Jessica Simpson and Jewel once shared a stage on national television for a musical performance that the internet is now never going to let die.
The 38-year-old businesswoman changed out of the leopard-print mini-dress she wore at LAX that morning into a more comfortable hoodie and ripped sweat-shorts of the same pattern upon arrival.
According to an MTV News article from almost exactly 15 years ago, the performance is from the Nick & Jessica Variety Hour, a variety show on ABC with comedy sketches and musical performances. The description of the full lineup sounds like a fever dream: Simpson also shared a duet with Kenny Rogers, singing "Islands in the Stream," famous muppets Miss Piggy and Kermit The Frog stop by, and some baseball player teaches Nick Lachey how to hit. Though footage of these appearances seems to have disappeared from existence, luckily a few viewers of the variety show must have sensed the meme potential of Simpson and Jewel's duet even before the rise of memes, and uploaded the hypnotic performance to YouTube a few years later. Just last year, Simpson gave it a brief shoutout on her Instagram, and referred to it as "The moment I felt my career explode."We started the collection with shoes, so to come into beauty, starting with brushes, is awesome. I like all kinds of beauty. I like natural beauty and I love overdone beauty. It's definitely an art.'
But Jessica - whose last record was Happy Christmas in 2010 - hasn't used her three-octave soprano pipes since recording material with Grammy-nominated hitmaker Linda Perry back in 2016.
