Courtney Love Plans “To Sue The Sh*t Out Of Activision”
Wake Up Courtney! Time To Go To Court!
Courtney Love.
Just the name conjures up the feeling of Ewww.
Courtney has her knickers in a bunch (when are they not in a bunch?) over the way Activision used ex hubby Kurt Cobain’s image in Guitar Hero 5.
The agreement was to supposedly have Cobain sing only two songs in the game, which of couse incuded “Smells Like Teen Spirit“. But Cobain’s character in the game is an unlockable character.
Cobain Ala Activision
For all you non gamers out there, an unlockable character means the gamer can make the image do other things. Like sing other performer’s songs.
So Love and former Nirvana band mates, David Grohl and Krist Novoselic, were not too tickled when they found out that Cobain is singing songs by Jon Bon Jovi and Bush in the game. (the band Bush that is, not Dubya, although that would be a riot)
Ex Nirvana band members were quoted about their dismay:
“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,” they said.
“This feature allows the character to be used with any kind of song the layer wants. We urge Activision to do the right thing in ‘re-locking’ Kurt’s character so that this won’t continue in the future.”
Courtney called the avatar “vile” and “necrophilic” and Twittered:
” This Guitar Hero shit is breach of contract. I think Kurt would despise this game alone let alone this avatar.. We are going to sue the shit out of Activison”
When it comes to vile and necrophilic. Ms Love takes the cake.
We all know how vile she can be. And someone would have to be into necrophilia to be attracted to her these days.
As of late, Love has been looking mighty bad. The recent photo below, shows her beyond scrawny and way up there on the “Ewwww” scale.
Love Looking Like Death Warmed Over
I think it’s pretty cool that Activision agreed to include Cobain in their game at all. Love and ex band members should be thankful that Activision is keeping his memory and Nirvana’s music alive.
The ex band members are asking Activision to come up with a patch, so Cobain’s character stays locked. Fair enough, but a computer geek friend told me it can’t be done once the game is out. Don’t know if this is totally correct.
Love has her lawyer, Keith A. Finch on the case and he seems to think she indeed has a case.
Finch said,
“Activision was not given an unbridled right to use Kurt Cobain’s name and likeness. As for Cobain, his journals suggest that he’d be less than pleased about a game that shows him belting out “You Give Love A Bad Name”.
Writing about Bon Jovi in the late 1980’s, he issued a one word review: Evil.”
Well, I am not a fan of Bon Jovi myself, but I think the word evil to describe them is a bit silly and over the top. I am sure if Cobain was still alive today, I think his opinion would have matured a bit.
Besides, Nirvana was nothing to write home about. Nirvana themselves weren’t some ultra fabulous band. They were nothing more than a 90’s garage grunge band that literally “stepped in it”. And don’t even get me started on Love’s band “Hole”.
But hey, that’s my taste. Obviously if Nirvana sold over twenty-five million albums in the US, and over fifty million worldwide, they were very much admired.
But why some people continue to think that Cobain was some sort of iconic rock God is beyond me. He was a junkie who had a very short career, a raspy nothing voice and he had an average band. He met Love in 1990, they got married in 1992, and Cobain shot himself in 1994. (supposed self inflicted gun shot wound)
Many people blame Love for Cobain’s untimely demise. I guess we will never actually know the truth.
If you are driving around Aberdeen, Washington, you will see a sign which reads, “Welcome To Aberdeen Come As You Are”, which was purchased by the Kurt Cobain Memorial Committee back in 2004 as a tribute to Cobain. If you are not famaliar with Nirvana’s music… “Come As You Are” is of course one of their songs.
Let’s also not forget that Love and Cobain had a daughter, Francis Bean. I am sure her life has been far from enchanted due to her father’s death and her whacked out mother.
So back to the lawsuit…
Ms. Love is not a stranger to lawsuits by any means. That is, people suing HER of course.
She was recently sued this past May by American Express for not paying $350,000 in charges. (gee I thought my card was bad)
Contactmusic.com wrote:
COURTNEY LOVE is facing a legal battle with American Express over the credit card company’s claims she has racked up more than $350,000 (£233,000) in unpaid charges.
The firm filed suit against Love in the U.S. District Court on Wednesday (27May09), demanding the rocker pay off the staggering debt on her Gold card.The former Hole frontwoman had her plastic privileges suspended after she “failed and refused” to clear the balance, according to the lawsuit.
Love has been continuously struggling with her finances in recent years – it emerged in April (09) she had hired a team of private investigators to reclaim the millions of dollars she alleged were stolen from her late husband Kurt Cobain’s estate.
And just last year (08), Love was sued for $1 million (£667,000) by London & Co., an accounting firm which charged the star had failed to pay them profits from the sale of Cobain’s share of the Nirvana publishing catalogue.
A spokesperson for Love was unavailable for comment as WENN went to press.
Well, isn’t that interesting? She has two huge companies suing her.
Doesn’t stop there…
She also is being sued by her former body guard for $60,000.
TMZ wrote:
It costs a lot of money to keep the world safe from Courtney Love – her former bodyguards say she stiffed them out of $60,000 this year.
Screen International Security Services filed a lawsuit today in L.A. County Superior Court, claiming they provided “security services, in connection with the protection of Love, her family members, and her property” between April and August of this year.
SISS says Love never paid a penny for services rendered — totaling $58,222.50 — and are suing for the full amount plus interest.
Love’s attorney just sent us the following statement:
“This lawsuit should be placed in the Wikipedia page next to chutzpah. It has no merit and is based on a private security company’s attempt to fleece a celebrity.
SISS is claiming it is owed money for providing around the clock security for Ms. Cobain and her daughter at the St. Ives home for a period of time she and her daughter were NOT living at that home but were living at the Chateau Marmont. SISS has no written agreement with Ms Cobain to support their claim and on its face it is ludicrous.”
SISS was paid a substantial sum for the “service” it provided while they were living at that home. Despite knowing that Ms. Cobain and her daughter had moved out of the home they continued to provide security to an empty home by having someone sit in a car all day eating a ham sandwich while the Cobains were residing miles away!!!
AND her snarkiness doesn’t end there.
In 2007, Love was also quoted as saying,
“I’m going to have a Christie’s auction,” to hock the bulk of Cobain’s belongings with a portion going to charity.”
I don’t know if this auction ever took place, I couldn’t find anything else about it.”
So do you think Love is really upset over this whole Guitar Hero thang? Or is she looking for some quick cash in all the wrong places? (see what I did there?)
Her lawsuit with Activision is starting to “smell like ”GLEAN” spirit to me”. *snicker*
Seems to me, that she has been living off Kurt’s fame and money for years, and doesn’t plan on stopping.
The lyrics from her song, “Celebrity” say it all.
“Use Once and Destroy“.
Now don’t get me wrong. I am all for performers getting credit where credit is due. And if there is a huge copyright issue, then it should be dealt with.
I think Cobain being included in Guitar Hero 5 was a compliment and an honor to both Cobain and the remaining members of Nirvana. And now Cobain will be forever immortalized in the gaming world. If gamers want to be more respectful, I guess they can always choose for Cobain to only sing the two songs by Nirvana. Easy solution. Those who don’t care, will have him wailing Bon Jovi.
As far as Courtney Love?
What about your daughter Francis Bean Courtney?
Doesn’t she deserve better?
Clean up your act and grow up woman.
And for God’s sakes, wash your hands and clean those damn fingernails!
Love’s Fingernails Looks Like She Clawed Her Way Out Of A “Hole”
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if activision wasn’t clear on their intent re: using his likeness, i hope that his estate can get their moneys worth out of them, or at the very least that this will make other artists think twice before licensing their songs to activision for future games.
i’m not saying that kurt cobain was a saint, but i mean, apparently how he viewed the music industry (coupled with his drug use and mental illness) obviously played a part in his committing suicide….and to have a game where you can essentially turn his corpse into a puppet seems like the epitome of what he was talking about.
it sucks because on the other end of the spectrum you’ve got harmonix’s Rock Band: Beatles edition, where two of the members of the band are dead, and yet the whole game is handled so tastefully. seriously, if you are at all into videogames or the Beatles it is so worth checking out.
all that said, i have a hard time believing that the people in charge of cobain’s estate didn’t see this coming. more than likely it’s a response to retard fans (like myself) whose first inclination was to unlock kurt’s avatar, make it sing some horribly inappropriate song, and then go bitch on the internet about how inappropriate it is.
Comment by bb — October 13, 2009 @ 10:43 am
Well they do have a case if there was actually a contract which laid out how his image would be used. As far as correcting the issue it is actually quite easy to accomplish since many games require you to update before you can login to your online account ie: Xbox Live. They could simply put out a patch and people would be forced to update it. And as far as Courtney calling his avatar “vile” and “necrophilic” she was obviously just projecting because those two words describe her new style to a T.
Comment by James — October 13, 2009 @ 10:46 am
In the early 80s Courtney Love introduced my best friend to heroin. He then quickly dropped me and his other real friends to run around with Courtney and be a junkie full time. Courtney is a vampire, just sayin.
Comment by Kurt Gobang — October 13, 2009 @ 2:52 pm
It’s “Smells like TEEN spirit.” You guys must be really old.
Comment by Dirk — October 13, 2009 @ 5:29 pm
Dirk,
it was a typo you whippersnapper! lol
thanks for the heads up
Comment by Queen — October 13, 2009 @ 5:51 pm
if you cant see the massive difference between nirvana and bonjovi, then like most people you obviously don’t have a clue what kurt was about.
his lyrics and music reflected his life, what life is like for millions of people who arent ’shiny sheep people’ like yourself. try reading some lyrics, try understanding someone who’s life isnt as ‘good’ as yours.
Comment by Mk — October 13, 2009 @ 7:23 pm
Hey MK, where does my article project that I can’t see the diffference between Bon Jovi or Cobain?
I am a fan of neither.
You say that Cobain’s lyrics reflected his life. Duh!
Wow how inventive.
And you say I am a “shiny person”? lol?
I have read his dreary lyrics… they ain’t that complicated or deep…. and they ain’t nothing special. Sorry.
And you are saying I should try to understand his lyrics more because his life was not as good as mine? He was a HELL of a lot richer than me.
And besides, you don’t know my life.
I love all these people who are such experts on Cobain’s life.
Like I said in my article, he had an average band and he had an average voice, and he was an unfortunate junkie that killed himself.
Not very cool, especially when you have a daughter.
Stop making him out to be a God.
I think he really would of have hated that~
But then again, you should know that he would of hated that. Right?
Comment by Queen — October 13, 2009 @ 8:10 pm
Have you seen pics of his daughter? She looks EXACTLY like Kurt. It’s quite eerie.
Personally I’m a huge Nirvana/Cobain fan, but different strokes.
Oh, and is being called ’shiny’ a good thing, or a bad thing? Just curious.
Comment by Rachel — October 13, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
Personally, I think Bon Jovi should be insulted. But he’s too nice a guy.
Comment by dreamchild — October 14, 2009 @ 11:34 am
Hey Rachel!
Always good to hear from you.
I would say being called “shiny” is NOT a good thing. LOL!
Comment by Queen — October 14, 2009 @ 1:40 pm
Queen, I like most of your posts because they are insightful and usually funny, but let’s give credit where credit is due. If Kurt Cobain and Nirvana were able to define an era in rock ‘n roll history, is because they definitely had what it takes. Yes, he wasn’t what you could call the perfect role model, and was, without a doubt, a junkie, but seriously, most rockstars have done drugs at some point in their lives. Jim Morrison is another rockstar who used to have a very wild lifestyle, yet does that makes listening to The Doors less enjoyable? I think not, at least to me anyway. If you don’t like Nirvana, fine with me, not everyone likes the same stuff, but I think he still worked hard for his status as a rock icon and he earned it rightly. As for Courtney, well, this is hardly surprising, pimping her dead husband is the only thing she knows how to do to make a living.
Comment by Leah — October 15, 2009 @ 3:44 pm
Thanks Leah…
a quote from my article:
“But hey, that’s my taste. Obviously if Nirvana sold over twenty-five million albums in the US, and over fifty million worldwide, they were very much admired.”
I did give credit, even though I never liked them.
Comment by Queen — October 15, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
queen-
why is your name queen? lol sorry…just had to know. and also people are fucking retards. why are you trying to fight with them? It’s pretty easy to tell your more educated than most of them. Plus you share the same views as me. This game should be something that the band admires. You have to be pretty good to get into an xbox game. I too am not a fan of Nirvana or bon faget
Comment by Tom — October 16, 2009 @ 12:06 am
i spelled fag wrong.. w.e.
Comment by Tom — October 16, 2009 @ 12:07 am
Tom,
The name Queen is a nickname. It was given to me by a friend as a joke.
Comment by Queen — October 16, 2009 @ 11:49 am
well i guess cobain is just like all the other so called dead legends, only made imfamous through death.
Do you really think Nirvana would have sold as many records if the junkie neurotic crusty were still alive, me thinks NO. Infact i strongly believe that it was the mind numbing lyrics and mono-tone music that accompanied it that eventually drove the narco-head to look down at his shiny gun and think,”FU*K IT, i cant take anymore of this crap music”!
Comment by fr.ted — October 19, 2009 @ 4:41 pm
Oh, and as for Courtney Love, maybe if she had a bath and cleaned herself up a bit she might just find herself another short-sighted meal ticket.
Comment by fr.ted — October 19, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
This is so perfettic , why don’t you just leave that poor Courtney alone? i really dont get it why your making fun of her anyway? If you think she’s so ‘EEEWWWW’ then please tell me why te fuck you are wasting al your time on an article like this . Your such a fucking loser
Comment by Genius — October 29, 2009 @ 3:03 pm
“perfettic”?
Seems like “Genius” needs to spend a little bit more time with his (or her) head in the books, rather than defending trash.
And I thought my typos and grammer were bad! Yikes!
Comment by Queen — October 29, 2009 @ 6:10 pm