I was trying to pretend that Jessica Simpson’s country album wasn’t happening, but Slezak just made me listen to the single, "Come On Over" (below), because he wasn’t man enough to do it himself.
If Simpson’s people try to market her — suddenly all brunette and fond of form-fitting flannel — as the next Shania Twain, I will be forced to hurt someone. Shania has a voice, soul, and love for exclamation points that is pure country. (She also has a better song titled "Come On Over.") If this track is any indication, Simpson’s country album will be as unnecessary as we thought it might be.
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Ick. If I thought I wasn’t a huge fan of country before, this just sealed it for me. Glad to hear she’s still the queen of belch-singing, though.
I love how spin works, and as a memeber of the media I see it ALL the time, but seriously from the moment I heard she planned to put out a country album I just knew it would be HORRENDOUS. But lets be honest, fans of country albums BUY records? Why? Well not to be all mean, but a good amount of them are white trash/non educated high school drop outs that don’t quite know how to still go on the internet and get music illegally. THERE I SAID IT. And please do NOT attack me for saying that, cause if you have any amount of intelligence, you know that statement is grounded in TRUTH. This song is so bland, and not even interesting by country standards, but I do love 1. How Jess is all, I’m a TX girl! I grew up on country music! REALLY!? Cause I recall you singing a different tune when you broke out in the late 90’s saying how your dad (then a minister) had you singing in Church and you eventually wanted to do Christian music, not necessarily pop. She aggravates me to no end.
i love how artists think that country is an easy answer to their flegging careers. bon jovi didn’t succeed with their country record. i don’t think our DWTS girl will be successful. and i’ll bet jessica simpson probably won’t either. at least jewel’s country record is good and understood. she’s been living in the country for years now, and her songwriting always had a country feel to it. i’m hoping she kicks jsimps behind!
That is bad! I do listen to country and wow…
Does she need the money that bad??
Ummm…actually the Bon Jovi record and tour was a HUGE success and totally revitalizd their career. Julianne’s album is doing pretty well too, and rumor has it that the new Jewel country CD is also pretty good. Still, I am not clicking on that link. NO JESSICA!! It will go away soon enough.
Let’s see: first Christian music, then pop music, now country music. No matter what genre she picks, she still sucks as a singer. Period. Shania has nothing to worry about.
Memo to Pervy Papa Joe (Jess’ father/manager/jailer) just because your kid routinely makes the front pages of the tabloids, does not mean she’s a “superstar” or talented.
My thoughts exactly dma59. Oh, and she’s a damn crappy actress to boot! (you can choose between Ugg or cowboy -which ever flavor suits the reincarnation you want to refer to.)
Just think Jess: if Nick hadn’t let you come out and open for 98 Degrees back in the day, where would you be?
My apologies to Mandi, but Shania’s voice is terrible. It’s flat, scratchy, and she has virtually no vocal range. Her career has been made on her looks and catchy songs that were mostly written for her.
It’s not earth shattering, but I think if one of the other country blondes were singing it, people would probably like the song. She sounds better here than I’ve ever heard her and the song is catchy. I’m not really a fan, but I think people have been waiting to hate on it no matter what it sounded like. It’s really not bad.
This is a classic example of someone trying to hard — the country look and vibe, the strained vocals, the lame song — blech!
I agree – I never thought Shania was that great of a singer either. Her voice wasn’t that great – she was just very pretty and charasmatic with some catchy tunes and it all came together for her. Having said that…
Jessica’s song is plain okay. But, it all seems a bit desparate and that turns me off. If she hadn’t made a parody of herself during and after her reality TV show, she may have been able to make something of herself. I think she’s doomed to a life of a C-list celebrity with no outstanding talent other than being pretty and popping up in the tabloids.
minut, thanks for the laugh.
Shania Twain is an icon because of her charisa,voice and how she took country music worlwide on a massive scale.
Do you research, Shania takes the lead on all song writing for her songs.
Shania Twain is worth hundreds of millios of dollars and the biggest selling country female of alltime.
Anyone who bashes Shania on this site is just pure jealous of her astonishing career,wealth,talent and success.
She also has been a class act her whole life and living a private live in Switzerland and New Zealand.
I can’t wait for Shania to return with her new songs she wrote and a new world tour.
Shania is truly in a league of her own.
A Nightmare:
It sounds terrible. She is completely off pitch she is trying to sing a range that isn’t hers.
It is also a terrible rip off of Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift and Miranda Lambert. The title also is very original. Shaina Twain had a song with the same Title about 10 years ago. Its as if Jessica and her manufaturers think we do not have any type of a long term memory. Maybe they don’t.
On a Scale of 1 being the worst and 10 being the best I give her a 5 for this song.
I think Shania is great and the best thing to every happen to country music.
But she became much bigger than nashville and her money and power allows her to take long breaks and come back as she pleases.
Shania is the totaly package, she has talent,looks and charisma and amazing songs that she and her soon to be ex co wrote and produced.
There will never be another Shania who took the music world by storm on such a high level.
This image is not for the album, that was for her line of accessories last year (during her brunette-for-John-Mayer period). US Weekly mag matched it with the track when they first linked it on their site yesterday. The Simpson camp is not trying to mold her into Shania 2.0
Lmao!!! She even is trying to die her hair the color of Shania’s
She even uses the name come on over as a title. Which is the title of the biggest selling female album of alltime by Shania.
This is so funny. Country music has been trying to re create a new Shania for a decade and nobody even comes close to the great Shania Twain.
actually i love country music & can’t stand shania’s music. never have , never will. don’t know why that’s just the facts. shania seems like a nice person, just don’t want to hear her sing. now jessica is trying hard to start up her music career with a country album cause like others said ppl think it’s easy to have a hit in country music when actually it’s one of the hardest genres to break into. why? cause country fans don’t like wannabes or insincerity. i don’t think she’ll make it cause ppl already don’t like her. this attempt won’t change their minds. if julianne gets beeter songs she could have a decent career. btw, country fans no longer subsist of just ppl who live in rural areas or in the south. to label country fans & try to put them in a box like that is uneducated.
sorry, better.
To everyone commenting on how Papa Joe isn’t trying to angle her in as the second coming of Shania, WHY THEN did they “leak” this song to the internet a week after word came that long time Shania collaborator and husband, Mutt Lange separated last week? Mutt is responsible for ALL Shania’s major hits. Do not be FOOLED people, The Simspon clan leaked this song in hopes to capitalize on the country scene while Shania’s personal life is in ruins. GOD! People can be so dumb sometimes, the Simspons are RUTHLESS business people who will do ANYTHING to get their daughters on whatever charts will have them!…SAD
phill, will saying Shania’s personal life is in ruins because she is seperated from her husband is kind of reaching a bit. Shania and Mutt will split up their billion plus dollar fortune and life goes on.
Shania has already written tons of songs herself over the years she has been on hiatus and any young hip producer would jump at the chance at re inventing a new sound for a music icon like Shania.
i guess we don;t like her because its unfair that we all work for a living and she makes millions for being a moron with big boobs. So bitter! She’s no Carrie Underwood or Shania. She’s talentless. The other day I woke uo and Employee of the month was on TV, it put me to sleep tight away, even after 10 hours of sleeping. So lame. Millionaires for no reason make me mad! An jealous, LOL.
And Jessica Simpson becomes even more of a laughing stock! Country folks might be nice, that’s why there’s been a recent influx of artists trying to revive their career in the country genre, but the Country folks won’t play bad music like this. Sorry Jess, you ain’t no Country singer.
To Phil: you obviously don’t know much about country music–it is HUGE business, and TONS of record sales.
To Jessica Simpson: please stop. “I wanna kiss that mouth on your face”?!Eek.
To Katy – I KNOW ALOT about the ENTIRE music business, and COUNTRY music is just one aspect of it. Country music has been a consistent seller when music sales have been at all time lows, and I’m not going to apologize for my earlier comment about why country sales have continued to blossom, because it is partially true. If U need FURTHER proof, look to about a month ago when Wal-mart (now the LARGEST music retailer in the country) re-packaged Tim McGraw’s Greatest hits Vols. 1 & 2 together as an exclusive, WITH NO NEW MATERIAL, and managed to get the ‘new’ package to debut in the top 15 on the Billboard Top 200! Hmmm, and WHO shops at Wal-mart??? So, Obviously I do know a thing or two about music sweetie. Sometimes the truth hurts.
I miss SHANIA TWAIN sooooooooooooo much. I hope she is doing OK after the split and doesn’t retire. I want to hear another new album. Who cares about Jessica Simpson…why would she release a song called “Come On Over”…that’s like releasing a song titled “Like a Virgin”…it’s just wrong. SHANIA TWAIN COME BACK!!!
OMG, would Jessica be stupid enough to call the album “Come On Over”????
Wow, that was even worse than I expected it to be.
I agree with your assessment of the Simpson clan 100%, and have agreed with a lot of your past posts. Believe me when I say I’m not a country fan. But I do think you should give it its due in sales. I mean, Carrie Underwood sold 1/2 million in one week, while Madonna only sold half of that in her first. Please don’t attack me, because I normally agree with everything you say.
why are these posts on central time? have they always been that way cuz i’m in NY where it’s 6:41pm and these posts are reading as an hour behind. anyhoo, jessica simpson just doesn’t sell when it comes to music no matter what genre she tries and to call her an ‘actress’ (in one crappy movie after another)insults the term and all who work as or aspire to be actresses. who knows what she should do…