U.S. alternative rockers Puddle Of Mudd recently attempted to cover Nirvana’s ‘About A Girl’, which didn’t go off so well. While singer Wes Scantlin first responded to the widespread mockery, saying “jealousy is toxic”, the band have now posted a video of them apologising to Kurt Cobain for the bad cover.

Recorded back in January, Puddle Of Mudd covered Nirvana’s famous ‘About A Girl’ for SiriusXM. It remained widely unknown, until the likes of quarantine led everyone into deep-dives on YouTube. The video resurfaced and quickly became known, because, quite frankly, it is not a good rendition of the song.

After going viral for all the wrong reasons, singer Wes Scantlin took to Instagram to comment on the mockery, stating that he’ll “rise above” because he’s “at his best now”, continuing to say that “jealousy is toxic, and toxic people are a waste of time,” although it now appears that he has edited his original post to withdraw the “jealousy is toxic” bit, because he may have realised that jealousy wasn’t the reason it was being shared about.

Now, the band has posted a video of them ‘talking things out’ with the late Nirvana singer, Kurt Cobain, captioning it “WES SCANTLIN & KURT COBAIN TALK IT OUT! Wes apologizes to Kurt Cobain for BAD VOCALS!!!”

“Dude, Kurt, crap – I messed it up, again,” the video begins while Scantlin and Cobain talk in a very South Park-esque manner. “Heh, uh-oh. Not a big deal, dude,” Cobain responds, before Scantlin follows up with, “Yeah, I know.”

Then, Cobain seems to say, “Everybody thinks we look alike, anyway,” where Scantlin states, “must have been the burrito” before emitting a farting sound that leaves both singers in a fit of laughs.

Although the SiriusXM video of Scantlin’s singing is the version that went viral, other videos of him covering the iconic Nirvana song have also surfaced, showing that he may have been having an off day during the viral video, as his other performance was actually quite lovely.

Check out Puddle of Mudd covering ‘About A Girl’ by Nirvana:

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