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She's only 18 and making up to 7.5 million a movie, she won Best Break Out Actress at BOTH the Teen Choice Awards and MTV Movie Awards this year, she's hailed as one of the brightest young acting talents, and Hollywood Reporter recently hailed her the biggest brat in Hollywood. She is teen actress Lindsay Lohan and she's one of the biggest Teen Queens in Hollywood. On December 7th she ventured into a new chapter of her career with the release of her debut album 'Speak'.
Back in the day you couldn't make it in Hollywood if you couldn't sing, act and dance (Think Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand and so forth). Hollywood of today sometimes doesn't even require acting talent, but it's becoming more and more common for young stars to have sucessful careers in both movie and music.
Breakdown of Acting and Singing stars:
Lindsay's musical aspirations first showed in 2003's 'Freaky Friday' where the film ended with her character singing at a wedding. The song was 'Ultimate' and started Lindsay's musical fanbase. When asked by MTV at the time regarding a music careere her response was "I'm kind of just meeting with people and feeling it out. I'm not going to jump into anything, because I'm busy working with other stuff. I'm looking for other scripts right now, so I don't want to jump into it. I think the music industry is all about timing. I want to wait until I'm older, so if I do want to act a certain way or sing certain lyrics and stuff, it's age appropriate, not like, "What is she doing at 17 singing that?" With timing, hopefully it'll all work out. We'll see what happens." Her 2003 film 'Confessions of a teenage Drama Queen' gave her the opportunity to use her vocal chords some more with 4 songs 'That Girl', 'What are you waiting for?', 'A day in the life' and the Medly 'Don't Move On/Living for the City/Changes'. She also had a song on the soundtrack of the Princess Diaries Sequel 'Princess Diaries 2: A Royal Engagement'. A few months ago she signed with Casablanca records and has been working with Producer Randy Jackson (American Idol).
So what teens think of Lindsay's launching into music?
"shes a great actress, but music-wise, she should be hanged." - Inghild, 13.
"I love Lindsay! She is such a good actress,and singer. Her music is really cool. Her songs are awesome. Rumors is a really good song to dance to,and sing too. She has different types of songs on her cd too,that's what i love about her. She just doesn't do one type of music,like rock or r&b or hip hop. She does a combination of all of that. Also, her voice is really different from other singers...she's kinda rapsy,so that's what makes her different and unique! Speak is going to be a awesome cd!" - Christine, 14
"Already in Freaky Friday, when she sang 'Ultimate', you noticed that she had a good voice and knows how to sing. Im really glad shes releasing an album, and I dont think she does it cause she wants to be like everyother young actress whos gone into the music industry. I think she thinks its a great opportunity to be able to both sing and act. And personally I think she rock at both! I just hope she takes care of herself and dont work so hard like when she were hospitalized because of all the stress and work." - Sarah, 14
"I think Lindsay is a great actress and singer but I don't like the way she became a sex symbol at the age of 18! I mean the olsen twins are 18 and people think of them as cute but Lindsay as sexy! Whats up with that?? Lindsay must be a terrific person I mean I never met her who knows maybe she doesn't like being a sex symbol but her manager pushes her or something! I love Lindsays songs and her acting is absolutly(sp) the best! I have to say she is one of my favourite actresses!" - Esha, 11
"Well, first of all, I liked Lindsay Lohan really much, but now I think that she became a little b*tch. It's awful to look at her smoking or to see pix on which you can see her nipples or even her whole breasts.I don't know what she's doing with her life. Of course I love her movies. Exspecially her Twins movie (Don't know the name of it at the moment). I'm glad that she's singing now. I love her song "rumours" really much and I hope that she'll become a famouse singer, because she's so talented." - Silvia, 14
"I love Lindsay's acting, and I really adore her. Music wise.. not so much.. She should stick to her acting. But i'm still a big fan!" - Sanne, 12
"I like her acting more than her music, though she has a really good voice and seems to be really passionate about it. She's a good role model and she is herself." - Maria, 14
"I don´t wanna sound rude, but I think she should leave the singer-buisness. she´s better as actress!!! her súng sounds like a cheap copie of britney and it get on my nerves that every teen-celeb starts singing- Paris, Hilary (well she is cool), Lindsay, Ashlee (she good,too). But I love Lindsay as actress!" -Jane 17
"Years ago people who were famous had to be great at all three aspects of fame - singing, dancing and acting. Someone who couldn't do all three just wouldn't have made it. If that era is making a return then I'm all for it - if people, like Lindsay, can act and sing then why shouldn't they have a chance to showcase both?
I'm not someone who conforms to labels in music - i.e. I only like pop or rock or R&B - I'll listen to something and if there's something in it I like I'll listen to it. And so far with Lindsay, I've liked what I've heard - you can sing along, dance to it, the beats and lyrics are good. And the similarities to Britney/Ashlee/Hilary etc? People should leave it along - did anyone complain when Busted and McFly both released singles? No, they should be glad they have a variety of music to listen to!" - Gemma, 17
"I can't stand her singing. But I guess she's a ok actress. I liked Mean Girls (she's in it right?)" - Jacob, 16
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