Ashlee Simpson and the Orange Bowl

Ashlee Simpson charms crowds once again with her singing abilities.

As if it weren't painful enough watching the Sooners lose the Orange Bowl with a score of 55-19, the audience had to endure a torture session from Ashlee Simpson.

From the E! Online news file:

In a performance preserved for all eternity on the Internet, and broadcast by ABC during halftime of the national championship-determining college football game, a strutting Simpson belted, some say screeched, her Autobiography cut "La La." At the conclusion of the number, the crown jeered, some say booed. One particularly vocal critic could be heard shouting, "You suck"--at least in the clip found on the Simpson-monitoring site, LipSync.us. You can visit the site by clicking here http://www.lipsync.us.

And it wasn't just Orange Bowl attendees whose ears were offended by Simpson's routine. In a commentary on MSNBC.com, Michael Ventre wrote that Simpson's singing "sounded like a cross between a political prisoner being tortured and a test of the Emergency Broadcast System."

Sound issues on the telecast marred half-time numbers by American Idol's Kelly Clarkson a
and country singer Trace Adkins, but neither of those performances inspired the boo-birds to come out.

A call seeking comment from Simpson's publicist was not returned Wednesday.

The Simpson camp has been in damage-control mode since a lip-synching scandal shocked--shocked!--the world and/or the 20-year-old popster's impressionable fan base back in October on Saturday Night Live.

Read what the New York Daily had to say about her umm "performance" - http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/268408p-229875c.html