avril lavigne: manufactered or the real deal?

seems pretty manufactured to me with the tie and t-shirt thing combined with the socks on the arms.

 

Well she's no Brittney Spears, but she's also not original so I picked other.

 

does it really matter?

Either way, it wont change the fact that she is a less than good musical artist.

 

Here's my take:
Avril is sincere and her lyrics are earnest products of her.. uh... creativity. In that sense, she's not Britney.

But it's not 1999 any more and cute singer-song writer girls are what labels want these days, and Avril fits the description. In that sense, she is the label's puppet, and nothing more than Britney with a spiked wrist band.

 

She also doesn't have the looks of Spears, so she has to rely on her creativity.

 

wrong

 

As said on the satellite music channel Q, she seems to be the 'Fisher-Price Alanis Morrisette'. I don't like her music from what little I've heard of it, she seems to be another angst-ridden teeny skater type who hang around in many town centres wearing over-sized trousers and Linkin Park hoodies. Give me Skunk Anansie over her any day.

And she's Canadian, so it's inevitable she's not going to be very good.

 

I've heard her real name is April Levine.

 

A load of crap .

 

That was insightful.

 

If you think that anything in the Top 10 isn't manufactured, you live in a dream world.

 

I hate her....but I'd still bang her

 

Oh, you got me good SportBoy!

Can't you just see my face flush with embarassment? Or the drool of shame as it drips off my chin?
My pommes frites are drowning in my tears of agony! I'm shaking with fear, in fear of the next SportBoy attack of towering wit and intelligence!
Oh, how will I ever live this down? Somone save me from this emotional abyss, for SportBoy said "wrong"!

 

I fixed ya post.

 

Re: Re: avril lavigne: manufactered or the real deal?

Like he knows what frites are...

 

Spot on, Skip.

SHe's most akin to PInk. Projecting a streak of independence that's probably real, but that's obviously co-opted by the record company.

WHen you ask if something is manufactured, one of the big questions is whether the lyrics are reflective of the performer's worldview or clacluated to reflect his/her fans' worldview. I would say that Pink and Lavigne are both in the middle of the scale, but skewed slightly toward their own world view. The problem is that their own personalities appear to be so frighteningly generalized and shallow that it's difficult to tell. IT's not that they're not being true to themselves. IT's that their true selves have been so thoroughly co-opted by the consumer culture that thier honest attempts to reflect their own sentiments turn out to be simulacrums of corporate thought. This is something that we haven't dealt with, and it's scary as hell, if you ask me. .

Not totally manufactured, but far from the real deal.

 

Blondie=Gwen=Pink=Avril

Q: What do these things all have in common?







A: They try to look punk, but they're not.

 

Here's a funny article on joining Raccoon Eyes Lavigne's 'e-team'.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/watw/02-09/avril.shtml

 

I got bored at the 5th paragraph.

 

aha...it is kinda long. you get the idea after about 200 words where it's going.

 

Yeah, it was going NOWHERE, where was it goin'?

NOWHERE.
Sorry had the urge to add a Boondocks Saints quote.

 

FWIW, Blondie were punk before they came across a producer who realized they could sell a whole lotta vinyl with if they'd just put their songs to a disco beat.

 

If they were anything BUT punk, they wouldn't have lasted as long at CBGB as they did. Hell, they wouldn't have lasted a second.

Well, Television and Talking Heads weren't punk, per se, but that's an entirely different story.

 

complicated is on the radio in my computer class now.

I hadnt heard it in a while, and i remember how much i really hate it.

ugh.