Courtney Love Already Suing "Guitar Hero" Over Wacky Kurt Cobain Character

Of course I had a Nirvana phase.  They’re just a band that does that to you.  Cobain and co. usually get you in mid-to-late high school, when you’re feeling restless and dissatisfied and generally caged in.  The guys had a sense of humor though.  Cobain wrote “I Hate Myself and Want To Die” to poke fun at his media image as a sad sack longhair.  He ultimately kind of ruined the punchline there, but still.  Hard to think he’d be laughing about the new Guitar Hero 5, though, in which he’s a playable avatar.

The game’s career mode has the animated Nirvana frontman sing Bon Jovi’s You Give Love a Bad Name, yell Flava Flav’s catch phrase and do Bush karaoke.

Indeed, why would Kurt Cobain even yell, “FLAVA FLAAAAV!!”?  It just don’t sit right.  So as you might imagine, Courtney Love has been fumbling through pages of phone books, take-out menus, and Dianetics, looking for someone or something to sue over this…  

“For the record this Guitar Hero sh*t is breach of contract on a Bullys part and there will be a proper addressing of this and retraction,” she tweeted. “WE are going to sue the sh*t out of ACtivision we being the Trust the Estate the LLC the various LLCs Cobain Enterprises.”

That could mean any number of things.  Not in the sense that there are any number of conclusions to the lawsuit, but more in the sense that her words and sentences have no fixed referent in the reality of understood communication.

Other characters include Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Tom Petty.  No one wants to hear any of those guys shout the Flava Flav catchphrase.  Why is Flava Flav even in Guitar Hero?  Who’s the real hero here, Activision?

Source: Perez.