Topic: Courtney Love proves yet again that shes crazy

[idolminds]

wat?

She doesn't approve of Kurt Cobains likeness being used in Guitar Hero 5. Activision has responded that she did actually approve, as well as Nirvanas drummer and some other party. Shacknews has a bunch of her Twitter updates...something about lunchboxes?

UPDATE: Link

Nirvana

This is a statement regarding Nirvana, Guitar Hero and the likeness of the late Kurt Cobain.

We want people to know that we are dismayed and very disappointed in the way a facsimile of Kurt is used in the Guitar Hero game.  The name and likeness of Kurt Cobain are the sole property of his estate - we have no control whatsoever in that area.

While we were aware of Kurt's image being used with two Nirvana songs, we didn't know players have the ability to unlock the character. This feature allows the character to be used with any kind of song the player wants.   We urge Activision to do the right thing in "re-locking" Kurt's character so that this won't continue in the future.

It's hard to watch an image of Kurt pantomiming other artists' music alongside cartoon characters.  Kurt Cobain wrote songs that hold a lot of meaning to people all over the world.  We feel he deserves better.

Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl

Activision

Activision is responding to queries regarding the usage of Kurt Cobain's likeness in Guitar Hero 5 with the following statement "Guitar Hero secured the necessary licensing rights from the Cobain estate in a written agreement signed by Courtney Love to use Kurt Cobain's likeness as a fully playable character in Guitar Hero® 5."

Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, the two surviving members of Nirvana, have no say whatsoever in the usage of Kurt Cobain's likeness.

So it appears this is about the Cobain avatar being unlocked so players can play as him playing any other song in the game. Get the fuck over yourselves, please.

[Quemaqua]

I can understand not wanting to see a friend or loved one used in that way.  It probably seems weird and disrespectful to the memory of the real person.  That said... dude was a rock star.  To most people, that means he wasn't really a real person.  He's an icon, a product.  I mean, what do you want?  Eventually you cease to become your own entity and are more or less owned by popular culture, not to mention yanked around like a puppet by your record company.

[idolminds]

[gpw11]

I think the thing here for Love is she probably realized she could have gotten more and most likely fucked up on a crontract.  I think the thing for Grohl and Novoselic (I'm guessing) is that it's something that they think Cobain himself would have been against.  I mean, it does look pretty ridiculous.  That's kind of just how I see this playing out behind the scenes.  That and they still fucking hate her.

[Quemaqua]

Doesn't everyone?

[Pugnate]

hahaha that was pretty funny...

Penny Arcade has done a few good ones recently.

[beo]

i don't think the objection is ridiculous in the slightest. kurt was massively unhappy that his music was churned up by the corporate machine in a way to market products. whether or not you agree with his sentiments, it's pretty fucking clear that this is exactly the kind of thing he hated - and i think that's incredibly disrespectful. reanimating dead people in videogames is creepy enough, but in this case it seems especially wrong.

[sirean_syan]

No matter how you look at the real issue, it's nice that something is giving Guitar Hero some shit.