Speaker 1: Hello, Jessica Simpson. Hi, Hi, Jessica Simpson. Why am I
Speaker 1: saying your full name every time?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I love it that you are, but
Speaker 2: you can call me Jess.
Speaker 3: Okay, Jess, it's Brady here.
Speaker 1: Kiss FM also on in Nashville and Connecticut, all the
Speaker 1: places that you're stopping by and performing. So this is
Speaker 1: a great opportunity to talk about what you got coming up.
Speaker 3: Thanks for taking the time.
Speaker 2: I know everything is so exciting. I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: starting a career all over again.
Speaker 3: Do you when was the last time that you put
Speaker 3: out new music?
Speaker 2: Ooh probably two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, feels like it feels like a brand new thing
Speaker 2: for me. And now I'm doing it independently. So I'm
Speaker 2: even more excited about it because I get to do
Speaker 2: it how I want to do it.
Speaker 3: There's no rules because you made every place.
Speaker 4: That I'm going.
Speaker 2: I'm excited every show that I've had, Like, I've only
Speaker 2: had one full length show and that was in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: So this next show in the Chicago area is my first,
Speaker 2: like you know, full show, and I like rework some
Speaker 2: of my old music with the band that I have
Speaker 2: now that's doing Nashville Canyon, which is my new project,
Speaker 2: and it's just so exciting to be able to revisit
Speaker 2: some of my past but do it in my forties
Speaker 2: and do it my way. It's just a very exciting show,
Speaker 2: Like just to I didn't know if people would actually
Speaker 2: even show up when I was doing Pennsylvania. Just to
Speaker 2: see people out there and singing along to like the
Speaker 2: new stuff was so exciting, but also singing along to
Speaker 2: the old stuff, like.
Speaker 4: It's weird you go through.
Speaker 2: I went through fifteen years of not performing, so I
Speaker 2: don't know if people are gonna clap, or if they're
Speaker 2: gonna like it, or if they're gonna want to just
Speaker 2: have me talk or.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I kind of didn't know what to do. So I
Speaker 2: would just feel the energy of the crowd, and luckily
Speaker 2: I have a kick ass band who who would just
Speaker 2: follow along with all of it. But yeah, I have
Speaker 2: rehearsals today and tomorrow, and it's just now doing it,
Speaker 2: like I'm so much more con I don't have anybody
Speaker 2: to make happy but myself and the crowd and such
Speaker 2: a different place to.
Speaker 3: Be in that's so special. I love that.
Speaker 1: And your fans are going to feed off that unique
Speaker 1: energy that you have for the first time ever the
Speaker 1: Genesee Theater and walk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we did like a fan request of like songs
Speaker 2: they wanted to hear, because you know, I had like
Speaker 2: eight studio albums like in my younger years, and so
Speaker 2: I never know what songs people are expecting or what
Speaker 2: their favorites are. So I'm doing a lot of those
Speaker 2: that were like fan requests and just it's cool to
Speaker 2: be able to re do them and come at them
Speaker 2: at the perspective of like after having kids. I mean,
Speaker 2: my kids have never even seen me on stage, right,
Speaker 2: And I have a thirteen year old and a twelve
Speaker 2: year old and a six year old, so they've never
Speaker 2: known this part of my life because I really just
Speaker 2: dedicated the last you know, those years to just being
Speaker 2: a mom. I wanted life to be as normal as
Speaker 2: it could be for them in their formative years. It
Speaker 2: was important for me just to be there for everything.
Speaker 2: But now they're kind of like pushing me out the
Speaker 2: door because they see how happy it all makes me.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Can't wait to have them at upcoming shows. But I
Speaker 2: wanted to get a h under my belt before they
Speaker 2: actually watched me like, like, you know, they've been to
Speaker 2: other concerts before, and I always thought I would be
Speaker 2: their first concert.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 1: So I love that they're gonna be like our mom
Speaker 1: is so cool. Oh my goodness, I had no idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're like them, you do that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yes, I do that.
Speaker 4: I think I have a tour DVD.
Speaker 3: I can break out what's a dvd? Yeah, I know,
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: And they're on YouTube and they're like, what's this thing
Speaker 2: called Newly Went?
Speaker 4: And they watch it and they're like, this is so you.
Speaker 2: Mom, Like they laugh at it, like you would do
Speaker 2: this today.
Speaker 4: You would say that you would burn our food.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's so good.
Speaker 2: It's cooking related, they laugh or yeah.
Speaker 1: So the question, it's cute the question that I know
Speaker 1: a lot of fans are asking, and I kind of
Speaker 1: am as well as you know, you did this. You
Speaker 1: have this such a huge epic run as this pop star,
Speaker 1: like everybody's favorite. Why country? Why go to the country lane?
Speaker 1: What made you decide to do this?
Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting to me that people are saying that
Speaker 2: it's country and I don't like I came out to
Speaker 2: Nashville with like a rockabilly type of playlist, sure, and
Speaker 2: it was everybody from like Alabama Shakes to I mean,
Speaker 2: I had all kinds of people, like from Leon Bridges
Speaker 2: to like it was a lot of like blues references. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I wanted, like the reason why it's called Nashville Canyon.
Speaker 2: I wanted the influence of the early rock and roll
Speaker 2: from Nashville, like the Elvis Presley's and just those types
Speaker 2: like the Everly Brothers, like that type of vibe mixed
Speaker 2: with the songwriting of Laurel Canyon back in the late
Speaker 2: sixties early seventies where it was such a collaborative, joint
Speaker 2: effort where artists support other artists and all were writing together.
Speaker 2: And I only feel that way when I'm in Nashville,
Speaker 2: like people are it's so easy to like walk into
Speaker 2: a room and just bare your soul, open your heart,
Speaker 2: like it's like a therapy session, and people just really
Speaker 2: support you emotionally. And I was going through a really
Speaker 2: hard time and I didn't expect to be like I
Speaker 2: had moved out to Neisgage, got a place in Nashville,
Speaker 2: I took a U haul, like, and I was gonna
Speaker 2: move my kids out here and everything. But then I
Speaker 2: found out stuff that was going on in the home front.
Speaker 4: And my marriage as I was writing, and.
Speaker 2: It just turned my whole world upside down. Like I'd
Speaker 2: never expected to come back to music with a broken heart,
Speaker 2: but I did, and my kids watched me be resilient
Speaker 2: through it, and I just tried to stay focused on
Speaker 2: my purpose, whereas in the past, I think my younger
Speaker 2: self would have let the heartbreak take over and it
Speaker 2: would have kind of devoured me. I'm so strong. I'm
Speaker 2: so strong, and I've been through so much in my life.
Speaker 2: I mean, what's divorce number two? Like will I get
Speaker 2: married a third time? I don't know, Like if there's
Speaker 2: a third time, will to be a fourth? Like I
Speaker 2: can't really forward think too much. But my kids watched
Speaker 2: me like turn the pain of it into something artistic,
Speaker 2: and I think that it just really it held me
Speaker 2: safe and it made me strong and you hear that
Speaker 2: in the music. And I feel like there's so many
Speaker 2: different types of songs like that are on the record.
Speaker 2: It's interesting to me that people call it country, like
Speaker 2: there is some steel guitar playing, but I also had
Speaker 2: this amazing still guitar players named Russ Paul who played
Speaker 2: for Tom Petty. He plays with No Young, So I
Speaker 2: guess the song writing aspect of it, and being in Nashville,
Speaker 2: I mean you can hear some of the country influence.
Speaker 2: I mean I was raised in Texas too, so like
Speaker 2: my accent no matter what comes out, but it's kind
Speaker 2: of it's kind of a mishmash of all different styles
Speaker 2: that it was hard to choose where to even promote it.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when I listened to it, that's the thing, I
Speaker 1: was like, this is country, but it's not too country,
Speaker 1: if that makes any sense at.
Speaker 2: All, right, right, because I've had the last album I made,
Speaker 2: it was a full country record, and I did write
Speaker 2: that in Nashville. I had, you know, the producers on
Speaker 2: it were Nashville based, and all the songs writers were
Speaker 2: like definitely straight up like hit like top twenty, top
Speaker 2: forty hit country music for song writers, and that was
Speaker 2: the focus of that. Like I went out on the
Speaker 2: Recal Flat tour and I was definitely pushing myself in
Speaker 2: a country market. But I got like it was my
Speaker 2: first number one album too, and like week that it
Speaker 2: was released, I got dropped by my record label.
Speaker 4: I got dropped by.
Speaker 2: Sony and I was so confused like like music ended
Speaker 2: up breaking my heart, to be honest, because I had
Speaker 2: worked so hard for so many years since I was
Speaker 2: seventeen and so to be twenty eight, like and we
Speaker 2: dropped for having a number one country album. I didn't
Speaker 2: know where to go next. And I got drops because
Speaker 2: I wouldn't sign a three sixty deal and they wanted
Speaker 2: the disca Simpson collection and I had already built out
Speaker 2: this brand that I I wasn't gonna give over to
Speaker 2: a record label. Like there was no way, like it was,
Speaker 2: it didn't make sense. They just said I would never recoup.
Speaker 2: And you know, it wasn't my fault that the label
Speaker 2: sent so much money having me follow Brittany and Christina
Speaker 2: and try to make you know, I just had a
Speaker 2: job to do, and I I'm a preacher's daughter, so
Speaker 2: I'm I abide my rules, and you know, I just
Speaker 2: I was working for a record label and I did
Speaker 2: everything that I could. But you know, I think that
Speaker 2: I got when I got dropped, it was just okay,
Speaker 2: let's switch gears. I need to focus on just being
Speaker 2: me myself, like and who is that? And then and
Speaker 2: then I met my now ex husband. I was just
Speaker 2: I wanted to have kids, to have a normal life,
Speaker 2: but the music has always been there, and it's been
Speaker 2: like an ache in my heart and my soul for
Speaker 2: so long. To not be able to do that was
Speaker 2: really I just didn't really no my place in the
Speaker 2: music industry. And once I felt comfortable like mapping that
Speaker 2: out for myself and having no expectations, once I got
Speaker 2: to that place in my life, it was so easy
Speaker 2: to step into. And I feel like with Nashville Canyon,
Speaker 2: I just created art that I'm really proud of and
Speaker 2: just something that defines me as an artist for the
Speaker 2: first time, really like without anybody else's opinion. And so
Speaker 2: it's Nashville Canyon for me is really excited, exciting, and
Speaker 2: it's kind of like one of those Right now, I
Speaker 2: have two EPs out Part one and Part two of
Speaker 2: Nashville Canyon, and then I'll.
Speaker 4: Put together a deluxe record.
Speaker 2: With even like three four more songs that represent what
Speaker 2: Nashville Canyon is to me. So to be able to
Speaker 2: be up on stage now with it is very exciting
Speaker 2: because it was the first album that I ever recorded
Speaker 2: with a live band. I'd never done that before. I'd
Speaker 2: just been pop artists that where's the head where's the microphones,
Speaker 2: the you know, the headphones, And I already have the
Speaker 2: track produced. I wasn't. I never knew who played on
Speaker 2: my records, So now like having all the artists that
Speaker 2: are musicians be a part of it and we it
Speaker 2: was a collaborative effort, and the producer Jad move first
Speaker 2: and just had this idea of discovering it all together
Speaker 2: in the studio. I'm like, why was I not in
Speaker 2: a band my whole career? Like I loved it, Like
Speaker 2: I just love the organic, the organic vibes to it,
Speaker 2: and being a part of that creatively really just set
Speaker 2: me apart from even my younger self. But I was, well,
Speaker 2: now I'm just able to bring that to the older
Speaker 2: music on stage and the song fits so great my
Speaker 2: older stuff that's so great with the new sounds that
Speaker 2: you know, it's just more of a grown up version
Speaker 2: of me, and I feel my fans have all grown
Speaker 2: up with me. Yeah, so it just makes for the
Speaker 2: listener as well. Yeah, but being able to perform it live,
Speaker 2: like I'm so giddy good. I should really excited, but
Speaker 2: I should be, And I don't remember the last time
Speaker 2: I was like so excited.
Speaker 4: To go on stage.
Speaker 2: Normally, I was like so burnt out and I was
Speaker 2: worried about they were going to write about me. You know,
Speaker 2: I would make headlines for everything, whether it was mom
Speaker 2: jeans or being a jinx or whatever it was. It
Speaker 2: was normally about my personal life. And now for it
Speaker 2: to be about music and to be on stage and
Speaker 2: just to be steel free, to like kick my shoes
Speaker 2: off and like have a conversation with the audience, it's
Speaker 2: just it's very neat and it's very exciting.
Speaker 1: I love this chapter for you so much. You mentioned
Speaker 1: like talking about working starting when you're like seventeen years old.
Speaker 1: If somebody came up to you that was a young
Speaker 1: pop star maybe there just got discovered on TikTok, and
Speaker 1: they asked you advice about maybe like doing you know,
Speaker 1: a reality TV show with them and their significant other.
Speaker 1: What kind of advice would you give that person?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it as a young person. I mean
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm very appreciative for newly webs. There's
Speaker 2: nothing that I regret about it because it was the
Speaker 2: very beginning of reality TV. I think it was just
Speaker 2: the Osbourne before Nick and I.
Speaker 4: So ours was very real.
Speaker 2: And nowadays I feel like it's scripted. It's not. It's
Speaker 2: just not as real. I would convince somebody to do
Speaker 2: like a doc series about their career if they wanted
Speaker 2: it to be career focused, right, But I mean, but
Speaker 2: also like I don't think that it ruined my relationship.
Speaker 2: I just think I got married way young. I didn't
Speaker 2: even know who I was, and Newly Webs actually was
Speaker 2: the vehicles. It really drove me fast to success. And
Speaker 2: so like I would not I would encourage, definitely, I
Speaker 2: would encourage people to do it. But I mean, if
Speaker 2: you're already somebody that has children and stuff, I know
Speaker 2: that like hard on kids like to be on TV,
Speaker 2: like that's really intense and have your life produced is
Speaker 2: a weird thing. Like when I would watch things and
Speaker 2: how it was edited together for Newly, like I would laugh,
Speaker 2: like you know, like it was it was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: now I know what role to play to get these
Speaker 2: cameras out of my face quicker. So I kind of
Speaker 2: like play. I would play into it a little bit.
Speaker 2: By the time we hit season two and three, like
Speaker 2: season one was just a very shocking real thing, and
Speaker 2: I just you know, I knew what people were responding
Speaker 2: to and it kind of took me off of the
Speaker 2: pedestal that I was on being like a big ballad singer,
Speaker 2: you know, like the was almost like two sexy or
Speaker 2: too pretty. Like I feel like people actually were seeing
Speaker 2: me in my home with no makeup and just very myself,
Speaker 2: and that's when people were able to feel like they
Speaker 2: could see themselves in me. And as an artist, you
Speaker 2: want to be able to relate to others because you're
Speaker 2: singing about things that they don't know how to express,
Speaker 2: you know. So as a musician, you're you're actually like
Speaker 2: an advocate for all the hearts out there who are
Speaker 2: needing to sing along with certain lyrics of what you
Speaker 2: know and relating to what they're going through. So I
Speaker 2: feel like, I mean, I wouldn't discourage somebody from doing
Speaker 2: reality TV if if that if they trust the team
Speaker 2: that they have got behind them. You know, you have
Speaker 2: to really be able to trust who's editing, who are
Speaker 2: your you know, who's taking care of you and make
Speaker 2: sure that it helps elevate your career and not just
Speaker 2: be the focus of your like you know, like I
Speaker 2: because it was followed like like Newlyweds followed me on
Speaker 2: stage and followed me through every aspect. I didn't have
Speaker 2: the Jessica Simson collection yet, but I wouldn't have the
Speaker 2: Jessicasimson collection if it weren't for NEWLYWBT.
Speaker 4: So I think reality TV.
Speaker 2: Definitely can catapult you into a different stratosphere of of
Speaker 2: your career. I just for me, it's been hard to
Speaker 2: even watch Reality TV after doing it because I can
Speaker 2: just's like psyeah, no, well you know what goes behind it.
Speaker 1: You know what there's, what their motives are. You've been
Speaker 1: there and you see what goes behind the scenes, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's very intense.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: So okay, So we've got the Genesee Theater this Saturday,
Speaker 1: huge party going down. Jessica Simpson's on stage. Ye Nashville
Speaker 1: Canyon Part one and Part two. You said that you
Speaker 1: took request at the last show you did. What was
Speaker 1: what song do you think was the most overwhelming, biggest
Speaker 1: requested song.
Speaker 2: I was shocked that Irresistible was one of like a
Speaker 2: big request of song and a lot of a lot
Speaker 2: of people wanted to meet to sing my very first single,
Speaker 2: which was called I Want to Love You Forever, and
Speaker 2: that song is like a power ballad that I feel
Speaker 2: like contestants on American Idol don't even sing.
Speaker 4: It's so hard.
Speaker 3: Oh man, you just took me back. You just took
Speaker 3: me back.
Speaker 2: Yes, vocally, but I did it. I could still do it,
Speaker 2: and so I'm like, but being on stage last week
Speaker 2: and doing it, it was such a beautiful feeling. And
Speaker 2: people wanted to hear, like my cover of Angels, like
Speaker 2: my covers take My breath Away. They wanted with you
Speaker 2: I Think I'm in love with you, my country hit
Speaker 2: which was called come on Over. It was just interesting,
Speaker 2: like and then there was some album tracks that people
Speaker 2: were requesting that I'm actually going to be doing it
Speaker 2: the Genesee Theater that didn't get a chance to be
Speaker 2: singles because the label didn't choose them, but the fans
Speaker 2: love them. No, yeah, it's it's cool to read visit
Speaker 2: all of that as a woman. And like I was
Speaker 2: singing about loving somebody forever at eighteen years old, which like,
Speaker 2: isn't possible other than like your parents.
Speaker 3: No, we don't, we don't love it. We don't love it.
Speaker 1: We don't love the same things eighteen as we do
Speaker 1: when we're forty five. That is healthy, sure, exactly correct,
Speaker 1: exactly Oh, I'm so excited for you. Congratulations on the
Speaker 1: project too. I can really hear your storytelling in this music.
Speaker 1: It's it's a different Jessica Simpson than what we're used to, but.
Speaker 3: It's so great. Yeah, and uh, we're looking forward to
Speaker 3: seeing you on Saturday. What is left for you?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Tennessee Theater is so beautiful, It's legendary, great venue. Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, I was just when I was looking at
Speaker 2: the photos, I was like, there's gonna there's so much
Speaker 2: magic here. I'm excited to be a part of it,
Speaker 2: to be honest, What.
Speaker 3: Is left for you?
Speaker 1: Last question for me is, because you've done everything you've
Speaker 1: literally done, is there something do you do? Just does
Speaker 1: just have her own like vision board or like to
Speaker 1: do list? Is there something you haven't accomplishments?
Speaker 4: Of course, what I want.
Speaker 2: I'm starting to shoot a documentary. I don't even know
Speaker 2: if I'm allowed to say it, Like what who's doing
Speaker 2: the documentary? But I don't know if he's done a
Speaker 2: press release yet. But I am in the in the
Speaker 2: middle of shooting a documentary, which is very exciting on
Speaker 2: a huge platform and that way people can really see
Speaker 2: my life and like how things are being done and
Speaker 2: what I'm actually going through on an emotional level and
Speaker 2: how it leads into the songwriting. And you know, they'll
Speaker 2: see my like everyday life, my kids and just how
Speaker 2: we're all doing it together. But I'm excited about that.
Speaker 2: I have an episode on a new Ryan Murphy show
Speaker 2: coming out that I got to shoot with Kim card Action,
Speaker 2: who's one of my friends. Yeah, I know who's that.
Speaker 2: We don't know who that is, uh, but like our
Speaker 2: daughters go to school together, so that it was fun.
Speaker 2: Like Naomi watches in the show, but it's called All's
Speaker 2: Fair and I was in eight hours of prosthetics and
Speaker 2: so the first person that I made out with after
Speaker 2: going through a split was Rick Springfield.
Speaker 1: Okay that that that needs to go on your tombstone
Speaker 1: when it's all said and made out with Rick Springfield?
Speaker 3: Hilarious.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I'm like, wow, I haven't even got to
Speaker 2: make out with anybody, and now to do it on
Speaker 2: TV with Rick Springfield?
Speaker 4: How is this gonna go?
Speaker 2: But yeah, like it was so fun to be able
Speaker 2: to shoot that show and I think they're in the
Speaker 2: in the Uh. There was a promo for it because
Speaker 2: my mom called me like, oh, my gosh, they used
Speaker 2: your scene on the promo Like I'm like me, they
Speaker 2: used my scene like out of all episodes, like, so
Speaker 2: I'm excited for people to see me act again as well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that it's gonna be something that I'm wanting. That's something
Speaker 2: that I definitely want to do more of. So I
Speaker 2: think just anything entertainment I just have done and the
Speaker 2: team yeers so to be able to do this all
Speaker 2: over again and do it, you know, I get to
Speaker 2: pick and choose what I want to do and it's
Speaker 2: not for the press of it, it's just for the
Speaker 2: love of it. I think people are going to respond
Speaker 2: to that and really understand it when they see it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it. You're keeping it real and we
Speaker 3: love you for that.
Speaker 1: And I can I can already tell your energy and
Speaker 1: your vibe is right where you should be. So congrats
Speaker 1: on everything and can't wait for Saturday night. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: have an awesome shows.
Speaker 2: My first radio interview, you.
Speaker 3: Chose a perfect person in stations.
Speaker 2: Never so excited radio and.
Speaker 3: I take that as a couple.
Speaker 1: All right, Jess, thank you so much for the time
Speaker 1: and a great tour and continued success.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Bye bye guys.
Speaker 4: By