I didn't have time to talk about Taylor Momsen and her chest flashing last week, but I thought I would today. On Thursday night, Taylor was performing in New York when she deliberately pulled down her top and flashed the crowd. This was not an accident or a wardrobe malfunction, she intended to do so. The 17 year old was wearing pasties over her nipples, but the rest of her breasts were there for the world to see. There is video of the incident out there, but, I am not going to show it because even though there were pasties I still think it is wrong.
I understand she likes to shock, but she is just 17. It is not even so much the fact that at 17 she should not be doing this, but the fact that at 17, she is quickly running out of shocking things to do. These things should be stretched out over a career and not all used up by your 18th birthday. I guess she could have another "sickness" and end up in the hospital and she could throw in a couple of trips to rehab.
Know what I don't understand? How come it's o.k to see Kate Moss at 15 covering herself with her hands and a hat, but this girl can't be seen with pasties over her nips at 17. Can someone explain that to me?
ReplyDeleteThe thing that offends me the most was how absolutely horrible she is as a stage performer. It's a mix of comical and cringe-inducing. We're talking Tila bad.
ReplyDeleteAt least it demonstrates that she knows her value as a human being and an artist. Namely, someone reduced to flashing her chest to "shock." Next!
ReplyDeleteBut she has a decent voice. Better than most. Check her acoustic performances on youtube.
ReplyDeleteWhere are her parents?????
ReplyDelete@BigMama: Cashing the checks!
ReplyDelete@d: I second that. I find her voice interesting for someone so young, but her "performance" is laughable.
@Barton Fink: You said it. If you've used up your bag of tricks by the time you're legal, what's left?
Im with BigMama--where are the damn parents!
ReplyDeletePlayboy will be next but who will buy if we have all seen her stuff?
Uggh.
See now, a 17-year flashing her boobs is far more "shocking" to me than the controversy over that Glee GQ cover last week. Having said that - this is non-news to me. Momsen drives me batty but pretty much does whatever she likes whenever she likes. As to her parents - hasn't she been emancipated since she was 16 or something? She ain't answering to nobody but herself and would be the first to say so.
ReplyDeleteshe makes me laugh, but really her angle is not so dumb - i mean, she keeps everyone talking. and if she runs out of shocking things to do, she can always clean up her act and renounce her past actions and everyone will still be talking.
ReplyDeletefunny, all you have to do to have a career in this town is shock, clean up, shock, clean up. talent? what is the use of talent?
i find the best talent playing in no name bands in small bars in the desert.
**steps down from soapbox
Oh Taylor, you are so edgy.
ReplyDeleteOn a related note, I finally saw that video for Miley Cyrus' "Who Owns my Heart" last night and wow - trashtacular. That's just the way the 17 year old are doing it these days, I guess.
She keeps saying that she is like an adult and has seen some very adult-like things in her life. Who allows her at the age of 17 to see anything 'adultish'?
ReplyDeleteDoes she think T&A is all she is worth? Speaks wonders for her selfworth.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't speak well for her upbringing either.
LOL
ReplyDeleteI think it's funny because all teenagers think they're deep, dark, and cool.
I wore all black, red lipstick, and snuck into clubs thinking I was a badass at 17.
Hahahaha
it's as if she wants to a piece of the courtney love brand of trashy. wait till she wakes up from that reverie and sees she's just one big joke.
ReplyDeleteso sad.
Black tape pasties? Hillbilly.
ReplyDeleteI thought I knew EVERYTHING at her age, and I couldn't have been more wrong.
ReplyDeleteAgree with HannahPalindrome & lanasyogamama
ReplyDeleteMaybe she's just acting out and she'll grow out of it. This doesn't automatically make her the next Lindsay Lohan.
ReplyDeleteapparently, her mom was there cheering her on. another graduate of the Lohan/Cyrus school of parenting. sad.
ReplyDeleteHow come no one got upset when 16 year old Thora Birch did a topless scene in American Beauty?
ReplyDelete@Chasingheaven - really? À la Wendy O. Williams?
ReplyDeleteMaybe she needed the pasties so people could see where her boobs were.
Her star is waning. Gossip Girl will end one day, then what will she do?
@ jerry:
ReplyDeletethat was "art".
i found that movie dumb as hell. but i usually find the "big buzz" movies dull and a waste of time.
thanks for bringing that up!
Oh American Beauty was such an over-rated piece of trash!
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