Word: hoedown
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When the teen pop star--marketed as the edgier little sister of blond confection Jessica--got caught lip synching on Saturday Night Live in October, she danced an impromptu hoedown before scurrying offstage and then attributed her need for prerecorded help to acid reflux. That's funny. We assumed SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels would be the one gulping down antacids...
...really were just getting pieces of ASHLEE SIMPSON as she performed on Saturday Night Live Oct. 23. When prerecorded vocals for the wrong song piped up during her set, the shamefaced singer was exposed as a lip syncher. Ashlee, sister of pop confection Jessica, shuffled as if at a hoedown and left the stage. She later blamed her failure to sing live on a sore throat caused by acid reflux. Within days Ashlee was obviously warbling for real at the Radio Music Awards and telling the Today show the SNL episode was "mortifying." But the 20-year-old kept perspective...
...rendering us one being. When Thom Yorke sang “We are accidents / Waiting to happen,” he was singing about all of us there, and we all knew it. When Yorke went ballistic, gyrating around in the stage in a demented head-shaking, knees-up hoedown, we all leapt with him. We the audience were careful not to despoil our sonic umbilical cord by cheering too loudly during songs and were rewarded with a PA that was clearer and crisper than most club shows...
...cleverly injected their own alterna-pop flavor into others like “Lost Cause.” As serious as he seemed at times, Beck was in top form during the most rollicking and silly tracks, like “Nicotine and Gravy,” the harmonica hoedown of “One Foot in the Grave,” and even the dusty “Loser.” “Pick yourself up off the side of the road!” he rapped at the start of “Where It?...
Person of the Week ON THE RANGE At a hoedown on the Bush ranch, Russia's top dog Vladimir Putin two-stepped around his worry over a U.S. missile shield to negotiate a reduction of the two countries' nuclear arsenals. Putin, trusting but wanting verification, desired a new treaty; Bush thought a handshake would...