Brittany's Musical Mystery Tour

Brittany Murphy's character didn't rap or sing in 8 Mile, but the actress apparently has some real-life skillz behind the mic.

By now you've probably heard Paul Oakenfold's club single "Faster Kill Pussycat" - well, the featured female voice is Brittany. The single appears on Oakenfold's new record, 'A Lively Mind,' which dropped last week.

Brittany told Cosmo that it's not her first recording: "I've worked on a lot of other people's albums anonymously - a lot of rap, hip-hop and R&B stuff - and I hear myself on the radio all the time," she told the magazine for its cover story. "I've just always kept it a secret and never taken credit because I wanted to learn how to work behind the microphone in a recording studio, and some of the singers don't even know it was me recording on their albums."

The fact that someone can anonymously sing on your record kind of shows you how much control some of these artists have over their recordings. But I must say that I do respect Brittany's toiling in anonymity a bit without trading in on her name right away to sell some records. Some other young actresses might want to follow that same route, while others may simply want to stick to acting altogether.