Ashlee Simpson Album - Autobiography
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Release Date:2004-01-01
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Type:Album
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Genre:Pop, Kidz Rock, Teen Pop
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Label:Geffen
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Explicit Lyrics:No
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Review - Yahoo! Music - Rob O'Connor :
The axiom that “It’s not what you know but who” has never been proven truer than with this collection of “pop” songs by Jessica Simpson’s younger sister Ashlee. After all, it isn’t every teenager who signs to a major label, works with a drummer like Kenny Aronoff
(Mellencamp, Dylan, Meatloaf), gets her own reality TV show and has fans who await her “Autobiography.” Usually, it’s preferred to have lived a little before penning your recollections. And usually people don’t concern themselves with such revelations until there’s something to tell. But let’s hear it for the power of television and its ability to make stars out of TV extras! Just as rock star poses can be approximated (as they are in the album’s centerfold), so, too, can experience be professionally coached. (“Lala” is my pick for her Oscar nomination as a hard rocker.) Faster than you can yell at a producer to “auto-tune,” Simpson’s got that wasted, strung-out “life-is-a-long-road” scratch in her voice accompanying a grandiose musical accompaniment that in the 1980s would have been called “Cher,” in the ‘90s “Alanis,” and now in the new century: Ashlee. As Neil Young once said, “Some things never change, they stay the way they are.”
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