ASHLEE SIMPSON’s ORANGE BOWL HALF TIME PERFORMANCE OF ‘La La’& BOOING SPECTATORS
Ashlee Simpson would wanted to have a clean slate start of 2005, but as her first appearance of the new year in Orange Bowl demonstrated, not everyone is as eager to put her “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE LIP-SYNCH” snafu behind her as Ashlee Simpson is. Imagine being booed in such a public forum as the Orange Bowl would be traumatic, but the singer/actress Ashlee Simpson insists she’s unfazed.
The Oklahoma Sooners and the University of Southern California Trojans battled for the national college football championship at the Orange Bowl. “There was some booing that went on after the halftime show was finished,” Ashlee Simpson said. “If they didn’t like the performance, and that’s what it was about, then sorry to them.” added Ashlee Simpson.
Some speculate Ashlee Simpson was booed at Miami’s Pro Player Stadium because the rowdy crowd of 72,000 wasn’t the same age bracket as Aslee Simpson’s teen audience.
La-La’s “I want to hear you scream!” is the reason for booing?
Another theory is it was payback for “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE LIP-SYNCH” for Ashlee Simpson being a bad sport, walking off the stage and later blaming her band for a miscue. Still others have complained that Ashlee Simpson just sounded bad. But Ashlee Simpson has a few theories herself about why boos were heard following the closing line of her song “La La,” “I want to hear you scream!”
“Maybe they were booing at me, maybe they were booing at the halftime show ’cause the whole thing sucked,” Ashlee Simpson said. Ashlee Simpson speculated that it was the Oklahoma Sooners fans booing her because a film clip of her rooting for USC was shown before her performance. “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.” Ashlee Simpson added.
Ashlee Simpson also pointed out that for this performance, the circumstances were less than ideal. “There were no ear monitors when we went onstage,”
“No floor monitors. And trying to sing in a stadium where you can’t hear yourself is kinda hard. My sister [Jessica Simpson] 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.’” Ashlee Simpson said.
Still, Ashlee Simpson said she’s learned a lot from both the “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE LIP-SYNCH” and Orange Bowl ‘La-La’ booing experiences, with the biggest lesson being that she has to “keep pushing forward and being really strong, and no matter what you go through, fight through it.” After all, Ashlee Simpson said 2004 wasn’t all bad as her reality show was a hit, as was her debut album, Autobiography, which ended up being one of the top 10 best-selling albums of the year (2004).
“I go from having a #1 album and things going great and all of a sudden something like ‘SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE LIP-SYNCH’ happens and boom! You’re faced with how mean people can be and criticizing you and stuff,” Ashlee Simpson said.
Ashlee is learning!
“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.” Ashlee Simpson added.