{"id":355898,"date":"2026-03-20T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355898\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:55:09","slug":"even-the-good-girls-will-cry-by-melissa-auf-der-maur-is-a-raw-memoir-of-art-grief-and-reinvention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355898\/","title":{"rendered":"Even the Good Girls Will Cry by Melissa Auf der Maur is a raw memoir of art, grief and reinvention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nShe played bass in two of the scene\u2019s most iconic bands, but her book \u2018Even the Good Girls Will Cry\u2019 focuses more on an artist\u2019s journey than any debauchery\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Melissa Auf der Maur performing in 2004. Photo: Gie Knaeps\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/012dad93-38a8-4d3d-abd3-eae5257322c7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Melissa Auf der Maur performing in 2004. Photo: Gie Knaeps\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Melissa Auf der Maur has little interest in the usual rock\u2019n\u2019roll tell-all. Her memoir is not one that settles scores or provides a catalogue of excess, as per so many rock bios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Nor is the former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist motivated by simply telling a neat tale of going from obscurity to fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She played bass in two of the scene\u2019s most iconic bands, but her book \u2018Even the Good Girls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,280,278,279],"class_list":["post-355898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-meagher","tag-music","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}