Nobody's Daughter

About Nobody's Daughter

Nobody's Daughter is the fourth and final studio album by American alternative rock band Hole, released worldwide on April 27, 2010, through Mercury Records. The album was originally conceived by Hole frontwoman Courtney Love as a solo project titled How Dirty Girls Get Clean, following her poorly received solo debut America's Sweetheart (2004). Much of the material featured on Nobody's Daughter originated from studio sessions for How Dirty Girls Get Clean, which had been conceived in 2006 after a multitude of legal issues, drug addiction, and rehabilitation sentences had left Love "suicidal". Love financed the making of the record herself, which cost nearly two million dollars. In 2009, Love announced that the album would be released under the band name Hole, along with guitarist Micko Larkin, bassist Shawn Dailey and drummer Stu Fisher. It was the first Hole album to be released in twelve years, since 1998's Celebrity Skin, and also the group's first release to not feature Eric Erlandson. Upon its release, Nobody's Daughter received generally mixed reviews from music critics, though Courtney Love stated that she felt it was "the best record she'd ever made". In 2012, Love abandoned the Hole moniker and returned to writing and recording as a solo artist, making Nobody's Daughter the band's final release. The album artwork is a cropped portrait of Marie Antoinette by famed artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun more »