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It was two summers ago that I first encounteredthe sound of The Pretty Reckless at the 2010 edition of the Van’s Warped Tour in West Palm Beach. My editor and I had just arrived to a stage where we caught about half of the bands set, and were mutually impressed by tunes that would make their appearance on the debut disc, Light Me Up. Now two years later, I have to say that said disc has to be one of my favorite debut albums released in recent memory, and now have the privilege to sit down with the group’s front woman herself. At the end of their headlining tour, the band is about to head out with one of South Florida’s favorite dark sons, Marilyn Manson, on what is sure to be one of their most interesting tours to say the least. In light of this, and their headlining date at Ft. Lauderdale’s Culture Room, we had to discuss track her down to talk about the band’s beginnings, touring and the band’s latest EP, Hit Me Like A Man. The Pretty Reckless is one show you don’t want to miss!

What’s the biggest misconception that you think people have about you and the band in the beginning?
There’s been a lot, but the biggest one that people have had about me is that I got fired from “Gossip Girl,” and from Madonna’s ]clothing] line and all of these things – I never got fired from anything. With “Gossip Girl,” I left so that I could pursue music, be able to tour and make records. That’s all that I wanted to do, and they wouldn’t give me the time off to allow me to do that; so that’s probably the biggest misconception that people have of me. As for the band, probably that people just don’t think of it as a band; they think of it as just me. It’s not like I went and interviewed people and hired them to be my band. It actually came together very organically and I’m so lucky that that happened.

Originally, when you first started the Pretty Reckless in 2009, you had a different band line-up and
songs. How did you initially come across the people who would become your band (Ben Phillips, Mark Damon, and Jamie Perkins)?
In the very beginning, I had never toured before or even played live in front of an audience. So I was signed with different songs, and they wanted me to go on tour to get some experience. This was during the time when we were still in the process of writing songs that would become the record with Ben [Phillips], who is in the band. Mark and Jamie were in other bands, and we just couldn’t get it together in time for a tour. So I went out on tour with friends of mine and we played songs that were from my original demos that were never meant to be released orlooked at.
When I got off of that tour, that was when we got together to write and record what would become the record. We met through our producer though, Kato Khandwala, who was good friends with Ben. It all just came together very quickly because we all had the same vision and direction, so we hit it off immediately.
It’s so hard in an industry that’s so large to find people who have the same taste in music and vision. Like Soundgarden’s Badmotorfinger; some people would just look at me confused and be like, “What?” And that let me know that that just would not work. When I started working with Kato though, we just hit it off and that’s when everything started coming together.

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