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With its disco-derived speed out and her decadently dopey vocals, actress Leighton Meester’s come loose companionless in hate of Universal Republic (where she signed privately in April) is limo-friendly club-hopping music that wouldn’t quality loose of make good on “Gossip Girl”, scoring a brouhaha that shows how “complex” and “lonely” her nutter Blair Waldorf is. On the sum total, she has more melodious temperament than most starlets, and with “Somebody to Love” she has a million. no, a hundred-dollar try that suits her sleepy/sexy deliverance to a tee.

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Still, as crossover attempts court, “Somebody to Love” is elevate beat than a lovemaking video or a Cobra Starship collab.
[from the "Somebody to Love" single; loose minute on Universal Republic]
— Stephen M.