While a slow deluge of Ashlee Simpson-lip synch hysteria-related stories have begun to appear on google news, (thus far, this one from Salon strikes me as the most incisive, while the AP story which is circulating's comparison of this incident to Elvis Costello's song switch and Sinead O'Connor's pope trashing strikes me as disingenuous in a comparison of intentional acts of punk rock refusal with something entirely unplanned and unwanted,) i nevertheless stand by the questions i raised in my post yesterday regarding the politics of authenticity and reproduction.