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Poop Cooper
11/05/09

In reply to Gwen Stefani Would Not Sing About Sex with Prostitutes, Suit Claims
I imagine Gwen Stefani sitting at the television, watching someone play as her avatar, hearing Rolling Stones start, seeing her avatar singing in a male's voice, her face stretching aghast as she screams "Nooooooooooo!"

She cries for 20 minutes in the bathroom, her friends asking her what's wrong and thinking they were just going to have a fun party and poke fun at their super-rich and famous friend by making her avatar sing in a funny voice. She wrenches from a fetal position in the tub, "It can't be real! Those aren't my words!"

Somebody in hall quizzically replies, "It doesn't even matter what the lyrics are anyway. If I'm holding the microphone, I can sing whatever I want and your character will lip-sync it."

Stefani yells "YOU CAN'T CONTROL MY WORDS! I AM A WOMAN!" and throws a ceramic Q-tip container at the door, intending to hear a dramatic shatter. Instead, her 3-year-old opens the door and with a thud falls to the ground, Q-tips surrounding his limp body like a chalk outline.

Stefani cradles him in her arms, despite his protesting struggles to get up and just use the toilet.

"DAMN YOU, ACTIVISION!" she screams, party guests glares be damned. "I NEVER SIGNED UP FOR THIS! I NEVER SIGNED UP TO ATTACK MY SON!"

Stefani is now suing Activision for child support. #gwenstefani
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TableNein
11/05/09

In reply to Gwen Stefani Would Not Sing About Sex with Prostitutes, Suit Claims
Meanwhile Tom Morello has filed a similar suit saying that he is not now, nor ever has been a hollaback girl. #gwenstefani
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raincoaster
11/04/09

In reply to Gwen Stefani Would Not Sing About Sex with Prostitutes, Suit Claims
Since when has Gwen Stefani been anything OTHER than a karaoke circus act? #gwenstefani
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Spirit Fingers
11/04/09

In reply to Gwen Stefani Would Not Sing About Sex with Prostitutes, Suit Claims
And I say this with nothing but love, being a huge No Doubt fan....but if you can't handle being in a video game then you never should have signed on.

Video games are not real life. One of the selling points for these things is to customize the avatars. Dress them in feathers and gauntlets, or a chicken costume just because, and yes, dance and sing karaoke. If you want to produce serious music...go on tour. Shoot a video. Release an album. Don't trust your likeness to Toby the "beer pong master '09" and Rutgers Sophomore. #gwenstefani
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bens
11/04/09

In reply to Gwen Stefani Would Not Sing About Sex with Prostitutes, Suit Claims
1994 No Doubt would so totally kick 2009 No Doubt's ass. Then they'd cry themselves to sleep every night knowing what the future holds in store for them. #gwenstefani
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random_play
11/05/09

@bens: Yes! Tragic Kingdom Gwen needs to hop in a time machine and come smack some sense into L.A.M.B. Gwen. #gwenstefani
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DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
11/05/09

@random_play: <3 them, but needed to agree with you on this one. Old School Gwen would even (easily) kick new preppy Adrian's ass. #gwenstefani
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/04/09

In reply to Gwen Stefani Would Not Sing About Sex with Prostitutes, Suit Claims
Why would anyone boast about having sex with a prostitute? It's like wearing someone else's clothing... {shudder} #gwenstefani
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Perhaps Not
11/05/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Someone else with the swine flu's clothing. #gwenstefani
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DahlELama
11/04/09

In reply to Gwen Stefani Would Not Sing About Sex with Prostitutes, Suit Claims
For once, I'm on the side of the celebrities. Who would want someone appropriating their likeness for other people's work? Why should they be portrayed singing other people's songs? If there was a "Commenter Hero" and we OKed the use of our names, I would expect that DahlELama would be commandeered to overshare about TV-watching habits and throw out a few liveblog nicknames; if someone used it to, I don't know, expound upon the awesomeness of Glenn Beck or say something clever like "Slow news day?" I think I'd be pretty pissed. #gwenstefani
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Colander
11/04/09

@DahlELama: First! #gwenstefani
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Cam/ron
09/02/09

In reply to Hey Look, It's Video of Kurt Cobain. In Hell.
Relax, if Kurt lived to see this shite he would've loved it. He insisted that Weird Al Yankovic spoof "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
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Paul_Is_Drunk
09/03/09

@Cam/ron: He insisted nothing. Weird Al asked him if he could do it (like he always does, though Coolio later denied it) and Kurt said it was cool, but "...it's not going to be about food, is it?"

And, seriously? Kurt would have been cool with his personal identity being packaged in a retail game where his digital self does Bon Jovi? Kurt once destroyed half his bassists record collection for having 'shit music' such as the Rolling Stones.

I don't care he's in the game. Fuck it, life goes on. But it is pathetic, ill-fitting, and it's definitely not something he "would've loved."
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Hydroceph
09/02/09

In reply to Hey Look, It's Video of Kurt Cobain. In Hell.
And what of Frances Bean? How must it be for her to have all her friends (assuming her mother hasn't already scared the crap out of them) to load up their video games and see her dead father singing crap Bon Jovi tunes?
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SumanaShako
09/02/09

In reply to Hey Look, It's Video of Kurt Cobain. In Hell.
"Indeed, securing the proper approvals was no small feat. Not only did Cobain’s widow Courtney Love have to sign off on behalf of the estate, so did former drummer Dave Grohl and Primary Wave Publishing, which administers the Nirvana catalog." -- RS article

Ugh.

Anyway, see also: The Alternate History of Kurt Cobain
http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/view/4099512
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Magister
09/02/09

In reply to Hey Look, It's Video of Kurt Cobain. In Hell.
The angel's kinda hot.
I wonder if she's banging the drummer.
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shostakobitch
09/02/09

In reply to Hey Look, It's Video of Kurt Cobain. In Hell.
bro this is tight. also sick: stripped down acoustic version of j. lennon and m.d. chapman doing "borrowed time" - rockin'.
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NerD: Blattella
09/02/09

In reply to Hey Look, It's Video of Kurt Cobain. In Hell.
This shit is not right. I can't believe how painfully bad this is.

I can't believe how angry this is making me.
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DahlELama
09/02/09

In reply to Hey Look, It's Video of Kurt Cobain. In Hell.
As an ardent lover of Kurt Cobain, I'm just going to walk away and pretend this doesn't exist. I'd say that I wish Courtney would rot, but judging by recent pictures, it seems she's two steps ahead on that front.

Also, I wasn't under the impression that Dave Grohl had any real control over the music or Kurt's likeness, but honestly, if he is partially responsible, I don't really begrudge him that; Cobain's suicide could've left him a poor, careerless nobody and it's to Grohl's credit that he started over again and became an even bigger star than before with the Foo Fighters. Doesn't look like Krist Novoselic's been nearly as lucky.
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Hydroceph
09/02/09

@DahlELama: May i join you? We can sit there with our fingers in our ears and blow raspberries at Courtney.
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crookedE
09/02/09

In reply to Hey Look, It's Video of Kurt Cobain. In Hell.
DO.NOT.WANT.
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