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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's well from Rock twety five to five, and we
just celebrated International Women's Day, so I think the timing
of this is perfect.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I have the pleasure to chat with one of the.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Biggest most emotional voices in rock, Taylor Momson from The
Pretty Reckless.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
How's it going? Great to hang with you, Hi.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I'm doing great. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I am doing well. I mean it's a little cold
in Chicago, but you know, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
It's March right, well, I'll take it.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
I am in Santiago, Chile with ACDC right now and
it is hot, so miss I am missing leather jacket weather. Right.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Leather jackets are the best, aren't they They're great?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
They are, But that's my It's my favorite kind of weather.
I love Chicago.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So we just got the word there's a brand new
album coming, Dear God Do out on June twenty sixth.
What are your feelings at this point in the record cycle?
You know, album's announced now but not out. How do
you feel at this point?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
It's always a bizarre feeling, you know, taking something that
I've that is it's not because it's not out yet,
so it's not fully it's not fully not mine yet,
if that makes sense, But it's but I know that
it's I know that I'm about to be giving it away,
So it's always a very bizarre feeling, but it's mostly
(01:13):
just incredible excitement. I'm so proud of this album, and
I'm so I'm so happy that people know it's coming
now because that's been a secret that I've been holding
on to.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
So it feels nice to let that go.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
But you know, it's because I know all the inner
workings of everything, but the world doesn't. So it's it
feels great that that is finally out in the world.
And there's a definitive date where you guys can all
listen to it.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yes, June twenty six market on your calendars, because you've.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Got to listen to this record, Yes, please do.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Four fourteen songs on this including four I Am Death,
which we've heard previously, and then today just got a
brand new song, and man, this thing is fire. It
is a barn burner. If that's a thing that they
still say in twenty twenties. I don't know when I
wake is out now, wow, tell me about this song
because it is awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
When I wake up Well, when I wake up, it's
kind of I don't know, you know, it's I.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Think we all know the story, right, don't we all
know the story.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Of what when I wake up is trying to say, you're, you.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Know, idea where I was last night.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I have no idea where it was last night.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
And you know it's uh and if you don't know
what I'm talking about, then you haven't lived it.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's a it's a it's a it's a song that kind.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Of you know, it goes through a series of nights
and time and of kind of waking up and not
knowing exactly what happened. And you know, on a on
a I think it's a lot of fun, you know,
on a on a grander, deeper scale, it's it's kind
of telling the I may or may not.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Have lived this life at some point. Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
It's you know, it's sometimes it can get glamorized, but
you know, it's also can be quite dark at.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Times exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Sometimes it's a good time, sometimes not so much. And
I think that's kind of that's kind of what this is,
you know, is saying, you know, it's trying to escape
by by using something and you know, something outside of
yourself that not necessarily is always maybe isn't the greatest decision.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I understand. I see where you're coming from.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Uh yeah, that is uh And I think that actually
comes across in the song because it definitely has that
fun element in the music because it is it is cruising.
It is a great up tempo song, and then the
spaces the pauses love that.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I mean, it really draws you in.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, that's great, Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I'm really psyched on it and I can't wait to
start playing it live. It's it's it's very exciting and
releasing new music especially when you've had it in your
pocket for so long, like we've been out with a
CDC for a long time now and continually playing you know,
old material, which I love and it's fantastic. But when
you have all these new songs that are living inside
my own head, you just want to get them out.
(03:54):
And so it's it's very exciting that we can finally
start adding new stuff to the set.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So then tomorrow do you start playing and I wake up?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Oh, of course tomorrow on the non show days, that's the.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Tomorrow on our day off we're playing when.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I wake up or whatever your next show, It's going
to be in the setlist, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Oh, it's getting there. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
So, speaking of you also announced a world tour which
is going to come to Chicago for a date at
the Rivier Theater in July. That is on July seventeenth.
So you did, as you mentioned, you spent the past
two years opening up for ac DC.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
What did you take away from that experience.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
It's just incredible.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I mean they are a force of nature, which I
don't think even needs to be said. I think everyone
knows that, but getting to witness that firsthand every night
is unlike anything else I've ever experienced. You know, Like,
we go, we play our set, and it's been phenomenal.
The crowd response has been amazing, you know, all the things.
(04:58):
But then I get to watch an ac DC show
at the end of that, and it's just it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I mean, it is just a schooling in what rock
and roll is.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Like. It's Angus's guitar is so loud and so crimal
and exactly what it should be, and it's just it's
just incredible.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It's been the most incredible experience.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I think that it's one of the amazing things about
a band like that and yourself for that matter, where
it's like it's like it's kind of plug in, play
the notes, play the riffs and let that speak. You
don't need processing and you know, you know, overly produced
sounds and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I mean there's cracks and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
It's great. It's real rock and roll, straight ahead here
you go.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's real rock and roll to its core.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
And you know, and that is something that we I mean,
that's what we are. Like we don't have there's there's
just the four of us on stage making noise, and
that's it. Like there is no there's no tracks, there's
no production, Like we barely have lights.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Like we've been playing in the day ninety percent of
the time.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
So it's you know, like and and that's to me,
that's what it should be like.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
That's that's the power of music.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
That's the power of rock and roll is people getting
together and playing something that is moving and that human
kind of connection. And ACDC just represents that in everything
they do.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I know that there's an ac DC date near us
here in Chicago. It's at Notre Dame Stadium on September fourth,
and I am definitely going to road Tip to go
check that show out.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Oh, you definitely should.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
That. They're on fire right now, like it's it's they
always are, but I don't know, they've got something extra
happening right now.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
They're phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
So these dates that you have announced, it kind of
fill in in between some of these ac DC dates.
What is the mindset going into that when you're playing
stadiums one day and then you're going to play a
three thousand seed theater the next.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
It's totally fun and totally rock and roll.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
That's the mindset.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
That's actually great. I love that. That makes totally sense.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I don't think that to me, Like,
you know, the size of the venue doesn't change.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
It doesn't change what we do.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Like we're just it's we roll our gear on with stage,
we plug it and we turn it up and that's
what we do and that's it. So it's, uh, the
only difference is that we'll get to play a longer set,
which is you know, incredibly exciting for us because as
much as I love playing an hour, I would like
to play longer.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Sure you've got the tunes, you've been doing it for
a while.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah, so we'll get that, you know, kind of that
cathartic release. And and also to be you know, to
own the venue and to be in control of you know,
everything is always that's it's a different world.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
So that's that's going to be really fun.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And of course the energy is going to be a
little different because everybody is there for you exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Sure, yes, I mean it totally helps.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I don't It doesn't really change my attitude towards anything.
It just I'm just excited to not have to leave
the stage so soon.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I'm really I gotta know who is uh, because your
voice is it's got the rock, the rock swagger, but
yet so much emotion and I don't hear that in
a lot of female artists anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Who's your your inspiration vocally? Where does that come from?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
God, I mean, I mean my list of musical influences
is hefty. But uh, I'm certainly a student of Chris Cornell,
sure if that makes sense, But but honestly, like I've
never I've never taken vocal lessons, I've never done anything
I don't do anything. I just I try to sing
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how I speak and emote. I try to just really
believe what and not believe. But like I have to
believe what I'm saying. It's kind of why we don't.
I don't love doing covers a lot of the time.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Like I'm very right because you didn't. It's not you,
it's not yours.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, So I'm very selective with covers, like I have
to really identify with that song in order to feel
like I do it justice. Like, so when we do
a cover, it's it's been thought of, you know, it's
it's something that I really mean. I have to mean
what I'm saying. That's why I like writing songs so much.
And so when you mean what you're saying, it kind
of comes very effortlessly. You know, you just have to
(09:12):
think about what you're what you're saying about.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I think that that makes total sense, because what I
get out of your vocal performances and your music in
general is honesty, and I think it's you know, it's genuine,
it's believable.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Thank you, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I say, that's kind of the only way I know
how to do it. I don't really see the point
like I never I never want to sing a song
at you, if that makes sense, Like I'm never trying
to sing at you, like I'm trying. I'm singing something
because I mean it to I'm almost singing to myself.
And then you're also there along for that ride.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I get it. That's that's makes total sense. Yeah, I am.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I'm a big fan of of what you're doing because
it is so honest and uh visceral.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It just it's it works. It works.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
So now now we're getting towards this part of the
record cycle where you're about to unleash this thing on
the world. What are you most excited for in the
in the rest of the record cycle, in like the
next two years. What is on the horizon that you're like,
I cannot wait for?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
What? Oh god, everything, It's everything. I don't even know
where to begin. I mean, like, this is the greatest
time in.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Any band's you know, life of a band is putting
out a new album because everything is exciting, everything is fresh.
I can't wait to go on tour. I can't wait
to play the new songs. I can't wait to see
all the fans. I can't wait to hit all the
places we haven't hit over the past, however many years
it's been I can't wait to headline because we haven't
headlined in like twenties since twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two,
(10:44):
something like that, Right, I can't wait for people to
hear the music I've been working on. And then there's
like always, I have so many things up my sleeve
I can't tell you about yet that.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I'm excited for, and it's just you know, it's it's
all the stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I'm so happy to hear that there's a lot coming
from the Pretty Reckless here in the coming year. You're
also doing a bunch of the festivals in our area.
You've got rock festing Wisconsin, Louder than Life, which is
just sick. The lineup is amazing this year, and oh yeah,
that's in Louisville in September, and of course the show
in Chicago. Those tickets, by the way, pre sale is
on Tuesday, and they go on sale next Friday, on
(11:22):
March twentieth, So you need to grab those before they
are gone because the riv is not the it's not
Soldier Field, So go grab your tickets for the Pretty
reckless at the riv Taylor an honor to speak with you,
and I am so excited for the new record and
I cannot wait to see you guys play live.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh my goodness. Thank you so much. It's going to
be a great time and I will be seeing you soon.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You cannot wait.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Thank you, thanks for taking the time.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Bye.