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Courtney Love has a brand new radio present about girls in music, however she isn’t a lot of a fan of a number of of the most important feminine artists of our time.
Love, the frontwoman for the band Gap, this month launched the BBC Radio eight-part series, titled “Courtney Love’s Women.” The 59-year-old rocker, who has lived in London since 2019, promoted the mission in an interview to “The Standard” through which she expressed her admiration for artists comparable to Patti Smith, Nina Simone, PJ Harvey, Debbie Harry, Julie London and Joni Mitchell.
However some up to date artists, together with Taylor Swift, are to not Love’s liking.
“Taylor isn’t vital,” Love mentioned of Swift. “She may be a protected area for ladies, and she or he’s in all probability the Madonna of now, however she’s not attention-grabbing as an artist.”
Love was once an admirer of Lana Del Rey’s music however that modified.
“I haven’t preferred Lana since she coated a John Denver tune, and I feel she ought to actually take seven years off,” Love mentioned. “After I was recording my new album, I needed to cease listening to her as she was influencing me an excessive amount of.”
Not even the aforementioned Madonna was spared Love’s criticism.
“I don’t like her and she or he doesn’t like me,” Love mentioned. “I cherished [Madonna’s 1985 film] ‘Desperately Searching for Susan,’ however for the town of New York as a lot as her.”
And whereas she mentioned, “It’s nice that there are such a lot of profitable girls within the music trade,” to Love, “a number of them have gotten a cliché.”
“Now, each profitable girl is cloned, so there’s simply an excessive amount of music. They’re all the identical,” she mentioned. “For those who play one thing on Spotify, you get bombarded with plenty of stuff that’s precisely the identical.”
“I imply, I like the thought of Beyoncé doing a country record 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,” Love added. “As an idea, I find it irresistible. I simply don’t like her music.”