In one episode, she is painted into a doe-eyed blonde, only to redye her hair brown in a show of assertiveness. She dawdles behind a mixing console, chirping on her cellphone while an orchestra of ringers records overdubs for her first single, "Pieces of Me" (a sassy turn on the 1995 Jewel album). She's already tired when they call her in to record the vocal track; newly-brunetted Ashlee sings take after take, and eventually her voice starts to crack (flaws that are auto-tuned out of the final recording). The following day she has lost her voice completely. A visit to the doctor reveals that she has damaged her vocal cords, prompting a yonic spectacle in which her bloodshot, swollen larynx is shown in close-up, vocal folds flapping as she squawks out different vowels. The episode ends with Ashlee looking forward to a weekend of doctor-prescribed quiet.

After a less-than-stellar performance at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards in August, Ashlee hoped to redeem herself on the 23 October 2004 broadcast of Saturday Night Live. After performing her recent single, "Pieces of Me", during the first half of the show, she expected to treat the audience to "Shadow", one of the lesser-known "filler" tracks from her album. As the drummer played the opening beat, Ashlee writhed around on stage -- and then froze as the vocal track from "Pieces of Me" began to pipe from the speakers. Horrified, Ashlee jerked the microphone to her face, cupping it close to her mouth like she had during the first song, but the microphone was turned off. The vocal recording faded out as she bounced about the stage like a marionette, turning first to her drummer, then her guitarist, then her bassist, then her other guitarist, yet unable to locate which one of them had caused the wrong vocals to play. Realizing that the jig was up, Ashlee shambled offstage. The band continued to do what they had been paid to do: catching on quick and stifling their grins, they strummed their way into the chorus. The camera pulled back, showing the four musicians surrounding an empty spotlight, and the show cut to a commercial.

After the break, host Jude Law smiled and tried to finesse the situation: "Ladies and gentlemen, what can I say: live TV!" But Ashlee only sputtered: "Exactly!! I felt so bad that my band started playing the wrong song and I didn't know what to do so I thought I'd do a little hoe-down -- sorry!"



Discography

>Autobiography (2004)
>I Am Me (2005)

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