Hole's Live Through This

Courtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain's wife she was derided as an opportunistic groupie; as his widow she is pitied, and scorned, as the madwoman in rock's attic. Yet Hole's second album, "Live Through This", awoke a feminist consciousness in a generation of young listeners.

"Live Through This" arrived in 1994, at a tumultuous point in the history of American music. Three years earlier Nirvana's "Nevermind" had broken open the punk underground, and the first issue of a zine called "Riot Grrrl"had been published. Hole were of this context and yet outside of it: too famous for the strict punk ethics of riotgrrrl, too explicitly feminist to be the world's biggest rock band.

"Live Through This" is an album about girlhood and motherhood; desire and disgust; self-destruction and survival. There have been few rock albums before or since so intimately concerned with female experience. It is an album that changed lives - so why is Courtney Love's achievement as a songwriter and musician still not taken seriously, two decades on?

CONTENIDO:

Violet
Miss World
Asking for It
Credit in the Straight World
Softer, Softest
I Think that I Would Die
Rock Star

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