Today’s episode is brought to you by the letters J, A, C, and K – As in Jack Black, who has slammed Courtney Love’s bizarre ramblings about The Muppets ‘raping’ Kurt Cobain as ‘absurd’.
Last week Love embarked on a bizarre tirade against the popular children’s franchise saying that a cover of Nirvana classic ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ which was made for the recent film reboot, and changed a few words to make it kid friendly, ‘raped’ the memory of her late husband and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
Love also claimed that she owned the Nirvana back catalogue and that Disney who made the film had failed to get her permission – something she was majorly pissed off about.
But it turns out that although Love thinks she has the absolute power to approve or nix the use of Nirvana’s music for commercial purposes, she actually sold those rights to a company called Primary Wave Music and gave them the exclusive right to distribute Nirvana’s entire catalog.
Besides, the surviving members of Nirvana, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, the later of which actually appeared in the film along with a host of other musicians such as Flight Of The Conchords’ Bret McKenzie who won an Oscar for his work, had already given their approval for the cover to go ahead.
Now Jack Black, who appears in the scene that features the song, is biting back at Love’s trash talk telling E! Online at SXSW “I beg to differ. That’s absurd, absurd, absurd.”
“I personally hold no one in higher esteem in the world of rock,” Black claimed. “Kurt Cobain for me is at the top of the pyramid. He was the king…When he died it was sort of the end of rock.”
It wouldn’t be the first time Love has made unsubstantiated claims about Nirvana to the media. She claimed last year that Cobain tried to kill himself three times as a result of over $250 million being stolen from the couple, and also admitted to committing credit card fraud to undermine Dave Grohl.
Her estranged daughter Frances Bean also recently accused her of killing the two family pets – the cat died after getting entangled in piles of fabrics, boxes of paperwork, trash and other possessions accumulated by Love and the dog died after it swallowed a pile of pills Love had left lying around.
