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07/29/09
I think this quasi-maternal concern for someone none of us has ever met is patronising and a little proprietorial, to be completely honest. And does being in a band, "cool" though it may be, make her any less vulnerable? I agree a lot of child models/actors have problems, but I also think that a lot of completely normal teenage issues and phases - drinking too much, wearing revealing clothing, partying too hard, casual drug use, 'unsuitable' partners, body image issues, and just finding it hard to fit in socially - are exaggerated and reported as 'meltdowns' when they are experienced by famous young women. I and my friends, between us, pretty much took care of everything on that list in our adolescence, and some of us haven't grown out of it yet. Give the girl a break.
07/28/09
Add in my often perplexing wardrobe and makeup, and I'm basically Taylor Momsen! And I'm twenty-seven!
Seriously, I don't really have an opinion of the kid one way or another, but none of this really sets off any red flags for me. Mostly she wears outlandish makeup and spits out little ill-articulated blurbs at magazine interviews and makes zillions of dollars. This is what every other teen starlet in Hollywood has ever done. Why the hand-wringing over Taylor? None of us have ever met her and none of us know what she's like. She hardly sounds like she's on the precipice of disaster.
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ummmm yeah. these things are basically me (besides, you know, being famous. and all the makeup, although my clothing tends to suggest some mental instability). I left high school when I was 15 because I was bored out of my skull, had a hard time making friends until I got to college, I'm into older guys and now....I have a BA at 19 and I've learned how to challenge myself instead of settling for boring things. These don't seem like causes for concern, just signs that she's out of step with what her peers are up to. Which makes perfect sense, considering what she does for a living.
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This just bothers me that we are making judgments about her life/social skills/possible learning disabilities for no apparent reason. This is just very US Weekly to me.
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It seems like that's what is going on with Momsen. She basically has a full-time job and makes her own living and has already graduated from high school. When you're surrounded by older people on a daily basis you start to lose touch with the rest of the 16 year olds.
As far as I can tell (and, of course, I may be incredibly wrong), there's nothing wrong with Momsen so far. She's neither pretending to be a goody-two shoes nor trying to keep some Disney-esque image. She looks and acts just like my closest friends did when we would be hopping on the bus in Hollywood, in the middle of the night, after seeing The Adolescents. *shrug*
As for the math comment...yeah, I said that too...then for some inexplicable reason I decided to major in it. :P
07/28/09
The only reason I was still taking math when I was her age was so that I could place out of it in college (where I was planning on a theatre major).
She sounds...16. I think she'll be okay. In Anthony Rapp's autobiography, he talks about listening to a radio interview he gave when he was a teen promoting Adventures in Babysitting and CRINGING at how annoying he was. And he turned out very successful and stable.
I write YA fiction, and I remember once getting feedback that my narrator was "a little know-it-all at times." One of my classmates responded, "um, the narrator is a 16-year-old. That's totally how they are."
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For the record, I'm an"arteeste", I knew it when I was a kid, and I blew off math classes all the time. Because, to be perfectly honest, I don't need it, I knew I wouldn't, and I'm successful.
Sometimes, when you're a kid, you just know who you are, and the strongest among us follow where we know we're meant to go. ;)
This interview is no skin off my chaps at all.
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Dammit. I can't edi.
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I am also alarmed by the eyeliner. Stop it with the racoon eyes, Little J. I was hoping it would be lighter on a magazine cover where someone else styled her. Maybe they thought no one would recognize her without it?
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