They say it's never a good idea to cut and color your hair right after a breakup or before a big event, and yet Ashlee Simpson did both for her debut single "Pieces of Me" 20 years ago.

To celebrate the milestone anniversary of the release of her debut album, Autobiography, Simpson revealed in Friday's episode of Vevo Footnotes that a last minute, at-home hair dye attempt the night before she shot the "Pieces of Me" music video ended up defining what would become her "mullet era" moving forward.

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"I colored my hair with dye from CVS the night before!" Simpson admits. "I just wanted to do something way different. I had the same hair in 7th Heaven but I wasn’t thinking about it. We had to style impromptu and it defined my mullet era."

Simpson also revealed that she left out an important detail when dying her hair that had to be fixed before filming began. "The hardest part about making the video was when I showed up in my new black hair and light eyebrows," she says. "So we had to dye my eyebrow hairs."

Simpson's debut album Autobiography was released July 20, 2004, and immediately topped the charts at No. 1. "Pieces of Me" was the singer's first single off the album, and the music video featured Simpson performing the song in a recording booth as well as clips of her with her band.

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"It was exciting to make the video with my band in a studio environment," Simpson says. "I wanted it to just be simple and represent who I was. There were definitely other concepts, but it was my first single and I just wanted to explain to the world who I was. It was about being in the studio and showing that I created my own music."

But if she remade the music video today, Simpson says it would be very different. "I would make an actual video," she adds. "I’d probably make it about my life today — being a mom, being married. Still being a creative, but showing this more evolved side of me. It would still be really important to me for the 'modern day version' of this video to feel authentic to who I am."

Watch the music video below: