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When she isn't regaling her fellow Cirque Lodge dorm buddies with hilarious stories from the Herbie: Fully Loaded set like how Matt Dillon smelled like a mixture of Brylcreem and cheese, Lindsay Lohan has had plenty of time during her most recent luxury rehab stint to strategize the crucial next steps of her career. With the stacks of scripts that used to be sent her way dwindling since the career-suicide double gut-punch of her coke-panted Denalijacking and the release of I Know Who Killed Me, Lohan is now reportedly looking to return to the relatively substance-abuse-friendly realm of pop music. Rush and Molloy reports:

The rehabbing LiLo is looking to revive her recording career, we hear. Insiders say Lohan has let Universal Music execs know she's ready to deliver the third album she owes. But do they want it?

[L]ately, relations between [Casablanca label head Tommy] Mottola and Lohan are said to have cooled...And others at Universal Music are approaching her cautiously. [...]

"As much as she wants to make another album," says one insider, "the feeling is she needs to get herself cleaned up. Then we can talk about it."

While Universal's hesitancy is understandable, they would be crazy not to have Lohan fulfill her contract by recording another album. Whatever financial strains they'll be forced to absorb by having their star tumble into a $900-per-hour recording studio four days late mumbling something about a "rough night at the Chateau" will be quickly be recouped once her latest batch of self-exploratory-yet-danceable songs, "Relapse," races up the pop charts.

Lindsay taking a rock-y road [nydailynews]