Disco de Ashlee Simpson: “I Am Me”

Ashlee Simpson surprised us all after her tape recorded goof on Saturday Night Live- she put out another record! The younger sister of Jessica Simpson follows up her "Autibiography" cd with another helping of teen tunes that will be coming to an Abercrombie & Fitch near you soon. The cd cover sports a somber Simpson photographed in sepia tones and shadows falling on her cheek that resemble tears. We should be the ones crying.

Overall Ashlee mines several musical genres to create an album that really is an awful mess. Lead single "boyfriend" apes Gwen Stefani's No Doubt days but with out the sass or attitude to back up the lyrics. We get treated to faux Reggae on the annoyingly catchy "L.O.V.E." where as the title suggests, Ashlee spells the word Love over and over. So much so that it sounds like she is singing "Ello! Ello!" in a fake British or Aussie accent.

On another track Ashlee tries to mimick a raspy Sheryl Crowe belting a chorus in which she proclaims "Here I am, looky pretty for you." Ashlee, you needn't have bothered.

Teen tikes will no doubt eat this packaged pop TV dinner disaster up but ultimately this will be another one of those cds cluttering up the .25 cent cd bin. By then miss Simpson will have made her money and the 250,000 people who bought this album its first week of release else will have to lie about having never owned this cd. Disposable pop from a disposable singer.

Ashlee simpson may be capable of throwing together a couple of cathcy hook tunes with the help of a producer, juiced up vocals, and a formula that she follows over and over and over and over and over again, but we know the truth. Yes, "Boyfried" is a jivey song that gives you a small urge to sing along, but that is about it. Ashlee showed her true colors on SNL, it is amazing and shocking every time I see it. She didn't sound that good when she went back a couple months ago. Think of the robbery that goes on in our society when a girl with absolutely NO TALENT can make tens of millions of dollars selling records that don't even reflect her abilities. Any random person on the street -- including myself -- can sing better than her, yet are we allowed to make millions? NO! Because we don't have the right connections. She is an absolute fake and an absolute disgrace. Don't waste your money on Simpson, even if you like "her music" we all know that it is nothing more than her squaking into a mic and letting producers and computers take care of the rest -- anyone can do it!

This 2nd album of hers is infact slightly better than her first. You can actually listen to this one without having blood run from your ears...or at least on some of the tracks. She gets one star from me for changing the hair back to blonde... and for that reason alone. She's still arrogant sounding, still screaming rather than singing. She still whines that she doesn't want to be like her big sister... sad part is she never has to worry about that because Jessica actually has this thing called talent.

Of course I wanted to dislike this album and why I purchased it over the new depeche mode album, I may never know. However, am I disappointed? No. Actually, I got just what I was looking for. Fluffy poppy punk that I can sing to and laugh about. God knows I need it with all the everyday BS in the world. The second track In Another Life is well worth the ticket price and Beautifully Broken is a swell tune worth checking out. Don't take it too serious, critics. It's just pop music.

I don't hate the girl, I hate her music if you can call it that and whoever told her she could sing just wanted to make money off her: her father! But of course you would like her if you didn't grow up in a time when real talent was dominating the airwaves