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       ARTICLE VIEW: 
       
       Courtney Love thinks Taylor Swift is ‘not important’ and has some
       thoughts about Beyoncé, Lana Del Rey and Madonna, too
       
       By Lisa Respers France, CNN
       
       Updated: 
       
       11:18 AM EDT, Tue April 16, 2024
       
       Source: CNN
       
       Courtney Love has a new radio show about women in music, but she is not
       much of a fan of several of the biggest female artists of our time.
       
       Love, the frontwoman for the band Hole, this month launched the BBC
       Radio The 59-year-old rocker, who has lived in London since 2019,
       promoted the project in an in which she expressed her admiration for
       artists such as Patti Smith, Nina Simone, PJ Harvey, Debbie Harry,
       Julie London and Joni Mitchell.
       
       But some contemporary artists, including , are not to Love’s liking.
       
       “Taylor is not important,” Love said of Swift. “She might be a
       safe space for girls, and she’s probably the Madonna of now, but
       she’s not interesting as an artist.”
       
       Love used to be an admirer of but that changed.
       
       “I haven’t liked Lana since she covered a John Denver song, and I
       think she should really take seven years off,” Love said. “When I
       was recording my new album, I had to stop listening to her as she was
       influencing me too much.”
       
       Not even the aforementioned was spared Love’s criticism.
       
       “I don’t like her and she doesn’t like me,” Love said. “I
       loved [Madonna’s 1985 film] ‘Desperately Seeking Susan,’ but for
       the city of New York as much as her.”
       
       And while she said, “It’s great that there are so many successful
       women in the music industry,” to Love, “lots of them are becoming a
       cliché.”
       
       “Now, every successful woman is cloned, so there is just too much
       music. They’re all the same,” she said. “If you play something
       on Spotify, you get bombarded with a lot of stuff that’s exactly the
       same.”
       
       “I mean, I like the idea of  doing because it’s about Black women
       going into spaces where previously only white women have been allowed,
       not that I like it much,” Love added. “As a concept, I love it. I
       just don’t like her music.”
       
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