If Blair Waldorf Jumped Off A Cliff

If Blair Waldorf Jumped Off A Cliff is track 11 on Romo's second album, POPSTAR: The Life & Times Of Belle Ball. The song, featuring a guest appearance from DAMNED vocalist Halle York, is a call-and-response style track where Belle Ball rebels against her friends and family at an intervention aimed to help her with her partying addiction.

Its title is an obvious reference to the character from the television and book series Gossip Girl. Romo chose the title because she felt Belle's personality identified best with the Blair Waldorf character, also a rich girl with a reputation for being a diva.

Although "Belle Ball/Covergirl" was released as the final single from POPSTAR in the UK market, Ensemble released "Blair Waldorf" in other markets as a double A-side with Romo's cover of Michael Jackson's "Who Is It", featured on the Jackson tribute album, The King of Pop: A Tribute to HIStory.

Background
After two weeks in jail for sexual misconduct, Belle Ball is let out and is advised to change her hard partying ways. Friends, family, and the media have high hopes for Belle because disciplinary action helped celebrities such as Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Lindsay Lohan turn their lives around. However, in just a matter of days Belle is back to basics. After a night of heavy drinking, Belle regains consciousness only to find a group of her friends and family are in the middle of an intervention to convince her to ease herself out of her addictions.

Belle defends her actions by citing the aftermath of the events of "Cathy Dennis" by implying her life will go fine in spite of the negative attention as long as her musical abilities are unaffected. Her addiction gets in the way of the conversation when she says "boos at my concerts" and it gets her in the mood for "booze at my concerts". She further defends her love of drinking by saying it keeps her happy and actively engaged in conversations, then accusing her well-wishers of being "jealous" because she's "privileged" and saying she'll continue to take advantage of her celebrity status to party and sleep around all night, believing that she might look at the bigger picture if she were bankrupt.

Putting up an immense fuss with her friends over the matter, Belle concludes by saying she would rather be worthless in their eyes because they wouldn't care what she does, stating it's her life and she's going to do what she wants. Her friends and family are tired of putting up the fight and they all abandon her.

Reception
Based on the title alone, "If Blair Waldorf Jumped Off A Cliff" was one of the most buzzed-about tracks on the album, and upon its Internet leak it received heavy praise from fans and critics for its concept and structure. However, the song was not released as a single despite overwhelming requests.

Legacy
Because of the track's unique composition, "Blair Waldorf" has inspired a number of other tracks:


 * Luke Ramada and Amy Cooper's Tango Challenge single "Bonnie & Clyde" was directly inspired by the song.
 * Amy Marshall and China's duet "Good Cop Bad Cop", featured on Marshall's Reincarnation album, imitates the premise of the song, but uses an interrogation scene as the setting instead of an intervention. Romo wrote and co-produced "Good Cop Bad Cop".
 * Romo's follow-up record POPSTAR 2: Belle After Death contains another call-and-response style track, "Hell Is A Discotheque", which acts out an argument between Hannah and a middle-aged woman in a jail cell.