14 DAY TRIAL // It could very well be that, despite claims that she couldn’t care less if she tried, Taylor Momsen is out to cause a stir and generate media coverage by courting controversy, it is being said. The “Gossip Girl” star and her band The Pretty Reckless have just released a brand new video, for the single “Miss Nothing,” recreating The Last Supper, with Taylor as a gartered-up blonde Jesus with too much makeup, The Huffington Post notes.
Still, it’s not this that got people all hot under the collar, if one is to judge by a review of the video in the New York Daily News, but rather the fact that Taylor seems to be offering herself on a silver platter to her bandmates and, implicitly, whoever may be watching the vid. For those who don’t know (or weren’t able to tell by her looks), Taylor is only 16 years old, which is why there are several degrees of wrong where the video is concerned, word in the blogosphere says.
“Taylor Momsen has put her 16-year-old [body] on a platter for men twice her age – literally. The ‘Gossip Girl’ star and Pretty Reckless front woman appears in her band’s new video, ‘Miss Nothing,’ in virtually nothing, crawling through the platters covering a banquet table at which several men are seated,” the NY Daily News writes. In fact, the entire video, the camera is focused only on Taylor, which could easily make one believe the bandmembers are actually actors whose face don’t really have to be shown on camera.
“Momsen, who sports lashings of black eye make up and long bleached blond curls, wears a white micro-mini silk bodysuit, complete with fishnets and visible garters. The teen Courtney Love clone spends the 3-minute video alternately crawling, lying and standing on the table as the male diners are free to look up her skirt. At one point Momsen dives under the table and arches her back as she scrounges around the men’s feet. ‘I don’t need to be saved,’ she sings in a voice reminiscent of Garbage’s Shirley Manson,” the report goes on to say.
“Miss Nothing,” just like the previous single, “Make Me Wanna Die,” is included on the first album from The Pretty Reckless, “Light Me Up,” which will arrive in US stores at the end of August, and in the UK the following month. Below the video – watch it for yourselves and see whether people are reading too much into it or not.
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