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A critic at Jessica Simpson’s performance Wednesday night in Niagara Falls, Canada says she talked incessantly to the crowd ahead of nearly every song, and told inane and pointless stories. She also wasn’t that great in concert and should have stayed with pop music, according to John Law at the Niagara Falls review. He says the crowd of people paying $70 a ticket were happy enough with her chatty and subpar performance, though:
This cowgirl seems completely lost and desperate for approval on stage.
It made for a bizarre and often frustrating show. Simpson needs to explain in exhausting detail what every single song is about, and the endless banter kills any momentum. She’s still living in a reality show, convinced everyone is so fascinated with her personal life, they’d rather hear her talk than sing.
How bad was it?
Before the new song “Man Enough,” she said her man must be ready for anything – including the possibility she’s pregnant with an alien.
Before “Remember That,” a song about abuse, she said God wanted her to record it “so I could stand up here and be witness to you guys.”
Before the Dolly Parton-penned “Do You Know,” she talked about the night she screwed up the lyrics to “9 to 5” with Dolly in the audience. She was so bummed, “I told my daddy I’m never going to sing again … I’m going to ignore this gift God gave me…”
Sporting a blue and white farmgirl’s dress, she assured us she felt “older and wiser” after a rocky few years. The therapy session was underway.
“You’re My Sunday” off the new album was dedicated to boyfriend Tony Romo (“because he always asks, ‘How was your Sunday?’”), while ex-hubby Nick Lachey gets grilled in the bitter “When I Loved You Like That,” where our girl basically says she carried his cheatin’ ass all those years.
A cover of Shania Twain’s “Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?” might also be dedicated to him. Nick may want to skip this tour.
An audience of Jess-heads ate it up. Unlike her tour opener in Wisconsin, where she was booed opening for Sara Evans, this crowd was here only for her. And they paid $70 a ticket for the privilege.
Armed with that confidence, Simpson opened up about God, divorce and, um, flatulence.
“I do pass gas a lot,” she said. “I guarantee it smells like roses.”
[NFReview.com via US Weekly]
This girl is a complete idiot, but she’s made an entire career out of capitalizing on her idiocy and it seems to work for her. She doesn’t need to remind people that she blew it on stage at the Dolly Parton tribute at the Kennedy Center, and if she did vow never to sing again to ignore her “God-given gift,” she should remind us of that, either. People will soon be asking her why she didn’t take her own advice. Surely she could continue flogging her shoes, purses and personal life without branching out into a new music genre and trying to talk throughout her concerts to conceal her inadequacy.
Jessica Simpson is shown performing at the Indiana state fair on 8/7/08. Credit: WENN
Written by Celebitchy
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i just hate this girl….why cant she just disappear…
tony is going to dump i mean like really soon
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She needs to go back to making crappy movies.
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Meh I think shes pretty sometimes… sometimes! I also think she can sing unlike some other “singers” we’re forced to listen to… Shes not got Xtina par talent but shes got more talent then britney or RiRi.
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“… she talked incessantly to the crowd ahead of nearly every song, and told inane and pointless stories…”
In other words, she was herself.
And I thought that, according to Pervert Joe, her “God-Given Talent” is her double-D’s.
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She’s made movies?
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$70 to see Jessica Simpson? Did these people lose a bet or something?
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I feel sorry for her. In the way I feel sorry for a piece of poo that gets stuck to the bottom of someones shoe.
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Well said, CB.
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Will she ever learn to just shut the hell up?
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Sorry, but I really like her. She is open and honest and you don’t see her stumbling out of bars flashing her crotch. Sure she has some issues (iq being one) but who doesn’t?
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Is it just me or does her shirt look like its about to bust open because its so tight?
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She just needs to keep plugging away and quietly reinvent/find herself. She’s got a loyal fan base. I bet in ten years she’ll come from nowhere to release a number one album and America will be in love with her all over again. She seems like she’s got an unbelievable work ethic, and that is a big part of making it in country music, if not all musical genres. Plus she’s sincere!! She overshares and is sappy and overtly sexual and tacky and all of these things are just part of her nature. I think she’s honest, loopy, but honest. I respect that.
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I noticed the same thing about the shirt. She couldn’t even wear something that fit? To go on stage? Poor thing, at this point, I’m feeling sorry for her too. She’s even too dumb to know that she should want to dig a hole and crawl into it.
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She’s looking kind of fat. For Jessica Simpson, that is.
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I think country is where Jessica belonged from the beginning. She was pushed into pop wayyyy more than she’s being pushed into a new genre now.
I like her, I thing she’s genuine, which is the downfall of alot of us. She may not be as polished as we seem to demand of our celebrities or they’re labeled idiots, but she’s hanging in there the best way she knows how.
So, yeah, now go ahead and tell me what an idiot I am, too, lol.
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The concert wasn’t in Niagara Falls, NY, it was in Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada. Sorry it’s such a lame commet, just thought I’d point it out.
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I have a song title for her:
“Who’s shoulder have my boots been over”
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I can’t stand her or her singing “style” and her daddy’s obession with her is totally wierd. Marry Romo please and get out of the entertianment biz. Daddy will have to get a real job.
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I think she is lame! I love country music but i cant stand her song. She should stick to crappy pop songs and leave poor country alone.
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Thanks Cate I will fix that!
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“God given talent”???…send out the search party! Her voice is lack-luster at best. And that shirt looks uncomfortably tight…did daddy dress her? I feel sorry for this girl. Her career is obviously over and she can’t figure out where she needs to be. Time to pack up, go home and find a purpose for your life.
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You know what drives some of these people to success? Normal people get embarrassed… people of her ilk, never do.
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I’m sorry, I just don’t believe Nick Lachey cheated. She’s the one who banged the whole cast of Jackass while they were still married… meanwhile NL seemed all broken hearted about the divorce.
**EDIT** I just googled the lyrics of the song the critic alleges is about Nick Lachey cheating, and it’s totally not. What an idiot. The lyrics talk about how much she loves her man in case either her or her lover dies.(In the vein of that one country song “If Tomorrow Never Comes”). I thought it sounded incorrect.
I get the feeling the critic is not too familiar with JS and just assumes everything must be about Nick Lachey.
The part about her still thinking she’s on a reality show is funny though.
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Sounds to me like the ‘critic’ had already planned to pan her show in advance. In fact, I wonder if the writer even attended, or just sent someone else to tell him (her?) what is was like.
Seems to me, if the crowd was happy, if THEY felt they got their money’s worth, that is the important thing.
I’m not a Jessica Simpson fan (have neither wathced her on TV nor listened to her music), but there is something so pathetic about her I can’t hate her. She isn’t ‘playing’ at being a bimbo..she IS a bimbo…but, as several posters have pointed out, she is a sincere, decent bimbo.
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I don’t love Jessica, I don’t hate Jessica. I think that Alexis and Diva gave a pretty fair assessement of what we see publically. She is struggling right now but she’s not stealing kids from other countries, she hasn’t shacked up with another girl and gone into denial about it or been caught at the airport with heroin. I do think, for the sake of good PR, she should not go to Tony’s games, the fans and his teammates don’t want it. She would be stupid to ignore the obvious. Other than that, she is dealing with love, loss, and career choices like the rest of us schmoes out here.
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Her career is in the toilet by the looks of it. She probably had noplace else to go so thought she’d get into country music.
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This girl will fade into obscurity before long….right? She’s a complete idiot and she aint all that. Most importantly, her “personality” is her biggest down fall. Her latest deffensive move against her rival made her look like even more of an idiot. Go girl, keep opening your mouth to embarrass yourself even more than you already have, geez. Hey incest daddy Joe, shut your snatch up K?????
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I saw her sing on the view (god I’m lame) and I didn’t think that she was all that bad. She’s not the best out there, but she does have a good voice…not one that was made on a mixing board.
Elisha – Thanks for looking that up. I also thought it sounded a bit weird that she would be ragging on Nick in concert. I think they both seem like they’ve moved on, and I’m sure she’s really grateful to him because he didn’t take her for half of her earnings during their marriage!
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The jean thing was wayyy too tight on her. Her DDs are fit to burst. She is totally desperate and inane…let’s move on, shall we?
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I don’t think she looks fat, I like what she is wearing.
I haven’t heard her music but i have this feeling that if she keeps trying country fans will come to embrace her. whenever somebody tries to cross over into different genres the fans are like “what?” but they’ll come around.
I think jessica seems very sensitive and big-hearted & I dont think there is anything wrong with that.
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It looks like she’s farting – I mean “passing gas” – in the header picture.
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I think that she needs intervention. Why must we cry? To continue to see these untalented winches? Britney and her make it hard for real talented people to really get the exposure they deserve. Not to mention she got into it with Carrie Underwood, who I simply adore and love….SMDH!!!
I wish her and her sister and the Spears go far away!!!!
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I can’t stand Jessica Simpson anymore.
She is so needy for attention.
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“**EDIT** I just googled the lyrics of the song the critic alleges is about Nick Lachey cheating, and it’s totally not. What an idiot. The lyrics talk about how much she loves her man in case either her or her lover dies.(In the vein of that one country song “If Tomorrow Never Comes”). I thought it sounded incorrect.”
Either you’re blind or you’re the idiot … go read the lyrics to ‘When I Loved You Like That’ again with your brain on this time.
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“Sounds to me like the ‘critic’ had already planned to pan her show in advance. In fact, I wonder if the writer even attended, or just sent someone else to tell him (her?) what is was like.”
Ya. Because that happens all the time.
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She seems to have a bad case of stage fright and an over the top stage daddy…I actually feel for the girl.. she is trying so hard to please a domineering father that she has never really grown up and taken her power as a woman. The fact that she reminds us of her perceived failures and mistakes is a sign that she is badly beating herself up on the inside (maybe her ‘manager’ fails to give her encouragement)… I have sympathy for her and actually regard her as more human than many of the egotistical fluffettes that pass for actresses and singers today.
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She at least had a nice outfit!
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I do not agree, and nowadays she looks a lot more confident!
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