{"id":26835,"date":"2019-01-25T17:45:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T22:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=26835"},"modified":"2019-01-27T05:18:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T10:18:40","slug":"news-roundup-alternative-beef-cancel-chris-brown-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/news-roundup-alternative-beef-cancel-chris-brown-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS ROUNDUP: Alternative Beef, Cancel Chris Brown, and MORE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Courtney Love & Kathleen Hanna have had ongoing beef since the mid ’90s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Can’t We All Just Get Along?<\/h2>\n

Rekindling a decades old beef, Courtney Love had some choice words for Kathleen Hanna following the news that the latter’s riot grrl act Bikini Kill would play a handful of reunion shows in LA and NYC this spring. In the comment thread of a Bust Magazine Instagram post<\/a>\u00a0lamenting the shows’ record sell-out times, Love referred to Bikini Kill as “the biggest\u00a0hoax in rock and roll,\u201d later adding: \u201cTwo of the band total amateurs. Hanna is a good hype man but her persona is such a diy nonsense dilettante. A big idea they cannot convey, because they suck.\u201d Hanna has not responded and Love has since deleted the comments, but her words reminded everyone that these two feminist icons haven’t seen eye to eye since Lollapalooza ’95, when a backstage altercation ended any hope of them uniting to crush the patriarchy. We have a sneaking suspicion that Love’s dislike of Hanna is rooted in jealousy over Hanna’s friendship with Love’s late husband Kurt Cobain (Hanna is credited with inspiring the title of Nirvana’s breakout single, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”). We’re taking Hanna’s side on this one; Love’s comments were petty and we’re impressed Hanna didn’t take the bait.<\/p>\n

The saga between Grimes and Azaelia Banks deepens! Back in August, Banks visited Grimes at the home of Grimes’ then-boyfriend, tech mogul Elon Musk. The two musicians were supposed to collaborate on a single, but in a series of social media posts, Banks described being trapped in the home as Musk did damage control over a tweet where he claimed he planned to take Tesla private at $420 a share. Banks says that Musk was on acid at the time, and postulated that he and Grimes had invited her to Los Angeles for a potential threesome. But because the Securities Exchange Commission sued Musk over the tweet, texts between Grimes and Banks from that time period have been\u00a0subpoenaed, and Banks posted some of the exchange on Instagram; the posts were deleted, but not before someone grabbed screenshots that Jezebel<\/a> was all too happy to repost (and we are all too happy to recommend you go and read immediately). We can’t get down with either going for the low-hanging fruit of insulting one anothers’ appearances, but have to name Azealia Banks the winner of this spat. Maybe it’s all the practice she’s had talking shit to or about damn near everyone on the planet, but we have to give props to the biting specificity of referring to Grimes as a “brittleboned methhead” who smells “like a roll of nickles.”<\/p>\n

And finally, Princess Nokia noted the similarities between her song “Mine” (from her 1992<\/em> mixtape) and recently released Ariana Grande single “7 rings.”\u00a0\u201cAin\u2019t that the lil song I made about brown women and their hair?” she asks in a video posted to Twitter (and since deleted), concluding “Hmmm… sounds about white.\u201d Soulja Boy also chimed in, claiming Grande had ripped off portions of his 2010 hit “Pretty Boy Swag<\/a>.” The opening bars of Grande’s single crib more obviously from The Sound of Music<\/em>‘s “My Favorite Things;” though Julie Andrews has yet to jump on the outrage bandwagon, someone who must be a literal genius\u00a0mashed up all four artists<\/a> and it kinda slaps. While we’re no fan of Grande’s ongoing issues<\/a> with cultural appropriation, we’re calling this beef a draw – there’s nothing new under the sun, especially when it comes to hip-hop samples.<\/p>\n