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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Sian Cain

Kim Gordon: ‘My most controversial pop culture opinion? I’m not really a fan of Taylor Swift’

Musician Kim Gordon at home in Los Angeles
‘Tasmania was one of the most interesting, beautiful, pure-feeling places I have ever been’ … Kim Gordon. Photograph: Pat Martin/The Observer

Your name always comes up whenever we ask any female musicians about their influences. Is there a Kim Gordon for Kim Gordon?

I never aspired to be a musician, so in that way, no. As a teenager, I listened to Billie Holiday and Joni Mitchell but I never actually thought it was possible to become a musician. I didn’t study or know anything about music. There are certainly artists, but not necessarily female artists, who I was influenced by – artists like Lucio Fontana or Yves Klein, even Andy Warhol.

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