Jessica Simpson's Public Affair- Page 2

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/31/06 at 12:48pm

Jessica is not expected to sell a lot AT ALL. She's only expected to sell around 85/90,000 for her first week.

Bob Dylan and Danity Kane will most likely be fighting it out for the top spot next week. Danity Kane currently has the number 1 album. They sold over 215,000 in their first week, and they are brand new artist. Jessica isn't even predicted to come close to that.

[Dame Fanadette]

Posted: 8/31/06 at 1:10pm

Jessica will not be number one. The album is not that bad. And Madonna's Hung Up does have Abba in it but she asked to use it and was allowed. BIG difference.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 8/31/06 at 1:39pm

Clumsy, you need to get this CD this week, since it's discounted. It's amazing, I am not even going to answer to the negativity, it seems like Jessica was beating these people up? What do these people have against her? Jessica is lovely and can REALLY sing and she releases good albums, she doesn't need to record CDs, she makes money with her own clothing line, Tv, movies, make-up products, etc. She does it because she loves singing and that's how she got a deal with Sony to beginn with.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/31/06 at 2:00pm

This probably doesn't belong here, but every time I glance at the title of this thread I always see what I originally thought it read: "Jessica Simpson's Pubic Hair." Just thought I'd mention it. That is all. Carry on...

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/31/06 at 4:03pm

StageManager2 - I swear I was about to post the exact same thing.

I thought, "Who wants to know about that????"

Updated On: 8/31/06 at 04:03 PM

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 8/31/06 at 4:20pm

B.O.Y. Totally hot song. Good stuff. Liking the new disc.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 7:49pm

I love it!

[jimnysf]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 8:55pm

You can listen to the whole CD for free on AOL. Just go to AOL, Music, CD Listening Party. Anyone can log into AOL now for FREE.

http://music.aol.com/songs/new_releases_full_cds

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 8:56pm

"oo bad Jessie annoys the hell out of me and has done for over a year now.

I used to really like her, too."

Same here.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 9:42pm

That's 9.97 too much.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 9:43pm

How funny, I can't stop laughing.

Cheap shot, and it's not even original to attack Jessica.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 9:47pm

I know, poor Jessica.

[Joshua488]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 10:39pm

Wow. Someone likes Jessica Simpson A LOT.

I used to like her a lot back when she actually used to sing. Now, she just warbles with that breathy, baby-voiced sound like any other pop star.

After purchasing Back to Basics, I've converted to Christina Aguileranism.

That's a lie, actually. I love Christina's new stuff, but I am a faithful Britney Spears fan. True, she can't sing anymore to save her life, but she is one hell of an entertainer. Unfortunately, Jessica isn't. So, I'm all about Britney and Christina. (Looking forward to Britney getting back into shape and dropping her next album...) Updated On: 9/1/06 at 10:39 PM

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 10:59pm

Jessica is not a great entertainer, I admit that, but she put on a great tour last year. The Reality Tour was fantastic and it was "entertainment" as well as good singing. You are very cliche when you say that you prefer Christina and Britney over her, that has been said by many, you're not being original. You can't really talk about if Jessica can sing or not, since you probably heard only 1 song from the CD. Get the CD, then talk about it. Thanks.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 9/1/06 at 11:09pm

I wanted to add that I understand that the 3 of them came out at the same time with their albums. Still, there is no need to degrate Jessica or to compare her constantly to Britney and Christina, or even to her own sister or ex husband. How would you like to be in a position like that?
By the way, I think Britney is a good entertainer, I enjoyed her 1st CD a lot, her 2nd and 3rd album, I did buy them, but I found them forgettable, "In The Zone" had 2 songs I enjoyed "Brave New Girl" and "Toxic", but if I like 2 songs out of 13( I think it had 13) I consider it a mediocre CD.
Christina's CDs are great, her debut is my favorite so far, "Stripped" was a good album, although I found it boring compared to the 1st, I did like what she was trying to say in it. I also enjoyed her "Mi Reflejo", that was very well done and her Spanish is terrific, even though she is not fluent in the language, I have yet to purchase "Back To Basics" to critique it. But what I am trying to say is that Im a fan of Christina as well, I don't love Britney and I wouldn't buy a record of hers ever again, but I respect her as a person. I just find it irritating that people say she can't sing anymore, this is a girl who HAS talent, she got her record deal singing for Tommy Mottola a capella, when she was a teenager, and she pulled it off, and she didn't lose her talent, she is 26yo and sounds better than ever.

Updated On: 9/1/06 at 11:09 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 12:42am

She never beat me up, but here's what I have against her: She's not a musician. And she's an inelegant singer who looks like she's having a spazz attack. Like Joe Cocker, without a shred of his talent.

Since you asked.

[blueroses]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 12:58am

*bows to Namo*

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 1:36am

"*bows to Namo*"
If you were made fun of, would you like people to stick up for you? Im sure you were made fun of in school or something blueroses, I'd never celebrate a person making fun of others, you just showed what kind of person you are, and Im glad I am not that way. Horrible people.
Namo, I didn't ask for people to say bad things about her, I like Joe Cocker, but I prefer Jessica a 1,000,000 times more. There is no need to compare her to other artists.

Updated On: 9/2/06 at 01:36 AM

[blueroses]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 1:43am

Horrible people? I just showed what kind of person I am? Please get a grip. You don't know a thing about me. I think Jessica sucks. So what? Grow up and get over it.

You'll notice that I never said an unkind word about you, attacked you personally or jumped to stupid conclusions about YOUR character based upon your opinion of some celebrity.

You constantly jumping down the throats of people who don't like Jessica is annoying already. You love her? Awesome. Other people are entitled not to feel the same way.

And for the record, it's JOE Cocker. Not Bob Cocker.
Updated On: 9/2/06 at 01:43 AM

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 2:17am

I got confused, I actually own Joe Cocker's CDs, and "Up ther were we belong"(or w/e it was) was one of my favorite songs back in the day.
If you dislike Jessica is ok, but at least say it yourself and don't applaud someone for bashing an artist.
And also, she has the right to express herself the way she wants to, I don't care myself for her facial expressions while she sings, but the sound of her voice, makes up for it.
Every artist(and human being) is entitled to express themselves freely, as long as they don't harm anyone. Everyone is also entitled to express their feelings about artists as well, but there is no need to get nasty. All Im saying.
It really bothers me when a bunch of people just get together to make fun of someone.

Updated On: 9/2/06 at 02:17 AM

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 2:40am

I think the album is good enough for what it is. She's still over-enunciating, but nothing on it bothers me as much as her covers of Angels, Take My Breath Away, and These Boots Are Made for Walkin'.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 3:30am

Billboard's review:

"A Public Affair is easily the strongest album she's ever made, powered by a couple of excellent singles in 'A Public Affair' and 'If You Were Mine"

There are basically two ways to deal with a divorce in pop music: dig deep into your soul and pour it all out on the page (à la Blood on the Tracks), or treat it as sheer liberation (à la Back in the High Life). Perhaps it's only appropriate that the dissolution of the Jessica Simpson/Nick Lachey marriage -- one of the biggest tabloid stories of the 2000s, or at least 2006 -- produced two wildly different records that nevertheless follow these blueprints to a tee. First, Nick delivered the mopey What's Left of Me, whose title pretty much gives away the game; he paints himself as the man wronged, unaware that he's coming across a bit like a simpering cuckold but clearly aware that he's placing all the blame on Jessica's shoulders, and even if she doesn't explicitly embrace that burden on her post-divorce platter, A Public Affair -- whose title also nods at the hysterical gossip surrounding their separation -- its devil-may-care vibe suggests that everything that's been said about her is indeed true. At the very least, she's put her marriage far, far behind her -- according to the liner notes, some sister-bonding with Ashlee, where they cried and listened to Patty Griffin, did the trick (if only they were watching Kathy Griffin instead!) -- and is out to have nothing but a good time. And that's what A Public Affair is: a party record, pure and simple. A full eight songs are finished by the time Jessica switches the tempo down a notch or two, and even then it's only for a few songs; of the 13 songs here, ten are designed either for the dancefloor or carefree sunny afternoons. Of those three slower songs, there are a few allusions to her breakup with Nick -- on "I Don't Want to Care" she sings that she doesn't want to care about him and herself, and her version of Patty Griffin's "Let Him Fly" carries a certain meeting given the context -- but they don't stick, since they're overwhelmed by the bright, gaudy retro-dance that dominates this album. In other words, it's the opposite of the turgid, moribund 2003 In This Skin, which was all mannered showbiz ballads, just like how 2001's Irresistible was the reverse of her overly calculated debut, but the difference is, A Public Affair is easily the strongest album she's ever made, powered by a couple of excellent singles in "A Public Affair" and "If You Were Mine." Respectively, they recycle Madonna's "Holiday" and Janet Jackson's "When I Think of You," but that's a good place for Jessica to be -- breezy and tuneful, sunny and cheerful, they're songs that retain their sugar buzz after they've been played a dozen times. When she tries too hard -- which she does a fair amount here: most horrendously on the stilted hip-hop of "Fired Up," which makes Britney's "Me Against the Music" seem graceful; most ridiculously on "Swing with Me," a reworking of Louis Prima's "Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing)" that just points out how good Christina Aguilera's similar big-band makeover on Back to Basics actually is; and most bizarrely on the attempted country-funk of "Push Your Tush," a disco workout built on the Ohio Players' "Who'd She Coo" but memorable for Jessica's incongruous Hee-Haw-isms, such as her opening salvo "let's get some grub!" or a tossed-off "cock-a-doodle-doo!" -- she falls flat on her face and it's pretty embarrassing to hear, but she and her producers have enough sense to keep things as light and airy as angel food cake. Since this has been an instinct that's failed Jessica and her team -- as always, headed by father and executive producer Joe Simpson -- it comes as a bit of a shock that a good portion of A Public Affair is indeed pure cheerful fun, since she's only hit that on occasion in the past. And if A Public Affair doesn't all work -- and even if her voice is suspiciously buried in the mix throughout -- it nevertheless is by far the most entertaining album she's ever done and does indeed suggest that the divorce has loosened and liberated her (of course, some might say she got a little looser and liberated toward the end of the marriage, and based on What's Left of Me, Nick Lachey would be one of them). ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Updated On: 9/2/06 at 03:30 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 12:24pm

You can't control other people, Muscle. Throughout this thread you criticize people for "saying things that people have said before," for "being unoriginal." You almost concede that they have points, but you dismiss the substance of what they say because somebody said them before.

And yet here you are championing a manufactured pop commodity (admit it, that's a more accurate description of what Jessica is than "artist") who performs other people's songs, many of which were hits for other people. I mean, either you're going to hold people to the "originality" standard or not. And Jessica is not. There is not a THING she does that hasn't been done before, and usually much better.

I'm not sure what sort of projected relationship you have in your mind with Jessica, and it's all gallant as hell that you would actually write, "If you were made fun of, would you like people to stick up for you?" as if she's Corine2, but she's not. She's a cog in the machine of lowest common denominator disposable pop non-culture. And as such, she is out there to be looked at, analyzed, and dismissed by people with functioning critical capacities.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 12:30pm

Well done, Namo.

[DG]

Posted: 9/2/06 at 12:33pm

"She's a cog in the machine of lowest common denominator disposable pop non-culture."

That pretty much covers it.