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There’s an interesting interview over at MSN with Jessica Simpson. When asked about what she wanted people to learn about her from this record, she said after the divorce it took her a while to move on and actually start working again. She said, “With this record I think that people will experience my heart again and experience my voice again.”
She also lashed out at Nick Lachey at bit. When she was talking about her album A Public Affair, she said she shouldn’t have released it because she was going through a hard time. She said, “Nick had released his album and he was talking about us and I couldn’t believe it, I was so hurt. I felt like he was using our divorce as some kind of promotion.”
Once again Jessica is backing down from questions about the abuse she claimed she experienced. The reviewer asked:
“You’ve said that every song on “Do You Know” is a piece of your heart. “Remember That” is about an abusive relationship. What piece of your heart is that?
Jessica’s response: “I think it’s important for women to find value and self worth in themselves in every relationship that they’re in. And abusive, controlling situations are extremely hard to break free from.” And “Whenever you do find that confidence to take your heart and run from the situation, it’s a burden lifted off of your shoulders.”
I do find it odd that whenever she is asked about the abuse, she continually goes back to this line in the song. (That she DIDN’T even write!) In my opinion she should come clean about this or back off the subject.
Jessica also talks about the whole Dolly Parton “9-5″ fiasco (where Jess forgot the words to the song) and she quotes this very funny piece from Dolly. “I was working and couldn’t come into the studio. [My dad] videotaped it for me. She looks into the camera and said, “Well Jessica, you sung your butt off and I sang my butt off and so now we’re two blondes with no asses!”
Dolly sounds like a hoot. Read the rest of the interview and let us know what you think.
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