Editing Courtney Love (section)

== Legacy ==
[[File:Courtney Love (17887095652).jpg|thumb|upright=.9|Love, pictured in 2015, with her leg supported on the [[Foldback (sound engineering)|monitor]], recognized as one of her signature stage moves<ref name=france />{{sfn|Millard|2004|p=196}}|alt=Woman playing guitar, with her left leg up on a monitor.]]
Love has had an impact on female-fronted alternative acts and performers.{{sfn|Carson|Lewis|Shaw|2004|pages=89–90}} She has been cited as influential on young female instrumentalists in particular,{{sfn|Carson|Lewis|Shaw|2004|p=90}} having once infamously proclaimed: "I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming&nbsp;...{{sfn|Millard|2004|p=195}} I strap on that motherfucking guitar and you cannot fuck with me. That's my feeling."{{Sfn|Millard|2004|pp=195–96}} In ''The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon'', it is noted: {{blockquote|[Love] truly lived up to Paul Westerberg's ([[The Replacements (band)|The Replacements]]) assessment of pretty girls "playing makeup/wearing guitar"&nbsp;... She frequently stood on stage, microphone in hand and foot on monitor, and simply let her Fender guitar dangle around her neck. She truly embodied the empowerment that came with playing the electric guitar&nbsp;... Love depended heavily upon her male lead guitar foil Eric Erlandson, but the rest of her band remained exclusively female throughout several lineup changes.{{sfn|Millard|2004|p=196}}}}

{{quote box|align=left|width=25%|bgcolor=#f6ebff|quote=When you're dying and your life is flashing before your eyes&nbsp;... you're gonna be thinking about the great things you did, the horrible things that you did, the emotional impact that someone had on you and that you had on somebody else. Those are the things that are relevant. To have some sort of emotional impact that transcends time, that's great.|source=–Love on having a cultural impact, 1997{{sfn|O'Dair|1997|p=472}} }}
With over 3 million records sold in the United States alone,{{efn|As of 2003, ''Pretty on the Inside'' had sold over 200,000 copies in the U.S.;<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Newman |first1=Melinda |year=2003 |title=Courtney Cuts the Drama: Love Leaves Woe Behind |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |issue=July 19, 2003 |page=61 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WhEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6 |via=Google Books |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221112138/https://books.google.com/books?id=WhEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6 |archive-date=February 21, 2017 }}</ref> ''Live Through This'', 1,600,000; ''Celebrity Skin'', 1,400,000 (the latter two per 2010 approximations).<ref name=harding/>}} Hole became one of the most successful rock bands of all time fronted by a woman.{{sfn|Carson|Lewis|Shaw|2004|p=90}}<ref name=harding>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/958756/courtney-love-fixing-a-hole|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|title=Courtney Love: Fixing a Hole|date=April 2, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211003918/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/958756/courtney-love-fixing-a-hole|archive-date=December 11, 2018|author=Harding, Cortney}}</ref> [[VH1]] ranked Love {{abbr|no.|number}} 69 in their list of ''The 100 Greatest Women in Music History'' in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vh1.com/news/1238/the-100-greatest-women-in-music/|work=VH1|title=The 100 Greatest Women in Music|date=February 13, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107134908/http://www.vh1.com/news/1238/the-100-greatest-women-in-music/|archive-date=January 7, 2019}}</ref> In 2015, the ''[[Phoenix New Times]]'' declared Love the number one greatest female rock star of all time, writing: "To build a perfect rock star, there are several crucial ingredients: musical talent, physical attractiveness, tumultuous relationships, substance abuse, and public meltdowns, just to name a few. These days, Love seems to have rebounded from her epic tailspin and has leveled out in a slightly more normal manner, but there's no doubt that her life to date is the type of story people wouldn't believe in a novel or a movie."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/10-greatest-female-rock-stars-of-all-time-7287205|work=[[Phoenix New Times]]|date=April 28, 2015|author=Chesler, John|title=The 10 Greatest Female Rock Stars of All Time|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209071257/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/10-greatest-female-rock-stars-of-all-time-7287205|archive-date=December 9, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Among the alternative musicians who have cited Love as an influence are [[Scout Niblett]];<ref name="conner">{{cite web|url=http://www.thesnipenews.com/music/interviews/scout-niblett-interview-2013/|work=The Snipe News|date=August 21, 2013|author=Conner, Shawn|title=Scout Niblett (Interview)|quote=I was 17 when I first heard it. I definitely think they had a huge role in that. For me, the thing that I loved about them and her was the anger, and aggressiveness, along with the tender side. That was something I hadn't seen before in a woman playing music. That was hugely influential and really inspiring. Women up 'til then were kind of one-dimensional, twee, sweet, ethereal, and that annoys the shit out of me.}}</ref> [[Brody Dalle]] of [[The Distillers]];{{sfn|Diehl|2007|pages=93–94}} Dee Dee Penny of [[Dum Dum Girls]];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/dum-things-442-v17n5/|work=Vice|title=DUM THINGS|author=Moran, Rob|date=April 30, 2010|quote=I played out their cassette tapes in about 6th or 7th grade. But I definitely thank Courtney Love for existing because she was one of my formative inspirations and one of the reasons that I play in a band now.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060649/http://www.vice.com/read/dum-things-442-v17n5|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> [[Florence Welch]];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wfuv.org/content/florence-and-the-machine-words-and-music-2009|work=[[WFUV]]|title=Florence + The Machine - Words and Music - 2009|date=December 15, 2009|last=Houston|first=Rita|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240407195927/https://wfuv.org/content/florence-and-the-machine-words-and-music-2009|archive-date= April 7, 2024|publisher=[[Fordham University]]}}</ref> [[Annie Hardy]] of [[Giant Drag]];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thebearwriteswords.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/the-sounds-that-shaped-me-annie-hardy/|work=The Bear Writes Words|title=The Sounds That Shaped Me: Annie Hardy|archive-url=https://archive.today/20221009203602/https://thebearwriteswords.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/the-sounds-that-shaped-me-annie-hardy/|archive-date=October 9, 2022|url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[Nine Black Alps]].<ref>{{cite journal|journal=SoundProof Magazine|date=September 8, 2009|author=Griffiths, Daniel|title=Quick & Dirty – Nine Black Alps|page=1}}</ref> Contemporary female pop artists [[Lana Del Rey]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virginmedia.com/music/news/story/2014/06/23/lana-del-rey-is-inspired-by/|work=Virgin Media|title=Lana Del Rey is inspired by Courtney Love|date=June 23, 2014|archive-date=July 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150721222329/http://www.virginmedia.com/music/news/story/2014/06/23/lana-del-rey-is-inspired-by/}}</ref> [[Avril Lavigne]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicomh.com/music/features/avril-lavigne.htm|work=[[musicOMH]]|title=Interview: Avril Lavigne|author=Soghomonian, Talia|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102040050/http://www.musicomh.com/music/features/avril-lavigne.htm|archive-date=January 2, 2011}}</ref> [[Tove Lo]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Moss|first=Rebecca|title=Why Swedes Make the Best Breakup Music|url=http://www.elle.com/culture/music/news/a15365/tove-lo-truth-serum/|work=[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]|date=April 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614171511/https://www.elle.com/culture/music/news/a15365/tove-lo-truth-serum/|archive-date=June 14, 2018}}</ref> and [[Sky Ferreira]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Diehl, Matt|title=Sky Ferreira|date=April 1, 2014|work=[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/sky-ferreira-1|issn=0149-8932|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614095254/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/sky-ferreira-1|archive-date=June 14, 2018}}</ref> have also cited Love as an influence. Love has frequently been recognized as the most high-profile contributor of [[Feminism#Music|feminist music]] during the 1990s,{{sfn|Schippers|2002|p=93}} and for "subverting [the] mainstream expectations of how a woman should look, act, and sound."{{sfn|Jackson|2005|pages=264–265}} According to music journalist [[Maria Raha]], "Hole was the highest-profile female-fronted band of the '90s to openly and directly sing about feminism."{{sfn|Lankford|2009|pages=73–96}} [[Patti Smith]], a major influence of Love's, also praised her, saying: "I hate genderizing things&nbsp;... [but] when I heard Hole, I was amazed to hear a girl sing like that. [[Janis Joplin]] was her own thing; she was into [[Big Mama Thornton]] and [[Bessie Smith]]. But what Courtney Love does, I'd never heard a girl do that."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stone-interview-patti-smith-19960711|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|title=Patti Smith: Family Life, Recent Loss, and New Album 'Gone Again'|author=Fricke, David|date=July 11, 1996|archive-date=December 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161214140028/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stone-interview-patti-smith-19960711}}</ref>

She has also been a [[gay icon]] since the mid-1990s,<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]|date=August 17, 1997|access-date=July 21, 2014|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MGQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT11|page=10|title=Events that shaped the under-30 mind|author1=Finlay, Jennifer|author2=Don Romesburg|via=Google Books}} {{Free access}}</ref> and has jokingly referred to her fanbase as consisting of "females, gay guys, and a few advanced, evolved heterosexual men."<ref name="pattydoc">{{cite video|title=Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death of Patty Schemel|year=2011|medium=Motion picture|publisher=Well Go USA}}</ref> Love's aesthetic image, particularly in the early 1990s, also became influential and was dubbed "[[kinderwhore]]" by critics and media. The subversive fashion mainly consisted of vintage [[babydoll]] dresses accompanied by smeared makeup and red lipstick.<ref name=tunes/>{{sfn|Klaffke|2003|p=116}} [[MTV]] reporter [[Kurt Loder]] described Love as looking like "a debauched rag doll" onstage.<ref name="loderfiles">{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1585956/courtney-love-opens-up-about-kurt-cobains-death-loder-files.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015121058/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1585956/courtney-love-opens-up-about-kurt-cobains-death-loder-files.jhtml|archive-date=October 15, 2012|work=[[MTV]]|title=Courtney Love Opens Up About Kurt Cobain's Death (The Loder Files)|date=April 22, 2008|author=Loder, Kurt|url-status=bot: unknown|access-date=September 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Wilson, Cintra|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/fashion/18GOTH.html|title=You Just Can't Kill It|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 17, 2008|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909201858/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/fashion/18GOTH.html?_r=1|archive-date=September 9, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Love later said she had been influenced by the fashion of [[Chrissy Amphlett]] of the [[Divinyls]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theaureview.com/features/chrissy-amphlett-only-you|work=The AU Review|title=In Memoriam – Chrissy Amphlett: Only You|date=April 26, 2013|author=Booth, Emily|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722105053/http://www.theaureview.com/features/chrissy-amphlett-only-you|archive-date=July 22, 2015}}</ref> Interviewed in 1994, Love commented "I would like to think–in my heart of hearts–that I'm changing some psychosexual aspects of rock music. Not that I'm so desirable. I didn't do the kinder-whore thing because I thought I was so hot. When I see the look used to make one more appealing, it pisses me off. When I started, it was a ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 film)|What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?]]'' thing. My angle was irony."<ref name=without>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/courtney-love-life-without-kurt-81520/|title=Courtney Love: Life Without Kurt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181213011914/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/courtney-love-life-without-kurt-81520/|archive-date=December 13, 2018|author=Fricke, David|date=December 15, 1994}}</ref>