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UuuuUUgh. Hey will ya look at that, she can't dance!
Also, Avril, back in thise teens days you pretend to be in, I would have ripped your ovaries out and fed them to you if you ever said that to my boyfriend. watch out for feisty redheads avril... ;)
I dunno, TPS, but if you're trying to insist that rock people write and perform material strictly from their own lives....
Avril probably is. The only "life" she's ever had is being a brat. And who'd want to hear 23-year-old-married-young-thing angst, if she did try to "get real?" (Does anybody say "get real" anymore?)
you're trying to insist that rock people write and perform material strictly from their own lives
There's an interesting point here. I think it's obvious that she doesn't believe the words, and historically this hasn't been a problem for me. I've no problem with Nick Cave and his Murder Ballads for instance. However, the problems I have are ...
1) It's a show not tell song, and even more worryingly I think that it does try and enforce a "good girls steal the boyfriends of bookish girls" MTV Gen message. It's all about the bling & consumption and being pretty.
2) I think it's completely cynical that some ancient music executive or writer has decided that this is what "the kids" want to hear. It's like they believe the modern generation has no morals. That's just wrong.
And yes, I'm fully aware here that points one & two sort of contradict each other. I'm just trying to explain why I find this so terrible.
drezdn, I thought that middle bridge thingy with the phat dance moves and the clappy clappies was a direct nod to Mickey. (Mickey is probably one of my favorite songs from the 80s.)
Mmmm, this is really disappointing. I thought after her last album that she was growing up a little bit, but that song is awful. I will grudgingly admit to liking Avril - I even saw her in concert last year some time - but that new song was appalling. I managed just over 1.5 minutes and had to hit the back button.
Awful but catchy, so I suppose I'm with TPS. Yeah, she's just singing the words -- she knows her audience and knows how to (hire people to help her) write for them. (Is this another Matrix job?)
is she going for a Gwen-Stephani-post-No-Doubt look?
Avril used Chantal Kreviazuk and Butch Walker a lot on her last album both for song writing and production. They're both artists I like (and liked before Avril) but interestingly (to me, anyway), the albums they both put out after they worked with Avril sucked really badly.
She's a terrible musician, and her songs are utter shit, but I don't see why she has to only sing about whatever troubles a wealthy, married 23 year old faces. Most, if not all, of the songs David Gedge wrote for the Wedding Present about heartbreak and lust and cheating and revenge were entirely fictional, but that doesn't detract from the songs at all.
Now, I can't really imagine finding much meaning in Avril Lavigne, but kids have terrible taste in music these days, so I guess it all works out.
I still listen to Belinda Carlisle sometimes so I am not going to trash Avril. I am not sure that pop has really changed in overall quality since the eighties or the seventies, it just sounds different. I hate pretty much everything that could be called pop from the seventies, like a lot of what I grew up listening to in the eighties and very early nineties, and hate nearly all of what has came out since the late nineties, but I figure that has more to do with me than the state of popular music.
Avril has a couple of songs I thought were okay, Michelle Branch too.
I wonder if they're trying to rebrand Avril as the new Ashlee Simpson? This song seemed much more of an Ashlee Simpson tune--especially compared to another Avril video I've seen called "Nobody's Home" (which I would link to if Youtube wasn't fucking with me).
Anyway, where's jonmc? I'm sure he'd have something to say about the long history of pop music and its fascination with teenagers and related themes.
She spent her teen years going for the whole moody/edgy/angsty mini-rocker...so this is actually kind of brave for Avril. Compare this shiny, made up, be-weaved, short-shorts/dancing/hand clapping Avril to the old tomboy/dickies/ties skater-style Avril. Big changes.
I too caught the Gwen influences, but I don't think Avril's old enough to pull it off yet. And I also thought immediately that this song was either written with Ashlee in mind, or else it was produced by people who've done stuff for Ashlee.
I just wish Avril would stop pretending to play guitar. It's so tiresome. Then again, I always thought she was kind of a little brat. I'm going to get kicked out of Canada for this comment, I think.
I gotta strong '80s vibe from the whole thing - music and video. It's not a good nor an overly horrible song and it seemed like something a girl-band of 14 year olds should do.
Acting — her next step.
I think it's a gentle rib to the 50's and cheerleaders ] the hair[ on the one hand yet showing us present day women ] in her age group+ [ should take what they want, take ownership, fuck paternalism and 'I want' your boyfriend — toy.
I don't care for the song at all, sk8terboi was better, she's not my taste in music at all.
Good for her though, musical talent, business sense, what's wrong with that ¿ ok, even that age group doesn't 'dance' like that, but it's just a guess.
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