Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love’s daughter Frances Bean Cobain was recently asked at an airport about a bizarre T-Mobile ad that aired during the Super Bowl earlier this month featuring a lullaby version of Nirvana’s “All Apologies.”
The cameraman asked, “Did you hear about All Apologies?”
Frances responded, “I didn’t watch the Super Bowl.”
The cameraman said, “They made All Apologies into a lullaby for a T-Mobile ad.”
Frances shrugged her shoulders in response.
The cameraman asked, “How would your Dad have felt about it?”
Frances shot back, “That’s a terrible question to ask, I have no idea.”
The cameraman then complimented her as she walked away with her boyfriend, musician Matt Cook.
“I loved your voice on Hallelujah by the way. Good job Frances, thank you!”
Watch the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzHkg-_yMt8&feature=youtu.be
A version of Nirvana’s “All Apologies” appeared in a weird T-Mobile Super Bowl commercial earlier this month that featured babies and talked about equal pay and other issues. What does that have to do with cell phones? Who knows!
T-Mobile tweeted, “You got that right! #WeWontStop! You can never go wrong with Nirvana and babies, they make a great combination! ?? *Ashley Lingley.”
“Nirvana will always be great, just like us! ? *AshleyZikorus”
“I know right? Babies and Nirvana are a win/win. ?? WE ARE THE GAME CHANGERS! *AdrianAlbright”
The response on Twitter was very mixed, with one fan even claiming the commercial would make Kurt Cobain puke in his grave.
NBC reported Benjy Sarlin tweeted: “In a Falcons-like collapse, the Dodge MLK ad has been overtaken by the T Mobile baby/Nirvana ad for most insufferable minute of the night.”
I’m Stable tweeted, “Oh my god. Courtney Love sold Nirvana’s music for a #SuperBowl commercial. For a T Mobile commercial. Absolutely disgusting. Cobain is puking in his grave, the same grave Courtney Love put him in.”
“Courtney Love should be expelled from the United States for selling sacred music by Nirvana to T Mobile for a #SuperBowl commercial. I have never been more disgusted in my life. She sold All Apologies to T Mobile. This can’t be the work of @foofighters Dave Grohl. I am sick.”
Molly tweeted, “what, you didn’t know those babies silently smiling at the camera to a lullaby version of a nirvana song, with aspirational social justice narration were advertising t mobile?”
Frank tweeted, “the irony of Nirvana’s ‘All Apologies’ being rehashed to a cutesy jingle for a T Mobile commercial… so thick and rich, you could pour it over pancakes.”
Alice In Chains: The Untold Story author David de Sola tweeted, “Did anybody else find it weird to hear cover of @Nirvana “All Apologies” in a T Mobile commercial? @markyarm @AltNationNet #superbowlcommercials #superbowl.”
Watch the commercial below.
This year, we wanted to use our #SuperBowl airtime to share that @TMobile believes we all started in the same place. We are more alike than different. And we are unstoppable. pic.twitter.com/piNDVYloAN
— John Legere (@JohnLegere) February 5, 2018
