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...Brown, Etta James and Duke Ellington. "All modern music is black." She also has nothing but praise for Janet Jackson's song Got 'Til It's Gone, an R.-and-B. reworking of Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi. But she has mostly contempt for alternative rock. "Everybody says Kurt Cobain was a great writer. I don't see it," Mitchell says. "Why is he a hero? Whining and killing yourself--I fail to see the heroism in that...
...cancer," Love explains. "I recycle." Death is on her mind. A number of songs mourn the failing spirit of alternative rock. She sings, "Oh the boys on the radio/ They crash and burn." Other songs are haunted by the 1994 suicide of her husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. Love sings on Reasons to Be Beautiful, "When the fire goes out, you better learn to fake...
Love is still dogged by questions about Cobain. Earlier this year, filmmaker Nick Broomfield released a documentary titled Kurt and Courtney that portrayed Love as controlling and abusive toward Cobain and even suggested that his death may not have been a suicide. "I don't feel that anyone's in a position of saying Courtney was responsible for doing anything directly in terms of murdering or having Kurt murdered," says Broomfield. "I do believe that there's a lot that we haven't been told, and that all was not well in their relationship, and he was pretty much left...
Love refuses to answer any questions about the film. "You think it's important and I don't," she says. "This is America, so we can disagree." Love can also be testy about questions that concern her late husband. When asked about Cobain's unreleased songs, she replies, "I'm not the keeper of his f______ flame...
...Harvard's E.O. Wilson has pioneered this thinking--believe there is a genetic component to these traits, that kids like Luke and Kip simply lack the DNA that keeps their fingers off the trigger. In the end, Satan is certainly the easier explanation, if less intellectually satisfying. As Kurt Cobain once sang, "Now the people cry and the people moan/ ... And try to find some place to rest their bones/ While the angels and the devils/ Fight to claim them for their...