Courtney Love Spills Grunge Beef: Kim Gordon & Nirvana

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Courtney Love just spilled that sonic youths Kim Gordon inspired a big nirvana lyric,

and it was straight fire in the worst way.

Love says Kurt Cobain was furious with Gordon, calling her a bad influence that held him

back early on.

She dropped this on Billy Corgan's podcast, The Magnificent Others, explaining how Kurt

hit his talent during their bleach days, blamed it partly on the Seattle scene, since

Kurt wasn't local, and Gordon's vibe messing things up.

Fans are buzzing over this grunge beef, especially since heart-shaped box became Nirvana's

lead single off their 1993 in Udaro album.

Cobain once told Circus Magazine the course line,

Hey, wait, I've got a new complaint.

Was him venting about media pressure.

That track also touched on heavy stuff like kids dying from cancer, with the title nodding

to his romance with Love herself.

It crushed charts, hitting number one on alternative airplay, and number four on mainstream

rock.

Were from Love reframe some nirvana lore we thought we knew, stirring up old rivalries

in the scene that's still echo today.