
Best-known for playing Lilly Truscott on Disney Channel’s Emmy-nominated Hannah Montana and Gerti Giggles in the Spy Kids movie sequels, Emily Osment has actually been making music almost as long as she’s been acting. And even though she’s just 18, don’t expect disposable Top 40 teen-pop on her Wind-up Records debut, Fight or Flight, produced by U.K. auteur Nellee Hooper, whose credits include Gwen Stefani and No Doubt, U2, Bjork, Madonna, Massive Attack and Soul II Soul.

Writing with such well-respected tunesmiths as Grammy winners Adam Schlesinger [Katy Perry, Jonas Brothers, Stephen Colbert] and Toby Gad [Fergie, Beyonce, Brandy, Jordin Sparks, Alicia Keys] as well as David Gamson [Ke$ha, Adam Lambert, Chaka Khan, Scritti Politti], Osment’s album bow combines her classic rock influences into a mature-beyond-her-years blend of state-of-the-art electro/Europop (as on the first single, “Lovesick” and the feisty “Double Talk”), alternative/indie (“Let’s Be Friends,” “Gotta Believe in Something”), sophisticated, jazzy torch ballads (“Marisol” and “You Get Me Through”) and even rapping over hip-hop beats (“1-800 Clap Your Hands [The Water is Rising]).”

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