her vocals have gone to absolute ****. i think she's done irrevocable damage from smoking five billion cigarettes. i loved her voice on LTT, it was like butta, but this new **** is just like America's Sweetheart- squaky and nasal and she can't even hold a note. any new record she puts out now is just going to suck because of that, no matter the music. and from what i'm hearing it's very coldplay which is yuck.

the lyrics have gone to ****.
and i did have a smantha boner for a short while.

haha, it starts again. she's totally spamming twitter right now.

ontopic: don't know why, but still have the faith that the record will at least turn out good. just listened to this sunset marquise full band version again, and am still blown away.

I know, that song was really brilliant. She really ****ed herself by not releasing those songs.

Well, obviously, I don't know about music as most of you, and I originally joined KR back in 2006 because I wanted to learn from you.

That said, I have been following Hole for a decade, and the cover of LTT pretty much represents what Hole symbolizes to me. I think of the sound of Hole as the sound of a glamorous face with feminine features hiding anger, depression, suicidal thoughts and all of the elements to which Courtney's lyrics typically allude - bitterness, coldness, rage, hysteria and revenge.

I have never cared about Hole musically wise as much as I did lyrically wise - I never cared about which musical style the band embraced - experimental, grunge or pumpkin-like -, as long as the elements to which the lyrics alluded remained intact. The Joan Crawford-based elements.

On a very personal level, what I have seen so far (scattered glass, high hell, pictures of Courtney dressed as a widow/bride and smoking) symbolizes what Hole means to me.