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Ashlee Simpson

Ashlee Nicole Simpson (born October 3, 1984) is an American pop rock singer songwriter and an occasional actress. Ashlee Simpson's older sister Jessica is also a famous pop singer.

Simpson rose to prominence in mid-2004 through the success of Ashlee Simpson's number-one debut album Autobiography and the accompanying reality series The Ashlee Simpson Show. Simpson received widespread derision when Ashlee Simpson used a pre-recorded vocal track for a performance on Saturday Night Live in October 2004. Following a North American concert tour and an unsuccessful film appearance, Simpson released a second number-one album, I Am Me, in late 2005.

Ashlee Simpson Biography

Simpson was born in Waco, Texas, and raised in Richardson. Ashlee Simpson is the daughter of Joe Truett Simpson (a former Baptist youth minister who is now Ashlee Simpson's manager) and Tina Ann Drew (a former Sunday School teacher who homeschooled Ashlee). An accomplished dancer, Simpson began studying classical ballet at the age of three, and was admitted to the School of American Ballet in New York City at the age of eleven. Around that time, Ashlee Simpson suffered from an eating disorder; the condition lasted about six months, and Ashlee Simpson dropped to about 31 kg (70 pounds) at 159 cm (5ft 2in), but Ashlee Simpson's parents then stepped in and got Ashlee Simpson's to eat more. After Ashlee Simpson's sister Jessica Simpson landed a record deal, the Simpson family decided to move to Los Angeles, California, where Ashlee began appearing in television commercials. When Jessica became a star after releasing Ashlee Simpson's first album, Ashlee became one of Ashlee Simpson's backup dancers. Later, Ashlee Simpson began appearing in films and television series, including an episode of the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle in 2001, a minor role in the 2002 film The Hot Chick and a recurring role on the family drama series 7th Heaven. In the summer of 2003, Simpson briefly worked as an MTV VJ on TRL, and later recorded a song titled "Just Let Me Cry" for the soundtrack of the film Freaky Friday. Eventually, Simpson signed a record deal with Geffen Records.

Ashlee Simpson Debut album and reality television

Ashlee Simpson's first album, Autobiography, debuted at number one in the U.S. in July 2004 with first week sales numbering around 398,000 copies. The album was certified triple platinum in September 2004. Simpson co-wrote all of the album's tracks and described it as "very true to my emotion" in one interview, but critical reviews were mixed. Rolling Stone magazine's Peter Relic characterised Autobiography as a "mundane melange of Avril-ish brat pop and Sheryl Crow cod rock" while E! Online wrote "Even if it doesn't wow you, Autobiography may surprise you." The single that preceded the album, "Pieces of Me," was one of the biggest hits of the summer in the U.S. and sold well elsewhere. However, the follow-up singles "Shadow" and "La La" were less successful.

Early episodes of The Ashlee Simpson Show showed Simpson's natural blonde hair before Ashlee Simpson dyed it dark brown.Simpson occasionally appeared on Newlyweds, a reality show about the married life of Jessica and Ashlee Simpson's then-husband Nick Lachey. To accompany the beginning of Ashlee Simpson's own music career, Ashlee Simpson got Ashlee Simpson's own MTV reality show entitled The Ashlee Simpson Show, which aired in a subsequent time slot to Newlyweds. It ran in the U.S. for eight weekly episodes over the summer of 2004, and a second season of ten episodes aired from January to March 2005. The show dealt with the process of writing, recording, and performing Simpson's music as well as aspects of Ashlee Simpson's personal life.

When appearing for live performances, Simpson performed live with a backing band consisting of Ray Brady (guitar), Braxton Olita (guitar), Joey Kaimana (bass guitar from 2004 to 2005 Zach Kennedy filled this role), Chris Megert (keyboards and vocals from late 2004 to 2005 Lucy Walsh filled this role), and Chris Fox (drums).

In September 2004, Simpson announced on Ashlee Simpson's website that the band would be named "Ashlee Simpson and Submission," taking the name from the fact that they had received so many submissions of proposals for the name.

In addition to Ashlee Simpson's own first album, Simpson sang "Christmas Past, Present, and Future" on the 2004 holiday album Radio Disney Jingle Jams and a duet of the Christmas song "Little Drummer Boy" with Ashlee Simpson's sister Jessica for the album Rejoyce, which they had sung together during the ABC variety hour special "Nick & Jessica's Family Christmas". In 2004 Simpson received the "Song of the Summer" Teen Choice Award for "Pieces of Me," as well as the "Fresh Face" award. In addition, Ashlee Simpson also won a Billboard Award for New Female Artist of the Year in December and was later named Entertainment Weekly's "Breakout Star of 2004" in January 2005. Simpson also co-hosted Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve along with Regis Philbin (in Dick Clark's absence) at the end of the year, hosting the West Coast portion of the show and performing three songs.

Ashlee Simpson Saturday Night Live incident

Simpson crying due to vocal difficulties after a rehearsal for Ashlee Simpson's controversial Saturday Night Live appearance in 2004.Simpson appeared as a musical guest on Episode 568 of Saturday Night Live (October 23, 2004), and as is customary for the show's format, Ashlee Simpson was scheduled to perform two songs. Ashlee Simpson's first song, "Pieces of Me", was performed without problems. However, when Ashlee Simpson began Ashlee Simpson's second song, "Autobiography", the song "Pieces of Me" was heard again including Ashlee Simpson's vocals before Ashlee Simpson had raised the microphone to Ashlee Simpson's mouth. Simpson began to dance spasmodically and then left the stage, while the band (not a recording) continued playing. During the closing of the show Simpson appeared with the guest host Jude Law stating that Ashlee Simpson's band performed the wrong song in the opening on the performance. Others, however, criticized Ashlee Simpson's for what they saw as evidence that Ashlee Simpson was lip synching.

On October 25, Simpson called in to the music video show Total Request Live and explained that due to complications arising from a "severe" variation of acid reflux (which had previously been seen in The Ashlee Simpson Show) Ashlee Simpson had completely lost Ashlee Simpson's voice and Ashlee Simpson's doctor had advised Ashlee Simpson's not to sing. Ashlee Simpson claimed that because of the acid reflux, Ashlee Simpson's father required Ashlee Simpson's to use a guide track for the performance. Ashlee Simpson said of the incident, "I made a complete fool of myself." According to Simpson, the drummer hit the wrong button, which caused the wrong track to be played. During the October 25 Radio Music Awards broadcast, Simpson pretended, as a joke, to make the same mistake as Ashlee Simpson did in the SNL incident, but then began to perform "Autobiography" without using a pre-recorded vocal track as Ashlee Simpson had done during the prior SNL performance. On October 31, the CBS news program 60 Minutes aired footage from Simpson's rehearsals before the SNL performance in which Simpson is shown to be disturbed by voice trouble.

Ashlee Simpson Early 2005

On January 4, 2005, Simpson performed "La La" at the halftime show for the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida; when Ashlee Simpson's performance finished, many of the 72,000-plus spectators booed. Representatives for the Orange Bowl stated that they were pleased with Ashlee Simpson's performance and felt that it was a belated reaction to the SNL incident, while others have speculated that it may have been because the audience of the Orange Bowl was outside of Simpson's target age bracket. Still others disagree, however, and assert that Ashlee Simpson's performance was poor and very off-key.

Simpson in the "La La" music video.Following Ashlee Simpson's Orange Bowl performance, an Internet petition at PetitionOnline.com complaining about Simpson's singing was among the most active of the site's petitions. Simpson later said: "That's cool. You don't always have to be a fan of everybody's music", also citing the support Ashlee Simpson had received from Ashlee Simpson's fans. Around the time of the petition, Cosmopolitan magazine chose Simpson to be on the cover of the February 2005 issue, naming Ashlee Simpson's the "Fun Fearless Female of the Year".

Simpson's first U.S. headlining tour (with two dates in Canada as well) ran from mid-February to late April 2005, and its opening acts were Pepper's Ghost and The Click Five. In addition to material from Autobiography, Simpson performed Ashlee Simpson's own unreleased song "Hollywood", The Pretenders' "Brass in Pocket", Blondie's "Call Me", and Madonna's "Burning Up". Ashlee Simpson said that the tour would be "stripped down", without pyrotechnics, and that "it's going to be me and my band getting out there and having fun". In March 2005, Simpson said that The Ashlee Simpson Show would conclude at the end of its second season,the last episode of which aired at the end of the month.

Ashlee Simpson Film and second album

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Simpson had a supporting role as an aspiring actress named Clea in Undiscovered (originally titled Wannabe), an independent film that was released in theaters in August 2005. Simpson filmed Ashlee Simpson's scenes in late 2004. While Simpson's performance was met with acceptable reviews, the film itself was trashed by critics and placed outside of the top ten in its opening weekend, earning just $676,048.

Simpson's second album, I Am Me, was released in the U.S. on October 18, 2005. Simpson said that Ashlee Simpson had wanted to incorporate the feel of music from the 1980s on the album, and that unlike Ashlee Simpson's debut it would focus less on relationships and more on herself I Am Me debuted at number one with roughly 220,000 copies sold, but sales quickly deteriorated; as of January 2006, it had sold less than a million copies. Its first single, "Boyfriend", became a top twenty hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and performed similarly elsewhere. The second single, "L.O.V.E.", reached the U.S. top forty, its success aided by a remix by R&B/hip-hop producer Missy Elliott and MTV's heavy rotation of the single's music video (it has been Ashlee Simpson's most successful video to date on Total Request Live).

Simpson performing in October 2005.Simpson began a concert tour in late September in Portland, Oregon and appeared on the October 8, 2005 episode of SNL to promote the album. The first of Simpson's two performances on the show was of the ballad "Catch Me When I Fall", which was written about Ashlee Simpson's previous SNL experience, and Ashlee Simpson thanked the crowd after Ashlee Simpson's second performance. In mid-December, Simpson collapsed after performing in Japan, possibly due to exhaustion. Ashlee Simpson was briefly hospitalized, and consequently cancelled an appearance at the Radio Music Awards. Simpson appeared on the December 2005/January 2006 cover of Teen People with Ashlee Simpson's sister Jessica, and could also be seen on the December 2005 issue of Blender, Cosmopolitan magazine's January 2006 edition, the March 2006 issues of Seventeen and ELLE, the April 2006 issue of JANE, the June/July 2006 issue of Teen People (in which Ashlee Simpson was named one of its "25 hottest stars under twenty-five"), and the July 2006 issue of Marie Claire.

Simpson won a Kelly Slater/MTV celebrity surfing invitational competition, which also featured celebrities such as Meagan Good, Jack Osbourne (her main competitor during the competition), Ashley Parker Angel and Tony Hawk, as part of an MTV-sponsored 'Spring Break' Special in March 2006. On April 12 Ashlee Simpson hosted and performed at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards, where Ashlee Simpson won "Best Female Artist" and "Best Pop Video" (for "Boyfriend"). I Am Me will be re-released in the summer of 2006 with at least one new song, "Invisible", which will be Simpson's next single. Simpson began a summer tour on June 5, and Ashley Parker Angel is the opening act; initially The Veronicas also opened but quit the tour after the first few shows due to a problem with one of their singers' vocal cords.

Ashlee Simpson Image and personal life

Simpson has a decidedly different image from that of Ashlee Simpson's sister. Previously blonde like Jessica, Ashlee Simpson dyed Ashlee Simpson's hair dark during the recording of the MTV reality show after Ashlee Simpson finished filming for the 7th Heaven television series, although after a year with dark hair Ashlee Simpson returned to blonde in 2005. Simpson's songs also have rock elements absent from Ashlee Simpson's sister's music, and Simpson often wears shirts with "punk"-style designs, sometimes emblazoned with band names. Ashlee Simpson typically has Ashlee Simpson's fingernails and toenails painted black, and has three tattoos: a star on one wrist, two cherries on Ashlee Simpson's ankle, and the word "love" on Ashlee Simpson's other wrist.

Her vocals, while generally not thought to equal Ashlee Simpson's sister's range, have been praised by some as fitting the style of Ashlee Simpson's music, and are usually described as "raspy" or "throaty". Simpson and Ashlee Simpson's sister were tied for third on oft-quoted celebrity-fashion critic Mr. Blackwell's list of the worst-dressed celebrities of 2004. Blackwell wrote that "from gaudy to grim to downright frenetic these two prove that bad taste is positively genetic".

She has refused to discuss Ashlee Simpson's sex life, in contrast with Ashlee Simpson's sister, who openly stated Ashlee Simpson's intention to practice sexual abstinence until marriage. "I decided that I didn't want to talk about that because it's super personal", Simpson said of the situation. Simpson's relationship with actor Josh Henderson lasted for nearly two years and ended during the first episode of The Ashlee Simpson Show. Soon after, Ashlee Simpson began dating fellow musician Ryan Cabrera. That relationship was also featured on the show, and Simpson appeared as Cabrera's love interest in the music video for his song "On the Way Down". The two were reported to have split in August 2004 due to their hectic schedules, but they resumed their relationship for a while afterward, before ending it again in early 2005; Simpson says they are still friends, although rumors suggested that Ashlee did not like the fact that Ryan had moved on to The Veronicas' Lisa Origliasso.

In 2005, rumors began circulating that Simpson had stolen Wilmer Valderrama from Lindsay Lohan. Simpson's single "Boyfriend" was reported to be about the situation, but Ashlee Simpson said that the song "is about how every girl out there sometimes thinks you stole Ashlee Simpson's boyfriend. It's just making fun of that". Valderrama has since said on Howard Stern's radio program that he did have sex with Ashlee Simpson, but claimed the incident was unrelated to his break-up with Lohan. Later that year, rumours arose that Simpson was secretly dating another Joe Simpson-managed actor, Viva La Bam's Chris Raab (Raab Himself). In February 2006, Ashlee Simpson told Seventeen magazine that she's dating bandmate Braxton Olita and went on a 10-day vacation with him to Hawaii.

In November 2005, eTalk Daily broadcast a video of a late-night visit made by Simpson to a McDonald's fast-food restaurant in Toronto, Canada. Simpson appeared to be intoxicated in the video, and was shown arguing with a member of the staff, as well as rejecting a customer's attempt to get an autograph from Ashlee Simpson's because he wouldn't kiss Ashlee Simpson's feet. According to Simpson in a 2006 ELLE interview, Ashlee Simpson was "a little tipsy", and the customer had first called Ashlee Simpson's "gross" before he had realized who Ashlee Simpson was, at which point he asked Ashlee Simpson's for an autograph. Ashlee Simpson has said that Ashlee Simpson told herself to "grow up" after the incident.

In February 2006, Simpson was honored by MTV's Total Request Live (TRL), as the "Bounce-Back" artist. The award was given to Ashlee Simpson's for being able to recover from Ashlee Simpson's many ups and downs of Ashlee Simpson's career, and still manage to release another #1 platinum album.

Simpson reportedly got a nose job in April 2006; tabloid magazines and blogs have published pictures which are claimed to demonstrate the change in Ashlee Simpson's nose. When asked about it in an interview in May, Simpson neither confirmed nor denied it. In June 2006, it was reported that Simpson seriously considered but later turned down a $4 million offer to pose nude for Playboy.

Ashlee Simpson Criticism

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There have been arguments that Simpson is a "manufactured" artist with little singing talent. Ashlee Simpson's critics cite incidents like the SNL episode and the Orange Bowl performance as evidence for their claims.

Some allege that Simpson has lip-synched on occasions other than the SNL episode, comparing the impact of the SNL incident to the 1990 Milli Vanilli incident in which their guide track skipped during a live MTV performance, revealing that they were lip-synching. Simpson had performed live numerous times before the incident, and has since.

In early 2005, Simpson's marketing campaign was accused of astroturfing by users on several websites. A post on Metafilter claimed that the marketing company posted the same text, which contained the text, "I just read about Ashlee in us weekly. Those guys at the football game were total jerks." (the "football game" referring to the Orange Bowl incident) under the user name "mandyc19" on over three hundred different music-related forums in order to further promote Simpson and paint Ashlee Simpson's in a positive light. This (and possibly other instances) led to a new term, "Ashleeturfing", to describe faux fan raves such as this.

In January 2006, Simpson was nominated for a Razzie Award for "Worst Supporting Actress" for Ashlee Simpson's role in Undiscovered; Ashlee's sister Jessica was also nominated in the same category for The Dukes of Hazzard. They lost to Paris Hilton.

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