Courtney Love took photographs at a number of fellow feminine musicians over the weekend, dissing the likes of Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Lana Del Rey and Madonna.
“Taylor just isn’t essential,” the singer mentioned in an interview with The Customary. “She is perhaps a secure house for women, and he or she’s in all probability the Madonna of now, however she’s not attention-grabbing as an artist.”
Regardless of the invocation of Madonna to deal with Swift’s success, Love didn’t spare Madonna, both: “I don’t like her and he or she doesn’t like me,” Love mentioned.
Elsewhere within the interview, Love additionally famous she dislikes Beyoncé’s new nation hit, Cowboy Carter, regardless of appreciating the album’s symbolism being “about Black ladies going into areas the place beforehand solely white ladies have been allowed.”
“As an idea, I find it irresistible,” Love mentioned. “I simply don’t like her music.”
Love went on to say she dislikes Lana Del Rey. “I feel she ought to actually take seven years off,” she mentioned, noting she hasn’t loved Lana’s music “since she coated a John Denver track.”
“Up till ‘Take Me Dwelling Nation Roads’ I assumed she was nice,” Love continued. “Once I was recording my new album, I needed to cease listening to her as she was influencing me an excessive amount of.”
Love attributed a lot of her criticisms to what she views as feminine musicians converging in fashion.
“It’s nice that there are such a lot of profitable ladies within the music business, however numerous them have gotten a cliché,” she mentioned. “Now, each profitable lady is cloned, so there’s simply an excessive amount of music. They’re all the identical. Should you play one thing on Spotify, you get bombarded with loads of stuff that’s precisely the identical.”