Word: skin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Love wants Skin to have an impact, a deep impact, a meteor-slamming-into-the-earth impact. She admits she has criticized other successful musicians in the past out of commercial envy: "I was pissy about Alanis Morissette because I was jealous that she got to sell so many records and make such a cultural impact...
...during the making of Skin, Billy Corgan, leader of the alternative band Smashing Pumpkins and the man behind this year's half-brilliant album Adore, was invited by Love to give Hole musical pointers. Corgan and Love later had a falling out over credit, but Hole's ragged punk sound was altered, patched up, rewoven. The group's new sound has the sharp, clean lines of an Armani suit...
Love calls Skin "a monument" and says it will "alter the skyline." She hopes it will show younger female musicians that they can aspire to more than coffeehouse acoustic strumming and that they too can be rock stars. "What we're really interested in is who we restart, who comes up," says Love. "Because the female musician, the girl that is, like, playing rock in the garage, she's not around anymore, she's been taken out, she's been killed, she's not encouraged...
...Love has led a rootless life. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother later gave her the new first name Courtney; she eventually started calling herself Courtney Love. She has lived in Liverpool and Dublin; she has slogged through reform schools and stripped in strip clubs. Skin starts off self-consciously, with Love reveling in her notoriety. "I'm all I wanna be," she wails. "A walking study/ In demonology." Certain images repeat: angels, stars, heaven. "I'm a cancer," Love explains. "I recycle." Death is on her mind. A number of songs mourn the failing spirit...
...makeovers are about surface; bleached hair has dark roots. Skin's polite production might win listeners, but Love's displays of rude beauty, of a sad radiance that seems to come from a place beyond contrivance--those are the moments that make this CD spectacular listening. Just hear her morose, lyrical ramble over Erlandson's spare guitar on Northern Star; or the line in the enchanting Malibu when she breaks the song's sweet spell, growling, "And I knew/ Love would tear you apart/ Oh and I knew/ The darkest secret of your heart." This CD has pop skin...