Jessica Simpson has decided to get back to music, and country music at that. It was her decision. Really. It wasn’t because she can’t act. I’m sure she’s got offers pouring in like hot syrup on a stack of pancakes. I’m sure she’ll get back to acting in compelling films like Dukes of Hazzard and Major Movie Star when she decides she’s good and ready. She’s country singing by choice, man. By choice.

The singer is "talking about doing a country record and going back to her roots, being from Texas," Jessica’s father and manager, Joe Simpson, told PEOPLE at Hard Rock Hotel’s Rolling Stone party in Las Vegas.

"Everything in our business is about beats and I think she really wants to sing," he said, "and country music still believes in that."

Simpson, 27, recently finished filming Major Movie Star and is turning her thoughts back to her music. Her last album, 2006’s "Public Affair," hit the Top 20, but quickly fell off the charts.

"She’s a singer from top to bottom," Joe Simpson said. "And everything in the music business, especially pop music, has moved away from singers. And I think country is the the only pure, storytelling kind of genre left."

Is there a creepier father than Joe Simpson? Only he could manage to refer to his daughter’s "top" and "bottom" in the same sentence. You just know Jessica’s at the top of his spank bank. Ewwwww.

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We’d been sitting on the rampant Jessica Simpson dating rumors this week. They just didn’t smell right.

If one believes all the stories showing up in newspapers and online, she’s a busy little thing. Maybe that 5 Factor Diet gives her extra energy, in addition to leaving her super cut and steely.

This week alone we’ve got stories swirling that Dane Cook and Jess were seen canoodling at the Prince concert at the Hollywood Roosevelt.

Later, reports surfaced that at that same purple concert, she was seen romantically accompanied trainer to the stars Harley Pasternak, who is responsible for the fitness program cited for Simpson’s rapid physical transformation.

Now…the buzz about Jake Gyllenhaal and Jess having mutual crushes on each other is building to a crescendo with reports that they’re already in love, and that she visited him at the Beverly Wilshire a couple weeks ago.

Next thing you know there will be pregnancy claims or pending adoptions. Whatever it takes to divert our attention from the stench coming from Simpson’s rotting movie, Bombed…oops… Blonde Ambition.

What we actually smell is a rat.

A publicity-hound rat.

Around here, we call that spotlight-seeking rodent Papa Joe.

Wonder what’s next. A surprise reunion with John Mayer. How about tales of a threesome with Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo?

The first story that ever came out about the Jessica Simpson movie "Blonde Ambition," produced by her dad Joe, was when she said on the Jimmy Kimmel Show that she was making it with Luke Wilson co-starring. This was all exciting news for Luke Wilson, because he had never heard of it before that moment. Somehow they did eventually get Wilson to lower himself to this, but the movie continued to be a compete and total failure in every way nonetheless. And now it’s been announced the movie will miss its second release date and get pushed back until late August. Gatecrasher says:

Sources say her manager dad has pushed back the release date twice because the movie is no good.

"First, the release date was set for Aug. 3, and then it was delayed until the last week of August," says an insider. "Papa Joe then intervened and said he wasn’t comfortable with the level of competition from other films that month."

Another source says: "Jessica was not very focused on-set and flubbed her lines often. She always had her dog around, was on the phone with [then-] boyfriend John Mayer or was sitting in a warmed-up SUV."

The source said the film, which is still incomplete, is currently without a firm release date.

You mean a film starring Jessica Simpson is no good? Shocking! If Joe Simpson is worried about other movies being better then there’s no way this thing is ever going to be released. It’s a damn remake of Working Girl. A training video for Burger King would be more engaging. Don’t believe me? Watch the trailer, and then weep for everybody involved in this project.

Dad/manager Joe Simpson was out cruising the town when his evening came to a sudden halt…by a railing! Is Joe any relation to Homer Simpson?

Joe was about to drive off in his Ferrari in Beverly Hills Saturday night after leaving Ken Paves’ salon when he ran into the railing from a staircase. He looked over his shoulder in disbelief and embarrassment. Instead of stopping to look at the damage (like any proud man), he drove away before anyone else noticed.

The valet attendants were probably thanking their lucky stars that they didn’t do it!