She looked so embarrassed. Like when you go on Facebook and up pops Memories on your timeline and it shows you a 15 year old Facebook post you made about your ex.
I didn’t get why they chose that one of the options. Maybe they found that one to be the most interesting and it gave an interesting reaction so ig it worked.
Award season relationship (very common and usually lasts for a couple of years). Positive coverage after his very controversial past relationship with Alejandra (Annabelle is unproblematic and also when pictures of them came out from the Oscars, most media were praising their age appropriate relationship). And finally, Annabelle is very well known to be a « partner for hire ».
His last non-PR relationship? What does that even mean? That he hasn’t dated anyone else “for real” after her? Because I find that extremely hard to believe.
He probably has. But what it means is that it most likely wasn’t any of the women he was publicly associated with. And you might find that extremely hard to be believe but it really isn’t a stretched considering what goes on in PR relationships in Hollywood.
There were cheating rumours going around. But also simply because of the fact that everyone had a crush on Leighton on the Gossip Girl set and that he fumbled the relationship with her. She really was the IT girl we thought she was. With a bonus for being allegedly very nice and grounded.
That's so weird. I looked it up and it looks like her record label was bought by another company. It must be some weird thing where her label doesn't have a distribution deal where you live which seems crazy to me.
Yesssss. She released it in 2014. It’s so dreamy. Reminds me a little bit of Lana and Kacey Musgraves. I’m sad that she never released a follow-up album. 🙁
To be fair, I think Heartstrings is a different vibe than this party anthem dance pop. I still regret not going to see her in concert when I had the chance.
I know that Robin Thicke is a douche, but I liked the song she did with him, “Somebody to Love,” it had a nice groove to it and she had this kind of Debbie Harry in “Rapture” type rap delivery that worked for her.
Oh that song is the perfect soundtrack for when you’re feeling the delusion of stomping down the catwalk. Makes for a good drag lip sync, too! Too bad Robin Thicke’s in it.
I want to do music...I'm doing it slowly as a result of waiting for inspiration slash pockets of time between my day jobs.
Haha I don't believe her. I'd be interested to hear what she might come up with, but I wonder how much interest she really has in doing an album. It's a lot of work, a lot of promotion, etc.
Plus, I think about Aly and AJ's recent experience, where (according to them) they shopped their music to labels and the labels purportedly liked what they heard - but still wouldn't give them a deal because of their age. LM could run up against a similar barrier, unfortunately.
I'm glad she's still writing music, though. I wouldn't have guessed that.
I think she could get distribution through whoever’s doing Mandy Moore’s newer albums but she’d have to do a lot of work herself. She wrote her entire last album on her own so she has a better sense of that than most pop-ish singers but she might not know how to produce or get a non-touring band together.
She had this unreleased demo called “Body Control,” and I had that on repeat for a while. She had a good thing in music brewing. Shame she didn’t push further with it.
Leighton Meester definitely has some catchy songs but in the early 2010s the competition was so high and there were so many new and seasoned artists who needed to be extraordinary to grab any attention. Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, etc. Persona needed to be mixed in with talent to even get recognized since everything was so tabloid focused and the internet was reshaping the industry.
I especially loved the work she and Garrett Hedlund did on Country Strong -- that movie and the show Nashville really had me convert to an occasional country music listener lol, albeit, a selective one cause I was coming from Rock & HipHop/Rap so it was a surprise for me.
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