Rock Stars Who Look Nothing Like They Did When They Were Young

Love her or hate her, you know exactly who Courtney Love is. You also know exactly what she looks like, as she's sported roughly the same appearance since the '90s: messy blonde hair, lots of lipstick, and provocative fashion designed to make her look like a legal Lolita. Whether she's fronting Hole or performing solo, and whether she's sober or very much not, Courtney Love has almost always looked like Courtney Love.
If you want to see Love in a drastically different light, though, you need to go way back in time, before Hole and long before Kurt Cobain. In the early '80s, Love was a teenager and wannabe actress, looking for her big break. This being the early '80s, she attempted to get people's attention by looking like what was hip at the time. And so, for a spell we had Courtney Love as a new wave pop goddess. Her hair was dark, teased, and pixie-like, she wore loads of makeup (especially eyeliner), and her fashion was absolutely of the time. In the above picture, she's sporting pink tights and a zebra-striped dress, which definitely could've gotten her a gig dancing in the background of a Culture Club music video had she kept it up.
Obviously, she didn't keep it up. As Elle put it, moving to London in the '80s woke her up musically, as she found herself surrounded by rock and roll, particularly punk and goth. The real Courtney Love would soon shine.
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