Jessica Simpson laid her coronary heart on the road in her new tune, “Blame Me.”
The singer, 44, dropped “Blame Me” alongside her new album, Nashville Canyon: Pt. 1, on Friday, March 21.
The tune’s lyrics inform the story of somebody acquiescing to an ex blaming them for the demise of a romantic relationship. The phrases urge the ex to proceed as a result of they’ve given up caring what the ex has to say.
“Go on and blame me/ Go inform your mama, your mates/ All at my expense / Couldn’t care any much less if you happen to disgrace me,” Simpsons sings within the refrain.
Different lyrics embrace: “You don’t know what you’re sorry about / I allow you to be king of the whole lot that’s mine / Now you’re drunk on the ability / As you bury me alive.”
In the meantime, the ultimate verse references “guilt” and having to “clear up” a multitude within the wake of a damaged romance.
“Blame me for the ache, from the disgrace / For the nights, for the times / To your guilt, on your vacancy / And also you’re good, that it’s me/ That’s dropping sleep / When you let me clear up all of your mess,” the lyrics learn.
Simpson additionally touched on the discharge of “Blame Me” in a behind-the-scenes video launched through YouTube on Friday, March 21.
“Immediately’s my heartbreak tune, it’s referred to as ‘Blame Me.’ Go on, blame me. It ain’t my fault,” she declared within the video’s introduction, including, “The reward of a damaged coronary heart is a ballad.”
In the course of the behind-the-scenes clip, Simpson spoke additional in regards to the that means of the tune.
“I feel that it’s an empowering heartbreak tune,” she defined. “I feel it’s the aspect of heartbreak the place you simply need to give up to the opposite individual simply blaming you when it’s simply not your fault [laughs]. And it’s okay, simply let ‘em blame you.”
In February, Simpson introduced her return to music after 15 years and launched the album’s lead single, “Use My Coronary heart Towards Me.”
“I’ve lived by means of the toughest components of life, and music is what has introduced me again,” she mentioned in an announcement on the time. “Nashville Canyon is for anybody who’s ever been informed who they’re or how they need to stay their life. It’s about discovering your true voice and the braveness to be precisely who you might be.”
She added, “Music makes you un-become to grow to be, and thru this course of my soul has been pulled to the very place it belongs. This music is mine to share, and it’s not nearly me — it’s about everybody who’s ever felt misplaced or ignored. I need to remind them that they’re not alone.”
Earlier this month, Simpson launched a second single from the album titled “Go away,” which hinted at an ex dishonest on her.
“What we had was magic / Now you made it tragic / Giving her what you gave to me / Now the properly that you just drank from is empty,” she sang.

Ace Knute Johnson, Eric Johnson, Birdie Mae Johnson, Jessica Simpson, and Maxwell Drew Johnson. Charley Gallay/Getty Photographs for Jessica Simpson Assortment
The lyrics continued, “Did you do to her what you probably did to me? / Was she on her knees? / Oh, she’s the whole lot however me.”
Simpson went on to sing about “unholy matrimony.”
“Did you do to her what you probably did to me? / Was she on her knees? / Oh, she’s the whole lot however me,” she sang. “Oh, I, I’d reasonably die / Than allow you to be inside me together with her in your thoughts.”
Simpson’s new album comes two months after she confirmed her break up from estranged husband Eric Johnson. The pair married in July 2014 and share daughter Maxwell, 12, son Ace, 11, and daughter Birdie, 6.
“Eric and I’ve been residing individually navigating a painful scenario in our marriage,” Simpson informed Us Weekly in a January assertion. “Our kids come first, and we’re specializing in what’s greatest for them. We’re grateful for the entire love and help that has been coming our means, and admire privateness proper now as we work by means of this as a household.”
Previous to her relationship with Johnson, 45, Simpson was married to Nick Lachey from 2002 to 2006. She additionally dated the likes of John Mayer, Tony Romo and Billy Corgan.