Music manager Joe Simpson has confirmed Jessica Simpson’s intention to record a country album, as reported by Popcrunch in July.

Jessica has been “talking about doing a country record and going back to her roots, being from Texas,” Jessica’s father and manager, Joe Simpson, told PEOPLE at Hard Rock Hotel’s Rolling Stone party in Las Vegas.

“Everything in our business is about beats and I think she really wants to sing,” he said, “and country music still believes in that.”

“She’s a singer from top to bottom,” Joe Simpson said. “And everything in the music business, especially pop music, has moved away from singers. And I think country is the the only pure, storytelling kind of genre left.”