YouTube Tuesdays: Courtney Love crashing that Madonna interview

5.11.2010 @ 5:24 pm UTC by lilah wild

On the heels of last week’s vid, in which a very young pre-stardom Courtney rocks the Boy Toy look pretty hard in one of her outfit changes, this clip fast forwards to 1995, to a notorious MTV interview disrupted by flying cosmetics – coming face to face with the Material Girl herself (who by now was in her Bedtime Stories phase), catching her very off-guard in the process, and completely stealing her interview. Look how hungry those cameras are to soak up every last drop of drama, and does she ever deliver, right down to the last ass-over-teakettle second.

I have a love/hate/love thing about Courtney – from my impressions over the years (I still have yet to read Poppy’s biography, it’s sitting right here on my to-read shelf!) she’s a very complex character, not someone who comes along very often in the pantheon of female superstars – but I adore her for totally being *not* groomed into mainstream celebrity, and refusing to play the media game during the 90’s. She’s just so raw, and even though her life has gotten to be a mess, she’s still a hell of a lot more interesting than most of the women coming out of the Hollywood machine.

And I love how Kurt Loder just melts into the background, hilariously lost behind these women.

YouTube Tuesdays: Courtney Love on Andy Warhol’s 15 Minutes

5.4.2010 @ 6:54 pm UTC by lilah wild

Three things about this week’s clip:
1. A very young Courtney Love, back when her biggest claim to fame was a role in Sid & Nancy. Before Curt, before Hole, before the whole kinderwhore broken-doll persona. Note the second outfit change – how she must have relished getting close enough to Madonna to pelt her with cosmetics and crash that interview with Kurt Loder. (Which sounds like a fun idea for the next YouTube Tuesday.)

2. Robbie Nevill trying to solve her problems, upping the surreal factor. Hell, the mere presence of Robbie Nevill ups the surreal factor. And now I am going to have “C’est La Vie” stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

3. The perpetually glamorous Debbie Harry!!!