Courtney Love says Taylor Swift is “not interesting as an artist”

Courtney Love has always caused controversy with her statements, and now she gave her opinion about several successful singers, among which stands out Taylor Swiftwhom he did not consider “important.”

In an interview for The Standardthe 59-year-old artist said that Swift’s country-pop is not to her taste: “Taylor is not important. She may be a safe space for girls and she is probably the Madonna of now, but she is not interesting as an artist.”

By mentioning MadonnaLove reaffirmed that he has never gotten along with the Queen of pop: “I don’t like her and she doesn’t like me. I loved the movie “Desperately Seeking Susan”but not so much for her, but for the city of New York.”

For a long time Courtney stated that she was a big fan of his music. King’s woolbut she no longer listens to her albums: “Since Lana made a cover of a song John Denver (“Take Me Home, Country Roads”) I didn’t like it anymore. Until then I thought she was great. “I think he should take seven years off.”

Many speak of the incursion of Beyoncé Knowles in the country genre, and the former leader of the group hole He also made a comment about it: “I like the idea of ​​Beyoncé making a country album, because it is about black women entering spaces where before there were only white women. It’s not that I like it very much; As a concept, I love it. “I just don’t like their music.”

Courtney Love has just premiered a program on BBC Radio about women in the world of music. He said he was a big fan of Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry and PJ Harvey, but he also commented that there are currently many singers whose style is similar: “Most of them are becoming a cliché. Now, every successful woman is cloned, that’s why there is too much music. They’re all the same. If you play something on Spotifythey bombard you with a lot of things that are exactly the same,” he concluded.

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