Courtney Love savagely tore down international pop sensation Taylor Swift, labelling her not ‘interesting’ (Picture: Ap/Getty)
Courtney Love didn’t hold back while airing her thoughts about Taylor Swift and several other women in the music industry.
Courtney, best known for being in 90s alternative rock band Hole and for being married to late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, took a strange stance in a recent interview as she critiqued various female stars.
One of the main ladies taking a blow was Taylor, 34, who is currently in the midst of her massive The Eras Tour, a 152-date worldwide tour celebrating 10 of her albums.
The rock icon, who has her own BBC podcast titled Courtney Love’s Women, dedicated to uplifting women and the female musicians who shaped her, seemed to shun her feminist instincts as she made these comments.
Putting herself in the firing line with the Swifties, Courtney, 59, managed to tear down Taylor, along with Lana Del Rey and Madonna.
In an interview with the Evening Standard, Courtney claimed that Taylor isn’t ‘interesting’ or ‘important’.
Taylor was just one of the three major artists Courtney took aim at (Picture: Don Arnold/ Getty Images)
Courtney said: ‘Taylor is not important. She might be a safe space for girls, and she’s probably the Madonna of now, but she’s not interesting as an artist.’
The influential pop icon was named Spotify’s most-played artist in 2023, and her current tour is the first music event to surpass $1 billion in revenue.
In February this year, the ‘not interesting’ artist passed The Beatles record for the most weeks in Billboard 200’s top 10 in the last 60 years.
Comically, Courtney was snapped with Taylor in 2016 and called her a ‘lovely lady’ deserving of an Oscar for ‘art talent, voice and astonishing beauty.’
Courtney was pictured at an Oscars after-party with Taylor in 2016 (Picture: Courtney Love/Facebook)
Turning on Madonna, she said: ‘I don’t like her and she doesn’t like me.’
She then complimented the Like A Virgin star’s 1985 film, but undercut her comment by suggesting it was the city filming location in the film that she loved. ‘I loved Desperately Seeking Susan, but for the city of New York as much as her.’
Lana Del Rey also received some criticism: ‘I haven’t liked Lana since she covered a John Denver song, and I think she should really take seven years off.’
However, she added that she did like the star’s earlier work.
‘Up until Take Me Home Country Roads I thought she was great. When I was recording my new album, I had to stop listening to her as she was influencing me too much.’
Bizarrely, Courtney spent much of the interview discussing how much she wanted to uplift women in the music industry. Stating she wanted to ‘redeem’ artists who had been poorly treated.
The star who was married to Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain – who died 30 years ago this month – said: ‘With my BBC show I’m trying to redeem some of the women who have been treated so badly by the record industry. That’s all.’
Courtney first shot to fame in 1992 when she was married to Cobain (Picture: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc)
Seemingly this feminist gesture didn’t extend to Taylor, who is famously re-recording her old albums after she was left without ownership of any of her original masters.
Courtney continued to say that she was disappointed that women in Hollywood and the music industry were still side-lined and ‘marginalised’ even though ‘they’re more successful.’
Courtney herself has been nominated for four Grammys, three of which were for Hole’s 1998 album Celebrity Skin.
The rock artist also also been nominated for acting awards in the 1996 film, the People vs Larry Flynt, notably winning a Satellite Award for her acting performance as Althea Leasure.
Taylor has an estimated net worth of $1.1 billion USD (Picture: Danish Ravi/Zuma Press Wire/Shut)
Taylor has won 14 Grammys and been nominated for 52 categories in her career spanning almost two decades.
The Midnights singer’s overwhelming success means it’s unlikely that she’ll take too much offence from Courtney’s comments calling her ‘unimportant’.
The proof is in the pudding.
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