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Courtney Love wants Simon Cowell’s X-Factor contestant Janet Devlin to sing a Nirvana song on the show. 

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Courtney Love has been known to be extremely protective over her deceased husband Kurt Cobain’s estate, which involves all his music from Nirvana, which she also controls. 

Courtney tweeted to Simon Cowell asking him if he wanted to use a few Nirvana songs for X-Factor. Courtney tweeted “@SimonCowell you want some Nirvana songs? @JanetJealousy is from same town as Kurt? I have the perfect idea for that, call me babe.”

Spin Reports

A campaign is underway pitting Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” whoever wins The X Factor for Britain’s coveted “Christmas No. 1” single. But what if U.K. music fans didn’t have to choose? That seemingly far-fetched idea moved one step closer to the realm of the somewhat-plausible on November 24, when Courtney Love offered up a Nirvana song to the U.K. TV talent show.

London tabloid The Sun reports that The X Factor‘s producers were “stunned” by Love’s offer, given not only the usual difficulty of clearing songs for the show but also Love’s notoriously tight rein over Nirvana’s songs, which she has controlled since Cobain’s tragic 1994 suicide.

And Love doesn’t look to be letting The X Factor pick and choose from Nirvana’s hits: In a tweet on November 26, she singled out Nevermind‘s “In Bloom,” a song that could be interpreted as taking aim at casual listeners such as those in a TV show audience. She wrote: “@JanetJealousy @simoncowell i know it when i see it, but id want to have a hand in it, in bloom is the song, nothing else.”

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Everyone loves Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, so hopefully we’ll see a X-Factor Nirvana collaboration very soon!

SOURCE: SPIN