Courtney Love Brings Back 1994 A Little
Courtney Love is giving it [Ed Note: "it" being her career, in this instance.] another go, releasing a new Hole album, with a whole new band (hey!), through Mercury/Island Def Jam in April. She went on the British TV show Friday Night With Jonathan Ross last week, and debuted a new song, "Samantha," that sounds somewhat like something that might have been left off Hole's classic 1994 album, Live Through This. Which means it sounds better than much of the music she's made since, but also makes you wonder who wrote it and when.
Most interestingly, perhaps (or perhaps not), the eye make-up Love chose for the performance suggests that she is expressing her admiration of Ice-Cube (and his moles)…
…or that she has joined a Mexican gang. (More likely.)
Courtney killed Kurt.
good thing the topless-lady-bending-back-featuring american apparel ad to the right of this post is here to remind us that we're definitely in 2010
I see Flo the Progressive Insurance lady, who actually sort of looks like she could be in a Pacific Northwest band circa 1994.
ha! no wonder people tell me that i remind them of her. (i thought it was the laser gun i was always carrying around.)
She's a nice corrective to Erin Esurance, who looks like she's in Huckapoo.
oh, if only huckapoo had stuck around long enough to exploit that synergistic opportunity!
Maybe she's just showing her love of logical consequences in mathematical proofs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_mathematical_symbols)
I love how she's color-matched her eyes to the Rickenbacker.
If you squint a little bit at the beginning she looks exactly like Dee Snyder circa 1984.
I can't believe the "Courtney didn't write Live Through This" thing is still going. She published her diaries which had work-in-progress or alternate lyrics to a lot of songs, and she returns to the same lyrical themes and phrases quite a bit (probably a little too much). And Kurt can't have written it, it's too good.
That said, this song isn't even close to Live Through This quality.
Well, that's not a very positive message, Courtney!
I took the Hoboken train for the first and only time to get "Dick Nail" on vinyl (thanks NYU radio)…then Nirvana came around. She sounds good 9as god as she can)…The song is no,'Violet' or 'Teenage Whore'. I hope she has a better single. Not that it matters. 'Malibu' was so single-y and it did shit.
ehh. America's Sweetheart was better, not that anyone seems to be aware of that album's existence.
This sounds a lot more Celebrity Skin than Live Through This. But Rula's right–America's Sweetheart was better. It was a great album that didn't get a fair shake.