

Floating Babies What The Story Behind Nirvana39s Quotnevermindquot Cover Shoot Album Covers Music. The lawsuit filing also has other shocking claims to assert, including that photographer Kirk Weddle, who was a friend of Elden's father, wanted to "trigger a visceral sexual response from the viewer" so he "activated Spencer’s ‘gag reflex’ before throwing him underwater in poses highlighting and emphasizing Spencer’s exposed genitals." In addition, the suit contends that Nirvana's late frontman, Kurt Cobain, specifically chose the image because it was like a “sex worker grabbing for a dollar bill. Here is just the font that I played around with. Nevermind Nirvana Photo Background Wallpapers Images. Apparently, his parents never signed a release for his photo to be used in such a manner, and the filing notes that Elden never received payment, though his father told NPR in 2008 that the parents were paid $200. knowingly produced, possessed, and advertised commercial child pornography depicting Spencer, and they knowingly received value in exchange for doing so…Despite this knowledge, defendants failed to take reasonable steps to protect Spencer and prevent his widespread sexual exploitation and image trafficking.Įlden, who was four months old at the time of the shoot, is currently seeking either damages of $150,000 from each of the 17 defendants named in his lawsuit, or unspecified damages that would be determined at the trial. It was Nirvana's first release on a major label and the first to feature drummer Dave Grohl.

Identity and legal name are forever tied to the commercial sexual exploitation he experienced as a minor which has been distributed and sold worldwide from the time he was a baby to the present day. Nevermind is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991, by DGC Records.
