Courtney Love says she doesn't like Beyoncé's music, calls Taylor Swift 'not important'

“She might be a safe space for girls, and she’s probably the Madonna of now, but she’s not interesting as an artist," the Hole singer said about Swift.

Courtney Love isn’t afraid of getting under celebrity skin.

Earlier this month, the Hole singer released a BBC radio series championing women in music that have inspired her. Now, she’s taking shots at all the female artists she doesn’t like, including Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, and Beyoncé. 

“It’s great that there are so many successful women in the music industry, but lots of them are becoming a cliché,” Love explained in an interview with the U.K.'s Evening Standard. “Now, every successful woman is cloned, so there is just too much music. They’re all the same. If you play something on Spotify, you get bombarded with a lot of stuff that’s exactly the same.”

She continued, “I mean, I like the idea of Beyoncé doing a country record because it’s about Black women going into spaces where previously only white women have been allowed, not that I like it much, As a concept, I love it. I just don’t like her music.”

Love was even more dismissive when it came to Swift. “Taylor is not important,” she declared. “She might be a safe space for girls, and she’s probably the Madonna of now, but she’s not interesting as an artist.”

Speaking of the Material Girl, Love added, “I don’t like her and she doesn’t like me. I loved Desperately Seeking Susan, but for the city of New York as much as her.”

Love’s remarks come after she previously called Swift an “aspirational huge role model for many young women” in a birthday post on social media back in 2021. It appears that Swift isn’t the only artist that Love has had a change of heart about, even Del Rey — an artist Love once described as the only other musical genius she’d met outside of late husband Kurt Cobain — couldn’t escape her quips.

“I haven’t liked Lana since she covered a John Denver song, and I think she should really take seven years off. Up until ‘Take Me Home Country Roads’ I thought she was great,” Love said. “When I was recording my new album, I had to stop listening to her as she was influencing me too much.”

Love’s new radio series, titled Courtney Love’s Women, is available to stream on BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Sounds now.

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