March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Dear Ashley Alexandra Dupre, here's your big break. You have 15 minutes of pop-music fame.

Sadly, you've already used up six and a half minutes of it with two underwhelming songs. This isn't a great start.

I assume you might have chosen a less dramatic way to reach center stage than as New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's Kristen. Let's look on the bright side.

Your single ``What We Want'' has been played to death on the Internet. Your other track, ``Move Ya Body,'' also shot up to the maximum download price on the Web site http://amiestreet.com.

Your two-track ``album,'' as the site calls it -- surely the shortest album in history -- is called ``Unspoken Words,'' which couldn't be more apt when you're not giving interviews. Either way, it costs $1.96. And you're getting 70 percent of the sales, according to the site's co-founder Joshua Boltuch. Not a bad deal.

There are some worrying things though, such as the online poll by New York radio station Z100. As the weekend wore on, people were turning against ``What We Want,'' with more than 36 percent voting ``This sucks.'' Almost 40 percent thought it was just okay and less than a quarter liked it.

You won't be so pleased with the tags that users on the AmieStreet site have associated with you: ``Eliot Spitzer'' (why does it have to keep coming back to him, you may ask) and ``call girl, prostitute, Heidi Fleiss.''

Lucrative Scandals

Surprisingly, the tags don't include former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, or others who found a silver lining to a cloud of scandal, such as Paris Hilton. Her X-rated antics revved up a career of someone now more famous for being famous than for half-baked ``musical'' offerings.

The AmieStreet site adds more complimentary associations: ``Janet Jackson, Alicia Keys, Madonna, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera.'' Beyonce also comes to mind. Pleased by these, Ashley?

Your tracks could be a blend of all of the above. Both are professionally done, by no means a disgrace. That's, I'm afraid, where the compliments end.

It's not every singer with just two songs to their name who gets them put under the microscope of a rock critic. That's your privilege, or burden, depending on how you see it.

``What We Want'' sounds a Britney outtake on the cutting- room floor from the ``Blackout'' sessions. It has added Spitzer significance. ``Can you handle me boy?'' (Nope). ``Would you defend your girl?'' (Erm). And finally: ``Shake!'' (What a payoff command: Spitzer has been shaken for sure.)

`Sex, Money, Drugs'

``Move Ya Body'' would sound okay in a hair salon or gym. It's beyond bland, just dull. ``Move ya hips, move ya body up against mine.'' Nobody in their right mind expects Dylanesque poetry in a dance track like this. Which is just as well because ``sex, money, drugs that's what I'm about'' is as good as we get.

Ashley, don't worry that you can't sing well. It has never stopped Madonna.

While some major record labels might see you as ``damaged goods'' you'll probably get a contract, and beyond music there'll be publishing, modeling, and ``Spitzer the Movie'' is a sure thing once the lawyers have slugged it out.

Andy Warhol, who made the ``15 minutes'' quip, knew that fleeting fame or infamy can be turned into cash. Sex sells and if nobody comes out of this covered in roses, Ashley, at least you'll be covered in money if you get the right advice.

The ensuing headlines will be more uncomfortable for Spitzer, who is looking for something new to put on his resume. Now that the swanky Governor tag doesn't look so hot, he might note under achievements: ``launching career of Ashley Dupre.''

Ashley, forgive me for speaking frankly. Let's hope that, like in the song, you get what you want. Enjoy it while it lasts.

(Mark Beech writes for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.)

To contact the writer on this story: Mark Beech in London at mbeech@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: March 16, 2008 20:45 EDT