"Taylor? Not important. Madonna? I don't like her': Courtney Love hits out

Robert Dex Arts Correspondent COURTNEY LOVE says too many female musicians are "all the same" and accused them of making clichéd music as she took aim at stars including Taylor Swift, Madonna and Beyoncé.

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The controversial musician, who shot to fame fronting the alternative rockers Hole, is presenting a BBC Radio series on women in music which she says is an attempt to "redeem some of the women who have been treated so badly by the record industry".

In an interview with Evening Standard editor-in-chief Dylan Jones for ES Magazine, she said: "It's great that there are so many successful women in the music industry, but lots of them are becoming a cliché.

"Now, every successful woman is cloned, so there is just too much music.

They're all the same. If you play something on Spotify, you get bombarded with a lot of stuff that's exactly the same. I mean, I like the idea of Beyoncé doing a country record because it's about black women going into spaces where previously only white women have been allowed, not that I like it much. As a concept, I love it. I just don't like her music."