The Actor turned Musician…another look

I’ve blogged about this before…and now there’s a whole new breed of mostly WTF actors trying to be singers.

So we’ll start with a good one- I was sent this youtube link, and the PR person never even name dropped who it is- so I watched it and was like, “isn’t that the guy from The Notebook?”

Dead Man’s Bones/Ryan Gosling

Different….unexpected. They call it ‘Indie Goth Rock’.

And then here is the big bad what-is-he-thinking: Joaquin Phoenix. We loved you as Johnny Cash, in Gladiator, even in Parenthood! Why are you doing this? I really hope this is some form of method acting…

Announcing his retirement from acting:

And now he’s trying to do hip hop (and falling off stage)?

This must be for a some kind of mockumentary. Please.

And I would be amiss if I didn’t mention current stalker bait, Edward Cullen…er, Robert Pattinson, and his foray into singer/songwriterdom. If he puts out a record, it’ll sell like hotcakes and raise a whole generation of girls with dubious musical taste (albeit, better than Britney).

And lest I forget Scarlett Johansson’s mind boggling album of Tom Waits covers.

Well, who knows- maybe if I were a successful actress, I would go partially mad and record an album of NIN covers. ROFL.