How many times have we watched someone flapping their lips in a "live" performance on television, wishing desparately for something to go out of sync and expose the fraud? Hank Steuver, writing in The Washington Post about Ashlee Simpson, gets it right:
Forgive me for still being in the thrall of Ashlee Simpson's lip- syncing embarrassment on "Saturday Night Live" last month. I could watch that clip over and over and over. It reminds me of something gone awry during the high school talent show, and how we cringed with pure ecstasy while some girl made an idiot of herself in front of the whole school....We didn't ask for Ashlee Simpson. She is a pure creation, nothing from nothingness, and it's no wonder that when her drummer pushed the wrong button, Ashlee danced her little jig and then fled the stage.
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