Jessie And The Toy Boys - This Is How Rumors Start (2011)

Jessica Eden Malakouti was born on 30 March 1989 in Anaheim, California, and at age 16 she emancipated herself from her parents, graduated high school two years early, and moved to Hollywood to pursue her show business dreams. Soon after arriving in Hollywood, she started an all girl punk rock band called Shut Up Stella, which signed with Epic Records in 2006, and their songs started to appear in films such as MTV's 'Sweet 16 The Movie', which featured 'Watch Me Rain', while 'Welcome To My Party' appeared in the both 'Girl Positive' and 'Baby Mama' in 2008. Later that year the band were dropped by Epic, and the forthcoming album was cancelled, prompting Malakouti to go solo. In 2008 her songs 'Trash Me' and 'Outsider' appeared in episodes of MTV's 'The Hills', as well as being independently self-released as music videos and digital downloads, and in December she signed a publishing deal with EMI. The next two years were spent in London working on dance music with Fred Falke, as well as writing for UK production house Xenomania. The result of this time was a single called 'Standing Up For The Lonely', which was released on British dance label Ministry of Sound. In 2010 she formed Jessie And The Toy Boys, launching them with the  single 'Push It' in February 2011, which peaked at 7 on the Billboard dance chart, following this in June with the EP 'Show Me Your Tan Lines', and Malakouti made her network television debut on the Conan O’Brien Show. During this time, Jessie And The Toy Boys was one of the opening acts during Britney Spears' sixth concert tour, the Femme Fatale Tour, and they also released their next single 'Let's Get Naughty' in October. The band's debut album, 'This Is How Rumours Start', should have followed the single in October, but it was pushed back to summer 2012, and despite some of the songs appearing as videos on Youtube, the album itself has failed to materialise. In May 2013 Malakouti released a music video for what was originally a Toy Boys song called 'White Girl Wasted' under her own name, and this sparked rumours that she would no longer be releasing music under the name Jessie And The Toy Boys. In September 2013 she uploaded a picture via her Facebook page confirming that she had signed a new recording contract with Virgin Records, and that confirmed that the band was no more. As well as the songs posted on Youtube, others tracks have also leaked online, and track listings have even appeared, and so it is fairly easy to piece the album together to hear what it would have sounded like had it appeared as intended. 

Track listing 

01 This Is How Rumors Start 
02 Flashback 
03 Perfect Shade Of Red 
04 Marilyn 
05 Petty Theft 
06 Let's Get Naughty 
07 Boxers 
08 Push It (feat. Yelawolf) 
09 Money Makes The Girl Go Round 
10 Valentine
11 We Own The Night 
12 Key To The City 
13 Hitman 

14 Summer Boy
15 Can't Go Back To London 
16 Runaway 
17 Angels Get To Sing