Nobody dislikes PJ Harvey…unless that someone is Courtney Love. The former member of Hole has made some surprising statements about the author of ‘Rid of Me’, in which she calls Harvey “impolite” for not having responded to a collaboration proposal.
Courtney Love had PJ Harvey in mind in the repertoire of her next solo album. Specifically, Love proposed that Harvey return to making rock, as in her beginnings, but it is evident that the author of ‘Let England Shake’ (2011) or, more recently, of ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’ (2023), is to other things.
“I asked PJ Harvey to replay one of those iconic Rolling Stones riffs of his,” Love told The Standard. “(PJ and I) have a relationship, I have promoted her over the years, but she decided not to respond to me, so I wrote to her to tell her how rude she was.” Love says that Harvey’s manager, Sumit Bothra, tried to “calm things down” with her, but insists that Harvey’s attitude is “not right.”
Below, Love examines the latest artistic steps of PJ Harvey, an artist who, according to Courtney, “hasn’t made rock in 100 years.” And he adds: “His first five albums are good, but then he got into more of an art thing.” Of course, Courtney likes one of Harvey’s relatively recent compositions, ‘The Last Living Rose’: it seems “like a John Donne poem accompanied by, what the hell is that, a tuba?” It’s actually a trombone.
In the same interview, Love confirms that those who do participate in her album are Michael Stipe and Will Sergeant of Echo and the Bunnymen. In addition, he assures that he would like to work with Kendrick Lamar and that he has a “crazy crush on him.” His dream collaborations also include Lana Del Rey and Doja Cat, as well as Stormzy, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube.
Speaking of collaborations, Courtney Love just appeared on 070’s album Shake, on the song ‘Song to the Siren’, a cover of This Mortal Coil.
