Avril Lavigne=Britney's evil twin

[Ben Kenobi]

Fit girl. Catchy songs. No problem.

-Laz.



Taz, he's had much better.

Frogger, look at Iain's (EiF's) avatar.

[KrazyHorse]

Yes. And? She's not especially attractive...

Not much better than average at all...

[Sheik]

I thing that bugs me is she pronounced David Bowie's name wrong when giving him an award. She pronounced it Bow - ee (I can't really explain her pronounciation). Here is a link http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/a...07-avril_x.htm

You will love the picture too.

[Q Classic]

Spec, why do you have such a problem with Anvil?

are you telling me that you're still bothered by the homogenization of music these days? pff. please, Anvil is in truth no different from, say, Britney, Christina, Green Day 75...

Anvil sucks. so does most music these days. don't get your knickers in such a twist.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Sheik
I thing that bugs me is she pronounced David Bowie's name wrong when giving him an award. She pronounced it Bow - ee (I can't really explain her pronounciation). Here is a link http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/a...07-avril_x.htm

You will love the picture too.

She's Canadian, a lot of canadians pronounce it that way.

[Ben Kenobi]

Is it Bow-ay?

Yes, many Canadians pronounce Bowie as Bow-ee

[KrazyHorse]

I think it's "Boo-ee"

[Az]

She's Canadian?

[Buck Birdseed]

Music today rules. What other time in history could Bhangra, Detroit Garage Rock and Dancehall be in the british top 40 at the same time?

[mactbone]

Homogenization of music? You just listen to the radio.

Click on any of the links in my sig. these aren't just online and live bands either, I've seen Pinback CDs in Best Buy of all places.

I envy people who live in San Diego - Pinback's members can claim previous service time in such noted San Diego thinking person's rock ensembles as Three Mile Pilot, Black Heart Procession, Heavy Vegetable, Thingy, Physics, and Optiganally Yours. All of these bands contained either Rob Crow or Zach Smith. Not to mention Royal Crown Revue's frequent live gigs.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Azazel
She's Canadian?

Yes. Her parents were Quebecers. They moved to Crapville, Ontario, where she grew up.

[KrazyHorse]

We export tons of sh*t music to the States.

Sheryl Crow, Shania Twain, Bryan Adams, Celine Dion...

[Lawrence of Arabia]

I like her music's message and some of her songs sound good. of course, some songs lyrics suck, and so do their sound, but i think that the main thing which she is projecting, her message, is what gets me hooked.

[Asher]

In researching for this article, I downloaded them all.

Did I read this right?

You thought you'd make an article bashing her, then downloaded her music?

Man, I don't like Avril, but I don't think that's a good way to write an article.

[Jaguar]

Spec, I think you secretly love her.


I have a few annoyances with "Avril." Here they are.

1. She is obsessed with her personal image.
2. She can't sing live (I'm judging from her 2 SNL performances, not an actual concert)
3. She isn't as cute as Britney
4. She can't sing live
5. She has caused a mass conversion to "Punk" by teenage girls, who, of course, are the least "punk" demographic group there is. (Yes, even less punk than toddlers, seniors, etc.)
6. She can't sing live
7. She criticizes over-the-hill "pop" artists to become famous. She picks easy targets whose popularity is stagnating, and then claims to be the opposite. (Which she is not, but I won't get into that because that's already a part of #1)
8. She can't sing live.
9. She doesn't write her songs on her own.
10. She can't sing live.

Avril's problem with live performances is ithat she simply can't sing in tune. However, she is in tune on her album. It's not too hard to figure out why. Singers, by definition, are supposed to be able to sing in tune without the assistance of music editing software.

If they also don't write their own songs, what use are they? Bob Dylan wasn't a great singer, but he was a great writer. Art Garfunkel was a great singer, but not a great writer. Paul McCartney was both. Avril is neither. She is simply a front for her songwriters, who are probably middle-aged balding men who realized they needed a pretty face to sell their music.

That being said, "I'm with You" is a great song. It's just not her song.