Idolator: linda perry

Courtney Love Abandons Linda Perry Album

Anthony Miccio — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:30:00 EDT

Courtney Love's been working with Linda Perry on Nobody's Daughter, her second solo album, for almost three years, but word is starting to filter out that she's scrapped everything and will start fresh with her band's guitarist Micko Larrikin, formerly of the British group Larrikin Love (no relation), at the helm. Wasn't Courtney's album supposed to come out on Perry's label, though? Hard to believe Court could go through that much drama and not blog about it. If the rumors are true, a listen to Larrikin Love's music would imply we're in for something a lot more spare and jangly than the former 4 Non Blonde's brand of pop.

Larrikin Love had a couple of singles reminiscent of the Libertines, the Futureheads and the Hoodoo Gurus scrape the bottom of the UK Top 40 in '06 and '07 before the band imploded.

"Happy As Annie"

"Downing Street Kindling"

On the other hand, perhaps Courtney will update her Madonna fixation and take on a British accent.

Courtney Love scraps Perry album [Digital Spy]
Larrikin Love - Happy As Annie [YouTube]
Downing Street Kindling [YouTube]

Linda Perry To Warner Music Group: "What's Up With The Money You Owe Me?"

Maura Johnston — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:45:27 EST

Linda Perry, the former 4 Non Blondes frontwoman who went on to produce songs for Christina Aguilera, Pink, and Gwen Stefani, is suing Warner Music Group for royalties she believes she is owed on James Blunt's Back To Bedlam, which came out on her imprint Custard Records. Perry is suing for royalties on the album—which, according to the suit, has made WMG a cool $100 million—plus $5 million in damages, and she's saying that Warner Music Group "follows the far too familiar scenario involving a large multinational corporate record company which takes advantage of a small, independent production company." For its part, Warner says that it has always compensated the label in accordance with the contract the two parties agreed upon when Perry initially brought Blunt to WMG's attention, which sounds to me like code for "read the fine print, lady." [BBC]

Spreading Around Today's Bad Mood: The Worst Song I Know

jharv — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:15:12 EDT

In my bleaker moments—like say, every time I dwell on the current spluttering state of what we keep hearing from the media is now everyone's favorite "niche" interest, popular music—my best friend will remind me that if I do choose suicide, he will show up at my funeral only to play this song on his accordion*:

After he shouts it directly into my dead face, he will then pass the funeral director a five dollar bill to install a speaker in my coffin so I can be haunted by its yucky yodelling yarl for the rest of eternity, or until the CD player breaks. Sometimes, when I am feeling low and/or drunk, I do like to marinate in its stripey-socked-and-dreadlocked evil, because it reaffirms that keeping on kicking is worth avoiding the alternative. This is not VH1-style secret-ironic-enjoyment. This is some kind of Catholicism-bred penitence for the fuck-ups of my generation; no pleasure can be wrung from it. I know that my feeling this song is the worst is not necessarily a minority opinion among music fans—there are many Google hits from fellow haters also declaring it the "worst song ever" to prove this, as well as the canon-building cable TV list show schlock—but if you do know of something more heinous, I'd almost certainly like to know what it is, if only so I can change my funeral plans.

*Not kidding about the accordion part, either.