Jessica Simpson and Willie Nelson - These Boots Are Made for Walking.

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I've just posted the video for y'all at http://poptext.blogspot.com

Oh my.

New mix! New lyrics! Willie!

Personally, I adore it all.

― Abby (abby mcdonald), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

chuck must love this.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 10 June 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Bemusing. (no more, no less)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

yeah, doesn't really merit more than one listen/chuckle.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 10 June 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

ps- those who stick around to the last 30secs get rewarded with a pink bikini/car wash event. In a stable.

― Abby (abby mcdonald), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

"rewarded"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 10 June 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

So much worse than I ever thought possible.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

for various reasons that made me depressed. maybe its better with sound

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Nope.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

and i hate willie nelson more than ever now

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

and i cry for my gender

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

woops - i censored myself!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

well its par for the course for Willie - he'll work with pretty much anybody that will make him a little cash. I don't really hold that against him tho. His autobio (the first one, not the recent one) really endeared me towards him. And no amount of tiresome scantily clad boney white chick robo-dancing is gonna diminish that...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 10 June 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

he's crossing the line lately

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Those weird Britney-like affectations Simpson uses are becoming the female equivalent of Eddie Vedder syndrome.

― darin (darin), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

am I the only person that instantly tunes out whenever 80s-gang dance choreography sequences start up?

lamest video trope ever.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 10 June 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

I know there must be a more succinct term for what I'm talking about here... a line of (usually all) girls doing robotic dance steps in sync behind the singer... so... tiresome.... "Thriller" was 20 years ago... get one new idea...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 10 June 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

This is really, really long...

― Jimmy Mod Is Great At Getting Us Into Trouble (ModJ), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

...and the stream crashes before I get to the bikini car wash

― Jimmy Mod Is Great At Getting Us Into Trouble (ModJ), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

what exactly is willie's role here? i see him opening his mouth now and then, and i can kinda sorta hear the sound of his voice, but i kinda sorta can't when it comes right down to it. this is a collaboration in the same way that gary and nuno collaborated with the other two guys in extreme for "more than words."

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

He plays about two bars of an acoustic "solo" towards the end (post carwash bikini). Plus Jessica says his name a couple times.

hooray for "collaboration"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 10 June 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

The video is soooo X-Tina. I miss wholesome, vanilla Jessica.

The song... I'm not too fond.. her voice isn't suited for it.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

am I the only person that instantly tunes out whenever 80s-gang dance choreography sequences start up?

I was hoping they'd find some way to reference Nancy's line of poorly-synced backup sweaters, alas.

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

I found myself saying "Is she carrying a bucket? They aren't really going to have her soap up and shimmy on that car, are they?" through the last minute of the video. And then she did. How godawful...

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 11 June 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

her body is absolutely insane. she should star in a remake of Weird Science.

― shookout (shookout), Saturday, 11 June 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

ive fucking written about this--come on guys, use the search.

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 11 June 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

I still haven't seen this shit all the way through. I need tittays, dammit!

― Jimmy Mod Is Great At Getting Us Into Trouble (ModJ), Saturday, 11 June 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Ewwww. That's terrible.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 11 June 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Pre-speed freak Britney would have been a much better Daisy (and choice for this song/video). Simpson's sexiness is too calculated and cold, down to the scientifically-improbable body, Spears was more teasing and lifelike.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 11 June 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

That's fer sure. You know, it just aint sexy when a woman does a caricature of feminine sexuality. Like a bad equation: if I have heels, enormous lips, and move my ass in this x-y-z motion, and kind of pout and flutter, then I'M SEXY!! (Sorry, wrong. You're tawdry. Transvestites should reclaim the drag look). And strippers should reclaim their profession. Soon. Because it makes much more sense to see a someone parade like that to a Motley Crue song than to a Nancy Sinatra one.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Sunday, 12 June 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Pre-speed freak Britney would have been a much better Daisy (and choice for this song/video). Simpson's sexiness is too calculated and cold...

Simpson seems to have carried over her calculatedly wooden Golden Girl approach though she has left behind the qualms about showing skin, which leaves the skin to fend for itself -- when she fills the necessary cue to sell the sex appeal, she comes off as studied, and rather poorly studied at that. "X-y-z," yes.

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Sunday, 12 June 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

it makes much more sense to see a someone parade like that to a Motley Crue song than to a Nancy Sinatra one.

have you ever seen a vintage nancy sinatra photo??

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 12 June 2005 05:50 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. Her shit wasn't all hangin' out like that. And she had the "walkin'" part down.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Sunday, 12 June 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

i love the drag comment. i have to say though, its not all her fault --- this is our culture and hollywood. its just like how everyone is delighted she lost some weight and look so fabulous now PHEW! - as if that should be a lifegoal. its fucking depressing.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 12 June 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

Funniest moment ever:

Newlyweds - Jessica talking with friends about a time she was in highschool and did some sort of performance for the school where they pretended they were in a car and were about to crash and she asked the guy driving if he was saved or something, and at the end when they had to mime the actual crash, she fell to the ground - except she forgot that she wore a skirt and thong underpants that day so everyone went nuts. How glorious.

― DogsPajamas (David Allen), Sunday, 12 June 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

i love the drag comment. i have to say though, its not all her fault --- this is our culture and hollywood.

Blame it on daddy. Joe Simpson's the worst example of a showbizz-parent. He actually drools when his girls are showing too much flesh. Compliments Jessica on her boobs! The irony is that the video reminds me of Hooters, something she talked about, saying how the Hooter girls are just prostituting themselves. How times change. I think the song is bloody awful, her voice is just one squeal away from... what? I want to say mediocrity... And poor Willie Nelson, what the hell was he thinking? He was probably promised a private foam bikini scene. ;-)

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Sunday, 12 June 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

fuck the haters, on my hot list for single of the year--heres why (posted from the thread, and nyplm)

1) the girl with the golden voice-- has all of these connections to money and class, to fame, pop desire that completely is against the idea of hazzards--radical reinvention of american pop culture. everyone knows golden voice means golden hair.
2) she is claiming her own saftey--which gets me all fuzzy intertextually, if we you belive the rumours of her and johnny knoxville's anal adventures
3) how she combines girl pop, hip hop, faux country, and her own insanely powerful voice means it combines more genres, with more history in the introduction to this song, then cowboy troy does in his whole album
4) her random trellsimo, meraunged to the heaven--crash entirely into a hip hop chorus
5) her mentioning of her ass twice in 5 seconds, as the primary source of pleasure, voids any of the virginial silliness that m arked her meterotic rise.
6) her singing sooooooweeeee and yeaaaaa haaaaa was silly, but hot.
7) the inclusion of the 70 something willie nelson as dirty ol man, means that he is perhaps the slyest person working today--is like the concessions made by johnny cash in rubins american recordings, but with out any of the cannonical rockism, its like Cash deciding to cut an album with britney spears ca hit me baby one more time---a song that Richard Thompson called one of the best written of all time.
8) and all of this before the fantastic opening stutter start that made every single solitary cover of this song interesting.

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 12 June 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Bless you, Anthony, that's quite a strong argument. But I'm still only flatly bemused by it. (I'm not trying to throw cold water on your love for it, if anything I've actually been more intrigued by a larger subtextual assumption here and in other discussions that anything in the WTF genre-as-such automatically rules -- but at what point does surprise become *unsurprising*?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 June 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

I am "for" it conceptually, and had high hopes for a few seconds. But this just doesn't work.

― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 12 June 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Yes, the problem appears to be that it sucks.

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Sunday, 12 June 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Simpson's sexiness is too calculated and cold, down to the scientifically-improbable body, Spears was more teasing and lifelike.

Or maybe due to the enormous amount of people that helped along her empire, Britney's sexiness is actually so well calculated that it's unnoticable when compared to the obviously flawed sexiness of Jessica.

I personally think we need someone new and better. I'm bored to death with both girls.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 12 June 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

> Those weird Britney-like affectations Simpson uses are becoming the female equivalent of Eddie Vedder syndrome.

You mean like pronouncing "me" as "may"? Totally agree.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 12 June 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

You mean like pronouncing "me" as "may"? Totally agree.

then again, her sister ashlee pronounces it that way too. maybe that's, like, the way they actually talk.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 12 June 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

http://web.idrc.ca/IMAGES/books/841/figure02.gif

― Jimmy Mod Is Great At Getting Us Into Trouble (ModJ), Sunday, 12 June 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Irrespective of whether or not I like this (I'm far too confused by it to make a snap decision), I do think it might be the most sexless song I've ever heard.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 12 June 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

I haven't hear this song yet but I'd love to see a version of the video with Willie Nelson doing a running behind-the-scenes commentary like the Lee Hazelwood version of Boots where he says things like "This is the part where Billy Strange blah blah blah..."

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 12 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

uh anthony willie doesn't actually DO anything on this song. and he's done totall schlocky crossovers a few times before.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 12 June 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

he does something, he provides a under the radar, whispering, notice of his own desire

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 12 June 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

What a hilarious debate.

― speakerrs and textmouth (David Allen), Sunday, 12 June 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

This thread is a slow-developing classic.

― Jimmy Mod Is Great At Getting Us Into Trouble (ModJ), Sunday, 12 June 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

this thread sucks

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Sunday, 12 June 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

open the window, anthony

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 12 June 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

i dont kow what that means
but i do know you assholes dont know genius when you hear it

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 12 June 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

beliving in genius is rockist!

― shookout (shookout), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

i dont kow what that means

it means your hermeneutics are STALE

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

TRUDAT

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 12 June 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

My hermeneutics got all stale and mouldy; I had to get them removed.
They're in a jar on my shelf.

― wemp, Sunday, 12 June 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377818/

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

Her face is so weird.

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Monday, 13 June 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

willie doesn't actually DO anything on this song

He's there so that Jessica can whisper, "C'mon, Willie!", the better to create one of the most truly disturbing moments in the history of the world.

― brittle-lemon, Monday, 13 June 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

tell me more A!

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 13 June 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm confused as to _why_ she's washing the car (other than the obvious). i.e., It doesn't make sense in the course of the video.

― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

You'll never make it in marketing, Hillary.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Shouldn't it make a little sense? I mean, I get why the car is there (it's famous), but why does it need washing? It doesn't look particularly dirty.

― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

It's the General Lee! Shit's gotta be pristine! Damn thing won't clean itself, y'know? And, also, dirt marks on the ass (from sliding across the hood) are so unsightly.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

This video would be much improved if she were washing the car with her shirtless brothers.

― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

FOR FUCK'S SAKE THE DOORS OF THE GENERAL LEE DO NOT OPEN!!!

― john'n'chicago, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

hill you might wanna check out who are playing the duke boys before you dream of them shirtless. not a schneider in the lot.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Yeah yeah. I know who it is. And it could be better. I'm just sayin', with all the rumors and suchlike, it would add an interesting dynamic plus at least something in the ballpark of eye candy for the rest of us.

― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

This video would be much improved if she were washing the car with her shirtless brothers.

They're not her brothers! They're her cousins.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

I just cant help feelin that a sugababes / Xenomania cover of this would have been soo much better.

except for the ballady bridge that heidi would sing..obviously.

― Dannyboy, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, sorry. My bad. In which case it would all be pretty okay for them to goof around and spray each other with the hose in a flirty away.

― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Does Willie play Uncle Jesse?

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

not a schneider in the lot

This should help.

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/O/htmlO/onedayata/onedayataIMAGE/onedayata.jpg

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

yeah. who's covering the theme? (surely someone)

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Is the video not working properly for anyone else?

― Masked Gazza, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

yeah. who's covering the theme? (surely someone)

DARIUS RUCKER TO THREAD!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Does Willie play Uncle Jesse?

yes

― john'n'chicago, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Willie plays Uncle Jesse.

This all makes so much sense now!

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

> yeah. who's covering the theme? (surely someone)

I vote for Shooter Jennings.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

yr actually right, joesph.

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

There's no one listed at imdb.com as The Narrator (Who's going to say, "Wonder what them Duke Boys gonna do to get out of this one?"), but this credit stopped me cold:

Rip Taylor .... Himself

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

He might do his Eminem cover, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

Just saw the video. Don't know what to think as it has a nice beat, but completely ruins the feel of the song (that light yet forceful swing + live instuments = very 60s cool). Maybe they should have used the beat in an original song, with someone else singing and washing cars?
Jessica Simpson sucks, she's like one of those prudey girls from high school you didn't really like but were nice to because she was harmless who a couple years later goes on Spring Break and ends up in a Girls Gone Wild video... you feel more embarrassed than she does.

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 20 June 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

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