Chicken Little
01-24-2005, 09:31 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 01/24/2005
While the "Bring Ryan Cameron back to Hot 107.9" online petition has brought in a respectable 3,000 names, the "Stop Ashlee Simpson" petition is a true showstopper.
In about three weeks, more than 157,000 people have signed up at www.stopashlee.com asking Simpson to "stop recording, touring, modeling and performing. We do not wish to see her again."
It's addressed to her label, Geffen Records, and JT Entertainment, her father Joe's management company.
"We, the undersigned, are disgusted with Ashlee Simpson's horrible singing and hereby ask her to stop," begins the missive. It goes on to note, "she cannot match the sound of her voice that can be found on her CDs when she sings live. She simply yells the words (sometimes the wrong ones) into the mic."
The petition's creator, 18-year-old New Yorker Bethany Decker, figured 100 of her friends would sign. But her tiny snowflake of a complaint has turned into a blizzard of hostility.
In one 24-hour span last week, about 20,000 people signed it, more than can fit Atlanta's Philips Arena.
"It's been really surprising," Decker told the New York Daily News. "With word of mouth and people mentioning it on the radio, it's gotten insane."
An unnamed Simpson spokesman told the Daily News last week, "Ashlee cares deeply about the opinions of all her fans. But the fact is her album has sold 3.5 million copies, her concert tour is selling out . . . her single 'La La' is climbing [on] radio, and the new season of her hit MTV show debuts next week."
Buzz interpretation: "Nah. . . nah. . . nah. . ."
currently up to 185k come on peeps lets get this bitch to 200,000!
Published on: 01/24/2005
While the "Bring Ryan Cameron back to Hot 107.9" online petition has brought in a respectable 3,000 names, the "Stop Ashlee Simpson" petition is a true showstopper.
In about three weeks, more than 157,000 people have signed up at www.stopashlee.com asking Simpson to "stop recording, touring, modeling and performing. We do not wish to see her again."
It's addressed to her label, Geffen Records, and JT Entertainment, her father Joe's management company.
"We, the undersigned, are disgusted with Ashlee Simpson's horrible singing and hereby ask her to stop," begins the missive. It goes on to note, "she cannot match the sound of her voice that can be found on her CDs when she sings live. She simply yells the words (sometimes the wrong ones) into the mic."
The petition's creator, 18-year-old New Yorker Bethany Decker, figured 100 of her friends would sign. But her tiny snowflake of a complaint has turned into a blizzard of hostility.
In one 24-hour span last week, about 20,000 people signed it, more than can fit Atlanta's Philips Arena.
"It's been really surprising," Decker told the New York Daily News. "With word of mouth and people mentioning it on the radio, it's gotten insane."
An unnamed Simpson spokesman told the Daily News last week, "Ashlee cares deeply about the opinions of all her fans. But the fact is her album has sold 3.5 million copies, her concert tour is selling out . . . her single 'La La' is climbing [on] radio, and the new season of her hit MTV show debuts next week."
Buzz interpretation: "Nah. . . nah. . . nah. . ."
currently up to 185k come on peeps lets get this bitch to 200,000!