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23 February 2007

Avril Lavigne has a new music video and it's so bad/awesome I feel the need to share it. Keep in mind, she's 23 years old and MARRIED.
No offense to those who like her, but?

Don't pretend, I think you know, I'm damn precious
And hell yea, I'm the motherfucking princess


I rest my case.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 23 February | 16:37
Kurt Cobain would be proud. [That's a compliment; I like Avril.]
posted by mischief 23 February | 16:39
That's pretty awful.
Thanks TPS. You realise that I now need new ears. And some kind of mind scrub.
posted by seanyboy 23 February | 16:41
* resists urge to rebel - just like Lavigne *
posted by seanyboy 23 February | 16:42
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... ;)
posted by dabitch 23 February | 16:44
You realise that I now need new ears. And some kind of mind scrub.

That's the thing about it- it's completely annoying and completely catchy at the same time.

Really, this post was just to make the rest of you suffer like I am.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 23 February | 16:44
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?)
posted by paulsc 23 February | 16:47
I hate myself for finding that song catchy when it's so effing stoopid.
posted by fluffy battle kitten 23 February | 16:47
I nearly forgot!! The Spanish version of the song. Just the chorus is in Spanish, and there's no video; just clips of other appearances and photos.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 23 February | 16:52
I love how this discussion sounds just like the sentiments of the over-25 crowd about Joan Jett in the 80s. heheh
posted by mischief 23 February | 16:53
Hey hey you you - I could be your girlfriend?
≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by seanyboy 23 February | 16:55
I can't listen, but I can watch.

In the chorus sections (with her band), is she going for a Gwen-Stephani-post-No-Doubt look?
posted by muddgirl 23 February | 16:59
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.
posted by seanyboy 23 February | 17:05
Am I the only person thinking "Oh Mickey, you're so fine..." during the verses.
posted by drezdn 23 February | 17:12
Nope, drezdn- several people on ONTD brought it up, too.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 23 February | 17:14
I literally just came over from watching the clips in this post and then this video is the next thing I see. Oh god.

SUCK SATAN'S COCK! SHTUMumumumumumumuHEUGHSHTUMumumumumumu
posted by dodgygeezer 23 February | 17:16
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.)
posted by fluffy battle kitten 23 February | 17:20
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.
posted by TheDonF 23 February | 17:27
I love how this discussion sounds just like the sentiments of the over-25 crowd about Joan Jett in the 80s. heheh

Avril Fucking Lavigne?
posted by knave 23 February | 17:50
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?

What the hell is that, a hair weave? *baffles*
posted by stilicho 23 February | 17:50
I hope Dennis Perrin writes that Hicks book, dammit.
posted by dabitch 23 February | 17:54
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.
posted by TheDonF 23 February | 18:06
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.
posted by cmonkey 23 February | 18:11
"kids have terrible taste in music these days"

Just wait 'til they have their own kids.
posted by mischief 23 February | 18:41
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.

The Simpson sisters need to just vanish though.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs 23 February | 19:18
The Simpson sisters need to just vanish though.

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.
posted by mullacc 23 February | 20:36
I thought Ashlee was supposed to be the rebranded Avril.
posted by mischief 23 February | 20:46
Here's the "Nobody's Home" video.

Well, now I see she also did a video called "Sk8r Boi". So, uh...this Avril, she contains multitudes.

I thought Ashlee was supposed to be the rebranded Avril.
It's like I don't even know you anymore, mischief.
posted by mullacc 23 February | 20:52
Well, she's no Joe Queer, but...

Me 'n Dr. Frank have decided we love 'em more thank toast: Yummy yummy punk rock girls.
posted by Triode 23 February | 21:45
She's just so punk! (ever since she decided to not be a country star)
posted by justgary 23 February | 23:34
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.
posted by SassHat 23 February | 23:37
This Canadian thinks she is a brat too. I liked her more when she was all fake punk and moody. This happy happy clapping stuff is depressing.
posted by typewriter 23 February | 23:52
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.
posted by deborah 24 February | 00:23
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.
posted by alicesshoe 24 February | 02:23
Wii bowling knocks over retirement home || I have a Nielsen diary through Wednesday. Any recommendations?

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