okgo Posted November 30, 2023 Posted November 30, 2023 (edited) Quote On Nov. 29, Jessica Simpson will be honored with the Icon Award at the 37th annual FN Achievement Awards. Below is an article from the magazine’s Nov. 27 print issue about how she charted a path to icon status by always being herself. Jessica Simpson is giddy. Positively bouncing off the virtual walls of Zoom — if that is possible. the camera’s off, but it doesn’t matter. The intonation and signature hint of drawl in her voice are effervescent as ever. The star immediately launches into a conversation about a flight to Nashville. She has been recording music there recently, after temporarily relocating her family to the city from Los Angeles last summer. “It’s like a retreat for me. I get to just crawl up inside my head and embrace my heart,” she says. “I feel so enlightened there. Writing music has become a beautiful therapeutic thing for me that I didn’t know was so natural, but it’s because I haven’t done it in so long. It’s just nice to know that I’m meeting myself back in this place, as a woman, and after going through everything that I’ve been through in my life. There’s a sense of freedom and empowerment.” The singer says she has more than 400 poems recorded in her journals from the past few months. The studio as sanctuary is a familiar trope for any musician, but it has taken the singer through some of her tougher years. She recorded her 2006 album, “A Public Affair,” after a very public divorce from Nick Lachey. It’s also where she went as she was getting sober, reconciling with her father and pondering what to write in her 2020 memoir, “Open Book.” That both of those titles allude to a boundary-less presence in the public sphere is no coincidence. Simpson has always worn her heart — and her inner monologue — on her sleeve. The new music (set to release in early 2024, with a tour to follow) will undoubtedly add fuel to the fire of current Y2K nostalgia, bringing her millennial followers closer to those halcyon afternoons of the MTV “TRL” era. It also will be a chance to reintroduce Simpson as a music artist, given that a generation of fans know her more for her shoes than as a pop star who broke onto the scene in 1999 at 19 years old. Or, for that matter, as the 22-year-old reality TV wife from “Newlyweds,” the pioneering 2003 MTV series that predated “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” and the “Real Housewives.” https://footwearnews.com/business/business-news/jessica-simpson-icon-award-2023-fnaa-1203558651/ Edited November 30, 2023 by okgo
okgo Posted November 30, 2023 Author Posted November 30, 2023 It better be a joint tour with Ashlee 2
gatito Posted November 30, 2023 Posted November 30, 2023 7 minutes ago, Matias182 said: We want Ashlee. to stay retired queen is looking good we've been waiting a long time for new music 2
SupremeGoddess Posted November 30, 2023 Posted November 30, 2023 time to sample another madonna song without having to pay her let’s GO! papa don’t preach this time 1
charmed23 Posted November 30, 2023 Posted November 30, 2023 Who tf is that woman in those pictures? The OA's Brit Marling? I thought both Jessica and Ashlee were already so gorgeous the way they were. Welp, lemme stream Jessica's classics: What's It Gonna Be, I Belong to me, I Think I'm in love with you, Irresistible, I Wanna Love you forever, These Boots 1
Romova99 Posted November 30, 2023 Posted November 30, 2023 I'm ready queen, I love her debut album (the superior 1999 debut album periodT). 1
Spicy_TyTy Posted November 30, 2023 Posted November 30, 2023 I loved her Open Book EP and always felt that an adult contemporary approach with a slight country twang is where her heart is (more In This Skin than A Public Affair), so I'm not expecting any uptempo bops from this album but we could be surprised. I feel like she's been teasing a new album forever (it's giving Paris Hilton with her 2nd album) but I'm excited for her music resurgence and curious about what sort of tour arrangements she'll do for her more poppier bubblegum hits like Irresistable. Can see With You and Think I'm In Love With You remaining untouched.
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