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Simpson puts on great show
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Bank of America Pavilion (Boston, MA)
Concert Date: July 11th, 2006
Reviewer: admin
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Squeaky but clean, this Simpson has some appeal
By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff | July 13, 2006
Ashlee Simpson selected a grand wrought-iron staircase and a pair of colossal
candelabra to decorate the stage on her national tour, which included a stop in
Boston on Tuesday to play for young girls with tiny purses and patient parents.
Simpson, you may be thinking, isn't really a candelabra kind of gal. And the
stairs were entirely superfluous to the performance, which involved a lot of
jumping and a few recyclable power chords but not much in the way of sweep or
drama.
Simpson's lovely new nose was the standout feature in a 70-minute set of
pop-rock tuneage delivered with deeply generic expertise by her five-piece band.
Dressed (like her followers) in skinny jeans and a tank top, Simpson sang songs
from her 2004 release ``Autobiography" and 2005's ``I Am Me." Those album titles
are misnomers, suggesting a surplus of musical personality that the 21-year-old
singer doesn't actually produce.
``This is a song I wrote about meeting somebody and having a crush," Simpson
said before playing ``Burning Up," which melted along with the rest of her
repertoire into a largely indistinguishable mass of muddy guitars, adolescent
angst, and assembly-line hooks.
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