Jessica Simpson booed!
Jessica Simpson’s first country concert was met with mixed reactions.
Audiences booed and clapped as the singer, 28, opened for Sara Evans on Saturday at the Country Thunder USA festival in Randall, Wisconsin.
“I don’t know what your perception is of Jessica Simpson or what tabloid you buy, but I just want you to know that I’m just a girl from Texas,” Simpson told the crowd. “I’m just like you. I’m doing what I love and dating a boy.”
She dedicated the tune “You’re My Sunday” to beau Tony Romo, who was in the audience, and performed a slew of covers — including Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” — as well as her new single “Come On Over.”
One concertgoer told the local paper: “I’ll have to drink a lot of beer to sit through her concert.”
Added another: “She’s an embarrassment to country music.”
Not all were haters.
One fan told the paper, “I actually like her country songs better. She has a great voice, plus, she’s adorable.”
Despite the lukewarm buzz, her father Joe recently told Usmagazine.com his daughter — whose album drops September 9 - is ready for country.
“It feels really good,” he said of her album. “She is extremely happy.”
July 21st, 2008 at 2:22 pm
It wasn’t anything like the media is claiming. My friends were there (I live in Wi) and they said this was a small drunken group that got quoted, unfortunately, and it has been blown WAY out of proportion (gasp! Shock!).
July 21st, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Barf. I don’t like her. As a fan of country music, I think she’s horrible. Just becuase your pop career tanked, doesn’t mean you should sing country.
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:15 am
I live in Wisconsin too…and this isn’t what the media is making it to be. Jessica Simpson unfortunately will not make it anywhere…. because the media wants her to be this dumb blonde who constantly makes a fool of herself. She can’t win.
The media SUCKS. How sad.
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Yeah. If a million people showed up, and only one idiot booed — they would just say she got booed.