Courtney Love - America's Sweetheart [Clean]

Courtney Love's greatest skill is selling a myth, or more accurately, self-myth, the illusion that she is an important rocker, the face and voice of a generation. Since she gives great interview, she was a media sensation even before she vaulted to stardom after the suicide of her husband Kurt Cobain in 1994, but after his death, it was as if she inherited his mantle of the spokesperson of the alt-rock revolution and she did what she did -- promote herself relentlessly. Soon, her fame easily eclipsed that of her band Hole, whose second album Live Through This sold respectably in 1994, but hardly well enough to support her celebrity (it went platinum, but peaked only at 52 in the Billboard charts, with only two of its singles making waves on Modern Rock radio). Read More