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"Actress. Singer. Producer. Stylist. Art Director. Trekker. Is there anything Emmy Rossum can&amp;#39;t do? The multi-talented screen and vocal gem releases her second album Sentimental Journey, featuring throwback cover songs, later this month. A themed album, each song she chose was inspired by a month of the calendar year. And today, we have the pleasure of premiering her first single and video vignette &amp;quot;These Foolish Things,&amp;quot; her April tune, on Obsessed.\nJust home to LA after finishing a movie with Hillary Swank and then hanging out with her family in Wyoming, Emmy chatted me up about her latest projects, her best April Fools&amp;#39; Day prank (ever!) and why she loves old-school so much.\nGlamour: What did you do for the holidays?\nEmmy: I was finishing the third season of Shameless, and then I did a film called You&amp;#39;re Not You with Hilary Swank. She plays a woman with ALS, and I play an aimless college student she hires to be her caretaker. It&amp;#39;s for Cannes and later this year.\nGlamour: And now you&amp;#39;re back, with the Shameless season premiere among us and your latest music project! Tell us about it.\nEmmy: Everything about this record, from the picking of the songs, the musicians, the arrangements, the art direction of the video, the concept, choosing the clothes and the props, is my brainchild. I got my friend, fashion photographer Brian Bowen Smith, to direct.\nGlamour: How did you get inspired artistically for the video?\nEmmy: I started pulling tons of Pinterest pages (search: Deco Style, Deco Fashion, 1930s Style), and I was so inspired by everything that was beautiful and simple about that era. There was such a femininity and softness to everything. I&amp;#39;m really into black and white photography from that era. Everything in my life, this project has permeated and really affected me.\nGlamour: The clothes, the jewelry, and the props are gorg. Where did those come from?\nEmmy: A lot of the props are my own personal pieces, like the suitcase. I found it at the Fairfax Flea Market. The dress is one that I handpicked myself. A lot of stuff, even the jewelry on the dresser, is my personal stuff. All the perfume bottles were mine! And I worked with a stylist named Heidi Meek, who specializes in making everything look old-school.\nGlamour: You do the throwback thing so well&amp;#8212;what made you decide to go this route musically?\nEmmy: Musically, I was very insulated. At home, I grew up listening to Judy Garland, Sam Cooke, Frank Sinatra, that old-school crooner music. Then I also sang in the children&amp;#39;s chorus at the Metropolitan Opera from when I was 7-13, so when all the kids were listening to &amp;#39;NSync, I was listening to Puccini and Frank Sinatra. So I&amp;#39;m definitely a little corny, old-school. For this album, I decided to make the record I would want to make, and see if anyone would like it or distribute it. Then Warner Bros wanted to, so I signed.\nGlamour: Does the song &amp;quot;These Foolish Things&amp;quot; have particular sentimental value to you?__\nEmmy: &amp;quot;These Foolish Things&amp;quot; is April, so it&amp;#39;s inspired by April Fools&amp;#39; Day. I wanted to pick a song that&amp;#39;s evocative of each month for the calendar theme I was going for on the album. It&amp;#39;s an incredibly well known song, which is why I chose it for the first vignette and the first thing anyone will see or hear off the record. And then I put my own little spin on it.\nGlamour: Speaking of April Fools&amp;#39;, what&amp;#39;s the best April Fools&amp;#39; Day joke you&amp;#39;ve played on someone?\nEmmy: I like to tell my mom and my friends that I&amp;#39;m pregnant. I like to get a picture of an error-proof test online and send it to all my friends. I&amp;#39;ve done it every couple years, so they assume I&amp;#39;m not knocked up. So I figure when I actually am knocked up, at some point, nobody will believe me.\nGlamour: How did you get into character for the video? Do you channel anyone in particular?\nEmmy: I think of the song from a storytelling point of view. I try to connect to the lyric, and then for something like this, getting dressed, putting on a red lip, stockings and a flapper dress will put you right in the era.\nGlamour: The Emmy in your videos is so polished and sophisticated, while your character from Shameless is such a punk. Do you relate to either of these characters more?\nEmmy: I relate to both, I have both within me. I grew up loving the glamour of playing pretend, whether that was playing street urchin in Les Mis, or playing a magical fairy in A Midsummer Night&amp;#39;s Dream. I love immersing myself in a character, a time, a decade, and channeling that. Whoever I&amp;#39;m playing feels most like myself at that time.\nGlamour: The Gallagher&amp;#39;s are so crazy! What&amp;#39;s your craziest family story?\nEmmy: Me and my mom are very adventurous and we take adventurous trips. When I was 11, we went to Alaska trekking for a month, and we just got back from 2 weeks in Wyoming, in the snow in Yellowstone. It was a great time with the corn, the sheep, and the bison.\nGlamour: Will we hear some of your songs in an upcoming episode or movie project?\nEmmy: I did sing a right a song for You&amp;#39;re Not You. And my character in Beautiful Creatures is very musical, but she doesn&amp;#39;t sing.\nGlamour: What&amp;#39;s on your playlist right now?\nEmmy: I love this band Alt-J. I also listen to old-school stuff like Bessie Smith, the Boswell Sisters. And then occasionally I&amp;#39;ll listen to something like the Drake record.\nGlamour: But no &amp;#39;NSync?\nEmmy: No. I did love the Spice Girls when I was little, I will say that. I was on line first day to see Spice World.\n__Click here to pre-order Emmy Rossum&amp;#39;s Sentimental Journey Fan Edition. The full album will be available January 29.\nPinterestFacebook"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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