Marriage Fails To Enhance Music Of Lachey, Simpson
Allison Stewart of The Washington Post weighed in on the new Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey albums, saying that the married couple’s MTV reality show ‘Newlyweds’ is “a lot more enjoyable.” He writes, “In its remorseless depiction of the couple’s Olympic-caliber bickering (she’s spoiled and slovenly; he’s an eye-rolling neat freak), ‘The Newlyweds’ is more revealing than either album, and a lot more enjoyable. Had either artist channeled these real-life difficulties into music, the result might have been a searing portrait of a complicated marriage, a ‘Tunnel of Love’ for tan, good-looking people. But no. Both ‘Soulo’ (his) and ‘In This Skin’ (hers) are filled with the sort of personality-free, now-that-I’ve-finally-found-you-type love songs from which most reasonable people flee. What’s worse, neither Simpson nor Lachey, unlike their ostensible counterparts Britney and Justin, has strayed far from the teen pop conventions that have threatened to sink the genre since the late ’90s: generic hooks, gooey ballads, perfunctory R&B-lite.”
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