She gets Madonna’s attention by throwing a makeup compact at her.

This is peak Courtney for you: Here she is interrupting Madonna and Kurt Loder’s conversation - sorry, make that saving Madonna and Kurt Loder from the most boringly stilted interview ever - at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards. In honor of her appearance tonight, May 20, at the Shoreline Amphitheater with Lana Del Rey, here are five reasons we’re still carrying a torch for Courtney Love. In short: She’s a bona fide rock star, one who’s been keeping us laughing for more than two decades, and we’re so glad she’s still around. (Love’s official line is that she’s been sober since 2006.) She’s a narcissist of the highest degree (listen to her own up to it on her new single, posted below), and videos of her drunk or high in public make Lindsay Lohan look like a decorated Girl Scout. She consistently says ridiculous, unapologetically batshit-crazy things. Still, it's understandable: the singer and sometime actress has famously feuded with everyone from ex-beau Billy Corgan to Dave Grohl to Gwen Stefani to her own daughter. On the contrary her personal life has consistently overshadowed her music, which is a shame - Live Through This, in particular, released just a week after Cobain's death in 1994, deserves a re-listen on its own terms. This is not, of course, to suggest that Love, now 50, has been an angel herself. It’s such a plainly gendered narrative, and one that's all too common in the rock world (just ask Yoko Ono): The crazy lady destroyed our imaginary rock star boyfriend! (Because he would have been an angel otherwise?) Still of Courtney and Kurt from 'Montage of Heck.' (Photo courtesy of HBO).

The message boards devoted to this hatred - and there are plenty - are fascinating. After Cobain’s death, she’d be accused of everything from driving him to suicide, to getting him hooked on heroin, to actually pulling the trigger herself. Perhaps this was not the primary feeling we were intended to take away from the intensely personal new Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck, but there it is nonetheless.įrom the moment she emerged as a pop culture figure - first at the helm of Hole, as a 20-something blonde, husky-voiced tornado, who later landed the true-life version of that heartthrob poster inside your locker - Nirvana fans were sending Love hate mail.

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