Slumming with Salem?

So... Jack Donahue of SALEM apparently got snuggly with Courtney Love of COURTNEY FUCKING LOVE (and Hole*) and took some macbook photobooth pics to mark the occasion... or are they cell phone pix...the point is, Hipster Runoff had to make what was an embarassing moment (for C. Love) some kind of sensationalized... something?  And then they threw around the term Rape Gaze ("Did u hop off the chillwave, and r u vibing the rape gaze?") like it's...well like it hadn't been redacted from the Pitchfork review of King Night.

Further reasons I hate hipster runoff...besides its contribution to general illiteracy and the cheapening of everything that could possibly be cool or creative or different... They took something that should have been 5 seconds of a funny/sad twitpic had to bring up "Rape Gaze" again like it's actually a thing. A thing that's interesting or worth discussing at this point.

Here's what's fucking interesting: "Rape Gaze" was coined by Lauren Flax & Lauren Dillard, of Creep, an all-female band...and they've disowned it because, as they explain to the Village Voice:  "We would never want to advocate sexual violence against any human being. It was a play on words which we never expected to be used as an actual genre." 

Their first gig was with MEN... wrap your head around that one, Carles.

*Russ may have mentioned this band, Hole, to a young associate of his who was unable to name a single Hole song. Ah...youth of today.

Update on Oct 26, 2010 by Marley

I love how http://fuckyeahcourtneylove.tumblr.com has picked up the "story"...and they're disappointed in C Love. COSIGN.

Not so Terrible Love

Like probably a majority of the attendees at Hole’s show at Terminal 5 Monday night, I fully anticipated the evening to be a point-and-laugh spectacle, a game of “What drug cocktail is Courtney Love on tonight?” with maybe a few off-key songs thrown in for good measure. Let’s face it, the fact that the concert happened at all is in itself a minor miracle. 

Suffice it to say, Courtney (and her new bandmates) didn’t just defy my expectations. She chewed them up, swallowed them, and regurgitated them over all the naysayers who’ve doubted her over the years.

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