Leighton Meester is getting the Heidi Montag treatment.
Fans of the “Gossip Girl” alum have started hyping up her “incredibly underappreciated” pop music in an attempt to help her rebuild her family’s home which burned down in Los Angeles’ Palisades Fire.
“Can the internet also do what it did for Heidi Montag’s criminally underrated old music to Leighton Meester’s incredibly underappreciated pop music?” writer and podcast host Gibson Johns proposed on X Tuesday.
“Her house also burned down, and that music deserves its time in the sun!!!”
Soon after, Taylor Swift superfan Flavor Flav shared a TikTok video jamming out to Meester’s 2009 song with Robin Thicke, ”Somebody to Love,” and urged his followers to do the same.
“Starting to hype up my girl Leighton Meester and help her family recover from the fire,” he captioned the clip.
While mostly known for her acting roles, the “Roommate” star, 38, has experienced success as a singer and songwriter.
In addition to “Somebody to Love,” which was featured on the “Valentine’s Day” soundtrack, Meester also lent her vocals to Cobra Starship’s “Good Girls Go Bad,” which charted in the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100.
She released “Your Love’s a Drug” in 2010 while signed to Universal Republic label before later independently releasing her debut studio album, “Heartstrings,” in 2014.
Reps for Meester and her husband, Adam Brody, did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment about the social media campaign.
A similar phenomenon occurred earlier this week after “The Hills” alum Spencer Pratt pushed for followers to stream his wife Heidi Montag’s music after their family home also burned down in the same Pacific Palisades fire.
Within days, Montag’s 2009 song “Body Language,” as well as her 2010 album, “Superficial,” hit No. 1 on the iTunes charts, according to USA Today.
Pratt continued to celebrate his wife’s overnight success on social media Wednesday after she received a billboard in Times Square on Wednesday and her 2010 song “I’ll Do It” hit No. 28 on Spotify’s Viral 50 chart.
“VIRAL CHARTS @spotify !!!!!! Number 1 here we come keep streaming if you Spotify ! Please,” Pratt posted on Instagram.
Meester and Brody’s $6.5 million mansion burned to the ground last week as one of the many losses in the devastating wildfire.
The couple’s former residence featured five bedrooms, six bathrooms and an impressive ocean view.
Photos obtained by Page Six showed flames overtaking what appeared to be the couple’s garage door. At the same time, the roof appeared to have been blown off as smoke covered the house.
Just days before the horrific disaster, Meester and Brody, 45, hit the red carpet at the Golden Globes to celebrate the actor’s nomination for “Nobody Wants This.”
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