PHOTOGRAPHER ELLEN VON UNWERTH HELPED COURTNEY LOVE RE-ENACT SCENE FROM 'CARRIE' FOR 1994 ALBUM COVER
It's all so silly, but as this article in Entertainment Weekly details, a few days ago Courtney Love used social media to passively-aggressively accuse singer/songwriter Olivia Rodrigo of supposedly "copying" the cover photo of Hole's 1994 album Live Through This. The Rodrigo photo in question is a promo for a film titled Sour Prom, which will premiere on Rodrigo's YouTube channel this Tuesday (June 29). In the fallout of comments that followed, Love vehemently denied that her own initial inspiration for the 1994 photo was the famous prom scene in Brian De Palma's Carrie, but Entertainment Weekly's Rosy Cordero pulls a quote from a 2019 oral history about the album cover in Another Magazine in which photographer Ellen von unwerth states flat out that "Courtney had the idea of re-enacting the scene of the movie Carrie, which I loved, too."