‘90 Second Pop’ Focuses On Ashlee Out Of Synch
This morning on CNN’s ‘American Morning’, B.J. Sigesmund of Us Weekly, Sarah Bernard of New York magazine, and CNN’s pop culture correspondent Toure chatted with Soledad O’Brien about Ashlee Simpson’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ lip-synch fiasco on ‘90 Second Pop’. Read on for a complete transcript.
O’BRIEN: I miss this music. It’s just like old times. I’m all choked
up. Good morning, guys. Welcome back everybody. Time for “90 Second Pop”
on a Monday. The gang is all here, me included. B.J. Sigesmund is the staff
editor for “Us” weekly, Sarah Bernard, contributing editor for “New York”
magazine, and Toure, CNN’s pop culture correspondent. Welcome, welcome,
welcome. Oh, it was ugly on SNL. “Saturday Night Live,” Ashlee Simpson.
I think we can’t even start talking until we take a look at a clip. So
let’s watch.
Wait a minute, she’s not singing. Then she does some kind of dance and
good-bye and then she walks off the stage.
TOURE, CNN POP CULTURE CORRESPONDENT: The band keeps going on. The band
is the band is the best. They just kept going on like whatever.
SARAH BERNARD, “NEW YORK”: I think the worst thing about the whole thing
is that she blamed her band in the end. Wasn’t that just the wrong thing
to do?
O’BRIEN: And clearly her track was coming up, she was lip- synching.
TOURE: Right, the wrong song came up but this is like the video era
where if you are cute enough to be in a video, you get a chance to be a
star. But like, you have no performing experience and anybody with any
experience could have made this work.
O’BRIEN: By doing what?
TOURE: Adjust in some way. She could have found some way to own it,
to work with it, to adjust.
BERNARD: To show that she was flexible. Live TV.
B.J. SIGESMUND, “US WEEKLY”: What’s going on? Wrong song, let’s start
again. But instead, she just totally threw in the towel it shows her inexperience
and lack of expertise. She is 19 years old. She only started performing
live in the last six months.
TOURE: Historically, before…
O’BRIEN: She learned a lot.
TOURE: Before you got signed, historically like you performed. You have
been in bands. You’ve been out there on stages. Now like your video and
then you go on tour it’s the first time you have been in front of people.
BERNARD: In terms of what this is going to do to her…
O’BRIEN: What does it do to her career?
BERNARD: I don’t think anybody expected that she is Barbra Streisand
here, right that she’s got this amazing voice and she can just be as prepared
as we thought. I think that people like her for her fashion, for her show
and for the fact that she is Jessica’s little under dog sister. I don’t
think it matters as much.
SIGESMUND: The public is fickle, though and they liked her a lot. Her
album debuted at number one because of the show on MTV but the public can
turn on people just as fast.
TOURE: She’s a pet rock.
O’BRIEN: No there there, is that what you’re saying?
TOURE: Yes.
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