Jessica Simpson Gets Candid on 'Sexy' New Song About 'Craving Someone That You Want Again... Just for One Night' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Jessica Simpson.Photo:Alex Berger/Weird Candy

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From the moment, she arrived in Nashville in September 2023 tomake new music,Jessica Simpsonsays, “I was unstoppable.”

“I’d wake up in the morning and write down poetry, lucid dreaming style,” she tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview, “and then bring that to the songwriting sessions.”

The result is her new EP,Nashville Canyon, Part 1,a collection of five soul and rockabilly-infused tunes, out March 21.

Her first single “Use My Heart Against Me” drops Feb. 21. “It was a sexy song to write,” Simpson, 44, says.

“I woke up with that lyric in my head,” she explains. “It’s kind of craving someone that you want again and you don’t care if your heart is used against you – if it’s just for one night. Like, give it over, just for the experience again.”

Still, she says, “I didn’t necessarily want it at the beginning of writing this record. I was in a different place.”

Jessica Simpson in Nashville in May 2024.Alex Berger/Weird Candy

That was before she and her husband of 10 years,Eric Johnson— with whom she has three children, Maxwell, 12, Ace, 11, and Birdie, 5 — decided to end their marriage. Theyannounced the spliton Jan. 5.

Along the way, the music took a more personal turn.

“I’ve grown up so much and I can handle so much,” Simpson says now. “I am strong. Maybe I’m just meant to love a lot of people in my life.”

Still, Simpson prefers to let the music to do the talking and says, “The songs speak for themselves.”

Take for example, the second song she wrote while in Nashville: “Breadcrumbs,” which features the lyrics,“Remember who you are / Forget who they told you to be.” It’s a song she calls her “personal anthem.”

“I was told who I was as an artist, who I was as a singer, and what words I should be singing and exactly how,” she tells PEOPLE. “Note for note. Riff for riff.”

No more.

For more from Jessica Simpson, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday.

source: people.com