Courtney Love showered Lana Del Rey with the last word reward in a brand new interview, likening the pop singer to her late husband Kurt Cobain.
“Lana and Kurt are the one two true musical geniuses I’ve ever recognized,” Love stated throughout an look on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast (through Stereogum). “And by that I imply they will Spielberg something.” Love particularly cited Lana Del Rey reciting Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Nirvana masking Meat Puppets on MTV Unplugged as examples of how the 2 musicians “Spielberged” it.
“[Del Rey’s] obtained the integrity that Kurt had,” Love added. “The one two individuals I do know that I can say… By the way in which, [Michael] Stipe? Bono? Sure, these are those who I do know and love. Billie Joe [Armstrong], positive. However Lana? She’s obtained a magic factor. And he or she’s not even fucked up.”
Love went on to recall how she launched Del Rey to Joni Mitchell, which knowledgeable the creation of Del Rey’s traditional album, Norman Fucking Rockwell!
“She described a report she needed to make to me, and I’m like, ‘Oh you imply Hissing Of Summer season Lawns.’ She’s like, ‘What’s that?’ I’m like, ‘It’s a Joni Mitchell report.’ She’s like, ‘Who’s that?’” Love proceeded to reward Del Rey “all of the Joni” music and it “modified her fucking entire factor.”
“My boomer rock critic pals are calling after Norman Rockwell, ‘Hey your good friend, she’s fairly good…’ And I stated to her, ‘Welcome to the Thunderdome, Ms. Del Rey.’ Even Springsteen! He goes, ‘She’s our biggest songwriter.’” In response, Love advised Del Rey, “don’t go insane,” and Del Rey didn’t as a result of “she obtained out of the overculture. She deleted all her social. Fuck that shit.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Love previewed her upcoming solo album. One of many tracks, “Kill Fuck Marry,” was impressed by Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s current trial. One other new music referred to as “Justice For Kurt” addresses conspiracists who declare she was liable for his demise, however she in the end selected to go away it off the album as “it could swallow all the narrative.” She additionally revealed that she’s at the moment on good phrases with Nirvana’s surviving members (“Our youngsters are gonna be doing enterprise collectively, their children are gonna be doing enterprise…”), and recalled turning down Brad Pitt’s supply to play Cobain in a biopic within the early 2000s.
You possibly can hearken to the total interview under.
Del Rey is about to launch her new album, Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Beneath Ocean Blvd, on March tenth, 2023. Stream the Jack Antonoff-produced title monitor right here.
