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Ashlee
Simpson
Promises
A
'Stripped
Down'
First
Tour
NEW
YORK
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Ashlee
Simpson
(news)
is
amped
about
her
upcoming
tour
—
but
doesn't
want
to
talk
about
her
embarrassing
"Saturday
Night
Live"
or
Orange
Bowl
(news
-
web
sites)
appearances.
Simpson
turned
up
Monday
at
the
Cosmopolitan
Fun
Fearless
Male
Awards
at
Cipriani
42nd
Street.
Simpson,
the
magazine's
Fun
Fearless
Female
of
the
Year,
adorns
the
February
cover.
"It's
really
stripped
down,"
Simpson
told
The
Associated
Press
about
her
first
solo
tour.
"There's
no
pyro(technics)
or
anything
like
that.
The
stage
has
a
mud
kind
of
feel,
you
know,
black
and
white.
The
thing
about
my
tour
is
it's
going
to
be
me
and
my
band
getting
out
there
and
having
fun."
Of
course.
But
will
there
be
costume
changes?
"Little
ones
here
and
there,"
said
Simpson.
"I'll
be
taking
off
jackets
and
that
kind
of
stuff."
Simpson
was
sure
the
tour,
which
kicks
off
Feb.
16
at
the
Grove
of
Anaheim
in
Anaheim,
Calif.,
would
include
a
few
covers
and
rearranged
tunes
from
her
debut
album,
"Pieces
of
Me."
But
the
20-year-old
was
unsure
about
why
Cosmo
picked
her
as
the
Fun
Fearless
Female
of
the
Year.
"Oh
wow.
I
don't
know,"
said
Simpson.
"I
love
to
have
a
great
time.
I'm
not
really
scared
of
many
things
at
all.
I've
been
that
way
since
I
was
a
little
girl."
After
tackling
acting
and
performing,
Simpson,
who
appears
on
the
Cosmo
cover
in a
strappy
red
dress,
would
like
to
dabble
in
fashion,
but
she
hasn't
cut
any
patterns
just
yet.
"I
would
love
to
do a
fashion
line,"
said
Simpson.
"I'm
gonna
start
to
look
into
that.
I
have
my
own
kind
of
style.
And
I'd
love
to
put
a
line
out."
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