EYE OPENER: SNOOP WRITES BLUEGRASS ALBUM.

SNOOP DOGG is ditching rap to record an album of bluegrass songs. The hip-hop star became inspired by his appearance at the Country Music Television (CMT) Awards in April (08) - and is busy writing tracks. He tells OK! magazine, "I went to the CMT Music Awards and I got into the spirit of wanting to do something different. "I've been smoking so much green grass I wanted to do a bluegrass album." Don't we know that from that R&B hit "Sensual Seduction."

Meanwhile, I hear the D-O-double-G wants to team up with LINDSAY LOHAN - for a movie and an album of duets. Snoop confesses he's a huge fan of the Mean Girls star and is reaching out to her with a view to becoming the oddest couple in Hollywood. He tells OK! magazine, "You never know. I like Lindsay. Why not do both a movie and an album?" Kind of reminds me of L'il Wayne's phrase "When 50 called me a whore, it boosted my career! White people know me now!" Snoop, white people already know YOU!