It's not easy if you depend on television and the tabloid press for fame. Just look at Ashlee Simpson. She became popular and famous for her own reality soap on MTV, and with her debut CD managed to reach the first place in the US album chart. But those same cameras that made her great also mercilessly recorded how Ashlee went wrong when it turned out that she - failed - playbacked during a live
… performance for American television. Hereafter, an attempt to prove that she could sing live ended in a debacle: she was booed in a stadium with 72,000 football fans. Tears with spouts of course for Jessica Simpson's more intelligent sister, who now wants to prove with her second CD I Am Me that she is a real singer. I Am Me mainly contains raw and tough 'teen punk', with lots of guitars and a hoarse and hoarse singing Ashlee, but now and then the dance is carefully explored. Let's hope the cameras only capture the good moments this time. (IV)more
