Courtney Love says she’s cool with Dave Grohl — however she additionally has a small bone to choose with the Foo Fighters frontman.
While showing on an episode of The Magnificent Others With Billy Corgan posted Wednesday, the Hole rocker was characteristically blunt when addressing the previous Nirvana bandmate of her late husband, Kurt Cobain. “Grohl, come out with it and just say we’re cool,” she mentioned. “Be man enough.”
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“Man up, because you’re the uber man that has all the straight males,” she continued to Corgan. “And we’re cool, but you won’t say it, because you’re afraid you’ll lose your audience. You’re afraid it’ll affect your relationship with literal Paul McCartney … Dave, it would really behoove me if the straight white males that are your base would stop picking on me.”
Love additionally known as out the drummer for allegedly writing a number of songs about her. “I couldn’t write a song about Dave Grohl to save my life,” she mentioned. “He’s written, like, 4 songs about me, and so they’re hits. I’m like, ‘Wait what?’”
Billboard has reached out to Grohl’s rep for remark.
Love and Grohl have had their bumps within the highway over time. In 2014, the previous criticized the surviving members of Nirvana for becoming a member of forces with McCartney for a 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy profit live performance. They additionally clashed in court years after Cobain’s dying in 1994 over the rights to Nirvana’s catalog.
In 2014, nevertheless, the pair hugged onstage at Nirvana’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
Watch Love’s full dialog on The Magnificent Others With Billy Corgan above.
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