recorded voice came booming through the speakers!

Jude's reaction to her blaming the band was perhaps the most priceless moment of the whole catastrophe.

I have a feeling that Ashlee's 15 mins are up, or she will at least be on the market for a new band.

i have been waiting all day for TVGasm to get to this! I wonder if this moment will be te 2nd most Tivoed moment in history. I also wonder if this is the end of ashlee simpson's "career".

It was painfully obvious that Ash was lip-synching the first song when you could hear her real voice over the vocal track and the band was also not playing live. except for the drummer of course, because it is incredibly hard to fake playing the drums on film. if you notice, the only sound you can hear is from the drums. then guitar, then bass, meanwhile the bass player and guitar player are just standing there looking at eachother and ashlee, while ashlee looks at the drummer.
god, this is great! maybe the paper boys right, maybe i am just a mean old lady.

PS anyone know how to get a job pretending to play guitar in a band? I think i'd be perfect.

Oh, I am psyched you guys are covering this. Pull the video fromd defamer-you can clearly hear what Caroline is referring to above. It really doesn't surprise me that she lip syncs (who doesn't these days). However, she lacks any stage presence and is completely unable to get out of the jam when it happens. And after having over 15 minutes to think of an excuse, the best she could come up with was "Oh, sorry, my band f'ed up"? Are you kidding me? What a poseur.

Unforunately, I was not able to TiVo SNL as I usually so (I was too busy watching the Red Sox win--GO SOX), but the videos on the Net are priceless. There's a remix which incorporates a nice Benny Hill soundtrack, B-Side, I think you would enjoy it.

Oh, also, I always knew Ashlee was a bad dancer but this is truly over the top. Even if she is dancing in an ironic fashion (which I PRAY she was), she is the poster child for WGWLR(White Girls Who Lack Rythm).

Yes, I thought the most hilarious part of this was Ashlee's inability to do anything with her situation. I mean, is that always her gut reaction to a challenging situation? Do a hoe-down?

I thought her apology at the end was weak. If I were her, I wouldn't have said anything at all. I mean, it was clearly a situation that was out of her control. Jude Law's shrugged shoulders and "Live TV!" comments were good enough. Ah, those Brits. Is there anything they can't do classy?

plus, that hair really isn't working for her.

http://www.danwho.net/images/ashleesimpson.jpg

Ha.Ha.

Here's the clip with the vocal flub from the East Coast feed:
http://video.bmj.net/busted/simpsonfuckup.mpg

Look at the way CNN.com described the dancing: "Simpson made some exaggerated hopping dance moves..."

haha im so mad I missed it.

Look, I think she's a really cute girl. And she would be really cute working in like, an Urban Outfitters, but as far as singing, well, the only way she's gotten to where she has is because of her sister. Everyone Knows That!! Why can't she just realize that herself and step back?

And as far as EVERYONE lip-syncs....no, I don't think so. Only people who suck lip-sync. Or of course the people that are so friggin busy doing their dance moves & out of breath, lip-sync. Which I hate either!

i feel mild to moderate sympathy for ashlee, since it's fairly clear that she is the unwitting (and possibly unwilling) puppet of joe simpson, who has now definitively leapt past macauly culkin's dad in the 'former entertainment industry failures exploiting their kids for fun and profit' category. this guy marketed his own daughter as a blithering idiot just to get some attention, and before you could say 'chicken of the sea,' he was dragging his other daughter into the spotlight. sure, ashlee has no talent, but given how much more time and energy her parents have put into her sister (or, rather, her sister's career), who could blame ashlee for doing the only thing she could to get some attention from her father?

but then again, ashlee blamed the band, which is pretty pathetic. of course, it has occurred to me after watching the clip and seeing the apparent pleasure the smirking guitarist and bass player seemed to be taking from the situation that the band just might have set her up to be made a fool of on live national TV as a sort of clever middle finger to the boss. if so, somebody ought to give those guys a free lifetime supply of dippity doo and avril lavigne's phone number.

The biggest reason I hate Joe Simpson? He has an earring. I mean, come on!

the snapshot of Brandon from AR got me thinking--aren't the Simpsons part of that growing contingent of avowed superchristian entertainment types who exploit their humble righteousness and faith as marketing tools? Yes, in fact, the Simpsons ARE lip-service Christians of the first order (southern baptist, of course). Joe Simpson himself was actually a 'youth minister' by profession before he traded up to peddling his daughter's hair, teeth, and tits for cash.

Which begs the question: where does Jesus come down on lip-synching?

I was too busy watching and laughing at MAD TV to catch this.

Sounds like I missed the only truly funny sketch SNL has had on in years. Sniff

Boo! Retroqueen - SNL is still funny. And once they get rid of Horatio Sanz, it will be even funnier.