SACRILEGE!!! Jessica Simpson's Cover of "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'"...

Oh dear God in heaven....it was bad enough when that burnt-out druggie Axel Rose and his band of miscreants, Guns-n-Roses (yeah, so I had two of their CD's back in the day, so what?) covered one of my all time favourites; "Live and Let Die"...that was bad. I didn't think anything could be as bad, until I heard this...

The hoe (and no I don't mean a garden implement/tool- although she could be called a "tool") of all hoes, the hoochie mama extraordinairre, the sleeze with cheap looking hair extensions, Jessica Simpson has gone and done the unthinkable! Talk about shock and awe...well shock and horror is more like it, she's covered Nancy Sinatra's hit, "These Boots are Made for Walkin"

I was on my way to the mall, listening to the stereo and channel surfing and heard something that sounded vaguely familiar. Then it dawned on me that I'd read about the cover in either Spin or Rolling Stone and I realized it was Jessica Simpson's cover that was due to be on the soundtrack to the new Dukes of Hazard film.

I tell ya, I about had to pull over so I could vomit.

Simpson has turned Sinatra's ultra-mod fashion statement of her kicky high-heeled go-go boots, ( it seemed that almost everyone has someone in their lives they'd like to walk all over as payback for being walked on.) into a cross between a Britney Spears audio sex romp and a bubblegum-hip hop piece of crap! To say it's awful would be an understatement of biblical proportions!

So when I got home (after a trip to FYE so I could cleanse my aural palette so to speak on the way home - I picked up two new CD's; Weezer's Make Believe and Seether's Karma and Effect) I turned on MTV to see what was on...I often do this as I'm a huge fan of Ashton Kutcher's Punked and the auto-make over show - Pimp My Ride....anyhow videos were on. After watching something slightly nauseating by Mariah Carey, guess what came on? Yeah, that's right.....the video for Simpson's cover of "...Boots...".

OMG!

Talk about a stupid, stupid, stupid video with nothing more than a bunch of gratuitious T&A set to an absolutely trashy cover of one of my favourite songs. *shaking head and rolling eyes*....I won't even get into my own memories of watching the Dukes of Hazard when I was a kid, but if the movie is anything like the video, I hope it flops and sucks the rotten toes of a hundred dead camels.

And Willie Nelson! You're gonna give yourself a heart attack cavorting with the likes of Simpson. Put down the Viagra and step away from the guitar until you've gotten ahold of yourself. Good Lord man, where's your common sense? Oh, wait, don't answer that, I have a pretty good idea of just exactly where it went.

Goodness.

I was out on Sinatra's website looking around the see if she'd made a statement or commented either way on the Simpson cover of her song but was unable to find anything. I gather she gave permission for the cover so I'm assuming I won't find any negative (or otherwise) comments.

Anyhowwwwwwww. I was able to get the aural-stench out of my ears on the way home tonight with the latest Weezer CD; Make Believe. I love it. I've got their other CD's and by my reckoning I think this is their best effort to date. And another thing (although some would probably accuse me of "picking nits" or being anal about stuff like this) that makes this a great CD was the fact that it was so easy to get into. There was just a simple light plastic wrap on the outside and not the normal irritating 3 additional layers of industrial strength tape around 3 sides of the CD that one normally comes across when trying to get into a CD. I pulled the plastic wrap off and popped the CD into the player....awwwwww musical bliss! Most of the time I am exhausted after trying to get into a new CD....sitting there in the car, fighting with the thick plastic wrap and then all that stupid tape. Not this time.

Thank you Weezer!