Jerry O’Connell from Sliders is riding a bicycle down the street and grinning like he’s won a million dollars. As he rolls down a hill, a camera cuts across to Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell with their arms thrown around each other’s shoulders. Moments later, Jenna Elfman from Dharma and Greg kneels on a bed in a pink nightie and hugs a pillow tightly to her chest. As she tilts her blonde head to one side, Gary Shandling pops up from a hot tub, wearing nothing but a pair of skimpy swimming trunks. Just as you catch yourself pulling back in distaste, Brad Pitt appears before your eyes. The hunky actor is gazing provocatively into the camera and leaning against a wall, mouthing what you imagine to be sweet nothings in your ear. As Pitt disappears into the background, Buffy the Vampire Slayer star, Sarah Michelle Gellar, takes his place. She is holding a stake in her hands and lip-syncing the words, "I want to kill Scully!" Before she can pull this off, Gillian Anderson, the actress who portrays Scully on The X-Files, steps out of her trailer. But, her limelight lasts less than a minute, before her co-star, David Duchovny fills up the screen.

  In case you feel as though you’ve stepped into what appears to be a bizarre dream, rest assured that you are not imaging this outlandish scenario. What you have just read is a description of the opening scene to a short video filmed by the production assistants on The X-Files for a holiday party last December. The cast of celebs featured in this unreleased video are mouthing the lyrics to the first single by a 23-year-old, Pennsylvania-native named Bree Sharp. Sharp, whose debut album, Cheap and Evil Girl was released July 27, wrote a song called "David Duchovny," which was passed on to the show through a series of unknown hands, sometime last year. The tune, a catchy ode about Sharp’s favorite actor, is a witty love song, written from a fan’s perspective. Soon after the tape hit the set of the science-fiction television show, the singer had everyone from Brad Pitt to Sarah Michelle Gellar to David Duchovny humming along to her tune.

  So, what did Sharp think when she received a phone call from the X-Files producers asking her to send them a copy of her lyrics? "I was like eehhh!" she squeals, reliving the moment. "I was so excited. It’s been the highlight so far. And I was really flattered. I was in shock for a while."

  Though the shock has yet to wear off, Sharp seems to be adjusting to her newfound fame, just fine. As she sits outside a small market in the outskirts of Los Angeles, the singer bites into a ripe strawberry and reflects on the strange twists and turns which have landed her here today. "People keep asking me, 'Are you ready to be a star?'" she says. "How do you answer that question? I think it’s kind of like being a parent for the first time. You don’t know because you’ve never done it. It’s exciting and scary at the same time. It’s like life. Anything that you’re doing where you really know you’re alive, it’s probably really exciting and really scary at the same time."

  "I didn’t grow up as a musician," she confesses. "I didn’t grow up as a writer either. I started playing guitar when I was fifteen. I would hang out and play music with friends in high school and I remember them saying things like, 'You’ve got a really good voice.' But, mostly, I didn’t pay attention to it."

  For somebody who never intended to be a musician, Sharp has done remarkably well at crafting her skills. Reflecting on her inspiration for "David Duchovny," the New York resident recalls her first experience watching the popular program on TV. "I went home with my best friend in college one Thanksgiving years ago and she had all these back episodes she and her Dad had to watch," the singer says. "I was totally not into it. I thought, 'What kind of retard show am I watching now?' But, after a couple episodes, I was totally hooked. It’s really intriguing and there's so many flavors in it and they all give you a taste and make you hunger for more. You’re not spoon-fed. You really have to figure out stuff for yourself. So much of TV gets ladled into your mouth. On The X-Files, you think you know who the good guys are and the bad guys are. But, they’re always blurring those lines and confusing you. Everything's being stimulated, visually and intellectually."

  When confronted with the matter of what it is that she finds so attractive about David Duchovny, Sharp quickly quips, "What isn't attractive about David? The guy is hot! I think David Duchovny appeals to me and other women because of his intellectual side, his sense of humor. He’s really smart and smart is sexy. And he's really intelligent and he's witty and he gives off that sort of self-loathing quality that's attractive to all neurotic Jews. So, he's the whole package. He's tall, he's handsome, he's broad-shouldered, he's witty and he's an intellectual. It seems like he's compassionate. You get the sense that there's a lot of Mulder in Duchovny. He's got a lot of conviction and that's something you don't see a lot of these days. It's just sexy. It’s sexy to watch."

  But, in case you’re under the misguided belief that Sharp is a one-trick pony, be forewarned that her album is full of clever, riveting songs that could challenge writers twice her age. The singer emphasizes storytelling on her record and is a big fan of artists like Patty Griffin and Bob Dylan. "Lyrics are very important to me," she says. "I feel like there's a lack of thought or poetry in a lot of songs today. Songs are kind of about nothing. That's totally cool because it's the style. I'm not dissing that. But, I'm really interested in saying something and being visual, creating an atmosphere with words."

  And, though inexperienced, Sharp accomplishes this goal by blending a mix of personal songs with outrageous fantasies on Cheap and Evil Girl. She covers topics ranging from the heartache she felt when she broke up with her first love, to dreams of riding a motorcycle alone and drunk in the desert. However, convincing her fantasies, Sharp admits she wouldn't act on most of them. But, pushed to choose one song she'd like to act out in real life, Sharp says, it would probably be her record's title track. "I don't know if I'd ever kill a man in a steam room but I'd go in a steam room with a man," she says, referring to the song’s lyrics "Stream through the steam/ there’s a shot, you're a gonner/ cry as you die cause you know you still want her." "That's not very daring is it? That's kind of like soft-core porn. It's not even heavy duty. Well, I'd take my clothes off. I didn't say I'd go in there with clothes. Yeah, I would be naked alright."

  Scooping up a handful of strawberries, Sharp leans back in the sunshine and watches customers walk in and out of the Whole Foods Market. "I just hope the listener walk away from this record with a big smile on their faces," she sighs. "I hope there's a good mix of moods in there for people. Whatever you can take from it, it's there for you. There's stuff that's really personal in there. Maybe they can relate to that. Maybe they can fantasize. Just enjoy."