Her amateurish reaction was to jump up and down in a self-described "hoedown" dance step. She then slipped off camera in front of millions of TV viewers.

"If she were a more seasoned performer, then I think that she would have taken charge and said, 'No, let's start this over again.' " SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels tells the Associated Press.

[...]

On Monday night, she was trying to laugh everything off during a live appearance at the "Radio Music Awards." She went on to give a performance of "Autobiography" so awful that it was certainly not a case of lip synching.

The hoedown continued Tuesday on NBC's "Today. She blamed her drummer for pressing the wrong button, said her dad pretty much forced her to use a vocal track and swore it was the first time she'd done such a thing.

"I've never done it once," she told Katie Couric. "I'm always, always singing on every show I've ever done."