Tag: Courtney Love
Olivia Rodrigo Tries to Fill the Hole Where Hole Used to Be
As supposed Olivia Rodrigo nemesis Taylor Swift once said, “I come back stronger than a 90s trend.” That’s precisely what’s happened of late in the [Read More…]
Courtney Love Again Proves That Female Solidarity Can Often Be Hooey, Or: Check Ya Fuckin’ Manners, Gen Z
Courtney Love is one of the few who have not “gone soft with age.” And bless her for it, because it proves that contempt for [Read More…]
Courtney Love Against the Riot Grrrls: An Indelible Moment In Not Pandering to Requisite “Female Solidarity”
Over the decades, perhaps no feminist has gotten as much heat for being an antagonistic “trainwreck” (the go-to term people like to use to discredit [Read More…]
LDR & Jared Leto’s Gucci Guilty Commercial: A “Born to Die” Redux
As the more approachable “twin” to Link Wray’s cherished 1958 hit single “Rumble,” the record’s B-side, “The Swag” is fittingly used to set the sonic [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey and Frances Bean: Anti-Suicide Poster Girls (Courtney Love, Not So Much)
Considering Lana Del Rey’s recent release of “Mariners Apartment Complex,” which, in the estimation of some, addresses the very interview that had fans and critics [Read More…]
Courtney Love, An Unlikely But Invaluable Muse to Miloš Forman
As is the case any time an auteur of the movie industry dies, one must take stock of his output. The wealth and breadth of [Read More…]
Why 200 Cigarettes Remains the Most Enduring New Year’s Eve Movie of All-Time
200 Cigarettes isn’t just the best, most essential New Year’s Eve movie because it’s the only New Year’s Eve movie in a genre that tried [Read More…]
Celebrities Suque, Or Smoking in the Met
It goes without saying that being a celebrity probably makes everything better. They can bitch all they want about the lack of privacy–and Kim K [Read More…]
Kurt Cobain & The Obsession With His Depression Over His Happiness
As April 5th (though this date is still speculative to some) marked the twenty-third anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death–or, more specifically, suicide–it becomes increasingly clear that [Read More…]
Courtney Love Loses All Sense of Edge By Collaborating With Nasty Gal
Like Joan Jett creating lingerie for Hot Topic, there is some sort of unavoidable trap that women in rock of a certain age seem to [Read More…]
