Posts Tagged ‘Jessica Simpson’
Jessica Lands Vanity Fair Cover
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
She’s failed at practically every career she’s tried—so why on earth is Jessica Simpson on the cover of the new issue of Vanity Fair?
The story inside certainly doesn’t contain any revelations, as Jess says fascinating stuff like, “I can talk to my dad like he’s my manager, and put ‘Dad’ on the back burner. We’ve been doing it since I was 13. So, at this point, we’re in a good rhythm. A lot of people find it strange, but it’s the only way I know. And I don’t care to know another way, because it suits me. And we’ve done a pretty dang good job.”
If he’s doing such a “good job,” why did her career peak about five years ago? Maybe because, as the writer of the story says, “As an actress, she’s slightly less skillful than the actress who replaced Suzanne Somers on Three’s Company.” Ouch!
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Tony Wants Jess To Lose The Booze
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Has rapidly-fading star Jessica Simpson been hitting the bottle big time lately?
The National Enquirer claims Jess has been partying it up since the end of her tour opening for Rascal Flatts—and BF Tony Romo wants her to straighten up. An insider blabbed, “Tony is fed up. She’s been pressuring him to marry her and have children, but he’s giving her a firm ‘no’ until she cleans up her act.”
Hey, cut her some slack, man. She’s lost her Nashville label and her movies are going straight to DVD—maybe she’s drinking to forget. Most country fans have already forgotten that album she released last year.
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Miss USA Contestants Wear Jessica’s Bikinis
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Her acting and singing careers have tanked, but Jessica Simpson may have finally found something she’s good at!
The NY Daily News reports the contestants in Sunday night’s Miss USA pageant will be strutting on the stage is teeny bikinis from the Jessica Simpson Collection. Both the $104 white ‘n’ gold string bikinis worn onstage and the $88 bright green string bikinis the contestants donned for a photo shoot were created especially for the competition.
If you want a JS bikini of your very own, the suits go on sale after the show at JessicaSimpsonCollection.com.
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Why Jess’ Country Career Flopped
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Now that Jessica Simpson’s been dropped by her Nashville label and her country music career has officially been pronounced dead, some experts in the genre give their opinions on why she failed.
The AP reports Simpson’s album “Do You Know” has sold a modest 178,000 copies since its release last fall—about the same number superstar Keith Urban’s latest sold in its first week. This is after the label spent big bucks hyping the country-pop effort.
But the country crowd just wasn’t buying it—the hype or the CD. Lon Helton of Country Aircheck recalled, “Everywhere I saw her around the U.S. at different radio station events she was always well-received. For whatever reason, the music did not resonate.”
Maybe because it wasn’t very good. Or maybe just because the country audience can smell a phony.
Ian Drew, senior music editor at Us Weekly magazine, nailed it when he said, “Working the country market is very different. You really have to work it at country. You have to spend your life on the road building an audience and she didn’t really put the work in. She walked the walk and talked the talk, but she didn’t have the street cred that she needed to make it work.”
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Jessica Dumped By Label
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Jessica Simpson’s career as a country singer has tanked even faster than her try at being a movie star.
All mentions of Simpson have been removed from the websites of Columbia Nashville and Sony Music Nashville. She had one album, “Do You Know,” released in Sept. of last year.
The “singer” has only four upcoming tour dates scheduled, including a fair in Dixon, CA, a Sea World in TX and a casino in Lake Charles, LA. Simpson opened several dates for Rascal Flatts, during which she was panned for forgetting the words to her songs.
So what’s she going to do now? Is there another career left for Jess to try? What’s Papa Joe going to think of next?
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