The Starlight Craze

The gang from the hit show Gossip Girl showed their inner rock stars on Tuesday night in the Lower East Side, and, of course,were sporting leather, plaid, skinny scarves and Ray-Ban Clubmasters. But Ed Westwick, Chace Crawford, Blake Lively and Penn Badgley didn’t just dress the part at the Bowery Ballroom, some of them also have some musical ambitions along with two others from the cast. Ed Westwick is front man for the English band the Filthy Youth, and his co-stars Leighton Meester and Taylor Momsen are both set to release albums. Penn Badgley said “I’ve heard some of Taylor’s, and I really like it,” he said. “She sounds like Katy Perry.” Blake Lively said she won’t be stepping up to the microphone anytime soon: “Everybody on our cast is very musically talented, except me.” Chace Crawford said that you won’t hear him sing anytime soon, either – unless you happen to be outside his powder room. “Do I sing in the shower? I’m sure I’ve had a Risky Business moment or two,” he admitted. “But it’s not really a recurring thing.”

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