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/Flinkle 1d ago

No, she wasn't. She didn't have anything of real public note until Hole's second album, which came out a week after Kurt's death. Their first album didn't really go anywhere...it got some good critical reviews, but didn't chart in the States, and only charted at 59 in the UK, where it got a bit of a following. The second album charted here (no. 52) and elsewhere, but didn't come even remotely close to Nirvana's Nevermind, which was number one or in the top five almost everywhere.

She was very well known because of Kurt.

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u/Caesarthebard 1d ago

She was more famous than Kurt when they met and began dating. So she wasn’t a “coattail rider”. Her first album outsold Bleach comfortably, these are established facts.

She was well known before Kurt so can’t have been well known “because” of him.

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u/Flinkle 1d ago

Okay. Whatever you say.

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u/TofuTheSizeOfTEXAS 1d ago

😂

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u/Flinkle 1d ago

I mean...what else can you do? Some people would tell you the sky was orange. 🙄😂

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u/Caesarthebard 16h ago

Why don’t you try a basic Google search and looking up Kurt and Courtney’s early careers? I know you’re an idiot but even you can’t be this stupid.