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Too true.
Also, one of the reasons I don't always feel comfortable criticising Courtney Love is that a lot of the criticisms you see aimed at her in the press and elsewhere are based on the fact that she's a woman... She only married Kurt for the money/fame, she drove him to his death by not being a nice compliant socially acceptable 'wife' (or if you believe that unfeaible tosser Nick Bloomfield, had him killed), she's exploited his death since, she's mad (er, okay, so she *is* a bit mad, but she definitely gets stereotyped as one of those barmy hysterical women, whereas a male rock star would be lovably eccentric or mad in a cool, ODB way), she sleeps around, she does too many drugs (see the last bit in brackets again), and, dodgiest of all, she doesn't write her own songs (she must have needed a man to write or at least help write songs for her, because after all writing songs is primarily a male talent, a bit like riding bikes or fixing cars).
That's why this is my favourite part of the interview, and the reason why I don't hate her, I love-hate her:
quote:"You've got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers. Males you may have written for or with or inspired who may be copying you - stealing your moves, stealing your 'bits' or obsessions. This could be Phil Lynott and Tori Amos - this is universal, but it applies most certainly to rock'n'roll from Joplin onward.
"You will be a floozy and a slattern. He will be virile and a ladies' man. You will be a freakshow, a retching wretch, a sloppy drunk. He will be charismatic, vainglorious, a ferocious drunk and Dionysian. You will be indiscriminate and desperate. He will be generous, tortured and driven.
"You will be so 'frail you may break at a mere wisp of wind'. He will be alienated and aggressive. You will be greedy and a control freak too, but mostly you will be 'primal', 'primitive' and 'instinctive'. If not, then you will be 'contrived'. He will be in command, a cocksman, big-dicked, a genius reinventing his instrument with superhuman technique soul magic. He will be natural and a perfectionist, he will rarely, if ever, be 'primal' in the way that you, the female, will always be 'primitive'.
"You will be 'blonde ambition' or a tiny little child or a whore. He will be channeling secrets and battling cosmic demons. Then in my case, sometimes half the lyrics, less or more, are yours, and you're still 'primal' while he's still 'tortured and a genius'."
Oh, and Jack: the interview online was done by e-mail, whereas the print version is half that and half face-to-face/reportage. And 'Violet' isn't on Celebrity Skin, it's on Live Thru This, you monkey. |
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