Kurt Cobain’s name used in vain?
Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Hot Momma
Fans of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain are angry at the news that footwear firm Converse will sell a specially-designed trainer to “honor” him. Fans feel selling his name on a shoe goes against everything that Cobain meant and stood for.
The limited edition Converse shoe will bear Cobain’s name, lyrics, writing and signature to mark the brand’s 100th anniversary, according to Brand Republic.
Unlike a Doc Martin’s campaign featuring Kurt Cobain last year, Cobain’s widow Courtney Love has sanctioned the new line, bless her twisted soul.
The Cobain shoe is part of the trainer brand’s birthday celebrations, which have featured a number of other dead people. These have included Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, writer Hunter S Thompson and the Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious.
An outcry of fans hearing this news have posted on music site NME.com, with comments such as:
“This is disgusting, exploitative and goes against everything these artists stood for. Kurt Cobain should be remembered as a talented musician, not a brand.”
Another said: “This idea is more about boosting the brand image of Converse. This has nothing to do whatsoever with music. It goes against everything Nirvana, Joy Division and the Pistols stood for. It’s simply corporate, marketed b*****ks.”
For me this is quite a shame but ranks only second to the news that Courtney Love is the executive producer of the $60 million movie ‘Heavier Than Heaven’ based on Charles Cross’s biography of Cobain. The book was criticized as being a collaboration between Love and Cross by such friends as Everett True, who derided the writing as being inaccurate, omissive, and highly biased, calling it “the Courtney-sanctioned version of history.
So far Love, has asked actor Ryan Gosling to play her late husband Kurt Cobain and Scarlett Johansson to portray herself. Courtney can do what she wants but I think most fans would like to see an honest potrayal of Cobain’s life, not the fantasy she’s created in her mind.
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