Twitter-Crazed Courtney Love Wants Dave Grohl “Ass-Raped”
Courtney Love did not authorise that Hellish Guitar Hero version of her dead husband that she authorised, for money—it’s all Dave Grohl’s fault and she’s going to sue and she wants a British journalist to rape him.
Earlier this year, Love and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl sold Cobain’s likeness to Activision for use in Guitar Hero. But once it became clear that the game lets people make Cobain sing Bon Jovi songs, puppet-like, Everett True, the Melody Maker writer who mythologised the Seattle scene in the late 1980s and introduced the world to Nirvana, called foul via Twitter:
Love, as you might expect, went crazy, replying that she didn’t authorise the likeness, and colourfully implicating Grohl:
Here’s Rolling Stone, by the way, on Love’s participation in the Activision deal:
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.”
Our sister-site Kotaku confirmed with Activision that Love signed a contract giving the company the right to “use Kurt Cobain’s likeness as a fully playable character in Guitar Hero 5″.
Anyway, Courtney love then unleashed 214 Tweets over a six-hour period—or roughly 1.7 Tweets-per-minute for six hours straight—about True, crystals, Margaret Atwood, and all the people who are out to get her, which is absolutely not the sort of obsessive behaviour that someone under the influence of methamphetamine would exhibit.
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How could Dave have ANYTHING to do with signing off on Kurt’s image???? He has no control over Kurt’s likeness rights because he has no control over Kurt’s estate. That Rolling Stone article that indicates Dave’s sign-off should clarify Dave’s involvement because I guarantee he had nothing to do with Kurt beining in the game – just the music. The only thing Dave has say on is licensing the songs (along with Krist and Courtney) through their partnership.
Courtney loves ripping on Dave for attention, but Dave always plays it right – he ignores her. HOpefully he’ll continue to do that in this case. She lives off of these pointless “celebrity” feuds. She’s a loser.