#melissa auf der maur

[stephaniesblogxx]

he keeps you in a box by the bed

alive but just barely

[toohardontheknees]

“She wasn't scared of vulgarity or what anyone else might say. She talked about violence, body image, lesbianism, beauty, incest, rape, maternity and even femininity unlike anybody else before her. This woman spoke to other women, without ever beating round the proverbial bush and she never lied. She'd never hesitate to openly insult her male contemporaries. And above all - she was never sorry.”

"Between the exaggerated femininity of Blondie and the gender fluidity of Patti Smith, Courtney invented her own sexy, troubled and previously unseen genre. Most of all, Courtney Love showed us that just cause we’d been born a girl, nothing was forbidden. She opened the way, with her shabby sequins, glamour, rage and an innate sex appeal.”

- French Número magazine on Courtney Love, 2017

[garbadge]

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Melissa Auf der Maur ▪︎ Hole ▪︎ The Smashing Pumpkins

[fuckyeahcourtneylove]

this video changed my life in 1998.

the coffins! the pink fender venus guitar! i can’t.

[courtney-hole]

[kindergrrl]

Hole on their bus traveling to Tokyo after their show in Osaka, Japan.

January 30th, 1995.

[killerradiojoe]

[yourgirlmary]

it became (the song) about a girl who sits alone in her room and listens to the radio. the boys on the radio sing to her and promise her that, you know – when she gets to Heaven, they’ll be there. (…) she thinks all the songs are about her.

Courtney Love in an interview, talking about the song "Boys on the Radio", from the "Celebrity Skin" album.

[dearestlyla]

courtney love photographed by kevin cummins | 1993

[stephaniesblogxx]

is she pretty on the inside?

[toohardontheknees]

Love is surprisingly fragile in person. A tattoo reading "Let It Bleed" trails up one arm; today she is wearing sparkly Miu Miu flats with rhinestone bands around their heels and a black pull-over with a little round white collar from Comptoir des Cotonniers, both of which offer a faint, distant echo of the hurt little girl “kinderwhore" persona Love pioneered two decades ago.

- Truly, Madly Courtney - Courtney Love: The ELLE Interview, ELLE UK, January 2009

[tearyourpetals]

Courtney Love by Melissa auf der Maur on the set of the music video for Celebrity Skin, 1998

[dollprrtz]

she's beautiful🙁

i never see anybody talk about melissa, GOSH!!!!! give her more attention i luv her

[fuckyeahcourtneylove]

1998.