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Jessica Simpson 'A Public Affair'
Album
Review
What with Britney flashing her crotch (and shaving her head)
left right and centre and Christina believing she is
channelling the voice of dead soul artists, the time was ripe
for Jessica Simpson to claim position as prime American pop
strumpet. And with new single A Public Affair, a
rip-off of Madonna’s Holiday but a glorious joyous and
wondrous pop record nonetheless, it looked like she was
leaving her bland toothy efforts of yesteryear behind.
Sadly, the album proves to be (rather like one of its tracks
Push Your Tush, a stupendously amazing title that
quickly descends into an embarrassing mess of a hoedown) a
great big missed opportunity. There are flashes of the right
direction in songs such as B.O.Y., a catchy danceable
track that recalls some of Britney’s best and the toe-tapping
band-blasting Swing With Me, the result of Simpson
watching too many musicals but sadly, these inspired moments
are few and far between.
The rest of A Public Affair (the album), with its
middle-of-the-road cheese and sickeningly saccharine ballads,
would probably have gone down spectacularly in the 90s. Stuff
like The Lover In Me just about manages to be dated in
a good way; tuneless mediocrity like Let Him Fly,
Between You And I and Walkin’ Round In A Circle,
which drags on longer than a life sentence, should have
remained in the time capsule. Simpson has clearly learnt
nothing from her hideous reworking of These Boots Are Made
For Walking, inflicting upon us another dire cover, this
time You Spin Me Round (Like A Record), which she sings
as if she’s one of the undead.
Come back Britney, all is forgiven.
ON REPEAT: A Public Affair, B.O.Y., Swing
With Me
PRESS SKIP: Walkin’ Round In A Circle, Let Him Fly,
You Spin Me Round, Push Your Tush
Rachel Read
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