From the catastrophic performance of SNL Ashle Simpson explained

Ashlee SimpsonCareer changed forever 23rd October 2004, when her musical performance Saturday night live He went completely and hopelessly badly.

Simpson found herself in the middle of a live television disaster when she started playing an incorrect composition of lip synchronization for her hit “pieces of me”. The 7. Heaven Of course, the star was crushed by technical collapse, so she replied in a single logical way … by making Hoedown dance.

Almost 21 years later Saturday night liveThe production team lifted the lid on their backstage panic during Simpson’s performance as part of the new Peacock document Ladies and gentlemen … 50 years of music SNLwhich Kodi is directed Questlove roots and Oz Rodriguez.

The document shows the exclusive behind -the -scenes footage from the night and offers a definitive explanation of what has gone wrong.

Pant manufacturer Marci Klein She remembered Peacock Special that “she heard Rumblings that Ashlee had a sore throat and didn’t feel good” hours before the dress rehearsal, where the singer was supposed to try both traces.

“It was ordered to be Lipsync for the second song (in a live show) just to save her voice,” Pant Music blender Josiah Gluck confirmed. “Somehow between the dress and the air, it was ordered to synchronize both songs.”

During a live show, Simpson went through her first song “Pieces of Me” without any noticeable trouble, but things disintegrated quickly when the host Jude Law She introduced her second song “Autobiography”.

Simpson’s band was drowned with pre -recorded vocals from “pieces of me”, even though the singer held the microphone on her side at that time. The composition of lip synchronization was silenced after a few seconds, but until then the Simpson group started playing “pieces” in the hope of covering this mistake.

“I heard the director like,” He remembered the Holy S – “” It was like the old movies of the two locomotives that defend each other full openings. “

On stage Simpson started to make a Hoedown style dance a few seconds a few seconds ago Saturday night live mercifully cut off completely. Among those who looked from home in complete confusion was the future cast member Bowen Yang.

“I was in my basement, 13 years (a) sexually confused because Jude Law was a host.” The moment it happened, you were not entirely sure what was happening, ”Yang said.

While Simpson was not at all caused for a technical error in her performance, she would later be criticized for incorrect accusation of her band during PantGoodnights segment.

“My band started playing a bad song and I didn’t know what to do, so I thought I’d do Hoedown.” I’m sorry, ”she told the viewers with a shrug.

A few years later Simpson attributed her Pant debacle with teach her to be more assertive When it was not comfortable.

“I never spoke or said about it, but it’s like the other thing, teaching like a woman when you say no, like an artist or man or anything, I said that day,” I’m not going, I don’t care. I can’t speak, ”Simpson confirmed during his performance at the“ Wide Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen ”in March 2024.

The Simpson revealed that she was diagnosed with “two knots against each other”, but eventually agreed to live on SNL because she feared the consequences of canceling at the last minute.

“I feel it was a humiliating moment for me,” she admitted. “I had the number one song, it was as if everything was about GO, like somewhere, and then it was just like, woah.” The humility of misunderstanding of what would have come about, people said about you, terrible and terrible things. ”

Simpson eventually got a chance to do-over when Saturday night live She brought her back as a music guest on October 8, 2005. This time her performance “Catch Me When I Fall” and “Kfriend” left without a curtain.

Saturday night live 50. Anniversary of special Airs on Sunday, February 16, with a red carpet special streaming live on Peacock from 19:00 ET and a live show broadcast on NBC at 8:00. Et.