Courtney Love has shared her thoughts on Geese and revealed that she and Marianne Faithfull “hated being compared to each other”.
The Hole singer, took to Instagram over the weekend to deliver her opinion on the much hyped New York band, saying she was “Geese curious.”
Since the release of the former NME Cover stars‘ third album ‘Getting Killed’, attention around Geese has snowballed resulting in an appearance on Saturday Night Live and a ‘Tiny Desk’ set appearance. Their LP was also voted NME‘s best album of 2025 and awarded five-stars upon its release.
Commenting on the band in a video of herself listening to their music in her home, Love said: “OK, OK. Geese? Geese. I don’t know, I don’t know.”
“My friend Michael totally cuckolded me. I was like, ‘I think this band might be major for us.’ He’s like, ‘I saw Cameron at Carnegie Hall and all of New York is obsessed with him.’ I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I don’t know. I’m out,” she added.
“I feel like their team might be like elder millennial, you know, Brooklyn people? Like, very Girls-y. But who cares? Like, you can’t fake the way he’s singing. Trying to get it; I do. OK. Alright, alright, carry on.”
Elsewhere, Love also spoke about her friendship and comparisons with Marianne Faithfull, who passed away aged 78 last January.
A stalwart of the Swinging London arts and music scene in the 1960s, Faithfull became one of the leading female artists during the British Invasion era.
Over the years, the pair struck up a friendship with Love saying that she first discovered her at an “all-ages gay disco” in Portland, Oregon.
“The two big albums were [David] Bowie’s ‘Scary Monsters’ and [Faithfull’s]’Broken English’,” she told The Times. “There was one song where she said the word ‘c***,’ which I thought was cool as f***.”
Love also remembered being blown away by one of Faithfull’s live performances in 1988.
“I saw Marianne Faithfull sing ‘Times Square’ in New York, 1988,” she explained of the concert that later became the 1990 live album ‘Blazing Away’. “I couldn’t concentrate because Sally Grossman, the woman on the cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Bringing It All Back Home’, was sitting next to me, but anyway here’s this woman who comes back from being ‘ruined’ playing an incredible show with her co-writer Barry Reynolds, who she was clearly having an affair with. And well, it was incredible.”
She went on to say that the two of them “really hated being compared to each other”, adding: “Marianne was an intellectual and I am not.”She read Dante’s Inferno and I like a cheap thrill and a Beatles hook. But I remember her saying, ‘They wanted me broken!’ I know from experience: she’s not wrong.”
Meanwhile, a new documentary about Love, titled Antiheroine, was recently announced as part of the 2026 lineup of the Sundance Film Festival.
The official synopsis for the film reads: “Singer, songwriter, and actor Courtney Love has long had an impact on rock and pop culture. Now sober and set to release new music for the first time in over a decade, Courtney is ready to reveal her story, unfiltered and unapologetic.”
The film will be directed by Edward Lovelace and James Hall, who made the 2014 film The Possibilities Are Endless, which followed singer Edwyn Collins during his recovery from a stroke. It will be produced by Dorothy St. Pictures, the company behind the recent Victoria Beckham Netflix series as well as the 2023 documentary Pamela: A Love Story.
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