Jessica Simpson Sings About Cleansing Up an Ex’s Mess on New Tune ‘Blame Me’

• On Friday, March 21, Jessica Simpson dropped her EP Nashville Canyon, Pt. 1
• It is her first EP in 15 years
• The EP incorporates a slow-burning known as known as “Blame Me,” which particulars an individual permitting an ex in charge them for the downfall of their relationship

Jessica Simpson’s new EP has arrived!

On Friday, March 21, the “Irresistible” singer dropped Nashville Canyon, Pt. 1 , her first EP in 15 years, which is at present within the high 10 on Apple Music.

To mark the discharge, Simpson, 44, shared a celebratory submit on Instagram.

“I sing as a result of I’m comfortable, I sing as a result of I’m free. His eyes are on the sparrow and I do know He watches me. God informed me I wanted to really feel the worry and do it anyway as I’m shifting into my reality whereas embracing the fantastic thing about uncertainty. And so I did….” she started the submit, which featured the challenge’s paintings.

Simpson continued: “#NashvilleCanyon is the results of studying to listen to my coronary heart once more, free from trade expectations. It’s about surrendering, letting my voice be my foremost information, and trusting the journey forward. All the time inviting God into the room the place music creates itself, with a voice that communicates on a religious stage of grace with out worry and permitting the music to be my foremost voice.”

She famous that the challenge is a “feeling,” including that she hoped folks would “catch the vibes and “wrap their coronary heart and soul round it identical to I’ve inside their very own journey.”

“This challenge has stored me awake inside my goals,” she concluded. “It doesn’t get higher than this second proper right here, proper now, sharing this inventive instinct with y’all.”

Featured on the EP is a slow-burning ballad known as “Blame Me,” the place Simpson sings about somebody permitting an ex in charge them for the downfall of their relationship.

“Go on and blamе me / Go on and blame me / Go inform your mama, your pals / All at my expense / I could not care any much less in case you disgrace me / Go on, blame me,” she belts on the refrain.

As Simpson hits the bridge, she sings: “Blame me for the ache, for the disgrace / For the nights, for the times / On your guilt, to your vacancy / And your good, that it is me / That’s shedding sleep / Whilst you let me clear up all of your mess.”

Simpson’s Nashville Canyon, Pt. 1 EP options 5 tracks, together with beforehand launched singles “Use My Coronary heart In opposition to Me” and “Go away.”

Forward of her new EP, Simpson launched a canopy of Nothing however Thieves’ “Particles” in 2020, after sharing six songs when her 2020 audiobook was launched.

In February, the “I Wanna Love You Without end” artist informed PEOPLE that her daughter Maxwell, 12, impressed her to return to her roots since she needed to go to Nashville for her eleventh birthday,

“She mentioned, ‘You already know that tune by Hank Williams, ‘I Noticed the Mild?’ It’s my favourite tune and I wish to go the place the sunshine is. I wish to be there on my eleventh birthday, it simply seems like that’s what I’m purported to do,” mentioned Simpson.

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The “A Public Affair” musician additionally opened as much as PEOPLE about breaking free from the stress she confronted when she launched her profession in pop music, as a actuality TV star, and as “a present pony.”

“I used to be informed who I used to be as an artist, who I used to be as a singer, and what phrases I ought to be singing and precisely how,” she mentioned. “Word for word. Riff for riff.”

Simpson additionally added that she would not have been capable of return to music “if I did not come at it from a soulful place.”

Nashville Canyon, Pt. 1 is out now.