
Serena: You and Chuck are two of the most self-centered, damaged people I know.
Blair: I’m not following.
Serena: Well somehow two wrongs make a twisted right.

So another star from CW's Gossip Girl is getting a taste of the music business. Well, Leighton Meester a.k.a Blair Waldorf has just landed her first record deal with Universal Republic through Time-Act Music and is due to release her debut album this fall.
"Birthday" was originally written and recorded by producer Nick Scapa in conjunction with Awesome New Republic. The song -- with lyrics like, "just listen to these words I say / This is not a game I play / With just any other guy" -- was meant to be sung by a pop princess. Leighton Meester took a stab at it and recorded a version earlier this winter, but it was just a trial demo, and it isn't hers to release -- damnit, Blair!
Michael John Hancock (lead singer of Awesome New Republic) has also recorded the single and adopted it as his own. MJH's vocal range allows him to hit the high notes while still retaining his machismo. "Birthday" has become the first, and already released, single for their new CD "Rational Geographic Volume I," dropping April 14 on Honor Roll Music.

FHM Online US Editor JR Futrell had this to say:
As bad girl Blair Waldorf in this year’s breakout hit, ‘Gossip Girl,’ Leighton Meester has stolen the spotlight with her mind-blowing good looks and amazing performance.
Our Queen Bee is NO.1, ya'll!!



Gossip Girl star Blake Lively celebrated her 21st birthday with a flapper-themed party at the New York Palace Hotel in NYC on Sept. 6.
Oh-my-effing-Blair!!!!Meester's publicist was unavailable for comment when WENN went to press."

"Constance was not sitting in a cell biting on a shoe and popping out Leighton. She actually gave birth in a half way house. She was in the clink for trafficking marijuana from Jamaica into the United States. Mother and baby Leighton stayed in the half way house together for 3 months before Constance returned to her cell."