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Taylor Momsen, eyes coated in thick rings of her trademark black eyeshadow, writhes and contorts on a table in a scene reminiscent of the Last Supper. She throws food, smashes glasses, and crawls off the table wearing little more than a leotard and a pair of clear heels.

The scene is from the just-released music video for a song called "Miss Nothing," but it has people saying a lot about the 16-year-old singer.

Momsen (most well known for playing Jenny Humphrey on TV's "Gossip Girl") takes obvious pleasure in shocking people with an aggressively sexual persona. But as the frontwoman for the Pretty Reckless, playing today at the West Palm Beach stop of the Vans Warped Tour punk rock festival, she insists she's just telling stories.

"It's the way I live, I grew up looking at rock stars. It's in my blood," Momsen says. "I think aggression scares people. But if you're scared, you're feeling something. Yeah, there's loud guitars and drums. The reaction, it's really kind of sad."

To Momsen (who will turn 17 on Monday), rock 'n' roll is rock 'n' roll, no matter how old she is.

"It's like we're living in the '60s again. Haven't we already all seen this? This has already happened." She sounds exasperated. "Scantily clad clothing? It's amazing that it's shocking again, scaring people now, again."

As for her public Twitter fight with celebrity gossip Perez Hilton, "That's just tabloids … People ask me about my life and try and create controversy and I'll say what I say."

If she's itching to get rid of a previous era's idea of 16-year-old girl behavior, she has a fonder feeling for that era's music. Momsen described the Pretty Reckless as "the only real rock band on this tour" and says they shun modern sounds almost completely, listening to Led Zeppelin and the Beatles on the bus.

"I'm trying to reinvent and bring back rock 'n' roll," she says. "I listen to the greats. I try to better myself."

The band's first full-length album, "Light Me Up," is set for release Aug. 31. She credits the chaos of Warped Tour – playing six days a week, at different times and stages every day – with allowing the band to find its musical zone.

"You sound different every day, and there's so much trying to adapt. It's a very punk, get-up-there-and-hope-you-can-hear-yourself kind of tour. If you think playing every day is hard, I don't know why you're in a band," she says. "I'm not a diva or a prima donna, I'm the opposite."

She doesn't mind all eyes on her in the "Miss Nothing" video, though.

"The song is telling an ambiguous story about a lover dying, and I'm depicting Mary Magdalene, and Jesus just died. It's about not being able to live without a lover. It's Mary Magdalene's last supper, it's my last supper, because I can't live," Momsen explains.

"But it's just a video," she says, and starts to laugh.

Lance Gross is on the cover of the recently created Bitchie Life digital magazine. He talks about being single, his relationship with Eva Marcille, and the dating scene. But who really gives a shit, you're just here for the pictures.

On his relationship with Eva Marcille
“I will never have a public relationship like that one again. A lot of the reasons why we were so open was because we thought if we put it out there, then people aren’t going to speculate and make up their own stories. But it kind of backfired on us because everybody felt like they were in our relationship. They felt entitled to know all the information. So, I will never do that again.

On Open Relationships
Open Marriages doesn’t make sense to me. Why even get married? Maybe I just had a good example in my life. My mother and father have been together 43 years and I never witnessed my dad getting cussed out by my mom because he’s creeping and vice versa. They had a loving relationship, somewhat comparable to the Huxtables. I don’t even see the point in getting married if you are going to have an open relationships or be swingers. It’s crazy to me but I guess its different strokes for different folks