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What Inspired Jessica Simpson to Record Her 1st Album in 13 Years? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Well, Jessica Simpson has taken a hiatus from recording music
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Speaker 2: for more than a dozen years, but she's back in
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Speaker 2: the studio with plans for a full album. She recently
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Speaker 2: relocated to Nashville from California, and the change in scenery
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Speaker 2: partially inspired her to return to recording, telling Footwear News,
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Speaker 2: it feels like a retreat. I get to just crawl
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Speaker 2: up inside my head and embrace my heart. I feel
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Speaker 2: so enlightened there. Writing music has become a beautiful therapeutic
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Speaker 2: thing for me that I didn't know is so natural,
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Speaker 2: but only because i'ven't done it in so long. It's
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Speaker 2: like I'm meeting myself as a woman, and after going
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Speaker 2: through everything that I've been through in my life, there's
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Speaker 2: a sense of freedom and empowerment. Jessica's last album is
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Speaker 2: actually a holiday project, so this album would be her
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Speaker 2: first pop or country project in over fifteen years now.
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