Watch Courtney Love sing Addison Rae’s “saddest song”

Trading Rae's playful tone for a more mellow vocal, Love said the track was the "saddest song"

Courtney Love has shared a cover of Addison Rae ‘s ‘Diet Pepsi’ – check it out below.

The grunge icon took to Instagram to share a plaintive version of the track, taken from Rae’s smash hit debut, 2025’s ‘ Addison ‘. Trading the pop singer’s playful tone for a more mellow vocal, Love said the track was the “saddest song”.

It follows another pop crossover for Love, whose 1994 Hole track ‘Violet’ was recently covered by Slayyyter on triple J’s Like A Version series, prompting praise from Love, who said it was “delightful”.

When NME spoke to Love alongside Michael Stipe back in 1999 , she touched on pop music and breaking the mainstream, saying there was a massive difference between doing it in music as opposed to movies.

“I know how to get clear and embrace the mainstream for a movie,” she said at the time. “I did that once and I did totally OK with it. There’s rules and regulations. You’re just selling the movie. It’s basic. But in music, it’s so much more complex and so much about what I have to say. I’m the director.”

As for Rae, her debut album scored a four-star-review from NME in an entry that read: “On this record, we learn that Rae’s greatest strength is her sensuality. Her silken voice is what sells the steaminess of smash hit ‘Diet Pepsi’, and her soothing coo adds to the aching intimacy of trip-hop-inspired ‘Headphones On’.

It also landed at Number Two in NME ‘s 50 Best Albums of the Year list, where the album was described as “ one of the best pop debuts in recent memory : starry-eyed, enigmatic observations on love, fame and money for an era in need of its hedonistic ethos.”