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Is Jessica Simpson’s New Song ‘Fade’ About Ex Husband Eric Johnson?
Jessica Simpson is processing her breakup through music.
On the same day she released her new single, “Fade,” the singer performed on Today. “In the face of heartbreak, in the face of life completely changing, music saved my life,” she said on July 23.
In “Fade,” which was released ahead of the upcoming Nashville Canyon, Pt. 2, Simpson describes a relationship falling apart, which has many believing the song was inspired by her divorce. Though listeners can only speculate that the pop star is calling out Johnson, Simpson sings lyrics like: “You can always say you love me / That doesn’t mean that I feel loved” and “You’re as empty as your promise / Go sleep alone in the bed you made.”
Though the singer doesn’t refer to her ex husband, Eric Johnson, by name in her latest single or her March EP, Nashville Canyon, Part 1, Simpson has spoken about infusing her music with her “frustration.”
“I’m not comfortable with anger, so you won’t hear much anger in any of my music,” Simpson told Rolling Stone. “You’ll hear frustration, but it’s strong. I deserve to love the way I love, and I love so deeply and so fully and in a committed way. Maybe there are others out there like that. Who knows?”
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A decade into their marriage, Simpson announced her split from NFL star Eric Johnson, with whom she shares three children, this January. “Eric and I have been living separately navigating a painful situation in our marriage,” she said in a statement to Us Weekly. “Our children come first, and we are focusing on what is best for them.”
Her song “Leave” from Nashville Canyon: Part 1 also featured lyrics that seemed to hint at her ex. Some of the lyrics include, “Your weakness made me lonely / Unholy matrimony / Did you do to her what you did to me? / Was she on her knees?”
