Ashlee Simpson

Jessica who? Taking cues from the angry-ish pop rock of Avril Lavigne, Ashlee Simpson uses her super husky voice, proclivity for decidedly dirty lyrics, and guitars, guitars, guitars to set her debut far from the teen pop of her sister. There's a little Shania Twain in here, too, but that doesn't hurt at all.

"How do you know everything I'm about to say?" asks the brunet member of TV's other
cartoon family named Simpson, seemingly oblivious to her debut album's predictable script.
"La La" casts Jessica's younger sister Ashlee as a barely legal temptress wanting to "Make la
la in the kitchen on the floor/I'll be a French maid when I meet you at the door." Ironic or
not, it's creepy. The music's mundane melange of Avril-ish brat pop and Sheryl C... More >