Ashlee Simpson Tries To Transform Herself Into Le Tigre, With Middling Results
that other song by that other Ashley last year, I’m emerging from each listening session confused. The guitar lick–it sounds kind of sleaze-rockish! Would I enjoy it if someone who didn’t sound all drunken-sorority-karaoke was on vocals? The beat–it’s sort of reminding me of just-at-the-curdling-point Le Tigre! But am I being too hard on the song because the lyrics say things like “I just wanna color outside the lines / I’ve been reprimanded ’bout a thousand times”? This is definitely one of those tracks that needs an artist with less baggage to perform it, because the prospect of listening to it a bunch more just holds no appeal for me at all. Oh, overheated celebrity music world of today, you are so cruel to your listeners! [YouTube]
I have listened to “Rule Breaker,” the latest song to emerge from Ashlee Simpson’s forthcoming album Bittersweet World, about five times now, and much like when I was confronted with