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If you’ve heard Dakota Fanning sing the popular Runaways hit, Cherry Bomb, then you may have assumed that the sixteen-year-old actress was planning to forge ahead with a music career.

Dakota says that she has rejected offers to launch a singing career after her portrayal of Cherie Currie, saying that she would faint if she had to perform her own music.

She said, “I never thought of myself as a singer. I’ve always been kind of self-conscious about singing but I’ve realized if I’m playing a character I can do it because I kind of get to hide behind her a little bit. But just as Dakota Fanning, I would pass out.”

I thought she sounded great! What did you think?

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