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Gossip Girl Taylor Momsen has taken the rock and roll world by storm with her band The Pretty Reckless. The band’s 2010 debut album Light Me Up was pretty much critically acclaimed and the band has been touring extensively, including an opening slot on Evanescence‘s recent tour.

Now, the band is back with a five-track EP entitled Hit Me Like A Man (iTunes). In anticipation of this release, BD Music caught up with singer Taylor Momsen to discuss the current state of things with the band as well as Taylor’s opinion on how women are seen in the rock and roll world. Check below for this exclusive interview!
Bloody-Disgusting: How are you doing?

Taylor Momsen: I’m doing very well, thank you!
BD: Tell me about the ‘Hit Me Like A Man EP’. Why release an EP instead of wait for a traditional full release?

TM: We’ve been touring ‘Light Me Up’ for almost two years now, so we wanted give fans a taste of where the new record is going, the direction. And it was for us! We’re excited to play these songs. 
BD: There is a lot of touring in your future, including trips to South America. What other places would you like to visit and tour?

TM: Well, Australia was one of the big ones that I wanted and we just got back from Sydney. It was awesome. Everyone says Australia is one of their favorite places to tour and now I see why. It’s beautiful!
And we’re definitely excited about South America but, right now, I’m just so excited to be back in America. I’m excited to be on a tour bus for three months and not have to fly everywhere. I’m not a fan, I really don’t like flying [laughs]. I get very nervous flying. Plus, we’re going to be touring with Marilyn Manson! How cool is that?!

BD: I honestly think you’re the first musician I’ve spoken to who is excited about being in a bus for three months!

TM: [laughs] I love touring! I love the road and to not have to fly to every city? Australia was a lot of fun but it was a lot of flying. From Brisbane to Sydney, Sydney to Melbourne, Melbourne to Adelaide, Adelaide to Perth. It’s a lot of planes. And then there’s the customs. It’s just such a joy to not have to wake up and pack everything in the morning and have to deal with that.
BD: About seven months ago, you told Elle magazine that you quit acting to focus on music. How do you feel about that decision and where you are at now?

TM: I can say I haven’t had any second thoughts. I live for it. I love writing songs and I love playing every night and recording. To be able to just focus on that and have all my attention on that is just amazing. 
BD: Rock is generally seen as a male dominated genre. But throughout rock history, women have proven their strength and intensity from Joan Jett to Wendy O to Amy Lee and more. What do you feel about the state of women in rock?

TM: I don’t really like to look at it like that. I like rock and roll these days, whether it’s female or male fronted. I mean, most of the people I look up to are men, like Robert Plant or The Beatles. I just feel that there isn’t a lot of rock coming out so I listen to it all and don’t really think about that.
BD: Another example of the male dominance of rock is the constant need to sexualize women who enter the genre. There was the ‘hottest chicks of metal tour’, there are countless hottest girls in rock, etc… but not really anything of the sort for men. What do you think it would take to get women to the point where their music speaks greater volumes than their appearance?

TM: Image is always going to be a part of music. Yes, there are women who are clearly sexualized but look at Led Zeppelin! Sexual icons as men! So, I think that they can go hand in hand as long as the image doesn’t overtake the music. I think that’s the biggest struggle, that the music should come first. But you can’t hide your image either. 
BD: Taylor, thanks so much for your time and I wish you the best of luck!

TM: Thank you! Thank you so much!
source: bloody-disgusting.com
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March 28th, 2012
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Added to the gallery screencaptures from Music Video: My Medicine

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March 22nd, 2012
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This music video was posted here on March 11th, it’s the 4th post below this article.

Taylor Momsen and her band Pretty Reckless have put together probably the raciest music video in the young band’s history.

In the sexy clip for her new single, My Medicine, Taylor sways around the house party, playing guitar from the floor, her fiery gaze searing through the lens.

The clip also features Taylor’s close friend, retired adult film superstar Jenna Haze as a topless waitress who also engages in some sexy poses with other partygoers, as the vibe gets more and more psychedelic.

Taylor and Jenna recently appeared in a racy pictorial together for FHM magazine, and were both in Australia recently for the Soundwave Festival. Taylor performed, and Jenna was out supporting her boyfriend Greg Puciato’s band, Dillinger Escape Plan.

The pair met over Twitter, with Haze’s boyfriend revealing the singer is a “big fan” of his girlfriend’s work on Soundwave TV. Good to see the sexy photos they made together are now immortalised on film – these girls are hot!

Taylor and Pretty Reckless are playing a slew of headlining tour dates as well as supporting Marilyn Manson over the next few months, before returning to the recording studio to create the band’s long-awaited second album.

Just launched on the internet, the My Medicine clip has raised some eyebrows already, some claiming the clip is just too sexy.

source: triplem.com.au

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March 15th, 2012
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Thanks to Victoria for sending us the link! :)

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March 11th, 2012
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Taylor Momsen’s life as the lead singer of The Pretty Reckless is far too chaotic to allow for luxuries such as free time. She juggled a phone interview with College Times while trying to find quarters in her purse to do some last-minute laundry.

Momsen was only a few hours away from boarding a flight to Australia, where her band was set to perform for the first time there. Upon their return, she and her band will jump straight back into their next headlining tour.

Momsen, a child actress who was previously best known for her role as Jenny Humphrey in the CW Television Network’s “Gossip Girl,” was quick to shed her preppy school girl character. With The Pretty Reckless, she’s now known for fronting a rock band and sporting heavy eye makeup and grungy lingerie as she commands the stage.

The band’s first album, Light Me Up, was released in fall 2010. The band has been on tour ever since.

“It can definitely get tiring at times, and you get homesick,” Momsen said. “But overall I love playing every night and being able to do that every night and not stop is amazing.”

She mentions as she shuffles through her purse that packing and getting everything ready to actually get going is the hardest part of touring, adding that once she’s on the road, she never wants to leave. While most 18 year olds are dealing with school and planning their spring breaks, Momsen is traveling the world with her band members and crew.

“We’ve been touring together for almost three years and it’s very much a family – everyone on the bus, even our driver,” she said. “It’s like going on the road with an extended makeshift family.”

The Pretty Reckless has opened for some big name acts, including Evanescence and Guns N’ Roses.

“It was a great honor and privilege to be able play and open for great bands,” she said. “It’s really exciting to be able to watch those bands every night and learn things from them and steal things from them. That’s a really great blessing.”

In April she will be touring with Marilyn Mason – a treat for Momsen, who said she’s been a “huge fan forever.”

These days, Momsen doesn’t seem to follow teenage girl trends when it comes to music. She still enjoys listening to The Beatles and anything with Chris Cornell.

Momsen sings like someone beyond her years and surely acts much older. But she was still fairly young when she wrote the songs for Light Me Up. She credits growing up as one of the biggest differences on The Pretty Reckless’ new EP,Hit Me Like A Man.

“It’s very exciting and [we have] new songs and some live tracks we’re going to be playing on this tour to give the fans a taste of what’s to come,” she said.

However, she doesn’t have much to say about her new songs.

“I don’t like to talk about the music that much because I like to let it speak for itself and let people make their own judgments of it, but I think the biggest difference is that it’s grown,” she said. “My opinion of what is good has changed.”

Momsen said that after touring with so many great bands and watching them nightly, her standards are high and she has raised the bar for herself when it comes to writing songs.

“I’m older and that alone – and my experiences over the past couple of years – I think it’s reflected in the music,” she said.

When she’s not touring and not recording music, Momsen is still probably working. Days off are unheard of.

“I’m literally talking to you and last minute packing, and it’s like this pretty much all the time,” she said.

She did manage to sneak a visit into New York Fashion Week, but Momsen said she doesn’t have a style or any kind of aesthetic.

“I don’t really know,” she said. “Whatever’s clean that morning that’s what I’ll end up wearing. Literally.”

Her vague careless-yet-so-cool attitude extends to what she hopes her fans will feel about her new EP.

“I want them to feel whatever it makes them feel,” she said. “If it makes them feel anything, I’m happy.”

source: ecollegetimes.com

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