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Track List:
1 Celebrity Skin
2 Awful
3 Hit So Hard
4 Malibu
5 Reasons to Be Beautiful
6 Dying
7 Use Once and Destroy
8 Northern Star
9 Boys on the Radio
10 Heaven Tonight
11 Playing Your Song
12 Petals
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Description
xOne of "the most highly-anticipated albums of 1998" (Alternative Press), Celebrity Skin follows up Hole's platinum 1994 DGC debut, Live Through This, named Album of the Year in Rolling Stone, Spin and the Village Voice. Celebrity Skin offers all the irony and brutal honesty of previous albums, but is more diverse than its predecessors, with contemplative ballads, acoustic guitar and string arrangements alongside aggressive rock cuts. 1st single/video: "Celebrity Skin." When last we saw Courtney Love, she was performing on the silver screen and posing for Versace, a far cry from her formative days stumbling across stages wearing ripped thrift-store clothing. But Love's Hollywood transformation is just the latest in her crusade for adoration, whatever the environment. And Celebrity Skin is just the latest manifestation of that obsession. Instead of screaming in rage over a muscular din of power chords, Love sings in a restrained, melodic alto voice; the band matches the euphony with rhythms and hooks that draw from such mainstream acts as Fleetwood Mac, the Go-Go's, and, of course, Smashing Pumpkins, whose frontman, Billy Corgan, co-wrote five songs. What makes Celebrity Skin more than another good rock album, however, is Love's lyrics, which remain confessional and scathing, addressing such topics as physical abuse ("Hit So Hard"), drugs ("Use Once and Destroy"), the music industry ("Awful", "Boys on the Radio"), and her late husband's suicide ("Reasons to Be Beautiful"). If nothing else, Celebrity Skin is proof to all the skeptics that superstars have feelings, too. --Jon Wiederhorn
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