The cheeky fun extends to tracks like "Rule Breaker," "Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)" and "Hot Stuff," a flirty dance number; other songs take a serious tone when exploring the heavier subject of failed relationships. In "What I've Become," the tabloid fixture comments on her celebrity: "It'd be nice to make/Some mistakes without observations. ... Let me live as who I am." Tell that to Perez Hilton. Now Ashlee, come clean: Are you pregnant or what?
Ashlee Simpson's `Bittersweet World'
As it happens, the songs on Simpson's third studio album sound
more sweet than bitter. Though the effervescent pop-punkster is
growing up, with a maybe baby on the way, the disc retains the
girly-tomboy vibe and sleek production of her previous albums.
This time around, Simpson enlisted the sonic skills of
megaproducer Timbaland and The Neptunes' Chad Hugo, and it shows in
beat-heavy songs like "Murder," featuring rapper Izza Kizza, and
"Boys," the album's best song, in which Simpson coyly croons:
"Some say I make the guys/Hyptonized/When I bat my eyes/And walk
past/They say I'm such a tease/But that's just me."
