Listen to Lea Michele’s New Single

By Anne Cohen December 10, 2013

Lea Michele is giving Miley Cyrus a run for her money.

The Broadway-actress-turned-TV-star has just released the first single off her debut album, “Louder.” “Cannonball,” as the song is called, is a ballad written by Sia Furler and Benny Bianco, and produced by Stargate.

The chorus, “I’ll fly like a cannonball,” is weirdly similar to Miley Cyrus’ “I came in like a wrecking ball,” from the eponymous song.

Let’s just hope they don’t bump into each other.

What do you think? Listen to the song here:

Anne Cohen was the Forward’s deputy digital media editor. When she’s not looking for the secret Jewish history of Voodoo in New Orleans, or making lists about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she writes for The Assimilator. She graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with an M.S. magazine concentration in 2012.

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