The singer Courtney Love is speaking out this week to slam other female artists like Taylor Swift to Beyoncé, saying that “they’re all the same.”
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Love Torches Swift And Beyoncé
“It’s great that there are so many successful women in the music industry, but lots of them are becoming a cliché,” Love, 59, told The Standard. “Now, every successful woman is cloned, so there is just too much music. They’re all the same.”
Love went on to zero in on specific female singers, starting with Swift, whose latest album The Tortured Poets Department is set to drop tomorrow.
“Taylor is not important,” Love stated. “She might be a safe space for girls, and she’s probably the Madonna of now, but she’s not interesting as an artist.”
Not stopping there, Love proceeded to torch Beyoncé’s recent country music album Cowboy Carter.
“I like the idea of Beyoncé doing a country record because it’s about Black women going into spaces where previously only white women have been allowed, not that I like it much,” Love said. “As a concept, I love it. I just don’t like her music.”
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Love Goes After Madonna And Lana Del Rey
Love also went after Madonna, saying, “I don’t like her and she doesn’t like me. I loved Desperately Seeking Susan, but for the city of New York as much as her.”
Another female singer that Love isn’t a fan of is Lana Del Rey, who headlined the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival last weekend.
“I haven’t liked Lana since she covered a John Denver song, and I think she should really take seven years off,” Love lamented. “Up until ‘Take Me Home Country Roads’ I thought she was great. When I was recording my new album, I had to stop listening to her as she was influencing me too much.”
Love Discusses Kurt Cobain
In this same interview, Love brought up her late Nirvana frontman husband Kurt Cobain, who she was married to from 1992 until he died in 1994, according to Daily Mail.
“People used to say that I was so difficult,” Love said. “They said I was disagreeable. Yes, I am completely disagreeable and I’m never going to apologize for that. I always wanted to be known as a b****. Being liked was never my thing.”
“Kurt wanted to be liked but not me,” she continued. “He was able to hide behind me, but then I got hated. Then Kurt died, and the hatred towards me reached a completely new level. I did not plan for that.”
Love then referenced the 1967 documentaryDon’t Look Back, which was about Bob Dylan’s 1965 English tour.
“I had a b**** capacity and I was cool with not being liked,” Love explained. “I saw Bob Dylan in Don’t Look Back and he didn’t want to be liked and I thought, yeah, I want to be like that.”
Love Is ‘An Icon’
Unsurprisingly, fans of Swift, Beyoncé, Madonna, and Del Rey were quick to go on the attack and fire back at Love, calling her “irrelevant” and “bitter” while defending their beloved female singers. Others, however, pointed out that when it comes to music, Love knows what she’s talking about.
“Guys, I love Taylor the most, but ridiculous to call Courtney Love a nobody,” said one social media user. “She’s an icon. And to say she’s just a famous guy’s ex-wife is wrong and misogynistic. Give the Hole album Live Through This a listen. Pitchfork gave it a 10 for a reason. Masterpiece.”
Swift and Beyoncé are arguably the two biggest female singers out there today, so it took some serious guts for Love to go after the two of them in particular. Love may be getting some backlash from their fans, but she should be applauded for having the courage to speak her mind!
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