Courtney Love shades Taylor Swift: "[She] is not important"
Courtney Love says Taylor Swift is not interesting as an artist...
American singer-songwriter Courtney Love had some interesting things to say about artists such as Taylor Swift, Madonna, Lana Del Rey, and Beyoncé.
The 59-year-old rock star shared her views about the musicians in a recent interview with The Evening Standard.
"Taylor is not important. She might be a safe space for girls, and she’s probably the Madonna of now, but she’s not interesting as an artist," she said.
Courtney doesn't seem to like Madonna either, but the feeling is mutual, apparently.
"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."
Madonna and Taylor are not the only artists Courtney isn't too fond of at the moment. She also shaded Lana Del Rey in the interview.
"I haven’t liked Lana since she covered a John Denver song, and I think she should really take seven years off. 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.’
Even Beyoncé, who recently made headlines as the first black woman to score a #1 country album in America, did not go unscathed.
"It’s great that there are so many successful women in the music industry, but lots of them are becoming a cliché. Now, every successful woman is cloned, so there is just too much music. They’re all the same," she said.
"If you play something on Spotify, you get bombarded with a lot of stuff that’s exactly the same. I mean, 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. As a concept, I love it. I just don’t like her music."
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Courtney also spoke about her former husband Kurt Cobain. The Nirvana frontman died in 1994 at the age of 27. They have a daughter named Frances Bean together.
"‘People used to say that I was so difficult. They said I was disagreeable. Yes, I am completely disagreeable and I’m never going to apologise for that. I always wanted to be known as a b***h. Being liked was never my thing. Kurt wanted to be liked but not me. 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," she said.
Courtney is gearing up for her new BBC radio series, 'Courtney Love’s Women'.
According to The Evening Standard, the eight-part series will celebrate some of Courtney's favourite female musicians. She will also shine the spotlight on some of the women in music who have shaped her career.
Which female artists get the thumbs up from Courtney? She's a big fan of Patti Smith, Nina Simone, PJ Harvey, Julie London, Joni Mitchell and Deborah Harry.
Read Courtney's full interview with The Evening Standard here.
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