Courtney Love reflects on the “feminine rage” of Hole’s debut album. Hole’s formative first record Pretty on the Inside turned 33 yesterday. Speaking about the album on a Hole fanpage on Instagram, Courtney said, “it can’t be topped lyrically for feminine lyrics, feminine rage,” and that writing the album was her “first time letting go of all sense of proportion, what’s ‘nice.’” The album, which is a pulsing, spellbinding exploration into beauty standards, self-image, sexual assault and self-destructiveness, made an important feminist statement in the 90s, one which still hits as hard three decades on.

[Courtney Love for The Sex Issue, no. 127, April 1994]