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Jessica Simpsonis opening up about her hiatus from music.
“I was mad at music a bit.
After being dropped with a number-one country album I was dropped, and I just never understood it.
Jessica Simpson performs a surprise set at Luck Reunion 2025 in March.Credit:Gary Miller/Getty
The singer’s crossover to the genre fared well, with the record debuting at No.
1 onBillboard’s Top Country Albumschart and peaking at No.
4 inTop Album Sales.
Jessica Simpson’s debut country album, ‘Do You Know,’ released in 2008.Epic/Columbia Nashville
1,through the record label Nashville Canyon.
Simpson also recalled being warned against pursuing a music career during her conversation onTrailblazers Radio.
“They told me not to do it,” she said.
Simpson was ultimately inspired to return to performing after her eldest daughter’s birthday celebration in Nashville.
“And I woke her up with that song and it just hit me.
It was like, ‘The light’s here.'”
“This is where I’m born free,” she said of Nashville.
“I did a gospel record at 14 here.
I got to write my first songs here.
I wrote my whole country record here.
And I was always so safe.”
you’re free to listen to Simpson’s fullTrailblazers Radiointerview when it drops on Saturday, April 26.
