Canadian Bacon
Okay, so this post is off to a somewhat dodgy start from the title, but bear with me. It’s the best my brain could come up with at the time.
Some of you might know the recent teen-pop queen Avril Lavigne and her ‘hit’ Girlfriend (I’m having trouble believing I just linked to an Avril site. I feel unclean.) A friend of mine told me recently that there is a little bit of a fuss going around in the media about whether or not it was original. I know, some of you are tempted to say “Of course not” straight off the bat. And fair enough, but have a look at this band called the Rubinoos and their song Boyfriend. Or this comparison.
Pretty similar, aren’t they? Now Avril is of course defending these claims, and fair enough, she thinks she’s right I suppose. The fascinating thing for me has been reading the comments from all her fans. Whilst there are balanced perspectives from both sides, it seems the Avril fans have taken this criticism to heart, and are treating it like an act of Treason. I think that perhaps they’re overreacting just a tad, and should go find something constructive to do with their time. Like blogging!
July 13th, 2007 at 11:11 am
I’m an Avril fan… shutup. So both songs yell hey hey yeah yeah. Big woop. Avril rocks…
July 13th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Ummm…Dana…I don’t know what to say. I thought you were cool.
July 13th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
avil rocks absolutely nothing because she represents the scummy scum of today’s music industry… you can mass produce a hit maker with some great audio software and skimpy clothes
July 13th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
As a piece of (pardon the pun) Canadian Bacon myself, I would like to say that Avril almost used to be cool back in the day… then she got married and discovered hair extensions, high heels and the colour pink.
Good for her for sticking up for her song (she would go down a whole other level if she didn’t) and I am not surprised whatsoever by her loyal fan base. Those are the people who were there for her during The Black Hair and Clothes phase, showing her ass to the entire nation on music awards shows.
July 14th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Awe… you thought I was cool once? Awesome.
July 15th, 2007 at 8:15 am
Nah, Dana, you are awesome… you’ve just gone down a couple of rungs of awesomeness.
July 15th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
hahah thanks will, I am now heartily amused
Princesspi (19 hours ago) Marked as spam
that is terrible, that stupid ass punk ass too much eyeliner hobag bitch copied.
I could copy and paste more, but i recommend everyone just go and take a look…. bloody hilarious
July 15th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Sach, you make a fair point. The whole idea behind fanatical fans is that they can’t see truth or reason when it’s put in front of them. Otherwise they would have lives and like real artists. I agree wholeheartedly about the whole pink thing.
Pete, where’d you manage to pull that comment from? It’s a classic… there were some great ones on the Rubinoos myspace page, but they’ve since been removed. The ones sticking up for Avril make a good read.
July 15th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Hmm…I’m shocked that you mock me for listening to that song and yet you’ve tarnished your sacred blog writing about it, you little hypocrite!! But you have a point, the first time I heard that song I was sure I’d heard it in the past and that it was one of those 80’s songs that gets redone by artists struggling to keep their music career alive…still doesn’t stop me from enjoying it though
July 16th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
For an attractive girl, the poor thing can’t dance. Saw her music vid for that song yesterday. V sad.
July 16th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Arnold dances better than the girl… she just seems plain ugly… but yet she prooves one universal point… people with absolutely no talent at all, ever, in anything every, like dear Avril, can too break free from their amish background, shake (if somewhat terribly) what mom (or possibly their sister/own aunt depending on the imbreeding level) gave them in skimpy clothes when their found out not to have any musical talent and make lots of money off poor, poor people… like pete
July 17th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
2 words dave….
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