WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.120 Hello, Jessica Simpson. Hi, Hi, Jessica Simpson. Why am I 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:07.599 saying your full name every time? 3 00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:11.919 Well, I mean, I love it that you are, but 4 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:13.000 you can call me Jess. 5 00:00:13.119 --> 00:00:15.039 Okay, Jess, it's Brady here. 6 00:00:15.279 --> 00:00:18.600 Kiss FM also on in Nashville and Connecticut, all the 7 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:20.760 places that you're stopping by and performing. So this is 8 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:23.239 a great opportunity to talk about what you got coming up. 9 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:24.120 Thanks for taking the time. 10 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:27.000 I know everything is so exciting. I feel like I'm 11 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:29.120 starting a career all over again. 12 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:31.359 Do you when was the last time that you put 13 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:32.079 out new music? 14 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:35.719 Ooh probably two thousand and eight. 15 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:36.960 Wow. 16 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:41.520 Yeah, feels like it feels like a brand new thing 17 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:45.479 for me. And now I'm doing it independently. So I'm 18 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:48.079 even more excited about it because I get to do 19 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:49.240 it how I want to do it. 20 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:52.000 There's no rules because you made every place. 21 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:52.280 That I'm going. 22 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:55.880 I'm excited every show that I've had, Like, I've only 23 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:59.240 had one full length show and that was in Pennsylvania. 24 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:04.760 So this next show in the Chicago area is my first, 25 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:09.400 like you know, full show, and I like rework some 26 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:11.760 of my old music with the band that I have 27 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:15.799 now that's doing Nashville Canyon, which is my new project, 28 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.959 and it's just so exciting to be able to revisit 29 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:23.480 some of my past but do it in my forties 30 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:28.079 and do it my way. It's just a very exciting show, 31 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:30.480 Like just to I didn't know if people would actually 32 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.760 even show up when I was doing Pennsylvania. Just to 33 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:37.760 see people out there and singing along to like the 34 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:40.599 new stuff was so exciting, but also singing along to 35 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:41.519 the old stuff, like. 36 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:42.879 It's weird you go through. 37 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.560 I went through fifteen years of not performing, so I 38 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:49.079 don't know if people are gonna clap, or if they're 39 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:52.400 gonna like it, or if they're gonna want to just 40 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:54.000 have me talk or. 41 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:54.519 You know what I mean. 42 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:56.840 I kind of didn't know what to do. So I 43 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:00.000 would just feel the energy of the crowd, and luckily 44 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:02.879 I have a kick ass band who who would just 45 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:06.120 follow along with all of it. But yeah, I have 46 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:11.639 rehearsals today and tomorrow, and it's just now doing it, 47 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:15.439 like I'm so much more con I don't have anybody 48 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:19.159 to make happy but myself and the crowd and such 49 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:20.199 a different place to. 50 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:22.319 Be in that's so special. I love that. 51 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:24.599 And your fans are going to feed off that unique 52 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:26.400 energy that you have for the first time ever the 53 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:27.360 Genesee Theater and walk. 54 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:30.319 Yeah, we did like a fan request of like songs 55 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:32.919 they wanted to hear, because you know, I had like 56 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:37.319 eight studio albums like in my younger years, and so 57 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:40.919 I never know what songs people are expecting or what 58 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:44.000 their favorites are. So I'm doing a lot of those 59 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:48.520 that were like fan requests and just it's cool to 60 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:52.319 be able to re do them and come at them 61 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:55.479 at the perspective of like after having kids. I mean, 62 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:58.280 my kids have never even seen me on stage, right, 63 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:00.319 And I have a thirteen year old and a twelve 64 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:03.439 year old and a six year old, so they've never 65 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:05.479 known this part of my life because I really just 66 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:08.800 dedicated the last you know, those years to just being 67 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:11.680 a mom. I wanted life to be as normal as 68 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:14.560 it could be for them in their formative years. It 69 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:16.680 was important for me just to be there for everything. 70 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:18.639 But now they're kind of like pushing me out the 71 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:20.719 door because they see how happy it all makes me. 72 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:22.960 And yeah, I. 73 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:27.120 Can't wait to have them at upcoming shows. But I 74 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:30.599 wanted to get a h under my belt before they 75 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:34.879 actually watched me like, like, you know, they've been to 76 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:37.439 other concerts before, and I always thought I would be 77 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:39.000 their first concert. 78 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:39.360 And. 79 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:45.400 So I love that they're gonna be like our mom 80 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:47.199 is so cool. Oh my goodness, I had no idea. 81 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:49.159 Yeah, they're like them, you do that. 82 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:50.479 I'm like, yes, I do that. 83 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:51.759 I think I have a tour DVD. 84 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:55.800 I can break out what's a dvd? Yeah, I know, 85 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:56.280 I love it. 86 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:59.120 And they're on YouTube and they're like, what's this thing 87 00:03:59.199 --> 00:03:59.919 called Newly Went? 88 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:03.520 And they watch it and they're like, this is so you. 89 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:07.439 Mom, Like they laugh at it, like you would do 90 00:04:07.560 --> 00:04:08.080 this today. 91 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:10.120 You would say that you would burn our food. 92 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:12.479 Oh my god, that's so good. 93 00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:15.800 It's cooking related, they laugh or yeah. 94 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.560 So the question, it's cute the question that I know 95 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:21.040 a lot of fans are asking, and I kind of 96 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:23.279 am as well as you know, you did this. You 97 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:26.199 have this such a huge epic run as this pop star, 98 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:29.920 like everybody's favorite. Why country? Why go to the country lane? 99 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:31.040 What made you decide to do this? 100 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:34.319 Well, it's interesting to me that people are saying that 101 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:37.079 it's country and I don't like I came out to 102 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:42.000 Nashville with like a rockabilly type of playlist, sure, and 103 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:48.199 it was everybody from like Alabama Shakes to I mean, 104 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:51.560 I had all kinds of people, like from Leon Bridges 105 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:56.319 to like it was a lot of like blues references. Yeah, 106 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:59.839 And I wanted, like the reason why it's called Nashville Canyon. 107 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.560 I wanted the influence of the early rock and roll 108 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:08.600 from Nashville, like the Elvis Presley's and just those types 109 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:13.079 like the Everly Brothers, like that type of vibe mixed 110 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:17.639 with the songwriting of Laurel Canyon back in the late 111 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:20.680 sixties early seventies where it was such a collaborative, joint 112 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:25.879 effort where artists support other artists and all were writing together. 113 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:29.759 And I only feel that way when I'm in Nashville, 114 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:32.800 like people are it's so easy to like walk into 115 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:35.839 a room and just bare your soul, open your heart, 116 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:38.920 like it's like a therapy session, and people just really 117 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:41.360 support you emotionally. And I was going through a really 118 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:44.360 hard time and I didn't expect to be like I 119 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:48.079 had moved out to Neisgage, got a place in Nashville, 120 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:50.920 I took a U haul, like, and I was gonna 121 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:54.319 move my kids out here and everything. But then I 122 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:57.879 found out stuff that was going on in the home front. 123 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:00.759 And my marriage as I was writing, and. 124 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:05.240 It just turned my whole world upside down. Like I'd 125 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:08.120 never expected to come back to music with a broken heart, 126 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:12.319 but I did, and my kids watched me be resilient 127 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.000 through it, and I just tried to stay focused on 128 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:19.680 my purpose, whereas in the past, I think my younger 129 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:23.759 self would have let the heartbreak take over and it 130 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:27.279 would have kind of devoured me. I'm so strong. I'm 131 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:29.879 so strong, and I've been through so much in my life. 132 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:32.279 I mean, what's divorce number two? Like will I get 133 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:35.079 married a third time? I don't know, Like if there's 134 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:36.839 a third time, will to be a fourth? Like I 135 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:41.000 can't really forward think too much. But my kids watched 136 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:44.399 me like turn the pain of it into something artistic, 137 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:48.319 and I think that it just really it held me 138 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:51.160 safe and it made me strong and you hear that 139 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:54.000 in the music. And I feel like there's so many 140 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:59.920 different types of songs like that are on the record. 141 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:03.519 It's interesting to me that people call it country, like 142 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:08.040 there is some steel guitar playing, but I also had 143 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:11.879 this amazing still guitar players named Russ Paul who played 144 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:16.560 for Tom Petty. He plays with No Young, So I 145 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:20.759 guess the song writing aspect of it, and being in Nashville, 146 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:23.360 I mean you can hear some of the country influence. 147 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:25.920 I mean I was raised in Texas too, so like 148 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:29.879 my accent no matter what comes out, but it's kind 149 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:35.240 of it's kind of a mishmash of all different styles 150 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:38.920 that it was hard to choose where to even promote it. 151 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:39.720 No. 152 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:43.000 Yeah, when I listened to it, that's the thing, I 153 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:45.360 was like, this is country, but it's not too country, 154 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:46.600 if that makes any sense at. 155 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:50.000 All, right, right, because I've had the last album I made, 156 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:53.399 it was a full country record, and I did write 157 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:56.519 that in Nashville. I had, you know, the producers on 158 00:07:56.600 --> 00:08:01.160 it were Nashville based, and all the songs writers were 159 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:08.720 like definitely straight up like hit like top twenty, top 160 00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:13.079 forty hit country music for song writers, and that was 161 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:15.240 the focus of that. Like I went out on the 162 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:20.319 Recal Flat tour and I was definitely pushing myself in 163 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:23.319 a country market. But I got like it was my 164 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:27.000 first number one album too, and like week that it 165 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:30.160 was released, I got dropped by my record label. 166 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:31.639 I got dropped by. 167 00:08:31.519 --> 00:08:35.759 Sony and I was so confused like like music ended 168 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:38.399 up breaking my heart, to be honest, because I had 169 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:40.279 worked so hard for so many years since I was 170 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:43.919 seventeen and so to be twenty eight, like and we 171 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:48.279 dropped for having a number one country album. I didn't 172 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:50.600 know where to go next. And I got drops because 173 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:52.960 I wouldn't sign a three sixty deal and they wanted 174 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:57.759 the disca Simpson collection and I had already built out 175 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:01.879 this brand that I I wasn't gonna give over to 176 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.840 a record label. Like there was no way, like it was, 177 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:08.120 it didn't make sense. They just said I would never recoup. 178 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:11.799 And you know, it wasn't my fault that the label 179 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:15.159 sent so much money having me follow Brittany and Christina 180 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:17.080 and try to make you know, I just had a 181 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:20.080 job to do, and I I'm a preacher's daughter, so 182 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:23.639 I'm I abide my rules, and you know, I just 183 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:27.240 I was working for a record label and I did 184 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:30.120 everything that I could. But you know, I think that 185 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:32.600 I got when I got dropped, it was just okay, 186 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:35.159 let's switch gears. I need to focus on just being 187 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:40.360 me myself, like and who is that? And then and 188 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:44.200 then I met my now ex husband. I was just 189 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:47.159 I wanted to have kids, to have a normal life, 190 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:49.480 but the music has always been there, and it's been 191 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:52.720 like an ache in my heart and my soul for 192 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:56.960 so long. To not be able to do that was 193 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:02.600 really I just didn't really no my place in the 194 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:07.600 music industry. And once I felt comfortable like mapping that 195 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:11.799 out for myself and having no expectations, once I got 196 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:13.799 to that place in my life, it was so easy 197 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:17.519 to step into. And I feel like with Nashville Canyon, 198 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:21.879 I just created art that I'm really proud of and 199 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:25.039 just something that defines me as an artist for the 200 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:29.759 first time, really like without anybody else's opinion. And so 201 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:33.000 it's Nashville Canyon for me is really excited, exciting, and 202 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:36.799 it's kind of like one of those Right now, I 203 00:10:36.879 --> 00:10:40.559 have two EPs out Part one and Part two of 204 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:42.720 Nashville Canyon, and then I'll. 205 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:44.480 Put together a deluxe record. 206 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:48.039 With even like three four more songs that represent what 207 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:50.080 Nashville Canyon is to me. So to be able to 208 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:53.559 be up on stage now with it is very exciting 209 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:56.759 because it was the first album that I ever recorded 210 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:59.639 with a live band. I'd never done that before. I'd 211 00:10:59.679 --> 00:11:03.200 just been pop artists that where's the head where's the microphones, 212 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:06.559 the you know, the headphones, And I already have the 213 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:09.559 track produced. I wasn't. I never knew who played on 214 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:13.919 my records, So now like having all the artists that 215 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:17.159 are musicians be a part of it and we it 216 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:21.639 was a collaborative effort, and the producer Jad move first 217 00:11:21.639 --> 00:11:24.720 and just had this idea of discovering it all together 218 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:27.080 in the studio. I'm like, why was I not in 219 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:30.440 a band my whole career? Like I loved it, Like 220 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:34.000 I just love the organic, the organic vibes to it, 221 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:38.799 and being a part of that creatively really just set 222 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:42.519 me apart from even my younger self. But I was, well, 223 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:44.399 now I'm just able to bring that to the older 224 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:48.600 music on stage and the song fits so great my 225 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:51.799 older stuff that's so great with the new sounds that 226 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:54.320 you know, it's just more of a grown up version 227 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:56.840 of me, and I feel my fans have all grown 228 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:00.879 up with me. Yeah, so it just makes for the 229 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:04.039 listener as well. Yeah, but being able to perform it live, 230 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:07.440 like I'm so giddy good. I should really excited, but 231 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:09.919 I should be, And I don't remember the last time 232 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:11.600 I was like so excited. 233 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:11.879 To go on stage. 234 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:14.639 Normally, I was like so burnt out and I was 235 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:17.279 worried about they were going to write about me. You know, 236 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:20.039 I would make headlines for everything, whether it was mom 237 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:23.080 jeans or being a jinx or whatever it was. It 238 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:26.799 was normally about my personal life. And now for it 239 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:29.320 to be about music and to be on stage and 240 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:32.559 just to be steel free, to like kick my shoes 241 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:35.120 off and like have a conversation with the audience, it's 242 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:37.480 just it's very neat and it's very exciting. 243 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:39.919 I love this chapter for you so much. You mentioned 244 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:43.879 like talking about working starting when you're like seventeen years old. 245 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:46.279 If somebody came up to you that was a young 246 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:50.480 pop star maybe there just got discovered on TikTok, and 247 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:53.440 they asked you advice about maybe like doing you know, 248 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:56.759 a reality TV show with them and their significant other. 249 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:58.519 What kind of advice would you give that person? 250 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:04.039 Well, I mean it as a young person. I mean 251 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:08.360 I feel like I'm very appreciative for newly webs. There's 252 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:12.039 nothing that I regret about it because it was the 253 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:15.399 very beginning of reality TV. I think it was just 254 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:17.559 the Osbourne before Nick and I. 255 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:20.679 So ours was very real. 256 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:24.919 And nowadays I feel like it's scripted. It's not. It's 257 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:29.639 just not as real. I would convince somebody to do 258 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:33.240 like a doc series about their career if they wanted 259 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:38.559 it to be career focused, right, But I mean, but 260 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:43.240 also like I don't think that it ruined my relationship. 261 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:46.279 I just think I got married way young. I didn't 262 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:50.360 even know who I was, and Newly Webs actually was 263 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:55.440 the vehicles. It really drove me fast to success. And 264 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:01.159 so like I would not I would encourage, definitely, I 265 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:03.720 would encourage people to do it. But I mean, if 266 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:06.519 you're already somebody that has children and stuff, I know 267 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:11.720 that like hard on kids like to be on TV, 268 00:14:12.039 --> 00:14:19.759 like that's really intense and have your life produced is 269 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:23.279 a weird thing. Like when I would watch things and 270 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:26.960 how it was edited together for Newly, like I would laugh, 271 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:30.519 like you know, like it was it was like, Okay, 272 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:32.639 now I know what role to play to get these 273 00:14:32.679 --> 00:14:35.759 cameras out of my face quicker. So I kind of 274 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:39.080 like play. I would play into it a little bit. 275 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:41.919 By the time we hit season two and three, like 276 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:47.200 season one was just a very shocking real thing, and 277 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:50.440 I just you know, I knew what people were responding 278 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:53.919 to and it kind of took me off of the 279 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:57.679 pedestal that I was on being like a big ballad singer, 280 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:03.879 you know, like the was almost like two sexy or 281 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:06.879 too pretty. Like I feel like people actually were seeing 282 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:10.240 me in my home with no makeup and just very myself, 283 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:13.879 and that's when people were able to feel like they 284 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:16.759 could see themselves in me. And as an artist, you 285 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:21.600 want to be able to relate to others because you're 286 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.080 singing about things that they don't know how to express, 287 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:29.919 you know. So as a musician, you're you're actually like 288 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:33.279 an advocate for all the hearts out there who are 289 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:36.679 needing to sing along with certain lyrics of what you 290 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:39.200 know and relating to what they're going through. So I 291 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:43.679 feel like, I mean, I wouldn't discourage somebody from doing 292 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:49.200 reality TV if if that if they trust the team 293 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:53.000 that they have got behind them. You know, you have 294 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:56.480 to really be able to trust who's editing, who are 295 00:15:56.519 --> 00:16:00.720 your you know, who's taking care of you and make 296 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:05.039 sure that it helps elevate your career and not just 297 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.879 be the focus of your like you know, like I 298 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:12.759 because it was followed like like Newlyweds followed me on 299 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:17.279 stage and followed me through every aspect. I didn't have 300 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:19.840 the Jessica Simson collection yet, but I wouldn't have the 301 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:22.279 Jessicasimson collection if it weren't for NEWLYWBT. 302 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:24.360 So I think reality TV. 303 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:29.399 Definitely can catapult you into a different stratosphere of of 304 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:32.919 your career. I just for me, it's been hard to 305 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:36.480 even watch Reality TV after doing it because I can 306 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:41.279 just's like psyeah, no, well you know what goes behind it. 307 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:43.519 You know what there's, what their motives are. You've been 308 00:16:43.559 --> 00:16:45.600 there and you see what goes behind the scenes, right. 309 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:49.039 Yeah, Yeah, it's very intense. 310 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:49.840 Oh my goodness. 311 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:52.360 So okay, So we've got the Genesee Theater this Saturday, 312 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:57.720 huge party going down. Jessica Simpson's on stage. Ye Nashville 313 00:16:57.720 --> 00:16:59.399 Canyon Part one and Part two. You said that you 314 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:02.320 took request at the last show you did. What was 315 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:04.519 what song do you think was the most overwhelming, biggest 316 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:05.240 requested song. 317 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:12.799 I was shocked that Irresistible was one of like a 318 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:15.039 big request of song and a lot of a lot 319 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:17.880 of people wanted to meet to sing my very first single, 320 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:20.400 which was called I Want to Love You Forever, and 321 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:24.200 that song is like a power ballad that I feel 322 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:26.400 like contestants on American Idol don't even sing. 323 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:27.440 It's so hard. 324 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:30.640 Oh man, you just took me back. You just took 325 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:30.960 me back. 326 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:36.519 Yes, vocally, but I did it. I could still do it, 327 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:40.240 and so I'm like, but being on stage last week 328 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:43.920 and doing it, it was such a beautiful feeling. And 329 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:47.960 people wanted to hear, like my cover of Angels, like 330 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:50.839 my covers take My breath Away. They wanted with you 331 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:54.519 I Think I'm in love with you, my country hit 332 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:58.519 which was called come on Over. It was just interesting, 333 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:01.039 like and then there was some album tracks that people 334 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:03.279 were requesting that I'm actually going to be doing it 335 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:06.880 the Genesee Theater that didn't get a chance to be 336 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:10.960 singles because the label didn't choose them, but the fans 337 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:14.880 love them. No, yeah, it's it's cool to read visit 338 00:18:15.079 --> 00:18:19.359 all of that as a woman. And like I was 339 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:24.000 singing about loving somebody forever at eighteen years old, which like, 340 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:26.400 isn't possible other than like your parents. 341 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:28.599 No, we don't, we don't love it. We don't love it. 342 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:30.440 We don't love the same things eighteen as we do 343 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:33.599 when we're forty five. That is healthy, sure, exactly correct, 344 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:36.279 exactly Oh, I'm so excited for you. Congratulations on the 345 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:39.079 project too. I can really hear your storytelling in this music. 346 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:41.680 It's it's a different Jessica Simpson than what we're used to, but. 347 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:44.359 It's so great. Yeah, and uh, we're looking forward to 348 00:18:44.359 --> 00:18:46.519 seeing you on Saturday. What is left for you? 349 00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:46.680 Like? 350 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:51.240 Tennessee Theater is so beautiful, It's legendary, great venue. Oh 351 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:53.920 my gosh, I was just when I was looking at 352 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:56.279 the photos, I was like, there's gonna there's so much 353 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:59.039 magic here. I'm excited to be a part of it, 354 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:00.559 to be honest, What. 355 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:01.319 Is left for you? 356 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:03.839 Last question for me is, because you've done everything you've 357 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:05.799 literally done, is there something do you do? Just does 358 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:07.519 just have her own like vision board or like to 359 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:09.839 do list? Is there something you haven't accomplishments? 360 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:10.880 Of course, what I want. 361 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:14.319 I'm starting to shoot a documentary. I don't even know 362 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:16.720 if I'm allowed to say it, Like what who's doing 363 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:18.960 the documentary? But I don't know if he's done a 364 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:21.720 press release yet. But I am in the in the 365 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:25.000 middle of shooting a documentary, which is very exciting on 366 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:30.880 a huge platform and that way people can really see 367 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:35.160 my life and like how things are being done and 368 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:39.160 what I'm actually going through on an emotional level and 369 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:43.079 how it leads into the songwriting. And you know, they'll 370 00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:47.640 see my like everyday life, my kids and just how 371 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:52.119 we're all doing it together. But I'm excited about that. 372 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:56.400 I have an episode on a new Ryan Murphy show 373 00:19:56.480 --> 00:20:00.240 coming out that I got to shoot with Kim card Action, 374 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:04.440 who's one of my friends. Yeah, I know who's that. 375 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:06.880 We don't know who that is, uh, but like our 376 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:10.720 daughters go to school together, so that it was fun. 377 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:14.319 Like Naomi watches in the show, but it's called All's 378 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:17.960 Fair and I was in eight hours of prosthetics and 379 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:20.880 so the first person that I made out with after 380 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:25.960 going through a split was Rick Springfield. 381 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:30.799 Okay that that that needs to go on your tombstone 382 00:20:31.079 --> 00:20:33.799 when it's all said and made out with Rick Springfield? 383 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:36.000 Hilarious. 384 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:38.640 Yeah yeah, I'm like, wow, I haven't even got to 385 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:40.240 make out with anybody, and now to do it on 386 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:41.759 TV with Rick Springfield? 387 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:42.599 How is this gonna go? 388 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:46.319 But yeah, like it was so fun to be able 389 00:20:46.359 --> 00:20:48.519 to shoot that show and I think they're in the 390 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:51.720 in the Uh. There was a promo for it because 391 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:54.759 my mom called me like, oh, my gosh, they used 392 00:20:54.759 --> 00:20:57.799 your scene on the promo Like I'm like me, they 393 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:01.240 used my scene like out of all episodes, like, so 394 00:21:01.279 --> 00:21:04.960 I'm excited for people to see me act again as well. Yeah, 395 00:21:05.559 --> 00:21:09.960 that it's gonna be something that I'm wanting. That's something 396 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:13.359 that I definitely want to do more of. So I 397 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:16.680 think just anything entertainment I just have done and the 398 00:21:16.759 --> 00:21:19.880 team yeers so to be able to do this all 399 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:22.480 over again and do it, you know, I get to 400 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:25.440 pick and choose what I want to do and it's 401 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:27.519