On Saturday night, Jessica Simpson got booed while performing her new country songs for an audience at a music festival in Wisconsin. Jess made her country debut at Country Thunder where she found transitioning from pop music to country a little harder than expected. Half of her audience cheered her on (those probably paid by Papa Joe) and the other half booed her profusely.
Kenosha News reports:
“Many audience members found her attempt to crossover into country irritating and that her vocals lacked a southern sound.
“I just don’t hear the country in her; I don’t hear the twang. She’s not good enough to be here,” said Adam Matos, 21, from Arlington Heights, Illinois.
One man summed her performance up in a single word.
“It’s crap,” said Ryan Sia, 28, from East Troy. “She doesn’t belong here.”
Jessica tried her best to win over her audience by making one of her retarded remarks:
“I don’t know what your perception is of Jessica Simpson or what tabloid you buy, but I just want you to know that I’m just a girl from Texas; I’m just like you. I’m doing what I love and dating a boy,” Simpson said.
Kanye West, scheduled to perform at Tennessee Music & Arts Outdoor Festival, Bonnaroo, on June 15th at 2:45am, was met by angry fans when he took the stage two hours later than promised. Meaning his set began at nearly 4:45 in the morning!
While they were waiting for him to appear onstage, fans chanted “Kanye sucks” and threw various objects onto the stage in protest. When he finally opened the set with one of his most popular songs, “Good Morning”, Kanye was immediately booed for his late appearance. He continued to perform into dawn; as a result, concert-goers started to filter out, some even fell asleep while he performed.
His extremely late arrival onstage is blamed on an unnecessarily elaborate stage set, which apparently took hours longer than expected to set up. Other reports state that Pearl Jam played a bit longer than scheduled, resulting in Kanye’s late arrival.
Is an elaborate set really worth the wait, or was Kanye disrespecting his fans in favor of performing on a glitzy set? Do you blame these fans, or do you think they were justified in their harsh treatment of Kanye?
