Jessica Simpson Booed Country Thunder USA Festival, Randall, Wisconsin
Jessica Simpson has gone country but critics question whether or not she can stay there as her first country music concert garnered mixed reviews on Saturday night.
“Just because she’s dating Tony Romo it doesn’t make her country,” Mike Rodriguez, 31, from Lake Geneva, told the Kenosha News after watching the pop starlet perform alongside Carrie Underwood and Kellie Pickler at the Country Thunder USA Festival in Randall, Wisconsin on Saturday. “She doesn’t fit in with country, and I’ll have to drink a lot of beer to sit through her concert.”
“She’s an embarrassment to country music,” said nineteen year old Zach Schlodt of Palatine, Illinois.
She was welcomed to the stage with an assortment of boos and shouts.
“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; I’m just like you. I’m doing what I love and dating a boy,” Jess said in an attempt to smooth things over.
She sang her cover of Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots are Made for Walking, during a set that also included covers of Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again,” and Shania Twain’s “Who’s Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?”
Jessica also performed a few songs featured on her upcoming album “Do You Know,” available September 9th, including the single “Come On Over.”
She also sang her pop hit “With You,” much to the chagrin of the country-lovin croonies.
“I just don’t hear the country in her; I don’t hear the twang. She’s not good enough to be here,” Adam Matos, 21, from Arlington Heights, Illinois told the press.
“It’s crap,” said Ryan Sia, 28, from East Troy. “She doesn’t belong here.”
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On July 21st 2008, Kim wrote:
I think Come On Over is a great song! I have always been a Jessica fan and will continue to be a Jessica fan no matter what!! She is awesome, not sure why everyone seems to think she can’t make it…
On July 22nd 2008, Nikki wrote:
It’s funny how these country “fans” welcome Darius Rucker, Kid Rock and the like but call Jessica Simpson’s music crap. How on earth is Kid Rock more country than Jessica Simpson?
Give it a rest and enjoy the music.
On July 24th 2008, Mignon wrote:
“She is awesome, not sure why everyone seems to think she can’t make it…” and “It’s funny how these country “fans” welcome Darius Rucker, Kid Rock and the like but call Jessica Simpson’s music crap. How on earth is Kid Rock more country than Jessica Simpson?”
Kid Rock’s newest song with a number of songs tied in, including Sweet Home Alabama, is a reminder of country rock.
Jessica Simpson on stage, I kid you not, sounded like amateurish karaoke. The karaoke tent sounded better. Every year, the crowd is phenomenal on the last night. This year, it was not. Closing acts are Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Montgomery Gentry, Brooks & Dunn… And I feel that Sara Evans got jipped by closing the night and the festival, after a “performance” by Jessica Simpson.
I liked JS as pop. She has cute songs. “When I’m With You” is my favorite song by her. It did not fit at country thunder. The show was very much a pop singer trying to be accepted in a genre that everyone thinks that anyone can get into. Yes, country fans are welcoming.
But please sound a little country.