 - - - - - - - - - - - - - By ~*dANieLLe*~ Celebrity Skin - This song i think Courtney Love wrote about herself. she also sounds very full of herself when she sang it but whether that was intentional or not, i dont know. Courtney also said somewhere that this song is a mockery of the whole hollywood celebrity thing and how *wonderful* it is. *"oh make me over, im all i wanna be, a walking study in demonology"- Ive been made over but there is no changing me. I have seen all the demons, all that is bad and i know all about it. *"When i wake up in my makeup its too early for that dress, wilted and faded somewhere in hollywood, im glad i came here with your pound of flesh, no second billing cos your a star now oh cinderella they arent sluts like you, beautiful gabage, beautiful dresses, can you stand up or will you just fall down?"- superficial beauty. in hollywood things are supposedly so fucking wonderful, that not only is the clothing cool, even their trash is supposedly great. you may look good, but if u cant stand up for yourself you will fall back down. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Tracy Celebrity Skin - To me this is a autobiographical song Courtney wrote about herself (tounge in check) in response to her new found celebrity and her life. She is also telling her fans that she did not sell out, with "oh make me over, i'm all i wanna be ", that although she may have changed her looks and been through some changes, she's still the same person. With "so glad you could make it, yeah you really made it" I see references to her making it into stardom with a sarcastic tone to those who don't respect her. "hey, there's only us left now" sounds like bragging rights to other alternative bands who have failed OR perhaps a reference to her and her baby (maybe both); "when i wake up in my makeup" sounds like she didn't spend the night at home; "it's too early for that dress" reference to her (then) new found fashion status; "wilted and faded somewhere in hollywood" people thought her music career was through after movie success; "i'm glad i came here with your pound of flesh!!" the price she has paid; "no second billing, cos you're a star now /oh cinderella, they aren't sluts like you" although she has earned her star status she doesn't get the respect she deserves; "beautiful garbage, beautiful dresses" change in fashion style; "can you stand up or will you just fall down" was rumored to fall asleep alot because of prescription drug use; "you better watch out for what you wish for /it better be worth it, so much to die for" she has paid her dues; nothing sweet about her job titles: "it's all so sugarless, hooker / waitress / model / actress"; "she's full of poision /she obliterated everything she kissed" blamed for things that happened to others; "you want a part of me, well, i'm not selling cheap, no, i'm not selling cheap" no longer willing to pay 'a pound of flesh' for stardom or sell out. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Laora Palomo Celebrity Skin - This song is being a little cynical about fame. The rise to fame, success and all the trappings that come with that. It even has a reference to being unsuccessful: My name is might have been My name is never was Or falling from success My name's forgotten. Here CLove ponders which situation is worse. Want to be actors go to Hollywood to find a successfulrole. These people end up working four kinds of occupations in Hollywood: Hooker/ waitress/model/actress. At the end of the song I think that Courtney was glad that she would escape some of the forementioned trappings, she writes: I'm so glad I came here with your pound of flesh(ie, with your money). She tells Hollywood that because of the fact that she's already rich she doesn't need to ,like the hookers, the waitresses and the models, sell cheap. I think that she's also gloating to her rock fan critics that with all of the above situations existing just for peoples' want of movie fame that she has no way sold out like she could have done if she had not already have been a rich rock star. This song is how she also justifies her actions. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Starbellyhamster Celebrity Skin - Courtney said in an interview for British TV that CS wasn't a profound song and she wrote it in 20 minutes. It seems the song is CLove's ode to Hollywood and its falsity and the briefness and shallowness of fame. Interestingly she also says that the video idea was based upon a hallucination she had of thousands of Jean Harlowe's hanging on meathooks. Hmmmmmm. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By david Celebrity Skin - This is a song courtney wrote in 1997. this song emphazises the tragedy, glamour, and the whole celebrity experience. "OH MAKE ME OVER" is about her and her kinder whore tranformation to her clowey, versace transformation. she always wanted the glamour of award shows and the fame but later on in the song it turns into chaos. WILTED AND FADED SOMEWHERE IN HOLLYWOOD. she can relate because she wilted into movie screens but faded from rock stardom. I'm GLAD I CAME HERE WITH YOUR POUND OF FLESH. this is how everyone is sometimes real fake in hollywood SO GLAD YOU CAN MAKE IT. this is to show the hippocracy of hollywood. HOOKER, WAITRESS, MODEL, ACTRESS OH JUST GO NAMELESS. here she emphazises that anyone can have their fifteen minutes of fame if you really fight it. WELL I'M NOT SELLING CHEAP. obviously interviews with courtney are not cheapand if you want a half hour with her you better have cash. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Jeff Awful - The song "Awful" by Hole sounds like it would be a bad song. The title is the only inauspicious thing about it though. "Awful" is a song about how life can bring you and everyone else in, without consciously knowing it. It describes the moment when you realize that you have changed from the way you used to be, the way that you liked it, into someone you do not recognize. It considers that we need to adjust these things, and make them even better than before. I also believe that Courtney Love is trying to give some advice through her lyrics. In the line, "Oh just shut up you're only 16," she wants to convey that even though you think you can be young forever, you cannot. Another way it could be interpreted, is that there is always someone older and wiser than you. Either direction, it still expresses that we need to be independent and live our own lives, but realize that youth is not a virtue. If you read further between the lines, you could find that this song was a result of Courtney reflecting on her own personal experiences. Before her sobriety, she lived a troubled rock star life, with several addictions and loved ones who have died. Her song-writing helps her to cope with life. Courtney's whole new image, lifestyle, and issues are addressed in her lyrics. The most obvious issue that I see in this song is her realizing that there were many times when she should have kept her mouth shut. Another topic within this song, would be the chorus. It talks about how the world knows how to corrupt the innocent and take them for all their worth. The only other main relevance that I see within "Awful," is the line beginning with the words, "If the world is so wrong... " This appears to be an interjection on the sanity of the world. It tries to express that if the world is so corrupt, all it takes is one person to notice and try to adjust it. Awful is not really a good representative of the normal Hole sound. Most of their songs have a more alternative rock quality to them than this one. They often have much more pure emotion. By emotion, I mean that you can tell that the songs have come from deep within. There is usually more screaming and abrasiveness which is one of the aspects that identify a Hole song. This song nonetheless has its own purpose though. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By cayuse19 Awful - This whole song is a warning. It's warning girls not to let guys use them, to always make sure you're living your life for you and not just obsessed with getting the guys to like you. Lines like "He's so deep, like dirty water, yeah he's awful" and "He tastes like candy, he's so beautiful" are just cynical remarks on the current tendency for girls to become whatever others want them to be. It's really sick what some girls will do to get attention, they aren't being themselves at all. I think this song follows the tradition of songs like "Drown Soda," it just has a milder, pop sound to add a little cynical touch to the sound of it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Robin Awful - This song is about boy bands and teenage idols and about how they're a waste of money because it's all commercial and teenage girls buy their cd's and waste their money over these people that will never care about them. I heard Courtney talked about it in an interview and she said it was about that. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Anita Awful - I think that this song is about teeny bopper groups and how they've wrecked music [It was punk/it was perfect/now it's awful]. It's also about their fans who think they're really cool when they don't even understand [oh just shut up you're only 16], and about one hit wonders who make money off on song [if the world is so wrong yeah/ you can take it all with one song] meaning that they get remembered for one song they probably didn't even write when other bands are doing all the hard work and getting nowhere. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Dawn Awful - Awful's my favorite song on Celebrity Skin. I think part of it is about how girls esp young girls need to take control and have some power & how great it feels to have that power. ie "Hey run away with the light. Run away it's divine" I think it's also bout how alot of girls are back to the groupie idea & how disposable those type of girls are. "You're lost, oh where's your daddy?" and the lines "and they royalty rate all the girls like you. and they sell it out to the girls like you. to incorporate little girls" And i think courtney shows she was like that too with the lines "i was punk now i'm just stupid" And the end of Awful she's telling those girls that you dont have to accept it that she changed & they can change it too. "If the world is so wrong yeah you can take it all with one song" But i also think there's a reference to Teen Spirit and how it changed the main stream with one song. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Lou Awful - I think that this song is about the way that new bands, esp when it is all male, sleep with their female groupies. Courtney put over the internet about how new bands are pacified with underage girls, so this song is aimed at these girls. She is giving them advice and telling them they are worth more than a cheap shag. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By kt Awful - I wanted to start by saying that I think Jeff's interpretation of "Awful" is very good. I just wanted to make a comment about about part of it. He says that the song doesn't represent the normal Hole sound, I think the choice in the sound of the song was intentional. I think it is a little display of irony. Meaning, the song has many parts talking about the evils of the record industry: "They royalty rate all the girls like you, sell it out to the girls like you, to incorporate little girls." Record companys sell music. The poppier, the sound the better. Courtney Love is saying to the listener, "Watch what you buy. Don't just get it 'cause it's the in thing." So, Hole takes those lyrics, about evil record companys, and puts it to the poppiest music on the album - - - - - - - - - - - - - By amanda Hit So Hard - i think its so dull to just say this song is simply about physical abuse or torture. knowing how layered and intricately courtney writes her lyrics, as is seen on previous works, its obvious this song means so much more than getting smacked around by a boyfriend. the imagery is of this nature, but i think 'hit so hard' is, to me, about getting striked so hard in a emotional sense. or, as it was already said here, in a sexual sense. its seems to me also to give off a description of the narrator and her lover's seclusion in love. how it seems like they are the only 2 people in the world and they feel so alive and ready for anything and madly in love (or, perhaps, lust) with each other that it seems too intense to the viewer/listener of the relationship, and it turn seems violent or masochistic. the violent backbone of the song just, i think, displays the intensity and severity of the relationship. i think the song is sweet, actually. as i said, i don't think its ! about physical abuse, i think its about longing and isolation and aloofness. as a whole poem, i think the song is endearing and has courtney's slightly twisted touch to it, to make it good. the shimmering guitars and angelic background vocal also send a signal that this is a diffrent kind of love song, but a love song nonetheless. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Love-Corgan Hit So Hard - I heard courtney say numerous times that this song is about a great orgasm. if you read the lyrics and think of it that way, its really fun. (for example "i look at him and drown") just think of the lyrics in sexual terms. its funny. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Nicole Hit So Hard - I think this song is about an abusive relationship. It's about a woman who doesn't care what he does to her but she still loves him. She feels his jealousy and violence proves how much he loves her. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By sarah Hit So Hard - okay, correct me if im wrong, but i read in her biography that the way she described her first time using drugs, " they hit me so hard.... I swear i thought i saw god", maybe thats what this song is about, but i've also heard the theory about it being about a great orgasm too. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Fi0na Hit So Hard - I think Hit So Hard is about becoming infatuated with this totally beautiful, perfect guy.. like love at first sight but with more lust mixed in. The line "I look at him and drown" describes the feeling especially well.. it's like you look at the person and this wave of conflicting emotions comes over you and "drowns" you. I think there's a sexual thing to the song as well which to me makes the song like a story of a relationship in Courtney's life based on mostly physical infatuation. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Renee Hit So Hard - I think this song is about kurt. Courtney loved kurt alot and shes says in it "put me up above the boy the one i love i should destroy" that is about him. The bit that made me convinced that it was about him is the part that goes: "he hit so hard, i saw stars he hit so hard, i saw god." That is about how kurt used to hit her. That is the reason she got plaster casts of his hands made. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Abby Hit So Hard - Okay i am going to ignore everything everyone said and go with my instincts I personally think its about being in love, like all the sudden bam "he hit so hard, i saw stars" you are so in love you are blinded. i can completely relate "he can't swim but he can float, one by one, they all fall down, i look at him and drown" you are so amazed by the beauty of it all, you are just so infatuated you drown in it all. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By maude Hit So Hard - I agree with Renee about hit so hard. It's about Kurt. On CS, Courtney uses water to talk about celebrity, I think, and she says "He can't swim but he can float" to talk about the way Kurt had difficulties to manage with celebrity but there has never been shit-talking about him, only about Courtney. The part "He's cold, give him a candycoat". When people die, they're cold. "I look at him and drown": on CS, drowning means being in scandals, you know, when you "drown" in your celebrity and there has been a lot of rumors about Kurt's death. One by one they all fall down" talks about all the Kurt's fans'suicides just after his death. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By ~*dANieLLe*~ Malibu - Malibu to me is about a boy or girl who needs saving. may it be from drugs, alchohol, or even themselves, and there is a figure saying "here, let me help you, i will save you" (im gonna rescue you im gonna set you free tonight) and the figure is telling the person who needs to be saved to just get away from their problems and "fly away to malibu". The figure also tells the person to pray for things to get better (cry to the angels) Malibu also says *"how are you so burnt when youre barely on fire?" why the hell are you so upset if nothing bad has really happened? *"come on be alive again, dont lay down and die" things may be shitty right now but there is a light at the end of the tunnel that you just have to reach. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Dave Malibu - This makes fun of the illusion of happiness in California. It suggests that there's a fine line between becoming a star and commiting suicide - You can go west to Hollywood, but if you keep going just a little further you'll 'walk into the waves' and never be seen again. The lyrics make a brilliant link between what Malibu is in terms of geography, stardom and poetry. It's the edge of America, it's close to the center of showbiz, and the shore is a favourite image of the edge of this (mortal) world. I think it's also about survival at any cost - even buying into banality. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Christopher Malibu - To me, this song is about the perils of rock and roll, Mostly about how Kurt got affected by it, and how courtney wished to save him. One line sticks in my head real good. "How are you so burnt, when you're barely on fire", Before I heard the lyrics, I thought she said " How are you sober with your Belly on fire" which refers to Kurt's heroin abuse, and his chronic stomach pain. The beginning of the song is about Kurt's detoxing e.g."don't lay down and die" But at the end its like he is already gone e.g "As the sun goes down I watch you slip away" This song is a good sequel to "Asking for it". - - - - - - - - - - - - - By ashley Malibu - i think this song is about kurt."come on be alive again" implies she wants kurt to be here again. and she says "i'm gonna rescue you" she wanted to rescue kurt and set him free from all his pain. "i can't be near you the light just radiates" she's saying she wants to be near him but she can't she can't get any closer to kurt and can't do anymore for him. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Christina Efthimiou Malibu - Malibu is about how you always get your heartbroken. Also, you are tired of being hurt and how you have become so desperate. Malibu gives you a sense of hope and comfort. For example the lyric, "Don't lay down and die" really gives you strength to get over that boy. The best lyric is "And I knew love would tear you apart", because love always hurts and not everyone can handle it well. Malibu is a song that can bring love to someone who feels alone. The song can easily bring the glitter back into your life. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By CA Malibu - I believe this song is just a song of self-reflection; looking back on your life and seeing alll the mistakes you've made, wondering "how'd you get so desperate? how'd you stay alive?". It's a beautiful song, and it offers so much hope also. it seems like it's saying that things aren't always as bad as they seem and that even when it life does get overwhelming, don't "lay down and die" - don't just give up, you have to keep going because things almost ALWAYS get better. She also seems to be singing about someone she wanted to save, and in the end she couldn't, she just walked into the waves. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By david Malibu - This song was one of the first songs recorded for celebrity skin. but the only true logic to this song is she mixes in two songs in it, one about the glamour and the beautiful scene of Los angeles or california it self. The other is about the malibu fires of 96 i believe. I possitive this is one song courtney wrote at here beach house in malibu,ca. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Abby Malibu - I think this song is about a relationship in a way. About hollywood and wanting to save that person. It could almost be about Kurt, but i don't really think it is. 'help me please, burn the sorrow from your eyes' is like please, get better, i want to make you happy, don't die, please 'you know what to do, oh baby drive away to malibu' leave hollywood and walk right into the waves to take away your pain 'please don't go any higher' don't get any farther away, please come back 'i'm gonna rescue you, i'm gonna set you free, tonight, baby, pour over me' its like i wanna save you, you can have me, just please come back 'cry to the angels, let them swallow you, go and part the sea, yah, in malibu' the angels can save you, its almost as if she is saying (or from the person she is singing from's prospective) is 'we can walk right into the waves together, we need nothing else 'when the sun goes down, i watch you slip away, when the sun goes down, i walk into the waves' its like, he's gone right into the waves, and i will follow you their 'oh and i knew, love would tear you apart' basically i knew you could never handle this, so lets walk into the waves 'i can't be near you the light just radiates' basically 'you are so beautiful i can't be near you' it almost sounds like it is about kurt to me, you know 'the light' it just blinds her... its such a beautiful and sad song. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Shany Dying - About love that's dying, love fading away. it's not very hard to understand, a person who's fed off of love, is lamenting love, and with it his/her own life is coming to its end. He/she's begging from the object of his/her love to come back and revive the love that's inside her her, like he/she "promised". - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Tracy Dying - Sounds like someone wanted to end their life and promised her they wouldn't. Under your skin -- two references come to mind: drugs that you shoot and sex. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Elisa Dying - This is my favourite one. This song is about love and death. I think it's easy to understand. The more you love someone the more you suffer (because to love is to suffer), the more you suffer the more you secretly wish to die for love. The truth is that love takes everything you have inside and as long you THINK you are loved you don't see that it's leaving you empty and dying. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Danyelle Dying - she got tricked again she was in love shes has been through it all shes fed up everytime she gets hurt or betrayed its kills her a little bit more but she can't help this viscious cycle from redundantcy. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Miss Porcelain Dying - this song is about a last string. courtney has been through shit on top of shit on top of more shit. she's done. she's done pretending. i think this song partly falls in line with kurts death..she looks for someone just like him after he's gone and cant find him, because there will never be another kurt. its an angry song, a cry for help. its her way of saying that she's finally letting go. finally excepting that kurt is gone..... - - - - - - - - - - - - - Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - Page 5 - Page 6 - Page 8 - Page 9 - - - - - - - - - - - - - |