She Turned Us On

DJ Paul Oakenfold has gone on the record to remember her late collaborator, actress Brittany Murphy, as “a great vocal.”

The two worked together on “Faster Kill Pussycat,” one of the tracks off his 2006 release, A Lively Mind.

“Brittany trained as a singer before she did as an actress,” the DJ said. “She was a great actress but she had great vocal potential.

“I said to her [given that Murphy wasn’t too keen at first to lend her voice to the track thinking it would be sort of thankless], ‘Why hide behind something? You have a really great vocal. People are going to be shocked and pleasantly happy with what they’re going to hear. You are not one of these actresses who are trying to sing and not doing a good job of it.’”

Indeed, she wasn’t. I really quite liked and championed “Faster Kill Pussycat.”

Too bad we’ll never know what else those pipes on Murphy had to offer.

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