Hmmm, juicy little rumor that Country Music Tattle Tale has brewing on their site. Seems one of their astute readers has been keeping tabs on Jessica Simpson's record label and it appears that her name and information no longer appears on either the Columbia Nashville or Sony Music Nashville websites. Even her artist page that tells all about her and her music is gone.
Poof.
So could this be the reason for the sudden trip to Cabo instead of the ACMs? Hmmm. I'm sure if this rumor's true then we'll be hearing all the details in the days to come.
Check out CMTT for all the info here.
***Update: Can you say spin? You can read read all the updates on this story by going over to the right and under "search the stars" just click Jessica's name. I did want to give a quick update here though since this is the post everyone is coming to right now.
Jessica's rep has now denied that Jessica was dropped from her country record label and was in fact just on loan to do her country album. She did her country thing and now she's returning home to her original label, Epic, who they say has always been her home.
Uhmm, that's all well and fine, but is this what Jessica wanted or the record label wanted? As of this moment, it's all just wording. Jessica has made it clear she wanted to do country and had no intention of ever recording another pop album. In fact she said not too long ago she was going to be working on a new country album soon. Had she done well in country music I doubt the record label would have let her go without some sort of fight or extension of the loan contract. I would think the fact that her country career fell flat, all mention of her on the country label websites is gone, AND she's "returning home" to Epic records should be an indication that the record label no longer wanted her. In my book that's being dumped. The PR people can spin it however they want, but Jessica's country singing career experiment appears to have crashed and burned.
Why has Reba McEntire dropped her last name again? I always thought that 'McEntire' felt like a nice name. Please let me know!
Posted by: Dave Wollenberg | April 22, 2009 at 01:37 PM
correction : she is the music movi business joke...i know i misspelled that word.
Posted by: kourtney | April 21, 2009 at 11:55 PM
her albums in pop didnt do well next to what her peers were selling she did very poorly...she couldnt compete in pop and britney was to big for her and jessica was forgotten. she may have gotten a platinum record but how did her other albums do? she is a one hit wonder and she is a has been...she is the nusuc.movie business joke
Posted by: kourtney | April 21, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Good grief. Country music has fallen so far so fast. The entire industry is a joke. The songs are laughable, the "artists" are lame. I laugh every time I hear country music. The music industry has put itself out of business. Great job.
Posted by: timbo | April 07, 2009 at 10:50 PM
yeah, her not getting so much exposure now may mean more for the real talented ones like ashton shepard, crystal shawanda, etc.
hooray!
Posted by: whynot? | April 07, 2009 at 12:09 PM
make room for new talent, so not necessarily a bad thing she may be out. Lets give other people a chance!
Posted by: Alex | April 07, 2009 at 11:47 AM
OK! Magazine has confirmed it. She is no longer with Columbia Nashville...
"UPDATE: When OK! called Columbia Nashville, the label which released Jess's country album, a telephone operator told us that Jessica Simpson has now "come off the label". We're waiting for further comment."
http://www.okmagazine.com/news/view/13193
Posted by: anonymous | April 07, 2009 at 10:39 AM
smokeyjoe, you are right that they may try to spin it as her being too busy with the clothing line, etc, but at what point will the company that makes "her" clothes start rethinking that relationship? I mean, it's not like she designs the fashions.
The only thing she brings to the fashion table is her name, and what is that really worth these days?
Posted by: Tex | April 07, 2009 at 10:26 AM
AMEN to whoever made that comment on Nashville being clicky! If anything I think Nashville has been pretty good over the past few years about accepting different types artists into their genre. And the success of Darius, Taylor, Carrie, and Kelli prove that.
The difference between them and Jess is that they are believable as country artists, wherein Jess is not.
Posted by: anon | April 07, 2009 at 09:27 AM
Where did she comment on that? Ah I see, so she is OK with financing her own record. What she wouldn't prefer to be on a label and have then pay for it/do all the booking/marketing for her? Um obviously not, and her next album will go absolutely nowhere if it is not on a major label, and you can take that to the bank.
Let's face it, if she didn't make it on a major label with TONS of help with great songwriters (smooth move by using some of Carrie's writers by the way, good luck trying to get them back), and tons of publicity before the record came out then I highly doubt she will make it on her own. Good luck though Jess, you're going to need it!
Posted by: anon | April 07, 2009 at 09:21 AM
"Its a known fact Nashville is quite clicky."
Nashville welcomed Taylor Swift, a teen from Pennsylvania; Darius Rucker ,a pop/rock superstar whose crossover album is selling well; Julianne Hough, a dancer from Utah and now Best New Artist of the Year at the ACM's; Kid Rock who has had some popular songs in country without officially crossing over; and Carrie Underwood and Kelli Pickler from American Idol.
So don't blame a clique in Nashville for Jessica's failure. There may be grumbling about crossovers trying to go country, but it looks like Nashville gives anyone a shot and if the singer has talent they will reward it no matter where they started.
Don't blame Nashville for Jessica's lack of talent.
Posted by: anonymous | April 07, 2009 at 09:18 AM
Papa Joe will spin this so that it sounds like she's got other things to concentrate on like her clothing line or whatever other silliness she's involved in. I'm not shocked the record was a flop, but I am a little surprised at how much of a flop it was. I honestly thought she'd move a few more units than she did. Oh well...
Posted by: smokeyjoe | April 07, 2009 at 08:46 AM
She has commented she will finance her own album. At the start of this endeavour she made that very clear. I guess we wait & see right! Don't count Jessica out of anything. She is a fighter.
Posted by: anonymous | April 07, 2009 at 08:40 AM
This is not surprising, her album did very poorly and most of the buzz she got was negative. It makes sense now that she wasn't at the ACM's.
And yea in the past her pop albums did well but that was many years ago. Her last pop album was a flop, and now this "country" album has sold poorly as well so she's going to have a tough time finding someone to finance her next album.
Posted by: anon | April 07, 2009 at 07:19 AM
Sorry she is not a failure in pop she has platnium albums so get your facts straight. Its a known fact Nashville is quite clicky. She will probably go independant as many artists have done & many more I am sure will. Its a hell of a lot easier & you get more control. This happens to artists all the time not just Jessica.
Posted by: anonymous | April 07, 2009 at 03:57 AM
this doesnt surprise me her record label finally woke up and realized she is not a "real singer" stick a fork in the ham shes done shes a failure in pop now country whats next rap?
Posted by: kourtney | April 06, 2009 at 09:34 PM