The student rant is back

After a couple weeks on break, the student rants are back. This is James from Chagrin Falls.

Ashlee Simpson should be exiled from Hollywood
BY JAMES PSATHAS

I would like to personally extend my congratulations to Ashlee Simpson, as she joins the ranks of supremely untalented people like Paris Hilton, and Jamie Lynn Spears who have ridden on the coattails of family members to fame and fortune. Due to the fact that the world of music is being systematically destroyed by scores of untalented pop stars who project image over talent and actual music, I am forced to write this article to expose Ashlee Simpson for the alarmingly untalented person she is.
Although it is quite amusing to see her throw tantrums, look completely idiotic, break into tears, walk off stages, and blame other people because she cant carry a tune. Wannabe pop star Ashlee Simpson should be banished from Hollywood, or I fear the little sense the American people have to tell good music from bad music will be lost forever…even though it seem some already have. From acting to singing to dancing, Ashley is a failure…indeed she sucks. Sucks so bad in fact, that I believe that she singularly represents everything that is wrong with today’s made-to-order carbon-copy music stars, short on talent but long on connections, trumping talent and creativity time and time again. But to my great dismay, the American consumer can’t seem to get enough.
To my amusement she has had disaster after disaster. First she was busted lip syncing on “Saturday Night Live.” Originally, she blamed her band for playing the wrong song, then she said it was SNL’s fault for playing the wrong tape with her “back up vocals”. Nobody’s buying it Ashlee. Less tears and a little more talent might have helped her avoid the scandal but some things just aren’t in the cards…Everybody hurts, sometimes…Everybody cries, sometimes…deal with it Ashlee. Next she performs at the Orange Bowl where she actually gets the entire stadium to boo on national TV, forcing the camera to cut away.
In all honesty sometimes I wonder who’s dumber, Ashlee or Jessica? Though it can’t be entirely their fault. The triggerman in the whole thing is Joe Simpson, her father. He micro-manages Team Simpson and is founder, president and CEO of the highly lucrative SimpsonCorp. Believe me when I tell you that Big Joe, the ex-Baptist-minister-turned-music-manager who handles both girls’ careers, takes the way his cash cows are portrayed to the world very seriously. During an interview with Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush, he made it quite clear: “we let you into our lives and then you print crap you know is not true because you know us, but its new and its gossip and you forget we have a relationship,” Joe said of the tabloids. Perhaps if he didn’t want the products of SimpsonCorp. to be critiqued so harshly, he shouldn’t have forced his product on the market. It must be tough to find yourself filthy rich after a long day of pimping your kids as pop-icons. Don’t worry you can dry your eyes on all those big fat checks you cash at the expense of your children’s dignity. Cry about it Joe…seriously.
After blood, sweat, tears, and “back up vocals” here we are. If Ashlee Simpson is allowed to continue her violent rampage, I fear the worst. Although it very fun to watch her screech her way through high notes and make fun of her “butt-chin”. Do you people to remember our generation of music because of scandals of Ashlee Simpson? I think not.