Rule Breaker

Album: Bittersweet World (2008)
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  • Simpson told her record label's website about this track, which is about how fun it is to sometimes do the wrong thing. She said that she was trying "to capture that badass feeling you get sometimes after watching a movie like True Romance. You think you can take on the world and you want to color outside the lines and get a tattoo or mouth off to someone way bigger than you."
  • The song is part of Ashlee Simpson's third album, Bittersweet World, which ended up being her last. She had been entrenched in the entertainment industry since she was 14, so when she finished touring for the album in 2008, she stepped away from the business to raise a family.

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