The actor-turned-singer tends to get short shrift from music fans, and rightly so. Traditionally, thesps release fist-chewingly awful albums (we mean you, David Hasselhoff, Don Johnson and Bruce Willis) or annoying novelty records (no, Nicole Kidman, we haven't forgotten your Christmas number one with Robbie Williams, nor your duet with Huey Lewis, Gwyneth Paltrow). It's the sort of dross that even we wouldn't put on our iPods. But the times, as some old singer said, they are a-changin'.

Scarlett Johansson's album, due in May, drips credibility. She's covered Tom Waits songs and the trendiest musos around have worked on it, including David Bowie, who says her performance is 'mystical and twice cool', which we think means good. Actress Zooey Deschanel's album, recorded with hipster musician M Ward as She & Him, is also much anticipated. Their name may be grammatically incorrect, but Rolling Stone and other, you know, proper music magazines already say it's the next big thing. With Juliette Lewis, who performs with her band The Licks, confirmed as the hottest caterwauling woman in a catsuit ever, and Jared Leto winning awards for his goth-rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, we're facing the sad truth that we're going to have to stop poking fun at actor/singers.

Dammit, celebs, can you stop being so cool and talented? You're ruining our fun.