All posts in: Taylor Momsen

17 Feb 2012

Taylor Momsen Can Sing Y’all!

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Apparently I was too quick to judge when I first listened to Taylor Momsen’s music with her band The Pretty Reckless. I was completely put off by the dark makeup, harsh sounds, and her drawling voice, but it seems as if Little J is showing all of us a new side to her. Don’t get me wrong, I actually like the stuff on her album, but I was so surprised to see her veer off the clean cut track in the first place. In this music video for, “You,” Taylor has toned down the makeup slightly (not that makeup and music have anything to do with each other) and is producing a sound that is really quite pretty.

12 Nov 2011

In the News…

Fashion

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are covering Vogue’s second annual best dressed issue. The issue highlights the best in fashionable sisters including the Olsen twins, Kate and Pippa Middleton, Dakota and Elle Fanning and many more. [Source]

Dakota Fanning’s ad for Marc Jacobs’ “Oh Lola” fragrance has been banned for being too sexual. [Source]

– In Chloe Sevigny’s recent cover shoot for Candy Magazine photographed by Terry Richardson, the two of them collaborated in…another way. [Source] Must be weird for Terry to make out with someone that completely looks like him.

“There are a lot of pop stars making fashion collections – Kylie and J.Lo, Puff Daddy and Kanye West…Maybe next season, [Domenico Dolce and I] should sing a song.” – Stefano Gabbana

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Girl Scout cookies as chap sticks flavors [Source]

Alber Elbaz, the designer behind Lanvin, is writing a book. [Source]

Dakota and Elle Fanning cover W. [Source]

Music

– The lovely and talented Dia Frampton will be releasing her first debut album on December 6th. [Source]

– To celebrate Christmas at the Rockefeller Center, Tony Bennett, Justin Bieber, Michael Bublé, Cee Lo Green, Faith Hill, Carole King, Katharine McPhee, Javier Colon and The Radio City Rockettes will be performing for the live broadcast. [Source]

Justin Bieber is definitely taking the paternity test in two weeks and Maury is trying to recruit him to be on his show when he reveals the results. [Source] I would love to hear Maury announce, “YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER!” or vice versa.

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– An acoustic performance by Fun of “We Are Young” featuring Janelle Monae. [Source]

EMI Music has been sold to Universal for $1.9 Billion. Sony bought out EMI Music Publishing for $2.2 Billion. [Source]

Taylor Momsen’s band, The Pretty Reckless, will support Guns ‘N Roses on tour. [Source]

Television

Showtime has renewed Weeds for an eighth season. [Source] I can’t believe this show isn’t over yet.

Billy Crystal will be hosting the Oscars this year replacing Eddie Murphy. [Source]

Lifetime TV is planning a new reality series called “Starving Secrets” to highlight the effects of having an eating disorder. [Source]

Movies

Breaking Dawn fans are camping out for the premiere of the movie in Los Angeles. [Source] Wow, that doesn’t sound like fun at all.

Seattle

– The Chihuly Garden and Glass Exhibit will open next spring at the Seattle Center and will be the world’s largest Chihuly exhibit to ever exist. [Source] Above is a photograph of our Chihuly sculpture on campus in Pigott.

Cupcake Royale has made Breaking Dawn cupcakes to celebrate the release. [Source]

– Meet Seattle’s most influential people of 2011. [Source]

Seattle made the list for being the 8th shopaholic city. [Source]

Other

– These are the worst action figures of Kate and Pippa Middleton I have ever seen. [Source]

Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves are finally following in the footsteps of their previous characters and are dating! [Source]

– 25- year old Kyla Pratt (One-on-One, Proud Family) has a one-year old daughter. [Source]

– Ex-pornstar, Sasha Grey, read children’s book to elementary students yesterday and parents were not enthused. [Source]

– A 10-year old girl from Mexico gave birth to a baby boy in a 31-week pregnancy. [Source] OH MY GOD.

– A straight rugby player suffers a stroke and goes into a coma – wakes up gay and fabulous! [Source]

16 Aug 2011

Taylor Momsen Becomes a Full Time Musician

Little J has left the Upper East Side

for good. Taylor Momsen has quit acting to become a full time musician and it looks like she couldn’t be happier with that decision. For the first season of Gossip Girl, Little J was actually one of my favorite characters. Then she went off the deep end and we watched her character change simultaneously with her personality in real life. It was almost as if they were morphing into one single person – which was weird because that doesn’t happen often, does it? Anyways, congrats to Taylor for doing something that she loves. The girl’s a little bit cray-cray on the stage so I’ve heard, but at least she’s made up her mind about what she wants to do. Even though her music isn’t really my scene at all, I still want to go to one of her shows.

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13 May 2011

In the News…

Fashion

How did Carrie Bradshaw afford her lifestyle as a columnist on Sex in the City? One blogger managed to calculate all of her expenses to find how much debt she would have. [Source]

TopShop will open its second location in the states in Chicago! [Source]

Music

Lupe Fiasco and Trey Songz will perform at this year’s MTV’s 2011 Movie Awards. [Source]

For her sweet sixteen, Big Boi gave his daughter Jordan a record label called Purple Kidz. [Source]

Oh Land will be kicking off her summer tour w/ Sia beginning in July. [Source]

Ben Gibbard opens up about his dark past and battling alcoholism in the June issue of SPIN Magazine. [Source]

Television

America’s Next Top Model has announced the contestants for their All-Star Season. [Source] Round 2.

Taylor Momsen and Jessica Szohr will leave Gossip Girl at the end of the season as series regulars. [Source]

Zooey Deschanel will star in a new FOX Pilot called “The New Girl.” [Source]

NBC passes on Wonder Woman pilot. [Source]

Ashton Kutcher will join “2 and a Half Men.” [Source]

Movies

Will Smith stops traffic with his $2 million 1,150 sq feet trailer while filming Men in Black 3. [1][2]

Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen will star in a new film called “Very Good Girls.” [Source]

Seattle

Designer Monique Lhuillier will be visiting Nordstrom’s Flagship store downtown on 5/19. Bridesmaid dress viewing will be from 6-7PM [Source]

Other

Levi Johnston looks extremely good looking on the cover of his new book due out September 27: Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs [Source]

Leonardo DiCaprio has called it quits with longtime girlfriend Bar Rafaeli. [Source]

Hayden Panetierre and her giant boyfriend Wladimir Klitschko have split. [Source]

Autumn Reeser has given birth to a beautiful baby boy named Finn. [Source] Named after Glee?

Bristol Palin admits that the plastic surgery on her face was for medical reasons. [Source]

Actor Mike Myers is about to become a dad for the first time at age 47. [Source]

Lady Gaga is no longer in a relationship w/ Lüc Carl. [Source]

Facebook has found themselves to be in a potential scandal w/ Google. [Source]

24 Jan 2011

In the News…

Lupe Fiasco’s new album cover for Lasers [Source]

Usher, B.o.B, Bruno Mars, Janelle Monáe, Justin Bieber, and Jaden Smith have been added to the Grammy performers lineup. [Source]

Marie Caro, mother of anorexic model Isabelle Caro, has committed suicide just months after her daughter’s death. [Source]

Kat Von D and Jesse James are engaged and will get married next month. [Source]

– The first actress has been named for the Charlie’s Angels reboot [Source]

– The Strokes’ new album “Angles” will be out March 22nd. [Source]

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Natalie Portman on Ellen – so cute!

Anne Hathaway will be cast as Chris Colfer’s lesbian aunt on Glee. [Source]

Anne Hathaway has also been casted as Selina Kyle AKA Catwoman in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises” with Tom Hardy as Bane. [Source]

Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom named their son Flynn. [Source]

Ivanka Trump is pregnant. [Source]

Regis Philbin will retire later on this year from “Live With Regis and Kelly.” [Source]

Aaron Carter has entered rehab. [Source]

Kelly Osbourne will be replacing Taylor Momsen as the face of Madonna and her daughter’s line Material Girl. [Source]

Glee reveals songs from their upcoming Valentine’s Day episode! [Source]

13 Dec 2010

In the News…

I figured that I had better just make a roundup post…

Nicole Richie and Joel Madden got married this past weekend! No pictures have been released yet, but Nicole did wear 3 gowns – one being a Marchesa custom-made wedding gown for the walk down the aisle. Also, there was an elephant present. Not an elephant in the room, but an actual elephant stomping all over Lionel Richie’s estate where the wedding was held. Paris Hilton was not invited.

– Obligatory qt Elle Fanning gif.

Natalie Portman is on the cover of Vogue’s January 2011 issue and for some reason this cover looks extremely vintage. I’m not diggin’ on the awkward hand placement.

Anderson Cooper’s new talk show has a name: “Anderson.” NICE. [Source]

Gwyneth Paltrow will be returning to Glee! [Source]

– 2010 not only brought us the end of highly profiled couples, it also brought us the worst in fashion [here]

– Actor James Franco explains what it was like to witness a male prostitute in action (getting action…pun intended?) so that he could do research for a role. [Source]

Lindsay Lohan is upset that Gwyneth Paltrow made fun of her in Glee. Boo hoo. That’s what you get when you make bad choices Hohan. [Source]

– If Robert Pattinson weren’t an actor, he probably would have tried pursuing his dreams of being a rapper. [Source]

Leighton Meester will end her run on Gossip Girl in two years when her contract is up. The show will most likely not survive without her. [Source]

Project Runway is getting a spinoff dedicated to creating accessories on Lifetime. ugh. [Source]

Jersey Shore’s Jenni “JWoww” Farley is penning an advice book for little aspiring guidettes that want to learn “secrets on landing a mint guy, staying fresh to death, and kicking the competition to the curb.” [Source]

-HBIC of the day Gwyneth Paltrow also got her Hollywood star today. [Source]

Dexter stars Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter are divorcing after two years. [Source]

Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper Brian Mitchell was founded guilty today. [Source]

– We took a look at all of the couples that broke up this year. [Source]

14 Oct 2010

Heidi Montag uses Taylor Momsen’s Song

[I miss the old Taylor Momsen]

“I wrote a pop song [called ‘Blackout’ when I was 8] and recorded it with a producer as a demo. Heidi Montag from ‘The Hills’ just recently sang it and put it out as her single. I’m like, OK, dude, you’re singing an 8-year-old’s words, but that’s cool.” – Taylor Momsen in Revolver Magazine.

I decided to do a little digging to find out more about this said song. I listened to it and though it wasn’t good, it wasn’t necessarily bad either. I’m sure that I would enjoy it more if it were sung by Britney Spears, but because I knew it came from Heidi Montag slash Taylor Momsen the likability has lessened.

Here’s a snippet of the lyrics from the chorus:

Black out the satellite, where should we run to?
It’s gettin physical boy
And if you want to go somewhere no one can find us
We can get out of here

Black out the satellite and be my road star
You wanted anything else so show ya my heart
Let’s leave this city behind us
We can get out of here

Questions:

Are we surprised that Heidi Montag is singing these lyrics? No.

Shocked that Taylor wrote about getting physical with a boy at age 8? Very.

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