Brittany Murphy - Faster Kill Pussycat (2006)

"Faster Kill Pussycat" is the first single from Paul Oakenfold's 2006 album, A Lively Mind.  It features American actress Brittany Murphy's  vocals.  It was released on March 21, 2006 in the US and eventually reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart and reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay.  In the UK, it debuted at #37 on downloads alone, and reached #7 the next week. The title of the track is a play on the title of the 1965 exploitation film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 

The music video, shot on the rooftop of a parking garage in downtown Los Angeles, features Brittany Murphy dancing, with scenes of Oakenfold as a DJ and a wild crowd.  Directed by renowned music video director Jake Nava, it premiered on television in May 2006, and received airplay on MTV and other music channels.

Brittany Murphy (b. November 10, 1977, d. December 20, 2009) had an untimely death.  On February 25, 2010, the coroner released a report stating that Murphy had been taking a range of over-the-counter and prescription medications, with the most likely reason being to treat a cold or respiratory infection. These included "elevated levels" of hydrocodone, acetaminophen, L-methamphetamine and chlorpheniramine.   All of the drugs were legal and the death was ruled to be an accident, but the report observed: "the possible adverse physiological effects of elevated levels of these medications cannot be discounted, especially in her weakened state."

Brittany once commented: "My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice...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."

She was in a band called Blessed Soul with fellow actor Eric Balfour in the early 1990s.  She dabbled in music again with the release of the film Happy Feet, in which she covered Queen's Somebody to Love and Earth, Wind & Fire's Boogie Wonderland.  Murphy said about her character Gloria, "Oddly enough, of all the characters I've played, Gloria is the most like me. And she's a penguin! George Miller always wanted one person to do both [the speaking and the singing].  I said, 'I can sing,' and I asked him to give me a shot. I don't think he took me very seriously because most actors say they can do most things."