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Simon
Cowell
Trashes
Beyonce,
Defends
Ashlee
Simpson
Cranky
American
Idol
judge
Simon
Cowell
thinks
Beyonce
is
overrated
and
that
Ashlee
Simpson
(news)
has
been
criticized
unfairly.
Cowell
tells
Esquire,
"I
find
the
whole
Beyonce
thing
really
mystifying.
She's
not
sexy,
she
hasn't
got
a
great
body
and
she's
not
a
great
singer."
Cowell
defended
Ashlee
Simpson's
decision
to
use
a
backing
track
instead
of
singing
live
on
Saturday
Night
Live
last
October.
He
said,
"Why
should
you
have
to
do
something
substandard
just
for
the
sake
of
being
real?
If
it
sounds
better
with
the
vocal
you
recorded,
why
shouldn't
people
listen
to
that?
There's
almost
a
witch-hunt
mentality
about
people
miming."
In
his
biography,
I
Don't
Mean
to
Be
Rude,
But...
Cowell
admits
that
his
first
target
for
criticism
was
his
mother.
Cowell
says
that
at
age
4 he
looked
at
his
mother's
white
fuzzy
pillbox
hat
and
remarked
"Mum,
you
look
like
a
poodle." |