I would want to smack 17-year-old Taylor Momsen if she wasn’t so unintentionally hilarious. She constantly reminds me of Megan Fox, actually. Both Megan and Taylor are really, epically stupid little girls who think they are absolutely brilliant, and, like, the most original artists EVER. Both have a way with soundbytes and both try to front like they’re seriously hard bitches when you can tell that both of them would probably rather be curled up in bed with The Babysitters Club collection. Anyway, Taylor has given an interview to Spin Magazine (excerpts at Spin here), and she’s her usual HARDCORE RACCOON self. What does this week’s Poseur Provocateur have to kvetch about? How she dresses like a “high-class hooker” and how people think she’s a drug-addicted “crazy f-ckin’ psycho” and how Rihanna sucks. Um… Team RiRi. Here are the highlights:
Taylor on how she’s not a role model: “I am not a role model.” That’s what Momsen told SPIN over lunch in a New York City diner, after arriving dressed in thigh-high black nylons and itty-bitty jean shorts with her bleached-blonde hair cascading over skinny shoulders, a look she describes as “high-class hooker.” “I dress for myself,” she says. “Clearly, it’s provocative, but it makes me feel good. And if the only reason it makes someone uncomfortable is because I’m 17, then that person’s a scumbag because it shouldn’t matter.”
What She’s Not: A “drug addict,” a “crazy f-ckin’ psycho who’s gonna end up in the gutter next week,” or a rebel. “I’m figuring out who I am and what I want to be doing,” she says.
Ooh, a sodomy reference! “On the Pretty Reckless’ debut, Light Me Up, Momsen wails about getting damaged (the dive-bar anthem “My Medicine”), disrobing (the propulsive “Goin’ Down”) and fessing up to some “not-okay” urges (“Light Me Up”). Elsewhere, she sings, “I’ll let you in through the back door” on a song that could just be about a house party. Right?”
On how her “bad experiences” have f-cked her up: When asked about the basis for these suggestive lyrics, the otherwise chatty Momsen chooses her words carefully. “I’m not really sure how to answer properly yet,” she admits. “I’ve had a lot of bad experiences, and whether that’s from sex or drugs or something else, they are adult experiences that would f-ck anyone up.”
On how Rihanna sucks: Momsen is very protective of what she considers “rock,” a word she uses frequently. “People think pop is rock, and the lines are getting blurred. Now Rihanna’s wearing f-ckin’ leather jackets, and it’s really annoying.”
Music keeps Taylor “young” (at 17 years old, mind you): “I was at a point where I was getting up and going to work, but I was drained,” she says. “Gossip Girl gave me a platform to make this happen faster, and I’m grateful, but if I’m not doing something that makes me happy, then I’m dying. Music keeps me young.”
Taylor speaks the truth: “I know nobody wants to like our music. Online, people said, ‘I really wanted to hate [the EP] but I like it.’ I hope things continue on that path. But I’ll be making more records whether people are listening to them or not.”
[From Spin]
Just a few corrections I’d like to make to Taylor’s comments: first of all, you do not look like a “high class” hooker. You look like a cracked-out hooker who sells her body for rock and eyeshadow. And yes, it makes me “uncomfortable” and thus, I am a “scumbag”. So sue me, I don’t like that there are millions of photos of your coked-out panda face everywhere, showing off your panties and your bra and your thigh-highs. It’s been done before and it’s been done better. Also: a leather jacket does not equal “rock”. If Rihanna is not hardcore enough for you, fine. But don’t make it about a leather jacket, for God’s sake. One more thing: I don’t doubt that you’ve “had a lot of bad experiences, and whether that’s from sex or drugs or something else, they are adult experiences that would f-ck anyone up.” I think you’ve probably had f-cked up teenage sex, probably with one of those creepy middle-aged dudes in your band, and I think you’ve probably also done drugs. These are not particularly enriching experiences, whether you’re a teenager or whether you’re in your 30s. The difference? Your mom should not be allowing any of this.
Photos courtesy of Spin online.
Oh dear, what my mother likes to call a little try hard
So, anyone want to start a pool on when she’ll land herself in jail, because jail is (*mocks*) “so rock and roll and edgy and stuff”?
Her parents are letting her make her own decisions, at least that’s what she’s said. It appears true. One of those creepy band dudes is her uncle. Just sayin’……..
Oh, Taylor, honey, at least RiRi has proven that she can sell records and that she is a true star. So, a little advice, you sound like an idiot for dissing her. Please notice that RiRi is ignoring you. That’s what a real star does, ignore the scum under her shoe.
Her again? Please, please, someone just make her go away. Maybe once she turns 18 no one will pay attention to her. And, as has been said before, the fact that her parents allow all of this to happen is beyond sad and disgusting. Good luck to her…and I’m so relieved to hear that music keeps her young.
I would be only a teeny bit tolerant of her “in your face” case of Try Hard if only some of these interviews and accompanying photo spreads include her band. Every interview has only been about Taylor, Taylor and more Taylor. Why doesn’t she talk more about her band? Did they form it together as a group of friends growing up on the playground? Did their mommys organize play dates and from there a mini rock band was formed? Or did just hire a bunch of session musicians just to give herself an out from Gossip Girl? Inquiring minds what to know (but also don’t care enough to Google this info to find out for myself!)
her style is high-class streetwalker, not hooker. high-class hookers can afford to be subtle.
in any event, let her be. she has a creative spark in her, and she may grow up to surprise those of you whose panties are in a wad.
Yeah don’t mess RiRi… uh have you seen Chris Brown’s career lately? I haven’t.
How she dresses like a “high-class hooker”
by which, i guess, she means someone who has a spot *under* the streetlight, not just near it.
“Music keeps me young.”
LOLOL!
No, the fact that you’re a TEENAGER keeps you young.
When will this contrived twat wake up and realise she’s just as much of a corporate monkey as the artists she supposedly loathes? It’s starting to get quite embarassing.
I passed a couple racks of trashy-ass clothes in Macy’s yesterday and thought “Criminy, is this what the kids are wearing these days?” Lo and behold, I saw the label read “Material Girl” and instantly thought of Panda Momsen. Not surprisingly, there was an abundance of Material Girl shirts and an absence of Material Girl pants. Panda McCiggies indeed…..
“Now Rihanna’s wearing f-ckin’ leather jackets, and it’s really annoying”
I am with her(Taylor) on that. Rihanna has gone from being a role model to looking ridiculously SKANKY in her outfits. Her ass is saggy too.
It’s a complete turn off – she’s becomming another Britney Spears. Eeew
This girl is so annoying!!!!!
She’s trying “way” too hard.
Note to Taylor: Courtney Love rocked the heavy eye make up and grunge look in 1992. That’s why people compared you to her — even though she has more talent in her pinky toe that you do (yes, that’s saying alot..)
And don’t get me started on the RiRi diss. Rihanna has way more fans than this child can dream of.
she’s all talk. dumb child I wanna smack her.
Its funny when one contrived corporate sellout disses another corporate sellout. RiRi is as contrived and corporate as Raccoon McPantless. Within two weeks of Umbrella coming out, RIri’s handlers were pitching it to companies, and Riri shills for covergirl, Gucci, Louis Vuitton. RiRi doesn’t write her songs, she has no vocal range, can’t dance and has no stage presence live. Her recent MSG concert was panned as awful, and she’s had a number of dates canceled due to poor ticket sales. They are two peas from the same pod; everyone should be able to see this. Geez, to find music pure and simple you have to go back to something like Woodstock; Jimi, Carlos, etc. weren’t corporate sponsored or wearing designer clothes, and I don’t believe there were any corporate sponsors of that legendary event. Riri, Panda, KatyPerry, Lady Gaga, etc. are in it for the money, nothing else, that’s why they, their labels, and their management teams hooked up with various corporate sponsors so quickly (look at the product promos in CaCa’s vids; how many product promos were at Woodstock?) – they aren’t musicians and have nothing musically to express. They all need to disappear for the real musicians that are out there. Oh, record sales, top tens, etc. mean little today with the endless pr/media promoting, Milli Vanilli, Vanilla Ice and Billy Ray Cyrus sold alot of cds; does that mean, in itself, that they are good?
Rhianna’s played out, but I didn’t think there was any kind of criteria for wearing leather jackets. Oh, wait. Did Taylor Momsen invent leather jackets? I seem to recall having one 10 YEARS BEFORE SHE WAS BORN. Shut up, poseur.
Booooring! All of it. The girl, her style, her attitude and her music.
Sweetie, your look isn’t high class hooker. It’s just hooker.
@Jover-Music is an industry so yes, corporate sponsorship is a necessary evil. This is not the days of Woodstock where 4 private citizens will fork over $2.4 mill to pay for a music festival. The liability alone would be enormous. The artists you named are a product of today’s times and I think it’s sort of an exercise in futility to compare them with the likes of Jimi Handrix who was performing 45 years ago. If he were performing today he would likely have a Gatorade gig and his own clothing label.
She doesn’t want people to judge her based on the way she looks yet she’s doing the same to Rihanna?
Her look to me is a bit more high than hooker…lol!
That’s an insult to high-class hookers everywhere.
I just can’t bring myself to hate her. She’s better than Megan Fox in the sense that at least she’s doing something, she’s ambitious. Megan Fox just whines.
And Rhianna is annoying. She’s a fashion disaster of pandemic proportions. And the sound of Rihanna’s voice makes me cringe. It’s like sandpaper. And Riley, you’re kidding right? Because CB almost beat Rhianna to death.
And why do we always have to choose? Can this Team Taylor or Team Edward nonsense just end?
As for no photos of the band. No Doubt made fun of that fact in the video for … Don’t Speak I believe. No one cares about the guys, only Gwen gets photographed. Happens all the time.
I like her look. Yeah it’s been done but so has everything.
@bizzy lol
Re: endorsements, I highly doubt that if Jimi Hendrix were alive today, he’d be shilling for Gatorade. Kurt Cobain either! Seriously. Coincidentally, they both died at 27…
The level of celebrity endorsements is out of control these days. Yes, I know it used to happen in the old days (cigarettes, soap, cereal…) and even with legends of rock (anyone remember Eric Clapton and Anheuser-Busch? great idea to feature a recovering alcoholic). But these days, it’s totally out of control. Again, bring back the models! I don’t need Drew Barrymore to sell me my makeup, Britney Spears to sell me Candie’s tacky cheap clothes, or Rihanna to sell me super-tacky, super-expensive “status” handbags.
It is really funny to imagine what company could possibly tap Taylor for an ad campaign. “Pleasers” brand “exotic” high heels?
Who is this girl to be protective over rock? She’s acting like she founded pan-fu**ing-tera for pete’s sakes! Give it up little one, you’re a mid-90’s tribute band at best!
And at worse? You’re a short-sighted a-hole who doesn’t realize that sleeping with talent execs for a gig on gossip girl is not a “hard life lived”.
Well, Hooker maybe. High class? Not so much.
@Lara – I was about the same thing. So she “dresses for her” and anyone who disagrees is a “scumbag” but RiRi is a poseur who’s not allowed to wear leather because Taylor doesn’t like it? Perhaps, even though Rhianna makes pop music, she just happens to like Rock, or dressing edgy or whatever. And at least when Rhianna wears some questionable clothing, you can still tell it’s designer, not “streetwalkers of AC”
This little pan-fart is dying – dying for someone with any name value to mention her. So she flings out other people’s names in what she thinks are derogatory ways, she gets all “hard” and slutty, thinking she’s going to get some real rocker to take her under their wing, and so far, no one at all gives a rat’s ass who she is.
It’s something between hilarious and hilariously sad.
yeah you know what i’m gonna give her props for at least being honest. most stars fake smile at others even when they dont like em, so fake. I think theres more to rock than leather jackets but Rihanna is a hypocrite and a moron and glad someone is not kissing her ass.
@Lucy= spot on 🙂
Thank you Kelly I agree on all your points and you’ve restated re models/endorsements/mag covers what I and others have said in prior posts. Thanks. As sad as it is in a way I’m glad the legends like Jimi are not around to see how music has become just another commodity to be bought and sold like anything else – yet 40 years from now we will still be listening to Jimi etc. while todays stuff will be forgotten Panda face will be a bad makeup smudge in pop music history.
lol funny cause she’s the same girl who played Cindy Lou hoo
@Lucy…hahaha! You said it perfectly!
I can’t with her. I just can’t. I want to slap the snot out of her and I rarely say stuff like that.
Does it ever occur to her that the hooker clothes and the “adult” experiences that have “fucked her up” are connected?
Does she support her mother? She’s still underage and should have some rules but I guess it’s late to start if she’s been given free rein so far.
I don’t really like Taylor and I hate Rihanna and all the other phony singes, however, what I hate more is people putting today’s music down.
Of coarse if you read celebrity blogs you’ll get a false view of what the current musical landscape is like. Why? Because most of the great bands out there aren’t trying to be celebrities.
There is just as much great music being made today as ever. When Kate Hudson started going out with Matthew Bellemy most people here didn’t know who he is because he’s a hardworking and in a real band, not an product endorsing fame-whore.
Rihanna isn’t a representation of women in the industry; I just saw Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine. She’s absolutely amazing. Many here may not know her even though she’s successful because she isn’t on a celebrity blog which is a good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Z2PjJsk-I
The quality isn’t the best but the concert was amazing.
And although the bars there were sponsored by alcohol companies the whole festival wasn’t a corporate event.
Oh yeah Taylor and nothing says “rock” more than being the face of pop icon Madonna’s daughter’s fashion line right? Boo Taylor.
Omg would she stfu already? Its allll about clothes with her I swear, there is more to rock than image! The reason modern rock music (gags) sucks soo bad is because corporations have made it all about image to make more $$$ from the kiddies and dumba**es who wanna feel cool. Stfu damn panda faced freakin raccoon
Wow!! For once I actually agree with celebitchy!!
Everything you wrote, totally agree.
And how does feeling uncomfortable with the provocative way she’s dressing make you a scum bag? doesn’t it make you the opposite, cos scumbags wouldn’t feel uncomfortable with that, they’d love it.
I can’t believe she thinks she looks like a high class hooker. LOL!!!!!
I do have to say though, she has a very lovely voice.
It’s cute that she’s all fired up about this COMPLETELY NEW outrage wherein the lines between pop and rock are getting blurred.
Taylor has a better voice than Rihanna by far.
Oh PUH-LEAZE!!! Riri has more money and talent than this dumb wannabe will ever dream of having. Taylor cannot even sing! She wishes she Rihanna’s obvious talent.
And who the heck equates rock with leather jackets? Really? What a dumb statement from such an unintelligent person.
All those modern wannabe rockchick ego tripers know nothing about rock music. Listen to the music of the 80s.
“High class Hooker”–honey there’s no such thing lol
I saw the Pretty Reckless at Warped Tour and Momsen got angry that the crowd, including me, (I heard her as I walked off) walked away from her band’s set for the stage beside her. I think she’s a bit spoiled, though with a good voice, and she pretty much tries to steal everything Courtney Love ever did. If you read Queen of Noise about Love, she had drug problems since a young age, she went to juvie and reform school, rehab, looney bins, set things on fire (known as a fire starter around Portland), stripped, talked a lot, got involved with older guys before 18. Then Love started Hole and became known as the rock n’ roll rebel queen. She jumped off of stage, guzzled whiskey before recording songs, got into fights, got arrested often, and wrote deep and dark lyrics. I’m waiting for Momsen to attempt to achieve all of these things because she wants to be Courtney Love. She even insults other celebrities like Courtney Love? Momsen is obviously an actress, not a “rocker”, or she wouldn’t ACT like Love.
Whoa,im surprised as a fan of both. Still can’t dislike Taylor, she got style and voice. And her outspoken attitude too. And rihanna, she got nice songs. Althou i dont really like her style or what
okay. u hate her. BIG WHOOP. NO ONE FCKING CARES IF U HATE HER.
there are some people in this world (like moi) who do like her. sure, she could lay off the eyeliner a bit, and maybe wear a bit more clothes. but taylor likes it and feels good in it. so let her. what if u wanted to wear something but then someone posts something online about how they dont like what ur wearing? or how u wear ur makeup? obviously, taylor doesnt care what others think, about her or her music, seeing as she said she’ll keep writing and recording. and yeah, i agree, dissing Rihanna like that over a leather jacket is a bit much, though i see her point. leather jackets usually represent hardcore, rock, etc. no offense to RiRi, i love her too, but, taylor’s right, Rihannas just a pop star. she isnt badass or hardcore, or a rockstar.
ur rant was a bit sorta really not neccessary. go keep ur hate to urself. otherwise, im sure u wont mind if someone says they hate u and start ranting about why.
taylor has a great voice. 17 or not, shes still a good singer. and shes famous. unlike many people in this world.
so suck it up and stop whining.
#haterswillhate