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Yesterday, Courtney Love<\/a> posted an Instagram<\/a> video offering some updates on her years-in-the-making next record, which will mark her first new work since Hole<\/a>\u2019s 2010 LP Nobody\u2019s Daughter<\/em><\/a>. In the clip, Love confirmed that the album is \u201cdone,\u201d but revealed some startling context to the long germination time\u2014a mystery 2019 illness that almost killed her.<\/p>\n \u201dI went to England in 2019, and when I went there, my body just exploded,\u201d Love recalled in the clip. \u201cI lost all my hair. I was about 100 pounds. And they told me I was going to die. I didn\u2019t believe them.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Love, her refusal to accept how serious her diagnosis was at the time reflected a childhood habit of \u201cpattern interrupt[ing] the adults,\u201d memories she said influenced her new album. \u201cThey\u2019d say red was blue, and then I\u2019d see blue. But blue was blue. So I\u2019d gaslight myself that maybe they were right, and red was blue\u2026and my head would explode.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI never really lost my ability to see that fucking red was red, despite them telling me that red was blue,\u201c she continued. \u201cAnd so when they said I was going to die, I just didn\u2019t believe them. And somehow I got better. I\u2019m healthy, which is amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n On the album front, Love also thanked a number of collaborators, including Green Day\u2019s Billie Joe Armstrong, Echo and the Bunnymen\u2019s Will Sargent, and R.E.M.\u2019s Michael Stipe. \u201cWhen I made it, i believed this was my last record so I made the record I always wanted to make,\u201d she wrote. Although she didn\u2019t share an official release date or title, she did hint at plans to tour the album, saying: \u201cI want to tour more than anything, and I want to sing. That\u2019s what keeps my soul and body happy.\u201d<\/p>\n Although new music from Love has been scant over the past decade, she has continued to roll out a variety of artistic projects, from her series of Geese covers to her central role in the documentary Antiheroine<\/em><\/a>, which premiered at Sundance in January. \u201cThank you for giving me the grace I need to prepare how to enter the world again,\u201d her post concluded.<\/p>\n Revisit Quinn Moreland\u2019s Sunday Review of Hole\u2019s Celebrity Skin<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n