• Thu, Mar 15 2012

Courtney Love Accuses The Muppets Of Rape

Thank you, TMZ, for putting together this great photo.

Along with Johnny Depp and Kristen Stewart, Courtney Love joins an elite club of famous people who are so divorced from reality that they describe minor annoyances and everyday inconvenience as “rape.” Unlike Depp and Stewart, however, we don’t really anticipate Love will apologize.

Anyway: we haven’t seen the new Muppets movie (we heard mixed things!) but apparently Kermit and the gang perform Nirvana‘s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” at some point. Courtney Love is furious about this, so furious in fact that she said the Muppets have “raped” Kurt Cobain‘s memory or legacy or body or something (it probably wasn’t “rape rape,” though). Love claims to have absolute power over the use of Nirvana’s music for commercial purposes, and she never approved of this usage.

Of course, Love’s probably angry about money. She’s long sold off much of her rights to the Nirvana catalog to a company called Primary Wave. …Who did approve of the use of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in the movie. What’s more, surviving Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic not only gave their permission, but Grohl apparently appears in the film.

TMZ says some profits will still end up going to Courtney. In the meantime, we suggest she spend 10 seconds reading about what rape means.

(TMZ)

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  • Lisa

    Kinda like how she ‘raped’ his journal to capitalize on it

  • Holden

    Or when she auctioned off all his personal belongings? “Items for sale include guitars, clothing, poetry and snippets of the late singer’s hair.” No evidence any of the puported millions went to charity.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-452499/Kurt-Cobains-treasures-to-billionaire-bidder-says-Courtney-Love.html

  • mf

    I’m sorry, but, as a rape survivor I had absolutely no problem with Johnny Depp’s statements or Kristine Stewart’s. The only problem I have with this is that it’s Courtney Love vs. the muppets. She’s just ridiculous. But honestly – people are way too uptight about this. And I’m saying this as a rape victim. 1 in 4 people get raped. 1 an 4 people have to be offended every time someone uses the word in another context? The word “rape” is a word. I don’t care if people use it to describe how they have felt personally taken advantage of or psychologically “abused.” Freaking out about it and making it sooooo taboo is a bigger problem. It also makes rape victims look like whiny little victims who cry about their attack every day and night and have flashbacks anytime someone mentions the word “rape” and never move on. And some people do. Frankly I know some “rape” victims who refuse to seek help, and seem to absolutely LOVE the attention they get in a social setting when someone says “rape” in a different context and they curl up in a little ball and start crying and everyone asks why. THAT is something that completely devalues what I went through and came out of. Not the silly little word.

  • vomiting

    Are you really so shocked by this? What did you make of the Nirvana song ‘Rape Me’? Courtney is no better than Kurt, big news.