Jessica Simpson - A Public Affair
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Artist: Jessica SimpsonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-08-19
Music Label: Epic
Soundtracks:
- A Public Affair
- You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
- B.O.Y.
- If You Were Mine
- Walkin' 'Round in a Circle
- The Lover in Me
- Swing with Me
- Push Your Tush
- Back to You
- Between You & I
- I Don't Want to Care
- Fired Up
- Let Him Fly
- I Belong to Me [*]
Music reviews of A Public Affair
Music Review: She could have done much better
Rating: 3 Stars
Growing up during (and being marketed to since I happened to be the age that labels kept shoving bubblegum to) the age of the teen pop music boom I got used to the musical musings of Britney Spears (of course) and the like. Since Jessica Simpson never garnered much attention at the start of her career I didn't hear about her until "I Think I'm In Love With You" first started making waves on Top 40 radio. I could tell she had a great song on her hands and singing abilities that deserved a second listen so I purchased Sweet Kisses. Man, did it disappoint! Having been accustomed to the trashy but guilty pleasures of Britney (the infamous first single "...Baby One More Time") and the not-as-popular (I never really got into her music) Christina (the sometimes good-sometimes off "Genie") Jessica Simpson's debut album didn't make the cut. It has some good songs, like the aforementioned "I Think I'm In Love With You," "I Wanna Be With You" and the duet with Nick Lachey. But everything else sounded so boring, bland and just like filler I didn't know what to think about Simpson. She was obviously a good singer (in THOSE days, I'll add) but she just didn't seem like she was given enough good material (or coverage) to dominate global entertainment media like Britney Spears. Three albums later, her latest attempt A Public Affair possesses the same problem that each of Jessica's albums have had; it's just all right and mediocre. I expected a MUCH better listen since she's had three years of media blitz (after garnering infamy with that famous TV show with ex-hubby Lachey) which could give her the opportunity to access the top producers and songwriters in pop music. Unfortunately A Public Affair, though public, isn't necessarily a good affair. Title track and lead single is good--but it sounds so much like Madonna's "Holiday" it's hard to see what people were thinking when it was created (since it'd obviously get such a reaction from the public). The disc isn't necessarily a horrible one by any means, it's just bland and typical unmemorable fluff--Simpson delves into the current 80s-reminsicent craze of music evident throughout A Public Affair. "The Lover In Me" is another good track (by-download-only "I Belong to Me" is all right as well, but should be a feature on the disc instead of a download after it's purchased); but that's about it. "Fired" sounds so much like a thrown-out Britney track (and so club-minded for Simpson) it's hard to see how it fits onto A Public Affair, which borders the pop and country-pop genres. The worst song on record is the embarrassing "Push Your Tush." Jessica, what were you thinking? You don't have to lower yourself to saying "cock-a-doodle-doo!" Jessica Simpson's albums might be consistent, but they're always affected because they never seem to have that big hit single. She could have been so much better considering how over-hyped she is these days. Post-divorce Jessica might be a very public affair, but it's not necessarily a good one.
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Description of A Public Affair
International pressing of her fourth studio album features one bonus track, 'I Belong to Me'. Jessica boasts songwriting skills on 9 out of 12 tracks from the new album, which is produced by the most sought-after producers: Lester Mendez, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Cory Rooney, Scott Storch and Stargate. The 1st single's videoclip is directed by Brett Ratner of X-Men fame a star-studded video chronicling a fun night out with Jessica and her celebrity friends. In the clip, Jessica Simpson is joined by Eva Longoria, Christina Applegate, Christina Milian, Maria Menounos, Andy Dick & Ryan Seacrest. Sony. 2006.A Public Affair is a disco-studded, stunningly entertaining, 13-song slab of energetic white-girl pop. From the summer-fizzy first song and title track--which lifts, improbably, from both Madonna and the Supremes--Simpson tears out of the gate refusing to fall back on stale-sounding power ballads, something of a signature in the past. "You Spin Me Round" updates the Dead or Alive '80s hit; the vampy and innovative "B.O.Y." borrows from a vintage Cars track; and "Walkin' 'Round in a Circle," about as sleepy a track as you'll find here, seems to put a kind of pop spit-shine on a tune both Stevie Nicks and Ryan Adams popularized. Later tracks, including the excellent Louis Prima-inspired "Swing with Me" and the shockingly urban-sounding "Fired Up," bring Simpson's inner femme fatale to the fore. Let's hope it doesn't slink away anytime soon--other Simpson discs have been forgettable, but this is an affair to remember. --Tammy La Gorce
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