Why Ashlee Simpson knew ‘SNL’ lip-syncing blunder was ‘not going to go well’

nypost.com:

better off saying “No.”Singer Ashlee Simpson got candid Monday after revealing that her infamous lip-syncing scandal on “Saturday Night Live” in 2004 taught her “the power of saying no.” “I’ve never talked about or said, but it’s like the other thing is, learning as a woman, when you say no or as an artist or a human or whatever, that day I said ‘I will not go on, I don’t care.

I can’t speak,'” the former pop star said during her appearance on the “Broad Ideas With Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen” podcast.

According to the “Boyfriend” songstress, she was scheduled to appear on the variety show as a musical guest but realized that she could not perform because she had “two nodules beating against each other,” causing her to lose her voice.Simpson, 39, says she told the show’s execs what was happening but was pressured by the higher-ups to perform her hit song “Pieces of Me” anyway using a pre-recorded track. “My band has never practiced this, this is not going to go well,” she recalled thinking. “I can’t do this.”The “Nothing New” singer did end up performing the song without incident.

Yet, when she went on to perform for a second time, a glitch occurred where the studio accidentally played the vocal track over, revealing the ruse.