"Yes, I'm completely unpleasant and I'll never apologize for that. I always wanted to be known as a bitch. Liking me has never been my thing," warns the rock star, before taking a shot at the biggest female stars in contemporary music.
The ex-wife of the late Kurt Cobain has never been one to mince her words, and it wouldn't be now, less than three months before her 60th birthday, that they would come out of her mouth.
"It's great that there are so many successful women in the music industry, but many of them are becoming a cliché," she said in a recent interview with the British newspaper The Standard.
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Promoting her new show "Courtney Love's Women" on BBC Radio 6, where she celebrates the influence of women in music, the Hole singer has already crossed out at least four big names from that celebration.
"Now all the successful women are clones, so there's too much music. They're all the same. If you put something on Spotify, you're bombarded with a lot of things that are exactly the same," she complains.
The current best-seller was Courtney Love's first victim.
" Taylor Swift is not important. She may represent a safe space for girls and she's probably the Madonna of today, but she's not interesting as an artist," she said.
The second victim was Lana Del Rey, an artist who Courtney recently praised highly, placing her alongside her ex-husband and leader of Nirvana, who died 30 years ago, as the "only two true musical geniuses" she had ever met, she said in a podcast: "She's got something magical - and she's not even on drugs!", she said in December 2022. Now Lana tires her out.
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"I haven't liked Lana since she did a rendition of John Denver's song and I reallythink she should take a seven-year break," he said.
However, he adds: "Until I sang 'Take Me Home, Country Roads', I thought she was amazing. When I was recording my new album, I had to stop listening to it because it was influencing me too much."
As for pop queen Madonna, she confesses: "Idon't like her and she doesn't like me".
"I loved the movie Desperately Seeking Susan, but as much for New York City as for her," he added.
Even Beyoncé didn't escape the "bullets" of the alternative rock star, although she was hit with less impact. "I like the idea of her making a country record because it's about black women entering spaces that only white women have been able to enter. I love the concept, I just don't like her music," he said.
