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Ashlee Simpson - Bittersweet World
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| Has there ever been another pop star quite as shameless as Ashlee Simpson? Probably so, but nobody has ever quite so cravenly followed fashion's shifting tides as Ashlee, who has never seemed the slightest bit embarrassed to make herself over when styles changed. All this desperate trend-chasing has been done in public, as it damn well should be in the 21st century, so we've seen her change from the spunky younger sister of a superstar to the sad goth clown of her sophomore effort to the Gwen Stefani wannabe of her third album, Bittersweet World. Ashlee might look like a shadow of her former self on the album cover -- the years and cosmetic surgery have made her virtually unrecognizable from the awkward teen on the cover of I Am Me -- but she still sounds the same, still boasting that same thin, girlish voice that wouldn't have gotten much attention if she weren't Jessica Simpson's younger sister....full text |
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| The Importance of Being Ashlee has always been at the core of the younger Simpson sister's musical output. (See her first two releases, insistently titled Autobiography and I Am Me.) Yet four years of stylistic switch-ups and alleged cosmetic surgeries later, her identity — Punk-Pop Princess? Dance Diva? Husky Balladress? — remains an enigma wrapped in a riddle and swathed in hair extensions. From the first notes of Bittersweet World's opener, ''Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya),'' with its mock-ska inflections and '80s-redux backbeat, it's clear that her latest incarnation is Gwen Stefani, The Solo Years....full text |
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Cast as the daring rock rebel in the Simpson family reality-show empire, Ashlee Simpson is hardly less plastic than her nice-girl sister, Jessica. Her debacle of a “Saturday Night Live” appearance exposed her as a lip-syncher, and when she’s not singing about her rocker-girl independence, she’s working on Broadway. Lately, she and her fiancé, Pete Wentz, of Fall Out Boy, have been teasing the tabloid media by refusing to confirm or deny pregnancy rumors. But for Ms. Simpson as a pop contender, none of that matters. On her third album, “Bittersweet World,” the defiant pose — “I just wanna color outside the lines,” she pouts in “Rule Breaker,” sounding about as dangerous as an unruly kindergartner — gives her fertile songwriting territory....full text |
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