Listen: Ashlee Simpson Makes Another Mistake

Ashlee Simpson
"Can't Have It All"

After hearing her forthcoming album, we feel comfortable saying "Can't Have It All" is the best new Ashlee Simpson song in years. Good news, right? Well, it would be ... if "Can't Have It All" was on the album. In the latest misstep involving her new record, this song was taken off Bittersweet World at the last minute and relegated to the wasteland of internet bonus material. So dumb. We imagine somebody thought the pop-rock song was deemed too close to Ashlee's old sound and decided it didn't fit with World's other dance-y new-wave tracks. While this may be true, it hardly justifies ditching the track. With echoing guitar, a stadium-sized hook and a marching snare and bass rhythm, this thing sounds like a lost U2 smash. On it, Ashlee ditches her new club-crazed vixen persona for something more convincing and realistic. "Looking back now, I can see I made some mistakes," she sings. Too true.

>> Listen to the track here.