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Jessica Simpson In Remake of "Xanadu"?
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Jesaroo
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Jessica Simpson In Remake of "Xanadu"?
FRESH off her very public, if inevitable, divorce, Simpson steps right into … an audition for the remake of "Xanadu"? She could do worse than try to become the new Olivia Newton-John. She could have tried to compete with Christina Aguilera's relatively convincing bid to be taken seriously — a move that likely would have been laughably out of Simpson's, uh, depth.
Instead, she's doing the laughing — underneath a mirror ball.
Sure, her roller-disco party is not just 30 years too late for the heyday but 10 years too late for the revival. Even the most "current" sounding track, "B.O.Y." (built on a Cars sample), could have been one of Madonna's early bids to be taken seriously. (And the giddy title track pretty much is early Madonna, unmistakably similar to "Holiday.")
Still, the pop froth is good pop froth. Nothing more, but nothing less, borrowed as it may be. And she's not completely avoiding references to her situation, from the dance-that-man-right-out-of-my-hair tone of the title song to the heartfelt-adjacent version of Patty Griffin's folk-country ballad "Let Him Fly" that closes the album.
Of course, it's all totally de-sexed. Her version of Dead or Alive's 1985 "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" — dark and leering in the original — sounds here as if it's just about dancing. She just can't do dark convincingly. Barely can do introspection convincingly. Anyway, she should save her introspection and darkness in case of a future, maybe inevitable, split from her manager-father.
Steve Hochman
if this happens, ill kill myself
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Posted 9/6/06 1:07 AM  |
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skip123
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Re: Jessica Simpson In Remake of "Xanadu"?
oh no...why remake..theres only one xanadu...she cant replace Olivia...
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| Posted 9/6/06 1:56 AM |
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Stacey1403
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Re: Jessica Simpson In Remake of "Xanadu"?
Posted by skip123
oh no...why remake..theres only one xanadu...she cant replace Olivia...
I agree this is one of my all time favs
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| Posted 9/6/06 7:42 AM |
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Jesaroo
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Re: Jessica Simpson In Remake of "Xanadu"?
lets pray its just a rumour!
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| Posted 9/6/06 11:04 AM |
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MsMBV
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Re: Jessica Simpson In Remake of "Xanadu"?
Posted by Lolita4Life
FRESH off her very public, if inevitable, divorce, Simpson steps right into … an audition for the remake of "Xanadu"? She could do worse than try to become the new Olivia Newton-John. She could have tried to compete with Christina Aguilera's relatively convincing bid to be taken seriously — a move that likely would have been laughably out of Simpson's, uh, depth.
Instead, she's doing the laughing — underneath a mirror ball.
Sure, her roller-disco party is not just 30 years too late for the heyday but 10 years too late for the revival. Even the most "current" sounding track, "B.O.Y." (built on a Cars sample), could have been one of Madonna's early bids to be taken seriously. (And the giddy title track pretty much is early Madonna, unmistakably similar to "Holiday.")
Still, the pop froth is good pop froth. Nothing more, but nothing less, borrowed as it may be. And she's not completely avoiding references to her situation, from the dance-that-man-right-out-of-my-hair tone of the title song to the heartfelt-adjacent version of Patty Griffin's folk-country ballad "Let Him Fly" that closes the album.
Of course, it's all totally de-sexed. Her version of Dead or Alive's 1985 "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" — dark and leering in the original — sounds here as if it's just about dancing. She just can't do dark convincingly. Barely can do introspection convincingly. Anyway, she should save her introspection and darkness in case of a future, maybe inevitable, split from her manager-father.
Steve Hochman
if this happens, ill kill myself
WHY OH WHY do people insist on continuing to give her jobs that require her to speak
LEAVE XANADU ALONE
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| Posted 9/6/06 1:40 PM |
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IrishTracy
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Re: Jessica Simpson In Remake of "Xanadu"?
This would be the worse thing ever!!!!!!!!!!! Xanadu can not be messed with.
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| Posted 9/6/06 1:46 PM |
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