Gaffe Just Shows Ashlee Simpson Is In Synch With Her Peers

Jim Farber of the New York Daily News spoke with Spin Magazine’s Dave Itzkoff about Ashlee Simpson’s lip-synching snafu on ‘Saturday Night Live’ over the weekend. “The most scandalous aspect of this isn’t that one person got caught,” Itzkoff said. “It’s the fact that it’s so commonly used in pop today.” And the synching doesn’t just involve vocals. “When bands go on tour, they often use anything from an added rhythm track to a keyboard player hidden under the stage,” Rolling Stone editor Joe Levy explained. “The drummer can trigger samples from his drum kit, the guitarist can hit a pedal that adds a guitar part. It’s real Wizard of Oz stuff.”