Do I really need to explain what’s so wrong about this? That rustling sound you hear is Kurt Cobain pirouetting in his grave.
Okay, I actually almost want to see this; it sounds that awful. And then, I look forward to seeing the sequel, which will surely be a dance show based on Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, interpreting through movement the doomed romance of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.
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I’m guessing that, if we peel all of the layers off of this onion, somewhere in the center we will find Courtney Love trying to whore for another dollar.
In any event, here is just another sign of the apocalypse – once again provided the “entertainment” industry.
All we need now is Nirvana night on “American Idol”. I think, at that point, Jesus comes back and commences Judgment Day.
This does bother me a little bit, but not nearly as much as the TV ads for some baseball video game that’s coming out that uses the song “Breed.”
This does bother me a little bit, but not nearly as much as the TV ads for some baseball video game that’s coming out that uses the song “Breed.”
[url]http://2ksports.com/games/mlb2k7/videos/2537[/url]
Sorry for all my extraneous posting, but I’d thought I’d give you a link to the baseball game thing.
http://2ksports.com/games/mlb2k7/videos/2537
I totally agree with Dan!.. At least a dance troupe has a certain amount of dignified art to it. But hearing ‘Breed’ on that commercial for a stupid MLB video game makes me dig my nails into my palms each time.
Kurt saw that coming, and he didn’t want to live to see the day when it happened..
Royale, I was just thinking along those same lines. Every time Kurt seems to be insulted post humously, I instantly assume Courtney “Queen of the Harpies” Love had something to do with it.
You know, I was thinking something similar to that, Victor, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to say it.
I don’t know that Kurt would necessarily be offended by the dance aspect of it, because it does have the artistic quality to it.
But something about it just bothers me personally.
And, yeah, Ep, maybe it’s just my unnatural hatred for her, but I think she is probably behind everything that blasphemes him.
So when Dan mentions “Breed” in the baseball commercial, I’m guessing she signed the rights over to EA Sports or whoever.
At moments like that, it becomes painfully obvious to me that she had no idea what the man she married was really all about. Has to make you wonder why she was there…
Don’t forget Courtney sold a percentage of her controlling interest to a marketing firm. That’s how “Breed” ends up in MLB2k7
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” in a deodorant commercial is just a matter of time.
As a proud, faithful, card-carrying member of Generation-X, I’m feeling like I might want to join Kurt when I start thinking about all that has happened since then.
Where is my gun? Hmm, maybe I will just watch TV and complain instead…
Hold on, Royale, Please!!.. i cant’ be in this world and complain all by myself without you!!
No one has even seen it yet. It’s just a dance interpretation of the music. One art form meeting another. It’s in Seattle, not Disney World.
I feel you, cliff. I’m trepidatious, too, Gary, but it’s just weird-sounding enough that it has potential and I’ll wait to condemn it until after I’m told it sucks.
Kurt might approve of the show if it ends prematurely because the audience joins together, commandeers the stage, and destroys the set. Kind of a tribute through audience participation performance art. Just remember, I’m not sayin’ anything, I’m just sayin’….
As a native Seattleite, I have to interrupt the hand-wringing to provide the reality check that Spectrum is a well-respected local dance troupe. This isn’t Cobain On Ice, folks.
More on Spectrum: http://www.spectrumdance.org/
There’s nothing wrong with the dance troupe!! It’s the MLB video game commercial we have a problem with!! Jeez!!
To your point, Naggs, how freaking soulless does one’s marketing firm have to be to buy a percentage of the rights to Kurt Cobain’s work and then use it in commercials?
Freaking no conscience, huh?
What is the world coming to, I ask you.
This, plus the Aaron Sorkin-penned MUSICAL based on the Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” (the news of which made me want to shoot myself). Whatever happened to a good night of legitimat theatre? Like, you know, “Cats” or something?
Some of you people need to calm down. How is this sooo horrible. A dance troupe using Nevermind is not such a bad idea. It’s not a sell-out, it’s art. Of course I haven’t seen it, and this doesn’t mean I’d like it, just that it’s not blasphemous.
To clarify, I did say that perhaps Kurt would not find it offensive due to it’s artistic value.
I think the uproar started when Dan mentioned Nirvana songs being marketed in commercials now – thanks to the eternal waste Courtney Love.
Either way, I don’t see myself up in Seattle anytime soon, so I don’t suppose it affects me one way or the other.
I do, however, miss Kurt and the GOOD things that he represented. Don’t know why, but I felt like I should add that.
Here’s something to ease your pain, Mr. Susman. Your very own Kurt Cobain Unplugged action figure!
http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=NC43232#LargeImage
I dig what Royale is saying here. Based on interviews,movies and clips of Cobain, he never struck me as the sort of person who really wanted tons of money and fame. He also had a vibe of someone who wasn’t too interested in his music making up ads or being somehow adapted.
Love, on the other hand, was driving up to their house in brand new Mercedes Benzs.
I remember reading a long time ago that Smells Like Teen Spirit was meant to be a statement, but the great irony was that it became loved by the very people it was meant to poke fun of.
Like Royale, I just miss the guy, his music, and the great energy he brought to music. The whole Seattle “scene” seemed to fall apart after he left, along with the fresh sense of rock and roll revolition it once stood for.
I think this idea is kinda queer…but at least Nirvana’s music isn’t being totally forgotten in the wake of emo and all the other crapola that’s out there.
I think Courtney is a fruitcake but I guess I’ve still never totally forgiven Kurt for taking the coward’s way out.
i was wondering if anybody knew the name of the song that is used in a new Sega baseball game commercial. It sounds like Nirvana.