Nobody's Daughter

Nobody's Daughter is the fourth and final album by American rock band Hole. Billy Corgan is credited as co-writing "Pacific Coast Highway", "Samantha", "Loser Dust" and "How Dirty Girls Get Clean". The album debuted at number 15 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling approximately 22,000 copies in its first week in the United States. By its third week of release it had sold 33,000 copies in total.

Background
The album was initially conceived as a solo project and followup to Courtney Love's debut solo record, America's Sweetheart (2004). At the urging of her friend and former producer Linda Perry, Love began writing material while in a lockdown rehabilitation center in 2005 following a protracted cocaine addiction and numerous related legal troubles.

Shortly after her release from rehab in November 2005, Love entered the studio and recorded a series of demos with Perry producing and Corgan arranging, which she dubbed The Rehab Tapes. This took initially took at The Village Recorder, the same studio where 1995's Mellon Collie was mixed, and where "Age of Innocence" and the drums for Monuments to an Elegy were recorded. Corgan contributed guitar during these sessions, some of which did not make the final album, such as on "Samantha" where Corgan's part was replaced with a cello.

On April 29, 2006, Love made a surprise appearance at a Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center benefit with Corgan and Perry, where she performed acoustic versions of the new songs "Sunset Marquis" and "Pacific Coast Highway".

In May 2008, after several attempts at recording the album with Corgan and Perry failed to reach fruition, Love announced she was planning to scrap the record and begin reshaping it with guitarist Micko Larkin, who had joined her backing band. By late 2009, recording had concluded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City.

Critical reception
Nobody's Daughter received generally mixed reviews from music critics. Petra Davis of The Quietus noted that, as with Love's previous works, Nobody's Daughter "habitually contests notions of family," adding that the record overall is "perceptibly the product of two distinct song cycles: one immediately post-rehab, … [the other a] product of more active collaboration, largely with Larkin and Billy Corgan." BBC Music alternately praised the album "rich and emotionally searing," while Billboard noted that "Love sounds as self-assured as ever, sliding over syllables and hitting the emotional high notes".