A Public Affair Album Sampler
Some looped clips from Jessica Simpson's upcoming album A Public Affair are circulating. I'm excited for this record because I'm a huge Jessica Simpson fan. I'm still not sure how I feel about what I'm hearing here though. I haven't spent enough time with the clips yet and, well, they're just clips. You can sometimes misjudge a song just by it's clip. "B.O.Y." sounds like upbeat, retro fun (similiar to "A Public Affair") and the intro reminds me of "Stacy's Mom" by Fountains Of Wayne. "I Belong To Me" and "I Don't Want To Care" sound like they could have been on Nick Lachey's record. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. I'm not saying that's a good thing. I've been trying really hard to like his record lately but everything sounds the same and there's only so much depressing divorce music you can take, you know? haha "If You Were Mine" is another slice of retro upbeatness...however, I don't know how I feel about it. To me this seems very much like a concept album similiar to Mariah's Glitter album. Laugh all you want, but once you got that Mariah's album was an 80s concept album, then it turned out to be a really good record. I've still yet to form an opinion about "The Lover In Me" and "Walkin' 'Round In A Circle." "The Lover In Me" sounds like it could have been on In This Skin and "Walkin' 'Round In A Circle" sounds like it was meant to be a country record but Jessica couldn't quite pull off the country sound. The only snippet I'm definitely in love with is Jessica's cover of Dead Or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)," which is one of my absolute favorite songs of all time. Also, before downloading, you should know these are not high quality clips. They're 64 kbs but they're good quality for being such low quality.
....and, because I love the original so much and I think *everyone* should hear it....
