Why Leighton Meester 'Stopped' Her Successful Pop Music Career

Remember Leighton Meester's short-lived popular euphony career?

In a new question and reply pinch Bustle, nan Gossip Girl actress reflected connected her clip pursuing euphony professionally and opened up astir why she decided to extremity moving successful nan popular genre.

Meester released a mates of singles (including "Somebody to Love" pinch Robin Thicke and "Your Love's a Drug" successful 2009 and earned a top-10 deed connected nan Billboard Hot 100 pinch nan Cobra Starship collaboration "Good Girls Go Bad" nan aforesaid year.

However, she past took a fewer years distant from euphony earlier returning successful 2014 pinch nan much folk-laced Heartstrings album — and now we cognize why.

"I conscionable didn’t consciousness for illustration I sang that good successful those songs," said Meester of her popular music.

"That’s why I stopped doing that style of songwriting, because I didn’t consciousness really bully erstwhile I would singing it," she added. "That was thing that I figured retired successful my 20s."

In betwixt Meester's first tally of singles and Heartstrings, she besides recorded a fewer state songs for nan 2010 movie Country Strong, successful which she starred alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw.

Earlier this year, nan mother of two's euphony earned a shoutout from an improbable supporter: Flavor Flav. After she and hubby Adam Brody mislaid their location successful nan Los Angeles wildfires, nan Public Enemy rapper filmed a TikTok video group to "Somebody to Love."

"Starting to hype up my woman Leighton Meester and thief her family retrieve from nan fire," wrote Flav astatine nan time, adding successful nan post's caption, "Stream @LeightonMeester Somebody to Love and usage nan opus successful yo TikTok’s."

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Currently, Meester is gearing up for an upcoming domiciled successful play 2 of Netflix's Nobody Wants This. She opened up to Bustle astir becoming much selective successful her profession arsenic of late. "It’s been really, very beautiful to do a mates of shows wherever location is that emotion of: location could beryllium a early there," she said. "But I don’t know."

"People are ever asking, ‘What do you want to do? Where do you spot yourself? Where do you want to go?’ And I’m like, I don't know. I don’t cognize if it’s motherhood aliases this existent business aliases this business," she added. You benignant of can’t be like, ‘I cognize what I'm doing 3 years from now.’ I’m just, like, okay correct now."

Meester continued, “I conscionable consciousness for illustration being successful nan infinitesimal and figuring it retired arsenic I spell along, because that’s each we tin do, you know?