Here's a new promo for Monday's Gossip Girl episode, "The Last Days of Disco Stick." It's only 10 seconds long, and Lady Gaga's appearance is featured.
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Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester, who as we know is an aspiring singer as well as a terrific young actress, has released her official music video for "Somebody to Love" (teased during last week's episode) featuring Robin Thicke.
Check it out below and tell us what you think!
So far, the Gossip Girl cast has provided only vague details about what fans should expect from Lady Gaga's appearance on the show November 16.
But Gaga herself recently opened up to MTV about why she agreed to do it.
"First of all, my sister's a huge fan, and she's 17 years old. So when I called her and said Gossip Girl wants to put my new album on the show and have me perform, she was like 'Oh my God, you have to do it,'" she said.
"And I'd seen it. It's a great show."
Of course, Lady Gaga had no interest in a stereotypically awkward musical guest cameo. She wanted it done in typical Lady Gaga fashion.
"I hate most TV show performances, because they kind of come in out of nowhere, and everyone's, like, really into the story line, and then all of a sudden somebody breaks into song," she said. "It has nothing to do with the story."
Lady Gaga made sure her Gossip Girl appearance was unique.
So rather than showing up on the set for the day, Gaga met with writers and producers to ensure she was doing a performance she felt good about.
"I really sat down with the Gossip Girl writers," she said.
"I was like, 'Look, the reason I want to do this is because I'm trying to say something that is not mainstream. So, if I can say it on your show, that would be, like, a real coup d'état for me as a performance artist.'"
The result sounds like an elaborate music video.
"I am the narrator behind what is going on with the characters and make the song part of the moment," she said of her "crazy performance-art piece."
"We used these ladders. Ladders are kind of a monster symbol about bad luck. And I have this 35-foot-long dress on and these X's, very gothic-inspired."
"It was great. They let me do whatever the hell I wanted. It was amazing."
Thanks to all the readers who alerted us to this awesome music video promoting next week's episode of Gossip Girl. The Plastiscines perform their song "Bitch" (fitting) set to new clips from "They Shoot Humphreys, Don't They?"
Pretty catchy song, and some of the clips (particularly Eric talking about taking Jenny down) may surprise you. Check it out and tell us what you think ...
Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester is also an aspiring singer, as we know.
To that end, the good girl gone bad joined Weezer on stage during their Halloween concert at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on Halloween Night Saturday.
Leighton helped Rivers Cuomo sing Weezer’s new single “(If You’re Wondering if I Want You To) I Want You To.” Nat Wolff of the Naked Brothers Band also joined!
Check out the clip of Leighton and Weezer rocking out live below ...
Even Blair Waldorf might take the subway if her reward on the other end was a Lady Gaga concert. The singer is filming an upcoming episode of Gossip Girl today on the Lower East Side, in which she'll perform as herself!
We imagine she'll be debuting some original Gossip Girl music on the show, which is pretty cool for Gossip Girl, whether you're a fan of Lady Gaga or not.
The New York Daily News reported the NYC native's guest role today. Are you excited for more star power coming to the Upper ... er, Lower East Side?
Lady Gaga is coming to Gossip Girl this season.
One of New York’s greatest bands, Sonic Youth, will perform an acoustic version of their 1986 single “Starpower” on the fifth episode of Gossip Girl this fall.
“Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands,” Gossip Girl executive producer Stephanie Savage said, “and last year when I was doing my regular Gossip Girl Google search, it came up in some blog about a Sonic Youth show that Thurston [Moore] was playing 'Psychic Hearts' and Gossip Girl was playing on a screen in the background."
"And I was like, ‘Whaaaat? Oh my God. I hope they’re not making fun of us! I hope it was a cool, edgy homage!’ And it turned out that it was - tongue in cheek for sure, but definitely with love, and that they were fans of the show.”
Last year, Moore (who has a 15-year-old daughter with his wife, Kim Gordon) and Be Your Own Pet’s Jemima Pearl cut a cover of the Ramones’ “Sheena is a Punk Rocker” for Jenny Humphrey’s guerrilla fashion show, and the talks continued from there.
“We have a very special event coming in episode five that we’re filming right now,” the Gossip Girl show-runner says, “they seemed the ideal musical guest for it.”
But, in traditional Gossip Girl fashion, Stephanie Savage is keeping quiet about the exact circumstances of the festivities involved. “It’s a big event that involves [engaged adults] Rufus and Lily. Just draw your own conclusions,” she laughs.
Finally! Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester looks fantastic in the new music video for Cobra Starship’s song “Good Girls Go Bad,” and she songs great on it too!
Leighton's appearance in the video and on the track has gotten a lot of publicity lately, and in our opinion at least, the actress sure lives up to all the hype.
Check out the video below and tell us what you think ...
Maybe one day, fans will get to hear a Gossip Girl compilation album.
From Leighton Meester's pop music to Ed Westwick's and Taylor Momsen's rock stylings, the show is churning out quite the catalog of actors-turned-musicians.
And now it looks like Penn Badgley may be the next star to try his hand at a music career - although he admits it may be a while before that process begins.
Years from now, maybe you'll see something. For the moment, it's something that I don't [want to do]," the actor otherwise known as Dan Humphrey told MTV.
With girlfriend Blake Lively in tow at a Burberry party on Thursday, Badgley talked about his love of music and why he wants to keep his talents to himself.
"I mean, music is my first passion, but because of that I don't really want to just take a first step in the wrong direction," the 22-year-old said.
"At the moment, I just want to be sensible about what I do. I just write and I play, and that's about all I need for myself right now."
Badgley's Gossip Girl co-stars haven't been as reluctant to pursue their music careers. Momsen recently told MTV News that rock and roll "feeds my soul," while Meester has even teamed up with Cobra Starship for a recent single.
So what exactly does the actor think about his peers' music?
Badgley said he listened to Ed Westwick's band the Filthy Youth back when they started filming the show. And though he admitted that he hasn't heard Meester's or Momsen's songs yet, he thinks they'll do just fine in the music industry.
"I haven't heard any of Taylor's stuff, but apparently it's pretty decent," he said of his onscreen sister. "I wish them the best with it. It's awesome they're doing that."
As for co-star Chace Crawford's newly acquired starring role in Footloose, Badgley said his co-star will have no problem shifting from blue-blooded Gossip Girl good guy Nate Archibald to dancing bad boy Ren McCormack.
"I think he's going to be footloose and fancy free," Badgley laughed.
It's no secret that No Doubt has a thing for the '80s.
In 2003, they released a cover of Talk Talk's 1984 hit "It's My Life," which earned them a Grammy nomination. Then, last Wednesday, Ryan Seacrest posted a link to yet another cover, this one of Adam & the Ants' 1981 track "Stand and Deliver."
This is the song the band will perform on the May 11 episode of Gossip Girl, which serves as a "backdoor pilot" for the spin-off series featuring young Lily.
Gossip Girl executive producer Josh Schwartz filled MTV in on some details about the episode and No Doubt's performance on it, the band's first on TV.
"As you know, they're reuniting, they're going on tour, and they wanted to do a TV appearance and reached out to us on Gossip Girl," Schwartz said.
"We came back and asked, 'What about being an '80s band?' So they came on as 'Snow Doubt' and did a cover of Adam & the Ants' 'Stand and Deliver.' It was amazing."
Schwartz said the episode will serve as the jump-off point for the Gossip Girl spinoff, which focuses on the wild, rock-and-roll youth of Eric and Serena van der Woodsen's mom, Lily - which explains the cameo by the faux '80s rockers.
"It's about Serena's mom Lily growing up in L.A. in the '80s. And the pilot will air as a series of flashbacks inside the May 11 episode of Gossip Girl," Schwartz said.
"We've finished shooting it all, and it all looks great."
