Smells like teen irony

Courtney "Please go away, please" Love says she will not let her late husband's song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" be used in a soap commercial. Yes, that would be a travesty for a song whose tag line started out as the tag line in a deodorant ad. Ms. Love who is famously short of cash has sold  a 25 percent stake in the Nirvana song book to Larry Mestel, the former COO of Virgin Records and current head of Primary Wave Music Publishing, reports Rolling Stone. "We're going to remain very tasteful," the shy and understated Ms. Love told the magazine.

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