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Autobiography

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Well, she has acomplished a lot, as in nothing. Nowadays, a "musician" like Ashlee Simpson can take credit for writing songs that she didn;t write. And MTV is all like, she's so talented! she wrote this song all by herself! ..... I write my own music, along with all other real musicans who arn;t rich spoiled talentless little girls. She doesn;t even make her own lyrics, someone else does. It's so selfish, she takes all the credit just because she pays people to let her. sad. I don;t understand what the big deal is here, she can;t play an instrument... She can barely even sing... she can;t write her own lyrics... she can't write her own songs... she probably doesn;t even know what a note is. I'm sick and tierd of MTV and what they do.

Why I hate MTV...

1. They use bands and make them do what they want by putting them on this show.

2 They promote bad music, that really sucks, and everyone should hate... Oh ya! like Ashlee Simpson and Hillary Duff!

3. Everyone is always all like, oh! the TV says that this is good music! it must be good music! I'm going to go waste my money and buy this garbage because MTV told me too!

4. They are destroying music appreciation... To you those musicians out there who write songs for talentless worthless people like this, and get no credit, and watch those stupid people get rich and famous for them, I feel your pain. ( not really, but I bet I can tell how much you hate it)

5. Almost every worthless person that they put on this show seems to be famous the next day. why? just because they're on TV they're the kind of music people want to hear? sad.

6. Have you Noticed that all of these people don;t even play an instrument? it's laughable, they consider themselves, rockers, or whatever, and can;t even play guitar! They don;t even have real drummers usually! just a drum machine! They dont't even have a real bass! just a bass machine. Not that a vocalist isn't a musician, my all time favorite musician as well as my greatest inspiration is Jesse Micheals, he's a vocalist, but at least he writes his own lyrics! these cheap selfish pop stars are taking credit for music and lyrics that they didn;t even write.

What hope do we have when this system thrives? the answer is none. Soon people arn't even going to know who the Clash or Pink Floyd are. Only rappers like 50 cent, and rich spoiled little pathetic shards of people who are ruining the world. I wish that people would listen to the kind of music that they like to listen to, and explore new stuff, instead of buying whatever the media tells them too.

PEACE! rock on people who arn't posers! someday We'll beat them!

I suggest you don't buy Ashlee Simpson's album for at least 3 reasons.

1. She is not an actual "artist" or "musician". She is just a corporate tool created by "the devil" (Viacom/MTV) just for one reason, money. The corporate eggheads created her so they can drain money from unsuspecting teenage girls. If you buy this, your just feeding money to corporations that don't deserve it.

2. She has no talent whatsoever. Her performance at the Orange Bowl has to be some of the worst singing I have ever heard and this is coming from someone who has heard at least 3 Yoko Ono albums all the way through. Her performance at Saturday Night Live was even more pitiful. What was up with that hoe-down at the end of the performance? Reminded me of Hee Haw. But then she comes up with tons of excuses for the incident, like blaming her back up band and having acid reflux disease. She could of just said "I have no talent". We all would of believed that.

3. There are so many struggling bands and musicians out there with real talent that are left ignored while talentless acts like Ashlee Simpson get all the attention and airplay from radio and MTV. She is just like Milli Vanilli, except Milli Vanilli could dance.

Don't waste your money on this trash.

Buy something with real talent like the following:
Johnny Cash
Led Zeppelin
David Bowie
Dead Kennedys
Jimi Hendrix
The Cure
Tom Petty
ZZ Top
Primus
Siouxsie & The Banshees
The White Stripes
Pearl Jam
The Beatles

Hope you found this review helpful.

Where do people come up with this garbage?

It is so obvious she's about as real an artist as her sister (rich & dumb Jessica Simpson-Lachey). The music is so vapid, phoney and devoid of any real content; the lyrics remind me of love notes scribbled on the back of a trapper keeper. I enjoy great, entertaining music like the next person - but this stuff just insults the intelligence.

Come on now? Why can't people get behind real artists, people with actual talent and interesting things to say? Not talking depth, but just plain reality? It's disheartening, one, that this is the kind of stuff the industry seems to always get behind - cash cow potential; but on the other hand, people buy up this rubbish? This seems to be one of the hoofprints of our culture: toss anything into the troth and we eat it up. Maybe it really doesn't matter in the end. Life is short, so who cares?

Yeah, who cares: buy more, buy now.

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If we don't start getting behind real musicians, our future in music will be handled by a bunch of computer programers with no real talent.

If you want to hear Ashlee Simpson, buy the CD. If you want to hear Ashlee Simpson "live", by the CD. If you want to hear REAL music, by Musicology by Prince and the NPG.

Mmmmm, wow! I am a private voice teacher, have made professional recordings & tour internationally with a professional vocal group. I can't tell you how many times I have told my students who were interested in her music to just" wait & see....she has so many things she does wrong when it comes to singing, there is no way she can pull it off without the recording studio's help or faking it live. She sings so incorrectly, her voice is going to give out on her, plus the vocal nodules is a very serious thing to be messing with & still be singing at all until that has healed & the wrong issues have been corrected...it's just a matter of time & then serious, irreparable damage can & usually sets in. " It was quite obvious on her Ashlee show she couldn't hack it. Not being used to performing the songs all in one show & that she just needed to build up her endurance....is pure ignorance. She can't do it because she doesn't know how to sing right and she has vocal nodes. Carrying a tune & singing are completely 2 different things. I get the point that she has her own style and the raspiness gives her an edge, but hello.....raspiness in a singing voice is a serious indicator! Vocally, you cannot do it without your voice just giving out on you...the problem has to be corrected. Any good voice teacher..not vocal coach....teacher, will teach you the "method's" of singing correctly, which takes time...you don't just get it in an hour, week or even a year's time...it's a process. You had a style which is what a vocal coach works with, voice teachers know the pedagogical applications of the instrument...how you abuse it & what will happen, how the muscles...the larynx..how to perform...including screw ups or the unexpected....etc all play a apart. For instance, Kelly Clarkson had problems at the beginning, she was losing her voice , she was cancelling performances....then she hired a private voice teacher & you can tell the differences. She's not screaming anymore, she's singing & it's being done correctly with breath support...etc, all the things that most pop singers think you don't need because you're a pop singer. "lightbulb"---ding, there's a reason learning how to sing correctly is essential. Once you learn it correctly, you can apply that to any style of singing...even pop. SNL's performance was proof positive of that! How embarassing, I admit, it would be hard to show your face again after that, but then blaming it on the band...come on, take responsibility! A good musician NEVER passes blame to the band regardless of the mistake and when YOU are the header of the group. It's not Ashlee Simpson & the garage band or whatever....it's your name getting the credit. That was a lethal decision someone or you made....... And, you NEVER.....NEVER, NEVER walk off the stage! You keep going, even if it means you stop & say..."hey, wrong song, cue to the next one" & then sing your hiney off to make up for the boo-boo. This I say from experience. An audience is much more likely to forgive you if they see & hear "Oh, it was unfortunate, but she delivered" Then, you NEVER quote yourself in a magazine saying how much your against lip synching & it offends you and then do it. You HAVE TO at that point notify your audience of the vocal problems & offer to "perform" even with a back up track for the sake of following through a performance with grace.....otherwise, the price is very steep....especially in this business. The road to redemption now will be long and hard & all over the world people will be questioning your capabilities everytime you perform....especially live. That's hard! I somewhat agree with the previous review....another year & she may not be history, but her career has just taken a HUGE blow,it won't be the same. She might not recover from this. Unfortunately it's being broadcast everywhere including Good Morning Today with Katie Couric...YIKES! It's one thing to make a record, a recording studio could make anyone sound better, but if you can't deliver! Just another Britney Spears. My suggestion is you should sing "live" on the Radio Music Awards to save face....because at this point, the lip synching is on everyone's mind, so now you have to prove yourself. I just saw a picture of Ashlee recently holding up a "milli Vanilli" album ??? Not sure where this photo came from but, ....doesn't that give some serious insight! Good Luck, you're gonna need it.

I can understand how middling performers insulate themselves with sycophants and yes-men so they become out of touch with their own relevance, but I am bewildered by all of the favorable reviews here! This young lady has mediocre talent at best, and anybody with a producer can sound OK with enough tweaking. But is this really the best we can do?

People at the Orange Bowl were right to boo her.

I saw her show on MTV & caught her talking about "Bible stories" (the storyteller was Jewish & trying to explain Yom Kippur).

Ignorance may be bliss, but that was offensive.

We are all dumber for having been exposed to Ashlee Simpson.

Autobiography(2004). Ashlee Simpson's First Album.

After staying in the shadow of big sister Jessica Simpson and her husband Nick Lache, Ashlee Simpson *felt* it was time to record an album, so she got a TV camera to follow her around showing piece-by-piece how the album was created. Anyways, needless to say, Ashlee Simpson accomplishes little more than her sister when it comes to talent.

Ashlee has a good voice, better than Hilary Duff or Avril Lavigne, yet, her sister is easily the better voice, even if she's mediocre.

Ashlee's back-up band is almost non-existent. Much like Evanescense, Ashlee Simpson had a big oppurtunity to create a good band, yet, with the band selection, both artists sadly picked the most feeble bands imaginable. Simpson's band sounds off-tune and seems to "echo" in the background instead of being part of the group.

Although Ashlee Simpson constantly stated on her show she "didn't want to be like her sister" or sound like "sellout Hilary Duff", Ashlee has failed there. "Fell To Pieces" is about as different as a Hilary Duff song than an electric guitar is to an acoustic guitar: Not much different. Although she sported T-Shirts that had The Doors and The Clash on them, she neither sounds like them or even tries to be like them. In fact, Ashlee Simpson is the same thing as Avril Lavigne, except instead of claiming to be punk she goes for a soft-rock style.

Overall, 'Autobiography' is another attempt be a teen artist to rake in cash, without actually caring about actual talent or song structure. It's sad: Ashlee Simpson has a good voice, and if she'd simply gotten an actual band, instead of some idiots, she could have had potential. Since this album hit #1, many assume it's "a great album", but that's not true. Music doesn't have to be popular to be good, and that's what many teenagers(such as me) don't understand, and that's why this album has been such a big seller. By the way, this album is not "hard rock". I've stated my opinion, and if you don't like it, try to see it from my point of view. If you're a teenager who thinks Ashlee Simpson is a great artist, that's your opinion and I'm fine with it. Just know there are *much* better artists everywhere around you.

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Ashlee is your typical dime-store pop star and this album is hyper-produced. I sadly bought this trash on a whim because it was on sale. The tracks all sound alike. Ashlee is clearly trying to copy sound of Courtney Love from Hole. Sadly, she has no talent which shows through the album. The worst part is the tunes are catchy, so you embarass yourself at work or school singing them.
We had to endure her struggling to sing each track on this album, in three-second clips at a time, on her MTV show. Then we had watch her get caught lip-syncing on Saturday Night Live because of, according to her, acid reflux! Then she got what was coming when she got booed following her unbelievably bad performance.
DON'T MAKE YOURSELF ENDURE ANY MORE OF HER WAILING AND DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!

I am sick and disgusted with the state of the music industry. All these TV stars want to be singers. Ashlee Simpson can't sing live and she is a terrible performer.
Maybe thats why the lip syncs, she sounds like a dying donkey when she sings.

Did you see the Orange Bowl halftime? The was the worst vocal performance I have ever watched/heard in my entire life.
It was so painful listening to Ashlee Simpson perform live.