You’ve probably forgotten by now (or just never knew in the first place), but Heroes actress Hayden Panettiere also moonlights as a pop star in her spare time, and now after a huge long gap of complete nothingness she’s finally decided that she’s ready to give her music career another shot.

“I’d like to focus on music,’ she tells Now. I’ve been singing for almost as long as I’ve been acting and I love it. It’s just a different way of expressing myself and getting to be me, not having to play anyone else.”

The 20-year-old wants to make sure her LP is perfect before she releases it.

“I’ve been working on my album for about three years,” she reveals. It’s all about finding the time, though, which is crazy. And it’s hard to get people to accept me as a singer because they see me as an actor.” {source}

In addition to countless appearances on various Disney soundtracks, the Hollywood Records signee released her first single “Wake Up Call” back in 2008. The song was a complete rip-off of Paris Hilton’s one and only hit “Stars are Blind”, but it was still quite catchy even though it failed to chart.

Hayden actually strikes me as reasonably intelligent and sensible, so hopefully she doesn’t release something boring in a desperate effort to prove to us that she’s a “real” singer.