Boyfriend by Ashlee Simpson

Album: I Am Me (2005)

Charted: 12 19

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In "Boyfriend," Ashlee Simpson tells another girl, "You really got it wrong, I didn't steal your boyfriend."

She denied it at the time, saying it's just making fun of how every girl out there sometimes thinks you stole her boyfriend, but on the September 4, 2018 episode of Watch What Happens Live! she revealed that it was inspired by her relationship with the actor Wilmer Valderrama, who was previously dating Lindsay Lohan. She "was done" with Valderrama by the time she wrote the song, and insisted she didn't steal him away from Lohan.

"I hung out with (Wilmer) first, and I wasn't interested in him at that point," she said. "We're great! All is well! And by the way, they're the best! All the love!"
"Boyfriend" was the first single from Ashlee Simpson's second album, I Am Me. Before launching her debut album, Autobiography, the previous year, she starred in an MTV reality show that followed along through the making and release. Thanks to exposure on the network, the album shot straight to #1 and sold over 3 million copies.

But by 2005 Simpson was in damage control mode because of fallout from her first Saturday Night Live appearance, where she was caught lip-synching. MTV still supported her, and they pushed the video for "Boyfriend," which ends with her jumping into the arms of Efren Ramirez, who plays Pedro in the movie Napoleon Dynamite. The album again debuted at #1 but sold only about 500,000 copies, and "Boyfriend" stalled at #19. Simpson released one more album before retreating from music, focusing mostly on starting a family.
Ashlee Simpson told Associated Content about this song: "It's about taking something real life and making fun of it, making it fun. There was some Hollywood drama a couple years ago and I just to hell with it and wrote about what was going on."
Simpson wrote the song with John Shanks and Kara DioGuardi, her main collaborators on her first two albums. Kara DioGuardi became a household name a few years later when she became a host on American Idol.

Comments: 7

Savannah from Elizabethtown, KyJessica Simpson is just a blonde Barbie doll (I don't have anything against blondes though, since I am one) without her own style. Ashlee, on the other hand, is more original and creative with her style and her music. I personally LOVE this song of hers, and she did a great job singing it. Jessica's voice sounds like crap, Ashlee's sounds WAY better.
Shuting from Hougang, Singaporeshe is so cool! better than her sister! i adivse all the 'hate her person' to listen up, why don't you all give her a more chance?
if i am ashlee simpson, i will be grateful to the fans
Prayerash from Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaI still think Ashlee sings better than her sister.
Christy from St.marys, CanadaI did hate Ashlee Simpson, but only becuase she was dating Pete Wentz, and she still is.But I got over myself and im ok with them now.This song is so easy to figure out."I didnt steal your boyfriend" the line says it all.
Shannon Mulvany from Spokane, WaA lot of people hate her, and I don't know why. She's not the best singer, no, but her songs are really catchy. Especially this one. The worst song of hers is L.O.V.E.
Spencer from West Milford, NjShe rocks- I have front row tix to her concert this summer....not to mention......hottie
AnonymousI hate Ashlee Simpson. She can't sing worth crap. She doesn't even have her own style of music. She just tries to copy every other popular singer out there because she can't think of her own musical ideas. She's only popular because of her idiotic, pretty,older sister. Ashlee is ugly, can't sing, can't act, and the worst part is she actually tries to. Ashlee is a poser. It's really sad people like her are popular.

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