Pop-singer Ashlee Simpson, fresh off an already poor performance on SNL, found herself the target of a barrage of booing from the sold-out crowd at Miami?s Pro Player Stadium during the halftime show at the Orange Bowl last week. What would normally shatter any normal person’s ego, Simpson appeared reserved and shrugged off the incident.

“There was some booing that went on after the halftime show was finished,” she told MTV. “If they didn’t like the performance, and that’s what it was about, then sorry to them. Maybe they were booing at me, maybe they were booing at the halftime show ’cause the whole thing sucked. I was facing [the Oklahoma Sooners], and I was rooting for USC, and they played a clip of it, so maybe it was that those people didn’t like me. You never know. But I can’t make everybody happy.”

MTV reported that some have said Simpson was booed at Miami’s Pro Player Stadium because the rowdy crowd of 72,000 wasn’t the same age bracket as Simpson’s teen audience. Others have said it was payback for “SNL,” for her being a bad sport, walking off the stage and later blaming her band for a miscue. Still others have complained that she just sounded bad. But Simpson has a few theories herself about why boos were heard following the closing line of her song “La La,” “I want to hear you scream!”

Simpson continued, “There were no ear monitors when we went onstage. No floor monitors. And trying to sing in a stadium where you can’t hear yourself is kinda hard. My sister [Jessica] was like, ‘I don’t know how you just did that! I performed in stadiums, and if I didn’t have my ears, I would have freaked.’”

Still, Simpson said she’s learned a lot from both the “SNL” and Orange Bowl experiences with the biggest lesson being that she has to “keep pushing forward and being really strong, and no matter what you go through, fight through it,” MTV reported.

“I go from having a #1 album and things going great and all of a sudden something like ‘SNL’ happens and boom! You’re faced with how mean people can be and criticizing you and stuff,” she said. “But I’ve learned a lot about myself through all of this. It’s like, I’m not perfect and I’m not going to be perfect. I’m still 20, and a new artist, and I will only grow. And I look forward to continuing to not listen to what one person says and making good music.”


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