Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson has a type, it seems-- at least when it comes to recording music. Johansson's first album, the better-than-anyone-realized 2008 drug-pop swooner Anywhere I Lay My Head, consisted almost entirely of Tom Waits covers. And later this year, Johansson and singer/songwriter Pete Yorn will release a collaborative album reportedly inspired by Serge Gainsbourg's duets with Brigitte Bardot, according to USA Today.

So if you're a legendary songwriter with a craggy seen-it-all voice and a permanently unimpressed hangdog facial expression, you might eventually inspire a Scarlett Johansson album. Leonard Cohen-- call your manager!

USA Today reports that Johansson and Yorn teamed up with producer Sunny Levine to record Break Up, which the newspaper describes as "a song cycle that chronicles a tempestuous affair." Yorn wrote eight of the album's nine songs, the other being a cover of "I Am the Cosmos" by Big Star's Chris Bell. The album was actually recorded in 2006, so it pre-dates Anywhere I Lay My Head. unsecured loans

The first single, the amiable rockabilly chug "Relator", is currently streaming on the album's website. Judging by that, Johansson does a better job channeling Bardot than Pete Yorn does playing Gainsbourg, but that shouldn't exactly come as a shock. bad credit loans