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"Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love"

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Calling Courtney Love a "loose cannon" isn’t a neutral description; it’s a job title in the celebrity economy. Steven Cojocaru, a red-carpet critic built for quick hits and quotable TV, is praising her less as a person than as reliable content. The line stacks compliments that are really production notes: she’s unscripted, she’s volatile, she’s camera-ready, she delivers.

The subtext is transactional. "She says what she thinks" reads like a virtue, but in the red-carpet context it’s a promise that the interview won’t die in polite nothingness. Awards season runs on controlled glamour and pre-approved narratives; Love’s appeal is that she can puncture that choreography. "Wild on the red carpet" is flattering and disciplining at once: it celebrates unpredictability while framing her as spectacle, a safe kind of danger because it’s happening inside a media corral.

Then Cojocaru lands where he really means to: "best sound bites". That phrase gives away the intent. The value isn’t her insight; it’s her editability. Sound bites are made to be clipped, replayed, meme-ified before memes were called memes, used to juice a segment and move on. Love becomes a human highlight reel, the kind of star who keeps an increasingly self-referential celebrity press from collapsing under its own blandness.

There’s also a gendered edge: “loose cannon” and “wild” have long been codes for women who won’t perform agreeable composure on command. Cojocaru’s admiration is real, but it’s admiration for what her messiness does for the machine.

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Cojocaru, Steven. (2026, January 15). Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/courtney-love-is-a-loose-cannon-she-says-what-she-73993/

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Cojocaru, Steven. "Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/courtney-love-is-a-loose-cannon-she-says-what-she-73993/.

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"Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/courtney-love-is-a-loose-cannon-she-says-what-she-73993/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Steven Cojocaru (born January 5, 1965) is a Critic from Canada.

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