Courtney Love: Lady Gaga Is Not "That Compelling"
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Courtney Love has plenty of enemies, but she's not afraid to add one more to the list: Lady Gaga.
"I don't think her music is that compelling," Love, who is reuniting with her band Hole for a tour later this year, tells StyleList.
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The rocker, 45, quickly defends her statement, saying it's "because I listen to rock music" and not the 23-year-old Grammy winner's pop tunes.
"I'm an old hippie," she says. "You know what I listened to last night? Stevie f***ing Nicks."
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Still, Love -- who lost custody of her 17-year-old daughter last month and once claimed Britney Spears was molested by her dad -- admits she's coming around on Gaga.
"At the VMAs, I really wasn't sure," she tells StyleList. "One of my best friends is [photographer David] LaChappelle and he loves her. He really helped legitimize her by doing a Rolling Stone cover. He came in like, 'I met this girl and I love her, she doesn't have a mean bone in her body.'"
She was also wowed by her show-opening performance with Sir Elton John at the Grammys last weekend.
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"She did something the other night and I was like, 'You know what honey, take the cake, seriously.'"
One thing the two have in common, however, is their out-there style choices.
"One time Marilyn Manson said to me, in like, I don't know, '99 or something, 'You can come to my Halloween party if you dress as old you," Love recalls. "I realized there's been a demarcation between, like, black eyes and smeary red lips ... and that had become associated with my look."
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48courtney is dead on
CL doesn't have an ounce of the talent Lady Gaga has. She's making these comments in a desperate attempt to be mentioned in the media with someone more successful than her. Just shut up.
Ridiculous waste of space article and waste of my 2 seconds of reading this.Who cares about how Courtney Love hates her, but somehow is coming around. I think people just love Lady Gaga because they are falling on the bandwagon of gushing over a new, oddball celebrity.
How lame are you to even arguing over this article. Geez, get a life
GaGa is amazing! she is clearly jealous. I would be too if i never had a chance to even compete on GaGas level.
They are both bi. And both talented.
Lady Gaga is nice. Courtney Love is so stupid. And I really adore Lady Gaga cuz' she pops on POP music and she rocks on Rock Music! She's the best!
Lady Gaga is to die for! I love her! And she's a nice person. I wouldn't be afraid to talk to her. Courtney is evil, crude and rude! Oops, forgot: Lewd! lol...
Courtney will be in jail soon, for throwing away her daughters trust fund. Wonder how many new rhyming sets of words she'll scratch on the cell walls? Let's see: love/shove, crack/smack, fu_k you/Malibu, hmmm Courts, don't steal this, k?
At least Gaga isn't a mass of plastic surgery, silicone, and drug-induced energy like CL is. Courtney will be melting into a pile of plastic any day now. Take away her Class A drugs and she'd need a walker if not a wheelchair.
Courtney's still desperately trying to connect with a huge talent/s to ride their coattails, as always. If she can't USE you, she'll stab you in the back. Even her own daughter. Frances Bean---keep RUNNING, and NEVER LOOK BACK!!! I'm interested in what Frances will accomplish in her own right, whether musical and in the public eye, or not.
Lol, Courtney is burnt leftover hash for breakfast. Lady Gaga is Eggs Benedict and champagne for brunch. Stale vs Fresh. Fake vs Real. Empty bag of tricks vs. no need for any bag of tricks.
Thinking Lady Gaga should hook up with Amanda Lepore!!!!
I think Lady Gaga is waaaay prettier than Courtney Love, wierder style, but prettier!
LOL she ate her words there---Lady Gaga and Stevie Nicks are teaming up for the MAC campaign. :) Maybe next time Courtney.
Don't care for weirdo Courtney, but she didn't at all diss Gaga. Rockerat48 is right. Re: that last paragraph - Manson, Hole and Monster Magnet toured in '99, saw the concert in Anaheim...really good...juz sayn :)
Do you people not read? I blame US for using such a misleading headline -- bad tabloid trying to start something out of nothing. Look: Courtney Love does NOT diss the GaGa in this article. She says she listens to rock, not pop music, that's all. I'm a rock person - pop isn't that compelling to me either - and I can appreciate GaGa's talent. Same with Courtney Love: She says that she hears that GaGa is great and a great girl. She is COMPLIMENTING GaGa and you people criticize... which leads again to the question: Do you people not READ?
@JerseyD Just do a search on her on YouTube. :)
Love GaGa... and wish US would stop publishing the garbage that constantly spews out of Courtney Love's mouth. She's a brain dead moron.
courtney your just jealous that your not lady gaga cause your music sucks.