Haley Scott

I have newlyweds on dvd but i watched it when it was on mtv. It is such an hilarious show. My husband says WE are Nick & Jessica, EXACTLY like them =))
But besides that, i like her songs. I think my favorites are These Boots Are Made For Walkin, With You, Angels and Take My Breath Away. I like her new song Public Affair. At first i didn't like it but it's grown on me i guess. I'm looking foreward to her new album.

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WildAtHeart

I love Jess. Along with Christina's, Jess's is 1 of the albums i'm looking forward to the most in August

Haley Scott

I've seen her video for A Public Affair twice. She said the rollerskating concept was her mom's idea.

Haley Scott

Jessica Simpson Covers Song That Convinced Her To Let Nick Go
Last Christmas season, while she was going through "a really tough time," Jessica Simpson introduced her sister Ashlee to one of her favorite songs, Patty Griffin's "Let Him Fly." "We laid there listening to the song and just cried and cried like babies", Jessica recalled. "In a lot of ways, my sister really gave me the strength to pull through this really hard time. And it was just laying there and being with her that got me through it. I knew everything would be OK. The song is about how sometimes you just have to know when to let something go. And that was that moment. And I had to sing it."


Simpson, who had just filed for divorce, went on to record her own rendition of the song, which closes out her fifth album, A Public Affair, due August 29. And unlike the title track — the LP's first single — there's no question "Let Him Fly" is a statement about her failed marriage to Nick Lachey.


" 'A Public Affair' is a play on words; it's not about what you think it's going to be about," Simpson said about her single. "People probably expected [it to be about Lachey] because of everything going on in my life, but it's not about him at all. It's about me going out with my girlfriends and forgetting everything that's around me, which is paparazzi, and just having a fun night. Because [paparazzi] can ruin a night."


Jessica selected the tune as her first single after her mother suggested the roller-skating video concept. "If my mom envisions a video from what you play her, that means it's a hit. That's how me and my sister dictate our hips — I mean hits," she said, making a classic Jessica-ism. "Hips, haha. That too!" Simpson said any of the song's similarities to Madonna's "Holiday" were subconscious. "I think people are ready to hear something that Madonna used to do," she said. "We all need to hear that every now and again. It wasn't a sample or something I meant to do, but she did influence me and still does today. I hope to have the longevity of her career."


For her second single, Simpson's eyeing "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)." It's a reworking of Dead or Alive's '80s hit of the same name in the way Rihanna's "S.O.S." is a remake of Soft Cell's "Tainted Love." "It's not a cover — it's a sample, really," Jessica explained. "I wrote the verses with Cory Rooney. ... When I did 'These Boots Are Made for Walking,' I wrote the verses from the perspective of Daisy Duke, but I didn't change the melody. But with this, we rewrote the melody and kept the chorus the same. And I'm singing in a different register, so people don't know it's me and that's kind of fun."


Simpson's not sure it will go to radio, though, as her handlers are worried it's too much of a club track. "It reminds me of that 'Waiting for Tonight' Jennifer Lopez track that everyone embraced," she countered. The first four tracks on A Public Affair, which also include "B.O.Y." and "If You Were Mine," were tailored for the clubs, but the other nine tracks mix it up and include a few slower tunes.


"I do love singing ballads, but I took a different approach," Simpson said. "I didn't do a big string-session type of ballad I'm used to. Working with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, I took more of a Janet Jackson approach. More of an 'Earth Angel' type of approach."
There is some country influence on the album, but it's not obvious, she said. "When I wrote from my soul, there's some country in there, and that's what Jimmy Jam and Terry wanted to focus on," she said. "But it's more like how on Maxwell's last record you hear the steel guitar and the twang, but you have another beat that's driving you to listen to it. It has an influence that's a little bit folk, country, but it's like an accent." Along with Jimmy Jam and Lewis and Lester Mendez, who produced "A Public Affair," the album also includes production by Scott Storch. "It's called 'Fired Up,' and that basically describes the collaboration," Simpson said of the Storch track. "That came about from a quote one of my best friends, CaCee Cobb, always says: 'Let's get fired up.' So I wrote a song about it."


Simpson actually called on Cobb and other friends for "Swing With Me," which reworks Benny Goodman's 1938 swing classic "Sing, Sing, Sing." "Cory Rooney and I were writing it and two of my friends were in the other room, and I said, 'Come in and help us come up with ideas,' " she recalled. Jessica hopes to tour behind A Public Affair but wants to wait until at least three singles have been released, so "people get what they pay for." In the meantime, she's co-hosting the Teen Choice Awards with Dane Cook on August 20 and appearing as a guest on "The View" when Rosie O'Donnell debuts as a co-host September 5. "I adore Rosie," Simpson said. "One of the first TV shows I did was hers. We gave away some leather pants I split on the Ricky Martin tour the night before." MTV.com


- so we get a cover after all - "Let Him Fly" and "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" is kind of a cover too but the lyrics are different.

Haley Scott

Jessica Simpson is singing her heartbreak song
Jessica Simpson listened to the song Let Him Fly repeatedly to comfort her during her divorce from ex-husband Nick Lachey, and the track has become so important to her she has included it on her new album. At Christmas last year (05) when the couple announced they were separating, Simpson used the Patty Griffin song's lyrics to reassure herself she was doing the right thing. Simpson claims she was going through "a really rough time" and enjoyed bittersweet times listening to the ballad with her younger sister Ashlee. "We laid there listening to the song and just cried and cried like babies. "In a lot of ways, my sister really gave me the strength to pull through this really hard time," she was quoted by Contactmusic, as saying. "And it was just lying there and being with her that got me through it. I knew everything would be OK. The song is about how sometimes you just have to know when to let something go. And that was that moment. And I had to sing it," she added.

Haley Scott

Jessica's new album A Public Affair came out today (i bought it of course)

Here's the track listing

1: A Public Affair
2: You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
3: B.O.Y.
4: If You Were Mine
5: Walkin' Around In A Circle
6: Lover In Me, The
7: Swing With Me
8: Push Your Tush
9: Back To You
10: Between You And I
11: I Don't Want To Care
12: Fired Up
13: Let Him Fly
14. I Belong To Me

Haley Scott

Jessica Simpson Is Ordered on Vocal Rest

Talk about bad timing. At the start of a media blitz to support her
new album, "A Public Affair" Jessica Simpson is on vocal rest.

"It is true that she has indeed lost her voice," Simpson's
publicist, Rob Shuter, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "She's
been ordered to rest. ... She can talk, she can croak out a few
sentences. She sounds a little off, but, you know, she can't sing."

Simpson, 26, fell ill Friday and has "a strain, a bruise on her
vocal cord," Shuter told the AP.
The singer canceled an appearance on CBS' "Late Show With David
Letterman" this week but dropped by MTV's "Total Request Live" on
Tuesday to promote the album. Simpson, speaking in a hoarse voice,
introduced music videos. She also signed CDs for fans.

Simpson hopes her condition improves by Friday, when she is
scheduled to perform on NBC's "Today" show, Shuter said.

"She's trying," he said. "Everybody is hoping and keeping their
fingers crossed."

Haley Scott

message from Jessica!

"Do not be conformed to this world,but be transformed by the renewal
of your mind,so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable
and perfect will of God."
Romans 12:2


y'all are now invited to join me on my journey through this life.
Please listen with an open mind.love me for me...
Sometimes we wake up one day and come to the realization that we are
going nowhere staying here.so,to get somewhere, we face change.we
battle all of the pain that abides within the damn word CHANGE.we
begin by searching through the mind maze...the "wilderness
mentality",just to remain in captivity because the fight for freedom
from our situation is too damn much.why does getting there hurt so
bad?we continue to allow the disturbance of worldly expectations
ripple like waves in our brain to occur. I constantly encourage
myself to find the genuine need for understanding the search of
fullfillment. I have yet to accumilate the exact way to outline the
perfect essay on obtaining truth,but I have many notes.
Tonight I will share my first step towards purpose... Regain the
territory the corrupt have stolen from you.
"I belong to me"
maybe we just stand up and stop surrendering to our own misery. it
has been far too long since we've allowed ourselves to refute the
arguement in our head.
once again...I'm rambling.
I'll write back soon!!!
Oh wait...one more passage from the truest love letter...


"For as he thinks in his heart,so is he..."
Proverbs 23:7


Jess

Haley Scott

New info on MTV Special

Single, sexy, and with an all new sound, MTV cameras catch up with
Jessica Simpson for the revealing half-hour special, "Jessica
Simpson: A Public Affair." Taking charge of her life, and with
renewed confidence, Jessica returns to the public spotlight to
perform her new music, and along with that, sits down to answer the
questions her fans are dying to ask. MTV's "Jessica Simpson: A
Public Affair" premieres Monday, September 4th at 10:30pm ET/PT.
With Los Angeles as the backdrop, MTV cameras follow Jessica as she
prepares for the anticipated debut of her new album, A Public Affair
on August 29th. Whether facing the paparazzi while dining at
Hollywood hot spot Koi with friends, or taking the stage for a
surprise performance at The Factory nightclub, fans will get an
exclusive inside look at Jessica's life and music. In addition, MTV
is there when Jessica invites fans to her rehearsal space for a very
intimate performance of songs from her new album, and an emotional
Q&A, where Jessica finally gets to answer the questions poised
directly by her fans. Throughout viewers will get a powerful insight
into Jessica's life through her music as she performs tracks "I
Belong To Me," "Let Him Fly," and her current hit single, "A Public
Affair," along with much more

Haley Scott

Info on Jessica's new album - A Public Affair

Title: "A Public Affair" (Jessica wanted to name it "And The Band
Played On" but the concept of it changed and so did the title)

Release Date: August 29, 2006

Record Label: Epic Records
Producers: Corey Rooney, Scott Storch, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis

Executive producer: Jessica Simpson
Corey Rooney produced for: Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Beyonce
Knowles, Christina Milian, Thalia and more!

Scott Storch produced for: 50 Cent, Beyonce, G Unit, Terror Squad,
Rah Digga, Mario, Ja Rule, Fat Joe and more!

Jam & Lewis produced for: Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Usher, Blu
Cantrell, Bryan Adams, Jordan Knight, Mya, Sting and more!

Tracklisting (to be confirmed):

1. A Public Affair
2. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
3. B.O.Y.
4. If You Were Mine
5. Walkin' 'Round In A Circle
6. The Lover In Me
7. Swing With Me
8. Push Your Tush
9. Back To You
10. Between You & I
11. I Don't Want To Care
12. Fired Up
13. Let Him Fly


Jessica Simpson quotes on the album:

* "I think that with my music, you can't help but tell people a
story about your life, I believe that every artist, that's their
artistry - it comes out of them naturally, through lyrics, through
music, through instrumentation. So with this next record, you will
see and hear a lot of things I've been going through. And if that
can offer any inspiration to anybody else going through the same
situations, so be it. That's why I'm here."

* About "Back To You": "It's a ballad that reminds me of Janet, It's
a really raw, stripped, kind of naked song that's just honest."

* "Living in the South for three months again felt really good,"
Simpson said of shooting the film in Louisiana. "It brought a lot of
my personality back that I was missing. I retreated back to Patsy
Cline, and tried to go back there a little bit."

* "You'll hear [the country], but you'll also hear the fun club
songs. Club songs and country songs; it's all of it, mixed into one,
just really good music."

* "I look at this new record from a different perspective than I had
with all my other records because basically I'm doing the A&R work,
I'm executive producing, I'm writing all the music - I'm doing it
myself".

* "There are some fun dance tracks, and it's probably more up-tempo
than my last record. Music is supposed to make you smile and
experience emotions. I don't want to get caught up in the pressure
of having the right single or having a smash hit. All I know is that
every single song that comes out of me I want to hear on the radio. "

* "I literally walk into the studio and hand him [Jimmy Jam] a CD of
all my favorite songs that I want my album to sound like. It's
everything from Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline to Etta James. Jimmy
got it from the very beginning."


Other Facts:

* Scott Storch describes the track entitled "Fired Up"
as 'Jessica's 'Dirrty'.
* 'A Public Affair' is the first single off the album.
* Simpson recorded another club track, "Mr. Operator," with Storch
during their session together three weeks ago.
* Jessica wrote all but one song on the album.
* She recorded a cover of Dusty Springfield's "Son Of A
Preacherman", which didn't make the album after the changes.
* Jessica wrote 'Fired Up" for CaCee "since that's what she always
says".
* 2 more tracks revealed: "Sexified" (not on the album) and "Back To
You".
* "Back To You" is a flashback about her first boyfriend in high
school, inspired by rereading old journal entries.

Haley Scott

Jessica Simpson Schedule

August 30 Late Show with David Letterman
August 31 MTV Video Music Awards
Sep 1 Today Show Summer Concert Series
Sep 1 The Early Show
Sep 4 MTV Special
Sep 5 The View
Sep 7 The Tonight Show
Sep 11 Ellen DeGeneres Show

Haley Scott

Affair to remember (review)

August 29, 2006 --
Rating: 3 stars / 4 stars


On Jessica Simpson's first post-divorce CD - "A Public Affair"
(Epic) - the busty blond beauty lays down an effervescent album
that's rich in dance energy and pop power. Unlike her ex, Nick
Lachey, whose recent CD was an exercise in wimpy, self-pitying mope,
Miss Simpson has gotten over the pain of divorce - or at least she's
keeping it mostly to herself. On "Swing With Me," Jessica goes
retro, tapping Louis Jordan jump-jive swing - and in the next breath
she gets suggestive and sweaty in the baby-got-back funk of "Push
Your Tush." Rather than presenting a themed album like Madonna's
dance record or Christina Aguilera and OutKast's dirty-'30s discs,
Simpson chooses variety to showcase her voice. She covers the bases
and even gets her hip-pop cranking in the raucous and musically
aggressive "Fired Up" and "B.O.Y." And the girl-next-door
ballad "Between You & I" could have been snatched from the Leslie
Gore songbook. For those looking for the tracks of her tears, you
have to read the liner notes where she thanks her sister Ashlee for
crying with her and listening to Patty Griffin music "on repeat."
Tie that to the last song called "Let Him Fly," written by Griffin,
and poof, Lachey is gone. Simpson would have been wise to steer
clear of this weeper - at least it's the last song on the disc and
thus easy to skip. The biggest flaw of this record is in her vocal
delivery. While it's certainly her own, it's been so often aped by
pop newcomers, time has made her sound seem generic. Despite the
lack of a clear-cut vocal trademark, she's dodged sounding cheesy
with these upbeat and propulsive songs.
On "A Public Affair," Simpson sounds excited to be singing again.

Dan Aquilante, NYPost.com