{"id":973649,"date":"2019-11-21T11:47:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T18:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=913559"},"modified":"2019-11-21T11:47:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T18:47:28","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-courtney-love-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-courtney-love-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Courtney Love, \u2018Mother\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Court.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>There has been a scarcity of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/courtney-love\/\" id=\"auto-tag_courtney-love\" data-tag=\"courtney-love\">Courtney Love<\/a> music since 2010, but just as the decade prepares to close, rock\u2019s wayward daughter has returned. \u201cMother,\u201d which is featured on the soundtrack for upcoming horror film&nbsp;<em>The Turning<\/em>, is a gothic epic where her smoky rasp shines.<\/p>\n<p>Both the film and Love\u2019s contribution to the soundtrack pull directly from Henry James\u2019 classic ghost story&nbsp;<em>The Turn of the Screw<\/em>. \u201cMother\u201d serves as a perfect reminder of the type of drama Love has always brought to her music, especially in the earliest days of Hole where she let her acting chops seep into her punk epics about her youth (\u201cTeenage Whore\u201d) and motherhood (\u201cPlump\u201d). The song launches with a metallic guitar riff, reminiscent of more heavier sounding grunge groups like Alice in Chains. On the track, Love looks to the ghosts of her past and the gloom and doom that could await her. \u201cIf I die before I wake\/Just pray for me to fly,\u201d she sings like a prayer on the song\u2019s chorus. \u201cI\u2019ve got a secret or two\/That no eyes can see\/When I get to heaven, save a seat for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Love\u2019s only solo album was 2004\u2019s&nbsp;<em>America\u2019s Sweetheart<\/em>. Hole briefly returned in 2010 to release their fourth album&nbsp;<em>Nobody\u2019s Daughter<\/em>, and Love resumed releasing solo songs in 2013. Her last solo release was tied into her guest appearance on the show&nbsp;<em>Empire<\/em> in 2015.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/courtney-love-mother-song-you-need-to-know-913559\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a scarcity of Courtney Love music since 2010, but just as the decade prepares to close, rock\u2019s wayward daughter has returned. \u201cMother,\u201d which is featured on the soundtrack for upcoming horror film&nbsp;The Turning, is a gothic epic where her smoky rasp shines. Both the film and Love\u2019s contribution to the soundtrack pull [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 22:38:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}