Welcome to another episode of Broken Records, where Stephen Hill and Remfry Dedman take a deep breath, hold their nose and dive head first into some of the stinkiest musical moments ever in search for the very worst album of all time. Today we’re looking at I Am Me, the second full length record by US pop-rocker Ashlee Simpson, released on the 18th of October 2005.

With us both being UK based, we don’t actually know all that much about Miss Simpson. She never really cracked Britain, in fact all she is really known for is what she is most known for the world over - being the pop star who was “scandalously” caught lip-syncing on a 2004 episode of Saturday Night Live. Being a pop star (pop stars mime a lot by the way, SPOILER!) you’d think that this would be something of a non-event, but in actuality it became a massive great bastard stick to beat Simpson with for some time. Her career suffered a significant nose dive after the event, but rather than sit at home and mope, she got back in the studio and decided to chronicle her feelings in her second album. Which is what we get here. It’s not exactly groundbreaking, with Simpson claiming the record would lean on influences from the 80’s whilst being 'rawer' and 'realer', yet confusingly crediting her stylist, make up artist and hairdresser in the linear notes of the record. EH?! Still, did she redeem herself or does she show herself up to be the cynical pop puppet prat that the media spun her as?... Listen to find out what we think...

Ashlee Simpson - Boyfriend (Official Video)

Ashlee Simpson - L.O.V.E. (Official Music Video)

SNL Ashlee Simpson - Clean SDTV Video Capture

Owen Paul “My Favorite Waste Of Time” Lip Sync Fail BBC Pebble Mill

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