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Leighton Meester shares 'the real me' in concert

What fan of your acting - especially enduring as Blair Waldorf on the long-running CW series "Gossip Girl" - wouldn't want to attend your musical coming-out party at the Trocadero tomorrow?

XOXO, Leighton Meester.

What fan of your acting - especially enduring as Blair Waldorf on the long-running CW series "Gossip Girl" - wouldn't want to attend your musical coming-out party at the Trocadero tomorrow? (Details at thetroc.com.)

"It's great if people are interested in seeing me, for whatever reason," Meester shared in a recent chat. "This isn't acting - it's the real me. The songs are autobiographical. This is my taste and my life."

Meester never sang on "GG," though a few of the tarty teen/dance pop ditties she recorded for Universal Records (circa 2009-11) did play in the background during season three, noted a fan posting.

"Don't know that. I'll take their word for it," Meester said, with a shrug. "The label wasn't very good at, um, developing me , and that material wasn't really me."

Meester did get to show off her pipes duetting with Tony Bennett on an episode of "Entourage."

But her role as an up-and-coming Nashville songstress in 2010's "Country Strong" really opened Meester to her strengths with twangy, angsty, atmospheric acoustic music.

After our observation that her new indie solo album, "Heartstrings," suggests a crossbreeding of Stevie Nicks and Chris Isaak, Meester reacted with, "Wow, that's a great compliment."

The still-girlish 28-year-old recently got to make out with Robert Downey Jr. in "The Judge" and emote on Broadway with James Franco in "Of Mice and Men." She's got two sweet indie flicks ("Life Partners," with hubby Adam Brody, and "Like Sunday, Like Rain") now making their respective ways to home video and theaters.

As for the future, Meester's calendar is "cleared indefinitely" for sensitive songstress pursuits.

Watch your back, Zooey Deschanel?

"It's cool when people can do both acting and music," Meester said. She's proven it's possible."

As for herself, "if two people in 100 come away appreciating my music, I'm doing good," she concluded with a nervous laugh. "Yeah, I'm setting the bar pretty low!"

- Jonathan Takiff