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Courtney Love: "ACTIVISION SMUGLY BOASTING OF RAPE"

Kurt Cobain's widow gets sloppy on Twitter, threatens a lawsuit against Activision over Guitar Hero 5.


this is BANANAS!!Lunchboxes?fucking GUITARHERO?NOTtaking it 
this is BANANAS!!Lunchboxes?fucking GUITARHERO?NOTtaking it 
"and you wonder about Guitar Hero 5 disgusted? welcome to my NIGHTMARE. yeah well sue activision this is disgusting, but theres alot MORE"

That's just one of the tons of messages that Courtney Love has posted on Twitter, and one of several that "discusses" the appearance of her deceased husband, Kurt Cobain, in Activision's Guitar Hero 5. Here's another:

"now theyre just LIQUIDATING kurt and IM THE DEVIL? I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH GUITAR HERO I LOATHE IT AND FIND IT ODIOUS KURT WOULD HAVE TOO"

She also compared the Foo Fighters to Creed and Nickelback in there, somewhere, but let's try to stay focused. Here are a few more:

"ucking nmegafraud and youve got to show for it Kurt LUNCHBOXES< CONVERESE SNEAKERS AND ACTIVISION SMUGLY BOASTING OF RAPE"

"BRAGGING about this insane thing, fucking RECALLL and proper PR on this now. BRAGGING.activision gets DICK!"

"i cannot allow this to stand what next he fucking sings "Borderline" this is BANANAS!!Lunchboxes?fucking GUITARHERO?NOTtaking it"

Love goes on to claim (in her own special way) that her only interaction with the project was a request to see a better-looking avatar, something she says was just a form of dragging her feet on something she had no intention of ever approving. But apparently she isn't the only one with the ability to approve use of Cobain's likeness? We'll have to wait and see if anything concrete develops out of this, but I will say that I can't imagine Activision putting out a game like Guitar Hero 5 without ensuring that it was legally using all of the assets involved. 
 
[UPDATE] Activision has responded to this mess, and in a statement given to Joystiq, states that Love gave permission to use Cobain's likeness in Guitar Hero 5 in a "written statement signed by Courtney Love." Yep, that sounds about right. So, what do you think? Think she didn't realize what she signed, or do you think she's acting faux-outraged now that there's been some uproar surrounding the way the game uses Cobain's likeness? One weird side-effect of all this is that it really makes me want to play some Guitar Hero 5. So I'm going to do that.
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I don't think she is in any  position to be making any reasonable decisions about Kurts likeness. Either Activision side-stepped her or they took advantage of a junky who wasn't fully aware of what she was agree to. I've never liked Love but its hard not to feel sorry for her.

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God damn fucking Courtney Love! Fuck you, fuck you in the face! I hope you fucking do get raped by Activision. Even that is probably to good for Courtney. She is just  after attention using her dead husband like always. This is fucking BANNANAS FUCK YOU IN THE FACE

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i agree completely courtney- this terrible, life is not fair im afraid my dearest - i believe the only way for you to escape this insult is ot go play in traffic, or in a fire, or off the edge off a cliff. 
Please do it- its for the best

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while i agree with courtney that kurt would have hated this, she is going about it totally unprofessionally. i have seen more coherent fanboy rants on topics that are less scathing and at the least, coherent.

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what a cunt.

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inever aproved of GUYITARGERO5 butthis tweets are INSANE AND YOU NEVER.wht is this earth dont get a DICK

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@Jayzilla said:
" while i agree with courtney that kurt would have hated this, she is going about it totally unprofessionally. i have seen more coherent fanboy rants on topics that are less scathing and at the least, coherent. "
I've been in enough forums to feel that this is the extent of how America grasps the english language.  On the same level as Courtney.
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I believe she is fighting the good fight, but she's fighting it like a dumbass.

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She probably did agree to it and is just trying to save face, even though pretty much no one likes her at this point anyway.

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I knew something like this was going to happen, Kurt in GH is just not a good idea

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That hag needs to go back to English school. And she is a depressed old tart

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As I've said before in an earlier post I made. 
 
 Taken from a Rolling Stone article posted in August 8th of this year.  
 

 " Indeed, securing the proper approvals was no small feat. Not only did Cobain’s widow Courtney Love have to sign off on behalf of the estate, so did former drummer Dave Grohl and Primary Wave Publishing, which administers the Nirvana catalog. “There’s a lot of moving parts to something like this,” Riley explains. “But it was about timing, not an issue of resistance. We almost did it for World Tour, but we couldn’t get it together. Then after three years of working with the different parties, it was like the perfect storm.”
Naturally, Love did have some concerns. Namely, Cobain’s physique, Riley reveals. “Courtney supplied us with photos and videos and knew exactly what she wanted Kurt to look like,” he says. “She picked the wardrobe and hair style, which turned out to be the ‘Teen Spirit’ look, then we went back and forth over changes — some subtle, some not so subtle.” In column B? Love’s reference to the Greek God Adonis, whose youthful good looks made the male deity an object of desire. “She certainly had a physical image in mind,” says Riley. “She wanted him to have that sort of athletic definition but not overly so.” And while Love has long had a reputation for being difficult, Riley’s experience was anything but. “She was actually great to work with,” he says. “She got back with comments pretty quickly.” 


So you can deduce two things from that.  
  1. Courtney Love was high/drunk the whole time she was working with the development team and only realized what she has done when she sobered up. 
  2. She is strapped for cash and is looking for more money and this whole issue will likely get resolved  by the two parties having some sort of "out of court" settlement i.e. Activision gave Courtney Love more money. 
  3. She is a complete moron who can't remember shit as a result from years of drug and alcohol abuse and she will end up dying from an OD after confessing to having murdered Kurt Cobain.     
   Well thats three things...LOL  
 
 It's another ploy from her to get more money. She did the same thing when she sued Grohl an Novoselic over the "You Know You're Right" song when they wanted to include it in the box set. Now I hate her more then ever as she made me side with Activision on this matter. She after more money, period. Thats what Cobain is to her, A money train. 
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I really would love to know who has the rights to Kurt's likeness. I really can't imagine him wanting himself in a game like this. He did seem to be against such things... he is dead though, and if he left his likeness in the hands of someone who did this then there is nothing that can be done about it. His image doesn't matter anyways, because he's dead ya know.

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reading her twitter feed is frying my mind.

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This is why GH fails so hard, between this, Johnny Cash, how key members of Metallica and Van Halen are kicked to the curb, and the fact there are still 2-3 more "Hero" games coming out this year.  Rock Band might not be all that different a game, but God damn they at least do it with class and respect to the music.

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 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like? 

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@Kenny:  Valid point. The fact that they are playable and therefore able to be put in these dumb songs is not a good way to run it. 
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if she had problems wtih cobain in the game, tahts fine, but she needs to realize that nobody can take her seriously because of who she is. oh and twitter. 

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Well i played Cash, i played Kurt,
I played guitar until it hurt,
so what, so what, so what so what you boring little fuck
Well who cares, who cares, you do
Who cares, who cares about you
(thought i throw in a bit of Metallica there lol)

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Hey look, Courtney love trying to make easy money off her dead husband, again.

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Can someone post this translated in English ??

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Confused.
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@DukeTogo said:
" This is why GH fails so hard, between this, Johnny Cash, how key members of Metallica and Van Halen are kicked to the curb, and the fact there are still 2-3 more "Hero" games coming out this year.  Rock Band might not be all that different a game, but God damn they at least do it with class and respect to the music. "
They also do it with a fraction of GH's numbers. Running a business isn't about integrity, dude, especially in a recession.
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Creepy as I find Kurt's presence in that game, Courtney Love is far creepier.

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She's just trying to get more money.

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As crazy as Courtney Love is, I strangely agree with her...? That's a weird thing to say.

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Aw someone's sad their career went further down the drain then a dead guys.

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I want some Kurt Cobain Converse. Them shits would be too fly, brother!

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Her Twitter account isn't even verified.

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... she shouldn't of killed him then. :D

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@atrox said:
" Her Twitter account isn't even verified. "
That's because nobody gives a shit about her enough to actually take the time and do so.
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 @Leakster said:

"  Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?  "

well played sir.
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Hey, look! Courtney Love is flipping the fuck out! Who would have imagined?

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I can't really see a problem with it, the rock band games have pre-made avatars that are quite obviously modelled after Cobain with long hair ,stripey sweater and jeans yet nobody bats an eyelid. someone puts a  a nametag on the character and its suddenly the worst thing in the world.  

Love is a dick anyways, she probably signed the rights away anyways.
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She's a little bit late in discovering and bitching about what is going on I think.

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Holy shit, Courtney Love is Jewgypsy/Kingmartin! It all makes sense now.

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@Thejugglingbum said:
" I am a huge Kurt Cobain fan and I was going to buy GH5 even though I knew he was in it. In fact I was a little happy because I thought maybe this would turn younger generations to his music. But when I saw the "Yeeeah Boy!" clip and him dancing I said fuck that. That's just disrespectful. "
nicely put, brother
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try Violet and Old Age
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If Courney hates it they've got to be doing something right.

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@Smarter_Martyr said:
" I want some Kurt Cobain Converse. Them shits would be too fly, brother! "
your avatar made me laugh 
 
 
@CL60 said:
" She's just trying to get more money. "
  
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I think I agree with her.... Ubiquity won't let me translate from whatever language she's using.

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Ah, I am not listening to that crazy bitch.

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@CitizenKane said:
" Courtney Love is still alive? "
it's only a matter of time
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Just because she was his wife doesn't mean she has a say in the use of his likeness. And is it any worse seeing other artists like Johnny Cash? I mean, really: why is this so strange? The guy has been dead for fifteen years. I wonder what the deal with Foo Fighters is, though. Does she have some feud with Dave Grohl? Does Grohl have some say, by any chance, in the use of the Nirvana catalog? Or is she just jealous that Foo Fighters has made Grohl far more popular than when he was with Nirvana, and certainly more popular than her? She is, after all, known more as a druggie who flashes herself naked on stage than for being a musician.

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She needs to worry more about her basic English skills....

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This is why I love idiots.

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I honestly dont see what the big deal is, its up to the player if they want to have Cobain sing non-nirvana songs,  and Activision obviously got permission to use his likeness. although it is weird to have him in the game, its not disrespectful on Activision's part, they just want to pay homage to a "great artist" and make a few extra bucks.  I think the only people you can be mad at are the people who gave them permission in the first place....and i thought that was coutney love...but i guess i am wrong.

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She's like a huge, screaming bundle of crazy. With awful typing skills.
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I want a Kurt Cobain lunchbox! 
 
I wonder if Courtney will sell me one?

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" She also compared the Foo Fighters to Creed and Nickelback in there, somewhere, but let's try to stay focused. "    
 
Go to hell, Courtney. Now. Seriously.
 
 
 
I'm glad she's suing though.