'Just Say We're Cool': Courtney Love Looks To Dave Grohl To End Feud

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Courtney Love has stated that she’s moved on from her feud with Dave Grohl, and she’s looking to the Foo Fighters frontman to publicly declare the same.

The pair had a long-running feud, which is thought to have begun in the ‘90s and concluded in 2014.

Love discussed the end of the long-running disagreements with Grohl during a recent interview with Billy Corgan on his podcast, The Magnificent Others, which aired on Wednesday, 1 April. The discussion takes place approximately an hour and 37 minutes into the chat.

The Doll Parts singer called on Grohl to “come out with it and just say we’re cool” while Corgan reflected on past experiences being bad-mouthed in the press, at one point by Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.

“Be man enough to man up,” Love said, claiming that Grohl is “afraid” to “lose [his] audience” by coming out and publicly stating that his past fights with Love were over.

She continued: “It would really behove me if the straight white males that are your base, if you will, stop picking on me. The millennials in particular. Gen Z is not picking on me anymore.”

Corgan responded that in his conversations with Grohl, he could “confirm that Dave doesn’t have any issue” with Love. The Hole singer wants the Everlong star to clear the air in public, though: “Say that to his base. It’s so stupid,” she said.

Love then alleged that Grohl has written “like, four songs” about her, which have become hits.

“I couldn’t write a song about Dave Grohl to save my life,” she said. “He’s written, like, four songs about me, and they’re hits. I’m like, wait, what? Like, what about me? I don’t get it.”

People Magazine notes that the pair’s feud began after Kurt Cobain’s tragic passing in 1994.

I’ll Stick Around, a song on Foo Fighters’ 1995 self-titled debut album, features lyrics written by Grohl that allegedly referred to Love, discussing “pawns” that had been “gagged and bound”. In 2009, he confirmed the song was about Love.

In 1999, Grohl publicly criticised Love’s songwriting during an interview with Howard Stern, to which she responded by calling him a “stupid motherfucker” and alleging that Cobain preferred performing with Hole more than Nirvana.

The pair had previously been embroiled in a legal battle over the rights and royalties to Nirvana’s music, which they eventually settled in 2002. In 2014, it seemed the feud was over when Love and Grohl hugged upon Nirvana’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.