Plump

Courtney Love confronts motherhood and bodily disgust on 'Plump', a visceral track that pairs soft instrumentation with lyrics of deliberate ugliness. The song circles around images of consumption and sickness, milk and regurgitation, childhood trauma surfacing in the present tense. Love's voice moves between accusation and confession, the repeated question "Do you fake it for me like I" suggesting a relationship built on performance and mutual deception. The track operates as a kind of anti-lullaby, tender and deeply uncomfortable at once. Where the music stays restrained, the lyrics refuse comfort, yoking together the intimate act of feeding a child with nausea and violation. It is a song about having a baby that makes clear how little having a baby resolves.