In October 2004, Ashlee Simpson performed her hit single, "Pieces of Me," on "Saturday Night Live," and it went fine. However, when she returned to the stage to perform her next tune, "Autobiography," things went south. The vocals for "Pieces of Me" began playing while Simpson's mic was down at her side. She tried to recover, for some reason, with a spontaneous hoedown before fleeing the stage. At the end of the episode, a visibly mortified Simpson said (via People), "I feel so bad. My band started playing the wrong song. I didn't know what to do so I thought I'd do a hoedown."
Later, on "60 Minutes," she blamed her acid reflux for her reliance on a backing vocal track. Simpson later attempted comebacks, but the public wasn't having it, considering she was booed at her Orange Bowl performance in January 2005, and her record sales unfortunately never recovered.
Opening up about the fallout from the ordeal on her E! reality TV series, "ASHLEE+EVAN," in 2018, Simpson reflected (via E!), "You know, I had finished my album and it was out and 'Pieces of Me' was number one and then all of sudden, you know, s**t happened and it was like boom. And the world hated me for this 'SNL' moment I had."
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