Courtney Love covers Geese
Love, who once described herself as “Geese-curious,” shared a rendition of “Au Pays du Cocaine” yesterday.
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She was a proud Geese skeptic. Then, she was merely “Geese-curious.” Now, she has graduated to Geese performer. Courtney Love—famous (among other things) for her distaste of the sort of dudes who like the Cameron Winter-led Brooklyn band even more than I do—shared a video of herself and Baby Queen performing a snippet of “Au Pays du Cocaine,” a standout track from the band’s most recent album, Getting Killed. Love sang while reclining on a couch as Baby Queen strummed an acoustic guitar nearby.
Love has previously spoken about her slow-burn embrace of Geese, describing the band’s infectious sound in a March video as “Daniel Johnston-meets-Rolling Stones.” Winter, she noted, “sounds like a 600-year old man.” Perhaps anticipating the aforementioned millennial dudes’ wrath, she clarified: “in the best way. He’s a fucking seriously good lyricist. Like, a seriously good lyricist. Seriously.”
Her tirade against those very dudes hasn’t entirely let up. After her “Geese-curious” comment, Love revealed that she had been accosted by them for the crime of showing interest. “I want to talk a little bit about their fans. Their gatekeeping elder millennial troll fans. I love my trolls… but the Geese trolls are like another kettle of fish,” she said. “I feel like it’s 1990 and I’m trying to impress Sonic Youth again. I’m a cool old lady who likes a band, get off my back.” Love was recently spotted at Geese’s London show. There appeared to be no millennial dudes in her entourage. Watch her rendition of “Au Pays du Cocaine” below.
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