Courtney Love is just not mincing phrases on the subject of how she feels about different feminine artists like Taylor Swift.
“Taylor is just not vital,” Love, 59, advised the Night Customary in a brand new profile revealed Friday, April 12, whereas selling her new eight-part BBC Radio 6 sequence, Courtney Love’s Ladies, wherein she displays on girls in music who’ve formed her profession and journey.
She added, “She is likely to be a secure house for women, and she or he’s most likely the Madonna of now, however she’s not fascinating as an artist.”
The “Celeb Pores and skin” rocker’s feedback about Swift, 35, didn’t go over nicely with followers, lots of whom shared their grievances through X.
“100 years from now, the identify Courtney Love will imply nothing. Not a single individual will know who she is. However when Taylor Swift is talked about, individuals will keep in mind how she was in a position to join with thousands and thousands of individuals by her music, cherished her followers, and fought for artists’ rights,” wrote one fan.
One other social media person added, “I’m not a Taylor Swift fan, however Courtney Love hasn’t been related because the ’90s.”
Along with her ideas on the Midnights artist, Love additionally shared her emotions about Lana Del Rey, whom she mentioned was “nice” up till she lined John Denver‘s “Take Me Residence, Nation Roads” and may “actually take seven years off” of music.
She additionally mentioned she isn’t a fan of Beyoncé‘s music, although she appreciated the idea of her nation album, Cowboy Carter.
“It’s nice that there are such a lot of profitable girls within the music trade, however a number of them have gotten a cliché,” she advised the outlet. “Now, each profitable girl is cloned, so there’s simply an excessive amount of music. They’re all the identical. For those who play one thing on Spotify, you get bombarded with loads of stuff that’s precisely the identical. I imply, I like the thought of Beyoncé doing a rustic document as a result of it’s about Black girls going into areas the place beforehand solely white girls have been allowed, not that I prefer it a lot. As an idea, I like it. I simply don’t like her music.”
Love rose to fame within the ’90s because the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist within the now-disbanded various rock group, Gap. In February 1992, she famously married Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, who died by suicide in April 1994. Collectively they share daughter Frances Bean Cobain.
Although Love is clearly not a Swiftie, followers of the 14-time Grammy Award winner have been counting the times till the discharge of Swift’s eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Division, which she introduced whereas accepting the award for Greatest Pop Vocal Album on the 2024 Grammys.
“[The way I can celebrate] is by telling you a secret that I’ve been conserving from you for the previous two years, which is that my model new album comes out April nineteenth,” she advised the group. “It’s referred to as The Tortured Poets Division and I’m going to go put up the duvet proper now backstage.”