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Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester has been working hard to promote her latest endeavor: her music career. The ‘Somebody to Love’ singer had spent New Years Eve hosting parties (looking fabulous at them,) and entertaining the dancing crowds with her upbeat electro pop songs. She also had the opportunity to befriend and get great recommendations from musical diva Cyndi Lauper.

“Recently I’ve spent a lot of time with Cyndi Lauper, and she’s a legend,” says Meester. “She gave me the advice: Never sell your publishing, so I’ll take that.”

Meester is not giving up her day job with GG, but she says she’s “just having the time of her life.”

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Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester has a debut album due out next year and the first official single “Somebody To Love” will premiere on radio October 27th. The album has production help from American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi as well as others and was originally due out this spring 2009 but has been pushed to winter/spring 2010. There is still no title as of yet to her debut and her previously leaked single “Body Control” may or may not end up on the final release. She’s great on Cobra Starship’s “Good Girls Gone Bad” single so let’s hope there is more like that in store.

Here is Leighton Meester singing with Cobra Starship on ‘Good Girls Go Bad.’  Love it!