Plenty of inflammatory things have been said and written about Courtney Love and she’s been pretty good for an incendiary quote herself in the past, but you can’t really argue with her latest headline-maker.
Speaking to actress Anna Faris for her new podcast, Love insisted she was the inspiration for the vast majority of grunge’s biggest hits, having been involved with a number of the movement’s prominent frontmen.
“I listen to Lithium [on Sirius XM], which is like all of the ’90s songs and a lot of them are actually about me, which is interesting. There’s so many Smashing Pumpkins song about me, there’s a Bush song about me,” she said, via Alternative Nation.
“I remember I used to date this movie star in the ’90s and we were listening to KROQ, and there were like six songs in a row, and five of them were about me. I told him that and he was like, ‘No they aren’t!’ I was like, ‘Yeah they are! I dated every one of those guys dude!’ He was like, ‘You’re such a slut!'”
To be fair, Love isn’t giving herself much credit, since she also wrote a few of grunge’s most notable tunes herself with her band Hole, who had hits with songs like the iconic ‘Doll Parts’ and most notably with 1998’s ‘Celebrity Skin’, though Love has admitted that former flame Billy Corgan wrote the riff for ‘Celebrity Skin’.
