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 Simpson's reality: ditz, glitz, rote hits | Type: Internet Article |
| | Simpson's reality: ditz, glitz, rote hits | Jun 21, 2004 | by MARTIN JOHNSON
Summary:
Britney Spears has become a stateside Kylie Minogue, churning out one dance pop hit after another. Christina Aguilera continues to walk the line between Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson; and with both film and music careers cooking, Mandy Moore is like a Vanessa Williams minus the Penthouse scandal. |
Years from now, when academics study the teen pop era of the late '90s and early '00s, they will have to take a good look at the young women performers.
While the boy bands such as *N Sync and Backstreet Boys have slowly dissolved into a variety of solo projects, the bestselling female artists in the genre have displayed staying power well beyond projections.
Britney Spears has become a stateside Kylie Minogue, churning out one dance pop hit after another. Christina Aguilera continues to walk the line between Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson; and with both film and music careers cooking, Mandy Moore is like a Vanessa Williams minus the Penthouse scandal.
However, Jessica Simpson may be paving the most multifaceted career path of them all with success as a singer, a reality TV star on "The Newlyweds" and at least one big movie in the pipeline. Like her peers, her career has gone from a teenager's celebration of being in the world to a chronicle of young adulthood. Her tour, The Reality Show, which pulled into Radio City Music Hall on Friday night, is geared at celebrating these accomplishments.
Simpson's career is equal parts a triumph of marketing and personality. Simpson looks the part of a prepackaged blonde but she undercuts the icy stereotype with warm, self-deprecating humor.
On her show she's ditzy, but she carries it off with enough irony to placate if not please any post-feminists. Although she has yet to grab a major movie part, during her concert, she confirmed the rumors that she's about to get the role of Daisy in the upcoming film update of the late '70s/early '80s TV show "The Dukes of Hazzard."
If all this goes well, then maybe she'll demand better music. Thus far, her music is the least interesting part of her career. The 23-year-old Dallas native opened with "I Think I'm in Love With You," which rides a sample of John Mellencamp's "Jack and Diane" so hard you'd think that Sean Combs did the production. She closed the first segment of her show with a cover of Donna Summer's "She Works Hard for the Money," and after a costume change, she opened the second with her faithful rendition of Berlin's "Take My Breath Away," a staple of her TV show.
The concert's covers were more compelling than the original material. Simpson's songs border on the generic. The chord changes in her power ballads and the melodies in her mid-tempo dance tunes probably require only a few mouse clicks in the right computer program to create. Simpson approaches this material like Celine Dion, making the songs into athletic workouts to be muscled through, rather than fragments of art requiring nuance and dynamics.
That technique was fine on her first smash single, "I Wanna Love You Forever," but that was four years ago. Simpson is enormously charming, but the musical aspect of her entertainment career needs substantial change. |
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