What’s occurring, butt!?

Grab your Santa hats, your eyeliner, and maybe a spare bauble to chuck into the pit because Taylor Momsen has just pulled the most gloriously full-circle move in rock ’n’ roll festive history.

Yup.

The Pretty Reckless have dropped a brand-new cover inspired by How the Grinch Stole Christmas to celebrate the movie’s 25th anniversary, and the internet is losing its tinsel-covered mind.

And yes… for the younglings in the back… Taylor Momsen was Cindy Lou Who in the 2000 Jim Carrey film.

The tiny tot with the massive hairdo has officially transformed into the goth queen of Christmas. Proper job. 🎤🎄😈

🎶 THE COVER

Word is the band have leaned into a moody, slow-burn, sleigh-bell-sprinkled intro before kicking into a thunderous, fuzzed-out chorus that makes the Grinch’s heart grow at least seven sizes.

Imagine Whoville… but in black leather and dimmed stage lights.

Fans are calling it:

“Cindy Lou Who but make it metal.”

“Festive depression-core.”

“Finally, a Christmas song I can headbang to.”

Same, mun. Same. 🤘

🏴 A WELSH TAKE ON THE MADNESS

Down here in Wales, we fully support this chaotic multiverse where a childhood film star grows up to summon riffs harder than a blizzard up Pen y Fan. My nan would have a meltdown if she realised Cindy Lou Who is now screaming into a Shure SM58 like she’s exorcising the Ghost of Christmas Past.

🎥 25 YEARS OF THE GRINCH — AND NOW THIS

On the quarter-century of the film that traumatised and delighted a generation, Momsen delivering a rock reimagining is poetic… in a “drop-tuned sugar plum fairies punching through the snowdrift” sort of way.

Expect this track to blast at every alt Christmas club night from Cardiff to Glasgow. Expect the pits to open. Expect Santa to be confused.

🔥 WHAT’S NEXT?

If the universe is kind, The Pretty Reckless will perform this live with full Whoville staging, fake snow cannons, and Taylor emerging from a giant Christmas present like a festive demon queen.

Make it happen, mun. 🎁😈 https://theriffreport.co.uk/10/12/2025/%f0%9f%94%a5%f0%9f%8e%84-the-pretty-reckless-return-to-whoville-taylor-momsen-celebrates-the-grinchs-25th-anniversary-with-a-riffed-up-cover-mun-%f0%9f%a4%98%f0%9f%8e%85/