Ashlee Simpson Shrugs Off Orange Bowl Booing

MTV News caught up with Ashlee Simpson to get her reaction to being booed at the Orange Bowl in Miami earlier this month. “Maybe they were booing at me, maybe they were booing at the halftime show ’cause the whole thing sucked,” she complained. “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 reasoned that the sound setup, which plagued ‘American Idol’ champ Kelly Clarkson earlier in the halftime show, may have led to the angry crowd. “There were no ear monitors when we went onstage,” she said. “No floor monitors. And trying to sing in a stadium where you can’t hear yourself is kinda hard. My sister [Jessica] 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.’” Read more.