Jessica Simpson’s country music crossover hasn’t been as successful as she and her record company might have hoped, despite her breasts working overtime to promote it. Not being a country music connoisseur I’m no judge, but her single seemed okay. Frankly I can never forgive her for sampling John Cougar Mellencamp on that song, or covering ‘Take My Breath Away’. The eighties should have been left in the 1980s, please!
While I’m ambivalent at best about her music, it seems that country music purists have strong opinions following her debut at the Country Thunder Festival, sharing the bill with Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert.
“I don’t know what your perception is of Jessica Simpson or what tabloid you buy, but I just want you to know that I’m just a girl from Texas; I’m just like you,” Simpson told the crowd, according to the Kenosha News. “I’m doing what I love and dating a boy.”
High-profile boyfriend and Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo may not have been there to comment, but concertgoers were quick to offer their opinions of Simpson’s show.
“I actually like her country songs better,” Mary Grace told the newspaper. “She has a great voice, plus, she’s adorable.”
In addition to her own material, Simpson reportedly sang country covers including Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” and Shania Twain’s “Who’s Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?” But she didn’t win over everyone.
“I just don’t hear the country in her,” said Adam Matos, from Arlington Heights, Ill. “I don’t hear the twang. She’s not good enough to be here.”
Mike Rodriguez of Lake Geneva, Wisc., seconded that opinion.
“Just because she’s dating Tony Romo it doesn’t make her country,” he said. “She doesn’t fit in with country, and I’ll have to drink a lot of beer to sit through her concert.”
TMZ reports that she walked out to a mixture of cheers and boos, which is encouraging, unless they were just cheering her hair or something.
Fortunately, Jess might have have found just the right venture for her talent. It’s innovative, it’s sexy, and it’s a proven formula for fame: a sex tape.
The alleged X-rated home movie is said to show The Dukes of Hazzard actress and her ex-husband Nick Lachey engaged in a number of sex acts.
A source told Britain’s Daily Sport newspaper: “Jessica is horrified her name and sex tape are being mentioned in the same sentence. She’s always been a girl of high morals and principles.”
According to reports the tape does exist and has fallen into the hands of the individuals responsible for leaking the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex video.
It has been claimed that they are threatening to leak the tape if Jessica does not pay an undisclosed sum of money to keep it out of the public domain.
This report originally surfaced in the British tabloids so it probably isn’t true, but frankly, if a husband and wife want to make a sex tape together, why not? At least then after you’ve been married 20 years and hubs tries to claim that he never gets any, you have proof that at least once he did. Of course, you should definitely make sure you have the only copy of that tape, and it’s under lock and key. If nothing else, it’s to stop your kids being scarred for life by seeing that.
Jessica has traded on her buxom and blonde image to sell everything from her music to her frangrance (timed to hit shops with her new album). While most of us like to look sexy and desirable, we’d probably draw the line at having sex on camera.
I’ve tried to find the video online, but all I can find is a removed listing on craiglist to buy it.
Ugh probably sounds like a cat who’s tail’s been stepped on with a fake twang – absolutely nothing worse…!
Do they sample music in Country music? No wonder we are already yawning…
She’s always trying something to market her singing. Pop wasn’t working. Country will be another failure. Next up: Emo. Hey, Ashlee tried it, right? Oh wait. That’s her husband. Damn. I can’t tell them apart.
Anyway, as for the sex tape, I can hear it now: “Doggy Style? But dogs don’t know how to dress!”
Sex tape? Yeah right. I’ll believe it when I see it.
the headline of this just made me laugh my ass off for whatever reason. Ehem. Anyway… COUNTRY is so much harder than POP… the arrogance behind thinking that if you are failing at POP you should try the country audience is actually insulting. And she is entirely too annoying with that finger shaking to tell you where her next note should be or some shit for a country audience. People smell phony a mile away. She aint no carrie underwood. The sex tape…thats just desperate. Besides… we saw her show….between not knowing what tuna is and all that fake tan… do we REALLY need to get a visual too?
Country music fans won’t appreciate her crossing over just because she flopped in the pop music industry…I find it insulting that she thinks she can put on cowboy boots, short jean shorts and pretend she’s a country star all of a sudden.
the ‘”doggy style” joke is funny because its true
We got a press release that she’s playing the FAIR CURCUIT, folks. THE FAIR CURCUIT. Yes, as in cotton candy, sheep, and pie contests. She’ll be right at home. In her defense though, it’s the California STATE fair, not a COUNTY fair. Still, though.
How convenient for her to have a sex tape right when her career is tanking. Wonder who orchestrated that **cough couph Papa Joe cough cough**
I’ve seen some great bands at county and state fairs. Not all of them are country. To insinuate that there is anything wrong with attending or even performing at one is kind of like bashing the Olive Garden all over again.
I take that back, I just did some googling and found she IS playing some COUNTY fairs. One of them in Monterey County here in California. Her career has straight-up-tanked. She shouldn’t be playing county fairs for another 20 years or so.
And AE, I know not all acts at fairs are country. Most aren’t. To put it in perspective, CARROT TOP usually performs at our fair. Also, I saw Jan and Dean once. Faith Hill BEFORE she was famous. The new Menudo is coming around this year.
I’m not trying to argue, but to go from selling tickets at venues for probably 40 bucks a pop… to free with fair admission… that’s bad.
She’s playing to a new crowd and not attempting to start at the top by virtue of her name. She appears to be trying to “pay her dues” by playing at venues that draw huge crowds to introduce her new music. You might think it’s a sign of a tanked career but I think it’s a sign of good old American hard work ethics and ingenuity to take this risk.
Gee was that “Im dating a boy” comment directed at Blohan?
Elisha if you are going to all cap, then you should probably spell the word correctly. It is circuit, not curcuit.
A dude from Illinois telling a girl from Texas she isn’t country enough. What a joke.
Anon, I refuse to engage in ad hominem arguments. (Although if I did I would say something lame like “if you’re going to call someone out for spelling you shouldn’t hide behind an ‘anonymous’ screen name”). I’m obviously not too worried about spelling things correctly on a celebrity gossip blog. I’d change my tune if it were a literary/academia gossip blog.
I stand by my original remark that performing at the county fair is a serious downgrade. To suggest she’s doing it to gain fans is an insult to country fans and fair goers alike.
Yeah, who thinks they can fail at pop and just go country? Oh wait, John Denver, Glen Campbell, Anne Murray and Kenny Rogers did it…
ZZZZZZZZZZZZ………..
Mike Rodriguez of Lake Geneva, Wisc., seconded that opinion.
“Just because she’s dating Tony Romo it doesn’t make her country,” he said. “She doesn’t fit in with country, and I’ll have to drink a lot of beer to sit through her concert.”
To be fair, Wisconsinites have to drink a lot of beer to sit through any concert. It’s just part of our proud heritage. But I understand this guy’s point – I’d have to be blackout drunk to even be seen at a Jessica Simpson concert, let alone remotely complacent. Unless I was buying weed. Then I’d begrudging hang out towards back of the 35-50 person crowd and shout, “Take off your shirt!” after every set while waiting for my dealer to take his break from operating the tilt-the-whirl.
Her cover tunes are dreadful – maybe an under the covers video will work for this poor talentless girl.
Yep-finally I have give some respect to these trailer trash country music fans-JS sucks- literally!!!
I hope we can buy her sex tape soon-I’d love to see this manly trannie to see if she really has a 10 incher or if it was surgically removed…
why can’t poeple just respect their privacy. you wouldnt want that publicly announced, would you? and now celebitchy is dropping pam anderson and tommy lee’s sex tape, its funny how people will talk about other peoples lives but not their own
just like romo she is a one hit wonder !!! damn bitch. hey romo focus on football and leave the tale alone til after the season
Oh how I cherished the music penalisation from the , everything seemed to be way solon generative than now .