| Hole – Violet Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Also I just want to add that I thought about this a lot before making this post because I'd read that Corgan was back with Love briefly while in the middle of his divorce right after Cobain died. It just seemed to fit considering my own personal experiences around women who have this affliction. It's saying a lot in a very elegantly simple manner if I'm right. | |
| Hole – Violet Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is about her having an affair with Billy Corgan on and off, even while Love was married to Kurt Cobain. And about Courtney Love in my opinion, being an undiagnosed Borderline Personality (BPD) The "Amethyst", "little fish" and "Violet" references are all astrological metaphors about her marriage to Cobain. he's the "sky" because of his infamy and fame at the time. His reputation precedes them both and as a result it's larger than life. Whereas in previous posts there's mentions of old boyfriends and her ex husband being rumored to have told her that she "get's what she wants and then she never wants it again". (On this I can't say, but even if that's true it's just more insight to her personal history and struggles with relationships and intimacy) She dated Corgan right up until she first started seeing Kurt Cobain, this has been stated in numerous interviews by Corgan, who is also batshit crazy, but not so crazy as to embellish this aspect of his personal life. Then she serial dated right into Cobain. I think honestly, the subtext of this is that Courtney Love shows all the signs of an undiagnosed Borderline Personality Disorder which usually revolves around sexual abuse at a young age and serial dating in order to recreate acts of sexual violence with multiple partners. This song is deeply affecting as I've dated women with this disorder and I am also a published songwriter. I think Courtney Love is a polarizing figure who has had a lot of tough breaks, but she also is someone who's needed psychiatric care for most of her life, and this song, more so than any other feels symptomatic of something much deeper and darker than just her being a "bitch", or what have you. I don't want comment on Kurt's suicide / murder theories because I just don't know. I am skeptical that he was alone and that she didn't at least make his life a living hell because Borderline Personalities are manipulative liars who constantly threaten and emotionally damage their partners when they aren't medicated and without a therapeutic outlet. Being married is a birdcage to people with this affliction. And the majority of them are prone to cheat if they are also histrionic or Bi-Polar. (Take your pick with Love) I don't think Cobain wrote this one lyrically though. Nor did Corgan. This came from a rare moment of honesty. The talent she had before she chose to burn her demons out with drugs. (which of course slowly eroded her emotional response systems and serration levels making her far to too numb to write further down the line on her own without producers and co-writers.) Billy Corgan is the guy who will have rough sex with her mimicking abuse to an extent. But he never sticks around long enough for her to get as "Violent" as she is compulsive to want. She fights with him, while he chastises her about her failing marriage. All the while she does feel guilty, she loves her husband and respects him on many levels. But she feels internally that she's a "damaged soul" who can't live up to the prospect of marriage so she ritualized her affairs while kind of lying to herself about why she's doing it in the first place. She says she "gets what she wants and she never wants it again" like the whore she paints herself out to be in her guilt complex of a mind. But really she's not fully aware and maybe never has been that this just reads like a letter pleading for help. |
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