Jessica Simpson’s new book “Open Book”, anyone reading it?

If the author cannot read I will not buy/read.

No.

Jess confirms what I already knew, Christina has an album because of Britney

Does she blab about her ex-husband Nick’s micro penis?

I’d rather hear the deets about John Mayer’s dick.

R5 I heard he is hung.

I skimmed through some of it. She talked about how her dad announced he was divorcing her mother when Jessica was in the hospital about to give birth. He then put it on Jessica saying she gave him the confidence to move on or something like that. So messed up.

I wonder if she is still close with her dad.

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I saw it in a bookstore yesterday but had no desire to buy it.

R5 it's racist.

[quote]I wonder if she is still close with her dad.

They've reconciled.

I have only read what has been posted in articles and interviews about the book and I can't believe she's pissy that Nick Lachey joked about her father playing grab ass with him. But in her book she talks about how her father moved on after his split with her mother and asked if he could being his male model friend Jonathan to her (Jessica's) wedding. Yet, when asked about her father's sexuality she says it's not her story to tell. Ho, you already told it!

She's a republican.

Is that a book title or operational instructions for the tuna-impaired?

Fucking fascinating.

Can I join your book club?

is Jessica #teambritney, #teamxtina, or #teammandy?

#teampills

r16 she's #teamJessica

She is team herself. She pretty much says that she was sick of being Britney’s shadow in the industry and admits that all the pop girls that came after her were her shadow. Christina only got signed to rival Britney and that Jive Records was almost done with Britney’s album so RCA rushed Christina’s to have it out not long after BOMT.

She went on a family vacation to Disney Land and even there people would approach her to take photos of themselves with “Britney Spears”. She eventually learned to laugh about it.

She also said that after her first album (which had mostly ballads) her record label told her she had to change her sound for her second album, and it needed to sound more Britney meets Mariah. This is why her second album is more pop meets R&B and she had to tone down the belting and make her voice sound more like a kitten purring (like Britney)

Can't you just see all the fraus in their stretch pants gathering at Karen's McHouse for the weekly book club meeting to talk about this fantastic piece of non-fiction while cradling their mugs?

r19 That is incorrect about Christina. Christina got signed after she recorded the song "Reflection" for the Disney soundtrack to Mulan.

R22 she got her record contract mid 1998...

I’m gonna borrow this book from the library to get all the down and dirty deets about John Mayer. I know he’s a fuckboy, I know he’s a complete dick, and I’m positive he’s overcompensating for something, but I would not pass up an opportunity to fuck him.

Yeah Christian had to audition for rec execs basically even after the Mulan song.

Yup. Britney got signed first, and no one knew who she was, until August 1998 when BOMT (the single) came out and was an overnight smash hit, and made her a household name overnight. After that RCA began looking for a teen blonde who could rival Britney, and they made Christina come in and audition etc. and signed her, then rushed her debut album so it would not come out too long after Britney’s (BOMT the album came out January, 1999 after over 2 years of working on the album and Christina Aguilera (her self titled album) came out August 1999, less than a year after signing her and working on the album). Aguilera hater Genie in a Bottle, and didn’t even wanna record it. She gave them a hard time but obviously she had to. They then decided to release it as her debut single and she didn’t want to because it was a song she didn’t get to show off her singing abilities with, but they said her debut song needed to be a song that could rival Britney, not a ballad. They were right and she went to number 1 also, something none of the other pop girls did.

PS part of why Christina got the contract was because she was on MMC also, with Britney. They knew they could build a “rivalry” in the media between the two as well as sell more records Based on their “friendship” and having known each other since childhood.

So Christina May be the better talent but she only became what she did because of Britney. She should thank her instead of always shade her.

[Quote] So Christina May be the better talent but she only became what she did because of Britney. She should thank her instead of always shade her.

I don't think she's done that in a while.

r26 This is incorrect. Christina got her record deal in the same week she was chosen to record Reflection for the Mulan soundtrack and Reflection was released in June 1998. Baby One More Time was released as a single in late October 1998 and went #1 in January 1999.

R29 SHE DID NOT GET HER RECORD DEAL UNTIL AUGUST 1998

r30 AND BABY ONE MORE TIME WAS NOT RELEASED UNTIL OCTOBER 1998 AND WAS NOT AN OVERNIGHT HIT

AS AN OFFICIAL SINGLE R31

She had already been touring malls and performing the song for months before it was released, and RCA Execs saw a video of her and that is when Xtina was signed. Fucking moron ass bitch.

R31 BOMT the song jumped into the Top 40 right away and hit number one all over the world, eventually. January the album came out and debuted at number one, with the single still at number one.

First female to have a number one single and album at the same time. Christina can’t relate.

Notice how for BOMT 20th anniversary every media source and outlet was paying respect to the album and song... meanwhile Christina’s album? Lmaooooo never even a mention.

BOMT the song also was named the most influential pop song of the past 20-30 years by Billboard.

Here is Rolling Stone paying respects to the album

Bitches!!! This is [italic]my[/italic] thread.

What's with the all caps 😄

She sounds like a zombie. Like Britney x100 zombie level.

this thread smells of Gap Playlist Troll, when you start seeing frantic capitalization of posts you know she’s triggered and either:

1. off meds

2. back on meth

It will be chockful of breathless questions to nobody: "How could I face my fans, knowing that they looked to me as a friend and role model- someone they could trust?".

R39 LOL! Perfect! Are you a celebrity autobiography ghost writer by any chance?

By all means, OP, do not read anything even remotely worthwhile. I tell ya, you fags are the epitome of middle-school girlishness.

R41 You new to DL, sweetie?

It was pretty entertaining, OP. I enjoyed it. And yes, the book will really speak to fraus. Especially fat ones.

First world problems

I am a third through it and enjoying it. It starts off with her hitting rock bottom on a Halloween night where she was too drunk to go Trick or Treating with the kids, then goes back to her childhood.

What interest does any gay man have in this heterosexual, proud fur-wearing, dumb Republican Southerner?

Gays love a messy bitch who lives for drama.

What R47 said. And maybe hoping for some dirt on Joe.

R48 some dirt on many celebs.

She wanted to sing Gospel but no Christian Label Record would sigh her because of her look. They felt she was too pretty, with blonde hair and big boobs and she didn’t have the look for a “Christian girl”.

After that she got signed to a major label after Britney broke out huge to compete with her and Christina.

Her first album was a lot of ballads. Her record label made her change her sound with her second album to sound more like Britney so she would be bigger competition for her.

Here is her first single from her debut

Vs her first single from Album 2

Did she debut before or after Mandy?? Or was it around the same time??

Mandy and Jessica were around the same time. Mandy was younger than the others. She was like 14 when Candy came out.

Willa Ford came fast and died fast with her one hit

Jessica Simpson IS Cassie!

PS I used to love this song but most people thought it was Britney Spears. Amazing how she was such much a massive megastar back then.

I would have developed a weight problem too if this were my midnight snack.

And this my dessert.

I always thought Willa Ford looked like ONJ's daughter if the plastic surgery had gone right.

Guess who also came out around the same time as these blonde bimbos and career has outlasted all of them. Me cunts.

I hated Candy by Mandy Moore. It was nonsense. But I did like her sophomore albums singles “I Wanna Be With You” and “Walk Me Home”.

My fav song by her came from her 3rd album, called “Crush”

Mandy Moore was 14 or so when Candy came out. It was not representative of her musical interests. I interviewed her for her album Amanda Leigh and she seemed very normal and down to earth, and interested in being taken seriously as a songwriter.

That song is very sub-Natalie Imbruglia.

R62 maybe why I liked it. I used to like Imbruglia a lot

I almost had a heart attack when I saw “Yo Yo” listed on a Mandy Moore CD. I bought it intrigued by the certain disaster of a white girl rap. Alas, it’s actually about a yo-yo, not, like, Madonna embarrassing herself to be edgy.

But I actually like the song!

Mandy’s song “In My Pocket” was actually a fantastic pop song. Very forgotten and under appreciated

Mandy was too sober and unself-destructive for people to care about her. If Britney hadn’t shaved her head and lost her mind, no one would care about her, either. Pop stars have to be tragic to be cared about after the initial fad phase fades away.

I wonder if that song was written for Enrique Iglesias. It certainly sounds like it was written for a man - "How much for your love?" is a very male lyric.

[Quote] Pop stars have to be tragic to be cared about after the initial fad phase fades away.

Is Beyonce tragic? Pink? Kelly Clarkson? I don't think any of them are Top 40 singles artists anymore but all are still pop successes.

All 3 of them still sell out tours r68 whether you like them or hate them.

And if Britney were able to she would fill seats on a tour also if she was back to her old self and danced her ass off again

R67 it was written by mostly men and produced by two men, so it’s not too shocking the lyrics are a bit “manly”

It was written by Randall Barlow, Emilio Estefan, Liza Quintana, and Gian Marco Zignago

Originally titled “How Much For Blow Job?” the song was sold to Mandy and rewritten “How much for your love?”

I like Candy, Wanna Be With You and In My Pocket. But So Real is my fave.

Poor jessica. Britney, Xtina and even Mandy Moore and Willa Ford ran over her thred.

R73 except for her sister lol

r46 Jessica actually talks about being the subject of homophobic bullying when she was a cheerleader in middle school. The school chanted "lesbian" at a basketball game and scattered anti-gay pamphlets on her lawn and spray-painted her house.

No, I am not reading this mess.

I did a study abroad in England in 2000, and I remember hearing this girl-pop song with a John Mellencamp riff everywhere I went. It was kind of annoying but it worked its way into my brain. Then one day I was in the gym and the Jessica Simpson music video came on.

I had heard of her but I had never heard her music or seen her and I thought “ohhh! She’s British! I guess she didn’t catch on in the U.S.”

I never saw or heard about her again until her reality show, and then I was confused again, this time about realizing no, she’s actually American, but for some reason more famous in other countries.

I love that out of the four blonde pop starlets it’s third and fourth fiddles Jessica and Mandy that turned out to be the richest and most normal, respectively.

Can we talk about Hoku and the Burrito Song now?

Mandy was always normal and grounded. She is a good egg.

I think Mandy's a cunt.

Mandy did marry Ryan Adams (not Bryan Adams), so she's had her issues...

R82 what's the deal with Ryan Adams?

Mandy Moore doesn’t seem to accuse Ryan Adams of full-on abuse, but rather of having come along when she was at a vulnerable point in her life, offering to help her with her career while romancing her, and making her feel devalued and denigrated throughout the relationship, talking her into getting rid of all music managers except him and then ignoring her in preference of other women artists whom he told her were superior to her, effectively telling her that she’s more of a product than an artist when she was trying to grow. A lot of people probably would agree with his assessment of her career, but in a one on one relationship it does really sound toxic to me. When I interviewed her, she did come across to me as someone who was insecure and had low self-esteem, particularly in terms of herself diminishing her talents.

Excerpts:

Musician Ryan Adams is the latest powerful man to be accused of sexual misconduct in the #MeToo era. In a new New York Times report, multiple women — including Adams’s ex-wife, the singer and actress Mandy Moore — say that Adams dangled professional opportunities in front of them and then used those opportunities to manipulate them into sex. In the relationships that ensued, these women say, Adams would become controlling and emotionally abusive. “Music was a point of control for him,” says Moore.

...

If a woman is responsive to Adams’s advances, he allegedly introduces sex into the relationship, and it does not seem to matter whether or not she is legally able to consent. The Times obtained text messages between Adams and Ava in which he appears to simultaneously fret over her age and indulge in sexual fantasies about her. “If people knew they would say I was like R Kelley lol,” he wrote in one exchange when Ava was 16. (Through a lawyer, Adams maintained to the Times that he did not know Ava’s age.) Ten minutes later, he added, “I just want you to touch your nipple.”

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The Times’s reporting also suggests that even when the relationships last, Adams tends to avoid delivering on his promises of professional help. When Mandy Moore began her relationship with Adams in 2007, when she was 23, she was in the midst of the tricky transition from teen pop star to serious adult musician. Moore tells the Times that with Adams’s encouragement, she entrusted him with managing that transition. The pair married in 2009, and by 2010, she didn’t have any managers or producers besides him.

But Adams didn’t help Moore become a star as an adult. Instead, Moore says, he would refuse to record songs they wrote together. He would double-book her studio time with other female musicians and, according to Moore, was consistently demeaning. “He would always tell me, ‘You’re not a real musician, because you don’t play an instrument,’” she says. The pair divorced in 2016, describing the decision at the time as a “respectful, amicable parting of ways.”

R84 thanks for answering. No question he's an asshole.

The truth is Mandy the singer is a product. She was always better as an actress.

R86, true. I think the fact she's the most likeable of the four women make her more likeable on screen too. And maybe that's why Christina as an even worse actress than Britney.

Any of the john mayer dirt? I doubt she gets into much detail..

Jessica Simpson has always seemed really dumb. Like hey y'all, look ate. This is what pop stars do. Gufaw. I'm going to turn my backside to you and shake my ass and laugh because this is silly popstar cheese. Gufaw gufaw giggle tee hee. My dad's gay y'all but we don't talk about it. I'm drinking y'all because having a billion dollars dollars and a clothing line is really tough gee whiz.

R89, here is a review of her debut:

[quote] Simpson is a blonde who got out of cheerleading early to prepare herself for whatever show business offered--game-show sidekick, R-rated remake of Debbie Does Dallas, bond trader seeking trophy wife. What she got was a John Cougar sample and the hard-earned ability to carry a tune. We know teenpop is rarely as vapid, prefab, and faux-wholesome as gatekeepers who've barely listened to it claim. So let's not tell them about this "refreshing blend of pop, R&B and [note copywriter getting desperate] gospel-flavored sounds."

John Mayer loves making out with dudes, having threesomes with dudes, and scat.

I remember seeing a clip somewhere of Jessica's dad being super creepy and talking about how he gave Jessica a promise ring when she was 12 or something and he bawled when she married Nick because another man had come into her life.

R91 how do you know that? At least a hint.

R93

I told you not to ask me!

[quote]—I didn't not used to hang out with him.

So you did used to hang out with him?

R94 is Tammi from Real World LA

"That wasn't not funny!"

Isn't she someone?

No.

I love you R96.

Bitches love her shoes.

“New” implies there are others. Please tell me there are not others.

You should, R99.

Always hanging up in here like a hairy spider.

R101 no there isn't.

The book is a #1 New York Times Bestseller

R104 I was hoping that because you failed to include “I shit you not” it was all a joke, but alas you are correct. On the upside the hillbillies from the red states are reading.

My gut insists to me that something Jeffrey Epstein-like explains the friendship between John Mayer and Andy Cohen. It is too fucking weird. Cohen only hangs out with former 90s stars and strange gay men.

R105 if Kris Jenner can, why not Jessica. It's not like it actually means anything.

I am sure she used a ghost writer but so what? It's terrific. Tough to put down.

The Jess Simpson song "With You" was legitimately very good. Surprised no one has mentioned it yet

[quote]Pour yourself all over me and I’ll cherish every drop here on my knees!

What a virgin whore.

[Quote] Pour yourself all over me and I’ll cherish every drop here on my knees!

Who knew she was singing about a bottle of booze.

[quote]Pour yourself all over me and I’ll cherish every drop here on my knees!

Her father must have contributed that line.

R112 maybe it was about Nick.