Singer Courtney Love – The Photo Access/Cover Images
A while ago Courtney Love was taken with a strong sense of nostalgia and remembered the day she wrote Doll Parts in just a few minutes.
“It’s a tribute I wrote in 20 minutes in the bathroom of a girl named Joyce in Cambridge, MA. I had to write most of the lyrics on my arm in indelible marker because the paper ran out. Someone was banging on the door as I wrote it down. It was performed for the first time just an hour later, at the Virgin Megastore in Boston, ”she said in a long post. Instagram.
And guess who the song is about?
A cry of rage and love
“It’s about a boy whose band had just left town, and who I slept with and was told he slept with two other girls,” Courtney Love continued, referring to a performance by Nirvana. in the show The Word in 1991 during which they notably played Smells Like Teen Spirit.
“It was my way of saying, ‘You’re a fucking idiot if you don’t choose me, and that’s all the desire and rage and love I feel for you.’ Great songs don’t always come in 20 minutes, but this one did. Anyway, I married this guy, ”she concluded.
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