More than 20 years later, Ashlee Simpson has enough distance from her infamous Saturday Night Live musical debut.

Acknowledging that celebrity culture has “evolved” but “also hasn’t in some ways” since her lip-syncing controversy on the Oct. 23, 2004 episode of the NBC sketch comedy show, the Bittersweet World artist noted that “it’s a different era.”

“I don’t think if it was that moment in this era, it would be [like] that. I think during that time, I mean, the bullying was insane,” said Simpson on the Pod Meets World podcast.

Simpson’s musical guest appearance kicked off smoothly with a performance of her single ‘Pieces of Me’ from her debut album Autobiography , using a vocal track for support as she suffered vocal cord inflammation that day. As she and the band plann

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