After stepping away from music following her 2008 album Bittersweet World, Ashlee Simpson has confirmed she’s recording new solo materials.
Simpson, who’s releasing an expanded version of her debut LP Autobiography on Friday for its twentieth anniversary, instructed Stereogum that she is at the moment “within the studio making new music.” When requested if it’d be an album, she divulged, “Proper now I’m working tune by tune, after which we’ll see.” She teased, nevertheless, that she is “certain it’ll find yourself turning into an album.”
As for whether or not it’d have the identical pop punk-slanted sound from her earlier information, Simpson famous, “I’ve grown up now, so it’s a bit extra grown, and for the time being, it’s been extra with dwell music, so I really feel just like the path can all the time flip, however I’m actually proud of the place we’re at proper now.” She added that it’s “extra of the enjoyable, rocky vibe.”
Talking on who she would need to collaborate with, the “Items of Me” singer shared that she’d be curious about teaming up with basic artists like Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple and Jewel. “However then proper now, I actually love Chappell [Roan]. She’s superb. I actually love her complete album [The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess],” she stated.
She additionally addressed her notorious Saturday Evening Dwell lip-sync flub, sharing the silver lining of the embarrassing scenario. “There was plenty of backlash, and I believe that what I largely skilled was discovering my energy in myself and likewise in my followers as a result of they had been so loyal to me — the truth that I received to rise up, combat and so they all watched me try this and are available to my exhibits,” she stated.
Simpson had beforehand instructed Distractify again in March that her daughter Jagger Snow impressed her to return to music. “[She’s] why I’m actually excited to do music once more,” she stated. “My daughter actually desires to sing with me, so I’ll positively have her there [in the studio].”
Whereas it’s been 16 years since Simpson final launched a solo album, she collaborated along with her husband Evan Ross as a duo, releasing an EP in 2018 below the moniker Ashlee + Evan. Its launch coincided with their short-lived E! actuality sequence of the identical identify.
