Avril Lavigne

[pharro]

Doesn't deserve her own thread but...

To my eternal shame I will admit that I don't hate her first album. Some perfectly adequate faux-punk pop songs that she apparently "co-wrote".

However once the original writers cracked the sads with the misappropriation of credit, it seems that poor old Avril has been a little exposed. But even sadder than that, after an underwhelming follow up album, her third album seems to be full of absolute putrid, juvenile, pus-filled abominations that somehow seem to be outperforming anything she has ever done.

And while I'm on a rant, can we please call an end to this trend of popsters stealing the worst conceit of hip-hop in mentioning or spelling out their own names in songs?

 

[CrazyQ]

Lasagne > Lavigne

 

[NICK_ROOBOY83]

Doesn't deserve her own thread but...

To my eternal shame I will admit that I don't hate her first album. Some perfectly adequate faux-punk pop songs that she apparently "co-wrote".

However once the original writers cracked the sads with the misappropriation of credit, it seems that poor old Avril has been a little exposed. But even sadder than that, after an underwhelming follow up album, her third album seems to be full of absolute putrid, juvenile, pus-filled abominations that somehow seem to be outperforming anything she has ever done.

And while I'm on a rant, can we please call an end to this trend of popsters stealing the worst conceit of hip-hop in mentioning or spelling out their own names in songs?

Yeah!!!

 

[CrazyQ]

Yeah!!!

So not c to the double o L.

 

[Constipated Duck]

I'd pop it.

 

[Wild Kangaroo]

I'd pop it.

Probably already has.
But yes I would in a heart beat

 

[LuvtheKangas]

I'd pop it.

I assume that you blame beer for this comment as well

The day I respect Avril "Rock Chick" Lavigne is the day she publicly announces that she finally realises what a load of juvenile, puerile, clichéd, self indulgent, pain-in-the-arse, boring crap her song Skater Boy is (I refuse to spell it the way she does). A day that will never come.

 

[The Teflon Dean]

I'd give her a "run in the ruck."

 

[fairdinkum]

He was a boi,
and she was a girl
Can I make it any more obvious?

 

[pharro]

I assume that you blame beer for this comment as well

The day I respect Avril "Rock Chick" Lavigne is the day she publicly announces that she finally realises what a load of juvenile, puerile, clichéd, self indulgent, pain-in-the-arse, boring crap her song Skater Boy is (I refuse to spell it the way she does). A day that will never come.

The point is, songs like Skater Boy appear to be a career highlight compared with the more recent drivel. Skater Boy is simply a gimmick pop song, no harm no foul. Other early songs like Complicated and I'm With You are quite well constructed compositions. But still, as you say, she's a manufactured "rock chick", no less a product of record label manipulation than Britney or Jessica Simpson.

 

[The Other Dean]

But still, as you say, she's a manufactured "rock chick", no less a product of record label manipulation than Britney or Jessica Simpson.

There's no doubt about that. Taken straight from the pages of a McDonalds menu. And she's perhaps even a tad more insidious as the two artists you mention were already wading in a heavily diluted, heavily artificial musical pool (ie. Top 40 pop), whereas Avril was initially pitched and marketed to a slightly different demographic. Distracting the minds of kids who had enough going for them to reject 'nsync and the like. Evil stuff indeed.

To momentarily go out on a tangent here, it is much the same reason why I find the music of Matchbox 20 so offensive.

Saying all that, I, too, would do Avril in a flash.

 

[LuvtheKangas]

Saying all that, I, too, would do Avril in a flash.

I'm surprised that this is a general theme here.

Not saying I wouldn't - the "would I/wouldn't I" bar is set particularly low for me* - just that she's not in my top 5,000.


* I mean really, really low.

 

[Coach Bombay]

Lasagna > Everything else

 

[CrazyQ]

Yep, boner like a shin.

I would almost do anything that had 2 legs, and one bird with one leg who is kinda fine.

 

[NICK_ROOBOY83]

Yep, boner like a shin.

I would almost do anything that had 2 legs, and one bird with one leg who is kinda fine.

Didn't know you were in that kind of trouble Q.

I always thought you had it easy when it came to chicks. Oh well.......

 

[see see]

Yep, boner like a shin.

I would almost do anything that had 2 legs, and one bird with one leg who is kinda fine.

Sir Paul's ex-missus? She's also worth a few bob these days.

 

[Zondor]

Saying all that, I, too, would do Avril in a flash.

And having said that I would also do her in the flesh or even in my newly acquired dog gimp mask.

 

[pharro]

Saying all that, I, too, would do Avril in a flash.

TOD they now have this nasal spray technology to help you last longer than a flash. So I hear.

 

[The Other Dean]

TOD they now have this nasal spray technology to help you last longer than a flash. So I hear.

Ooops. I appear to have left off the phrase "high-rise apartment" from my earlier post.

(P.S. Stop listening to your wife all the time.)

 

[roobear]

TOD they now have this nasal spray technology to help you last longer than a flash. So I hear.

Why would you want to last that long?

 

[Fire]

I have a deep appreciation of that song "Nobody's Home".

It was bizzare that it came form her though. Like Finding out Davinchi also lead the COllingwood cheer squad.

A crap artist who can't sing without a studio getting her in key.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

One of the funniest things I have ever seen/heard is Ruby Wax covering Sk8ter Boi for Comic Relief.

For some reason it is not on Da Choob, probably because if it was, society would break down as the entire world died of laughter as one.

Its genius.