Ashlee Vanilli

Was it the technology? Or her spaced-out band?

If you haven't already seen the video clip of Ashlee Simpson's lip-syncing flub on Saturday Night Live, get thee to eBaum's World.

The video shows the pop star's band start playing, and her voice starts to croon. The only problem? The vocals are for a different song, and the confused-looking Simpson is holding her mic at her side. Moments later, the vocals cut out, and Simpson does a quick jig before skulking offstage while her band plays on, visibly holding back their own laughter. It didn't take long before the blame started to fly in all directions.

At the comedy show's closing, a sheepish (and not exactly selfless) Simpson apologized, blaming her band for playing the wrong song. Never mind that the song she was supposedly singing had already been performed earlier in the show.

While Simpson was busy blaming the musicians, her record label, Geffen Records, cited a "computer glitch" that apparently caused a recording of one of Simpson's hits to be played instead of a simple percussion track.

Now her father has announced that it was the first time she had ever used a backing track. And she only did so because she had a sore throat from acid reflux disease.

Her Milli Vanilli moment immediately inspired a frenzy of Web articles, blog entries, forum postings and e-mail forwards. And it's sure to have an effect elsewhere.

So far, the only thing that hasn't been blamed is a wardrobe malfunction. But she still has to make it through tonight's performance at the Radio Music Awards, which will no doubt draw a large audience of viewers watching for a second mishap--so don't count that out yet.

Let's just hope that Ashlee's band has the right set list, her computers have been upgraded, she has a pocket full of Rolaids, and someone pushes Play on the right voice-over track this time around.