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Courtney in her “kinderwhore” phase<\/em><\/p>\n

After a day of rather gloomy posts, an uplifting quote of the day might dilute the fug a little.<\/p>\n

Jenna Sauers of Jezebel<\/em> explains, and very well too, “Why Courtney Love Matters<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Courtney Love has been the subject of vicious takedowns<\/a> and spirited defenses<\/a> for over twenty years. The vastly different interpretations served up, I would suggest, say more about the journalists who write them and the audiences who consume them than they do about Love herself. For Love presents a conundrum: even at her most drug-addled<\/a>, she’s as cheerful and self-secure as she is self-destructive. We truly don’t have enough women capable of or willing to play the bad girl with a smile \u2014 and without a trace of victimhood.<\/p>\n

So even though she is a bad singer (the point of Courtney Love is kind of that she’s a bad singer, just like it’s kind of the point of Dylan) and (probably) a bad mother, and even though her Twitter was like a harrowing<\/a> download from her Id, and even though I do not really understand what she was doing wandering a hotel naked with Anselm Kiefer and I do not believe that “a combination of Zoloft and a cocktail” really explains it, I love Courtney Love. Because she’s not a role model \u2014 and, even more, because she has never aspired to be. Because she’s not passive. Because she’s a woman who takes issue with the view that she ought to be defined by who she used to fuck in the early 90s and who she gave birth to as a result. Because she auditioned for the bloody Mickey Mouse Club<\/a><\/em> at age 12 by reciting<\/a> Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy.” Because she is subjected (and subjects herself) to industrial-strength moral and legal scrutiny at every turn and still gets up in the afternoon, applies lipstick in the vicinity<\/em> of her mouth, and faces the world. Are these achievements too small to cheer? In a world that still orders up sacrificial pop virgins \u2014 Britney, Lindsay, Demi \u2014 to swallow down whole, I’d argue they’re anything but.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After the jump, a video from Courtney’s heyday, “Celebrity Skin.”\u00a0 She’s always been a consistently smart lyricist — that talent has never failed her — and the lyrics here are typically ingratiating and sardonic: “Oh make me over, I’m all I wanna be \/ A walking study in demonology.”<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O3dWBLoU–E<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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