Courtney Love courts Miley Cyrus

Heading Down Under … Counrtey Love tours Australia for the first time in 15 years next month. Picture: Supplied
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A collaboration between the Twitter BFFs isn’t unlikely if you follow Love’s logic.

She is the last rock heroine standing, a one-woman headline-generator long before Cyrus was born, let alone twerked.

The seeds for a music moment all of us want to happen were planted last year when Love started giving pop’s latest naughty girl props for her outrageous antics on awards stages.

“If it wasn’t for MileyCyrus, 2013 would’ve been a dull dreary year. if you can’t agree with that, you’re an idiot,” Love posted.

As Love gets back to entertainment business with solo tours, a possible Hole reunion next year and a concerted campaign for acting roles, she is open to all possibilities.

“Miley and me, we are just talking about it, we will see,” she says.

“I am not pop but I have a lot of friends on social media and friends who are pop stars. There’s just not a lot of rock’n’roll girls out there, so for whatever reason (pop stars) look up to me.

“And I have a distinctive voice and it might sound cool if it’s the right song. I would work with Miley or Lana (Del Rey).”

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Rock chick … Courtney Love turns 50 this week. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
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Love turns 50 on Wednesday. That milestone is significant not only because it’s one of those big birthdays but, until she became sober about seven years ago, most observers wondered if she would make it.

Now her biggest vice is cheese and Love says she has to give that up too.

“I am 50 this week, that’s just reality and it’s fine. As long as you look all right, you can still perform,” she says.

“If you get really fat or lose all your hair, you can’t just put on a baseball hat like guys can.

“They will forgive you all the drugs in the world but they will never forgive you getting fat.

“I got a little chunky because I love cheese but I have been on a diet.”

Love has had sporadic bit parts in firms since her acclaimed performance in The People Vs Larry Flynt, marked by Hollywood as “trouble” throughout her very public battles with drug addiction both before and after the death of husband Kurt Cobain.

Acclaimed performance … Courtney Love as Althea Leasure in the movie The People vs Larry Flynt. Picture: Supplied.
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In recent months, she has made no secret of the fact she wants to act.

But Love said she had to crack the powerbroker’s code to gain entry back into the film world. She had to impress the lawyers.

“I have to be more proactive. I am friends with all the movie stars but you needs the lawyers; to find the right agent, you have to find the lawyer they are affiliated with. It’s complicated,” she says.

“I am just signing with an agency now and looking at a TV show and a film, an indie film.”

While Suzi Quatro and Joan Jett could rightly protest Love’s assertion that she is rock’s only enduring flagwaver, she is certainly more high profile, again, these days than most of her contemporaries.

The controversial star is being afforded the historic revisionism which most rock stars enjoy the longer they hang around.

While no one will ever forget her tumultuous relationship with Cobain, her estrangement from daughter Frances Bean Cobain during her darkest drug days and the myriad scandals and outbursts, somehow the focus is shifting back to Love the musician.

Courtney Love with daughter Frances Bean Cobain. Picture: AP
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She recently released a well-reviewed power pop punk single You Know My Name and the UK tour in support of the new music was also given the critical thumbs-up.

The revival of 1990s alternative rock on the airwaves has also fostered the discovery of Nirvana, Hole, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam and the era’s other protagonists by rock-hungry teenagers.

“There has been so much pop and rap so hopefully thee will be a market correction. You have 14-year-old kids listening to 90s music and I’m fine with that,” she says.

Her other big moment this year came when she joined her husbands’ former band mates Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic on stage for Nirvana’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.

Everyone enjoyed the kiss and make-up opportunity it offered her and Grohl who have had a fractious relationship since Cobain’s death.

But lurking in the background of her tribute to her late husband was the reality that, whether he lived or died, her music has and probably always will be viewed through the prism of his music.

It is interesting to note when asked if she thinks Hole will ever be invited into the Hall Of Fame that she thinks her future rather than her past will determine that.

“It depends if we get back together and what we put out is worthy of it … my old manager thinks so,” she says.

“Now you want something like that but back in the day it was so cheesy. KISS had to wait 18 years after they were eligible but Nirvana get in the second they were probably because Kurt died. if he didn’t die, maybe not but you can’t really speculate about that.”

Love is looking forward to her August shows here. While she visited Australia a couple of years ago for a private session with motivational guru Anthony Robbins, it has been 15 years since she last played here, headlining Big Day Out with Hole.

“Most Australians are very good-looking,” she says.

*Courtney Love performs at Metro City, Perth on August 13, Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide, August 15, Festival Hall, Melbourne, August 16, Wrest Point, Hobart, August 18, Eatons Hill Hotel, Brisbane, August 20, Panthers, Newcastle, August 22, UC Refectory, Canberra, August 23 and Enmore Theatre, Sydney, August 24.

Originally published as Courtney Love courts Miley Cyrus
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