Courtney Love Blasts Music Industry Sexism & Double Standards in New Interview

Speaking with GQ magazine's Dylan Jones in an onstage interview as part of the Liberatum Women in Creativity series, Hole frontwoman Courtney Love addressed the hot-topic issue of the sexism that women in music face. Relating this subject to her decades-spanning career and addressing the recent rise in women speaking out about the music industry's sexism, Love explain how she had to deal with double standards for quite some time.

"I always took myself really seriously... but sometimes I'd be at a venue and the guy would call me 'sweetie' or 'honey' when we were doing drums and stuff," Kurt Cobain's widow said, according to Dazed's report on the live interview. "I'd carry the drums in myself so people wouldn't say I was a b*tch...I barely know what it is, but I learned 'Smoke On The Water' so I could go to Guitar Center and play that and not have guys look at me. It was different time - I think girls get taken a lot more seriously now."

According to UPROXX, Love went on to talk more about double standards, but only related the subject of sexism to herself. While it would definitely be great if women in music are taken more seriously nowadays, according to Love, that doesn't really mean much for the sexism issue.

I would rather have her acknowledge the concerns of the women in music that have taken a stand against this double standard and sexism rather than explain that she has had it harder. To be fair, I didn't attend the discussion, but it sounds like she glossed over the topic a bit.

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