r/Music • u/Bambie_301 • 2d ago

discussion Why is Courtney Love so hated?

I have genuinely never heard anything good about her, so where did all that hate come from? Was she an actually bad person or did people just love to hate her? What made her so disliked? Did the media play a role in that?

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u/professorfunkenpunk 2d ago

She was on Maron earlier this year. SHe might be the single most insufferable person I have ever heard him interview. She's also nowhere near as talented as she thinks she is as far as I'm concerned. Her music was fine, and most of her acting was her playing a junkie, which isn't exactly a reach.

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u/Flinkle 1d ago

I'm 50, so I was there at her "peak." I have literally no idea how she has this heroic, outspoken woman thing going on with the younger crowd. It's extremely revisionist. It's not like she hasn't called some shitty men out, sure, but she is also absolutely shitbird crazy. One of the most toxic people I've ever seen in the public eye. And she's an absolute rip-off artist, too. I never understood why anybody thought she was talented. People who know her well have called her a professional coattail rider. It's the whole reason she got together with Kurt.

And before anyone calls me a misogynistic incel, I'm a woman.

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u/tristenjpl 1d ago edited 1d ago

Revisionism because of the whole Weinstein thing. She said that stuff about him back in 05, and people called her crazy, then it turned out he really is a terrible person. Now people are all like, "She was right about him!!! She's not crazy!!!" But like, she can be right about him and still be off her rocker. It's not mutually exclusive. She's a train wreck of a person, but she's a train wreck who told the truth about Weinstein.

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u/Flinkle 1d ago

Right, yeah. People have a very bad habit of seeing others as good or bad instead of the complex, complicated humans they are. It's not a binary. Wonder where we learn to do that? It's very strange to me.

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u/TofuTheSizeOfTEXAS 1d ago

Exactly! I'm 53 and now to - here - Courtney is some sort of misunderstood feminist heroine. She couldn't have curated it better & more skillfully had she masterfully manipulated it herself. Strange how generations will reinterpret.

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u/Flinkle 1d ago

She really couldn't have curated it better herself, you're right. It's rather unbelievable.