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Simpson probably going back to pop
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 9 April 2009
Jessica Simpson’s dabblings with the country genre are seemingly over after the label who released her last album, Sony Nashville, confirmed she is no longer on their roster.
A spokesman says that her deal with the Sony country division, and indeed her ambitions in the country genre in general, were a one album thing, and that she will now return to her usual label – Sony’s Epic – for her next release, another pop album. Simpson’s move into country music wasn’t without controversy, and she was booed at her first country music concert, and subsequently overlooked at the Country Music Association Awards.
Nevertheless, her album did top the country chart, and she told reporters: “I am a country girl. I grew up in Texas, and country music was what I listened to. I think there is a strength in female country artists”.
