Most of the outrage, though, has been over Cobain’s avatar (I guess Cash’s devotees are less likely to be gamers). You could, for example have a band of four Johnny Cashes playing a rock remix of a Public Enemy song as if they were Chuck D and Flava Flav themselves. The video comes from the newly-released game Guitar Hero 5, which boasts among its many features the ability to unlock not only Cobain but Johnny Cash, Carlos Santana, Matthew Bellamy (Muse) and Shirley Manson (Garbage) as “fully-playable characters.” That means unlike in previous Guitar Hero games – where guests would only perform on their own songs – any one of these famous musicians can be used to play any instrument on any one of the game’s 85 tracks. ![]() ![]() It’s a video that doesn’t just trip and fall into the uncanny valley – it dives in head-first. ![]() Out of context, it’s one of the strangest viral videos going right now: a digital avatar of Kurt Cobain not only singing tracks from Billy Idol, Bon Jovi, Rammstein and Public Enemy, but outright performing them with gangster poses, joyous twirls and microphone-stand moves.
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