Courtney Love - `America's Sweetheart'

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Courtney Love’s ‘America’s Sweetheart’ - Album Review

Courtney Love
America’s Sweetheart

‘America’s Sweetheart’ is a long awaited album, eagerly sought after, bringing questions with it: will it be any good? Is going to be the same as the stuff in Hole? Can the music rise above her personal life which has been dragged through the press. Well, the music is alright but it definitely doesn’t set the world on fire. The start of the album sounds like Hole, just a poppier, tireder version of it. Then the next two songs come on and the pace is slowed down. ‘Hold On To Me’ is a tender, melodic, almost love song ambiguously about either a lover or her kid.

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The album sort of alternates between faster, punkier songs and slower, more melodic ones. ‘All the Drugs’, ‘I’ll Do Anything’ and ‘The Zeplin Song’ are more tracks that are like that in Hole with a bit of Nirvana thrown in on ‘I’ll Do Anything’. The only problem is that Love’s nights of partying have had an effect on her voice which is more cracked and careworn than before and doesn’t quite fit the youth and vigour of the music. The tunes which work best are the slower ones such as ‘Uncool’ that’s really lovely – an unrequited love song and distinctly differently. I had my doubts about the album after hearing the first single, ‘Mono’ but it’s actually pretty good. And to answer the last question, America’s Sweetheart can’t quite rise above her personal life.

(Virgin)

Natasha Perry

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