Teen songbird Ashlee Simpson had a microphone malfunction on "Saturday Night Live" (oct 23) last night, scurrying off stage when a production glitch caught her lip-synching the wrong tune.

The pop star, younger sister of singer and TV star Jessica Simpson, sounded great belting out "Pieces of Me" in her first segment on the show. It was the same song that she butchered at August's MTV Music Video Awards, drawing withering reviews for a flat, out of key performance.

But the triumphant moment turned into a debacle when she came out to debut the song "Autobiography" for a second set. But whoever was responsible for piping in a studio-engineered rendition for Simpson to mouth screwed up, playing "Pieces" once again.

The raven-haired beauty hopped around briefly, then slinked off the stage as her hapless band half-heartedly faked away. It didn't take long for critics to vent their rage on Ashlee Simpson's official Web site.

"Finally, you're exposed for the fraud that you are," wrote an E-mail poster named drdrewby minutes after the embarrassing performance. "You have cheated your fans and people who actually thought that you had a lick of talent. You should quit the music business because you are now and always will be a complete and utter joke."

Said CowboyJeff99: "I knew she sounded like crap live, so I was 'wondering' what was going on when her voice sounded just like the radio edit."

When the cast of the live show came out to bid the audience good night, actor Jude Law tried to explain Simpson's slipup.

"What can I say folks, live TV," Law shrugged.

A still-humiliated Simpson apologized to her fans - and blamed her band for playing the wrong song.

WOW WHAT A MORON HAHA

umm.. this was a while ago.. lol

Yeah i know, but its so freaking funny

^ Yeah..

But it was funny as hell.

lmaooooo

well i watched it on the internet it was hilarious i was like

LMAOLMAO SHES LIPSINGING LMAO

and my sister went so? whats so funny?????????

lolz, i saw it on tv and i was like, huh? but that's like a really long while ago =)

hardy har har thats old news.


theres probably tons of topics on this.

mhm you're very behind.

yeah, this was ages ago, and im sure we had topics on it back then. and if youre going to copy and paste something, its typically reccommended to put a quote box or quotation marks (you know, there "") around it

Well, what can we say? She'll always be a fake =]

Does anybody like her? they shouldnt..she'll always make horrible music

to answer your question, i hate her.

wow i think EVERYONE already knows that, stop spamming =X

wow, that's old...

And didn't she do this weird hillbilly dance thing after??

yeah i no ... lyk 3 weeks ago? i saw it and it was hilarious! proves my point that ashlee simpson is a poser/liar. she claimed that she never ever would lip sink and look what happened. some excuse too..

Ashlee Simpson fans don't even try.

heh. funny

hah i saw the video of that on the internet... she started doing this weird dance it was scary

It was the most awkward thing I've ever seen that I didn't do.

kinda old...but nevertheless..still funny

i don't really see how it's funny.. except for that weird dance she did. tons of artists do it and besides.. this was awhile ago

i like her singing but wen ever shes like on stage she SUCKS like everyything sounds bad ahaha i saw that she jus like went off stage lol

yes. you are SOOO behind. maybe you want to program your tv to be at the right time so you can stay caught up. but that was fun. i knew she sucked live too, so yeah. it was fun.