New Avril Lavigne Video - "Girlfriend"
Uh oh, dance sequence and fishnets. She's like, so whatever.
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February 23, 2007
ah hahahahaha!
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I liked this song better when it was called "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", and it was by the Rubinoos and it had different lyrics. And it was a better song.
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say what you say.
i wanna see a timbaland remix. it def has potential as a club hit. he's doing pop now, right?
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Yup, it's official, Avril Lavigne CAN actually get worse and more annoying than in years past.
Who'd have thought?
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Avril Lavigne is the hot Fergie.
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This is too much. I don't think she's joking.
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Is that Liz Phair?
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so this is what it's like to see someone regressing.
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I'm confused. Avril plays all 3 girls in the video: blonde, brunet, redhead. So it doesn't make a difference which one he chooses? Kinda ruins the point of the song.
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Retarded. Why did I watch that? I saw it was labeled Avril Lavigne and I still watched it, WTF?
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She's sorta become a parody of herself really... she looks even more like jailbait than she did about 45 years ago when "Complicated" came out.
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That was brutal...
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oh my god... :o(
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That shit's bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
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She is so real.
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I was turned on by the blond in fishnets doing the ol' bump'n'grind.
Is it just me or has every young female pop star gone back on what they said they were about in the past few years?
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Is Toni Basil rolling over in her grave, or what? "Hey Mickey" 2007. Oops, is Toni Basil actually dead?
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She looks younger than ever before. She has also taken on traits of Christina. WTF
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this new avril is laughable...sounds like something disney comissioned for an advert to be "edgy".
btw, is she condoning teenage promiscuity, or adultery is this video? married chicks shouldn't be offering themselves to high school students.
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Wait a minute, in that breakdown did she start to develop a fake British accent -- ala Lady Sov or something? Maybe it's just me.
Either way.... YIKES!
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i sort of recall an avril lavigne song where she talked about her values, and how she wasn't going to have sex with boys. however, that doesn't sell records, so put her in fishnets and have her screw the boy on camera. that'll go platinum.
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On the upside, there is going to be a large number of parents who will be wondering why their 10 year old daughters are refering to each other as a 'muthafucking princess'.
Good times...
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Isn't she married? To that guy from Sum 41?
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And society reaches a new low.
Congrats Avril on making Fallout Boy seem less like the great satan.
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traits of christina? as if.
avril, you gotta be kidding me. it's like she wants to watch herself crash and burn. her album cover is fn lame too.
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Holy balls that was bad. I was half-expecting something ridiculously catchy that I would listen to while my wife was out of the house, but I'd rather not ever hear that again.
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That was so mind-numbingly horrible.
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um... No.
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Isn't she too old for those stupid moves????
God!
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yes folks, this is what the masses in America consider good. I pray for our country, I really do.
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Perhaps she is so self-aware that she realized that the only people who make up her audience are girls ten to sixteen years old.
I mean...seriously...why the fuck does a married chick write this song? It's bad enough that she's twenty-two and she might still consider this good. But she's also married, and therefore has no motive to want to steal someone's boyfriend or to think about said subject.
Hopefully, Mandy Moore's next record'll be good.
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She does a really good live version of "Chop Suey" by System of a Down - it sounds like she's getting sexually assaulted. She looks like she's a victim of it, at least. Poor girl. It's people like her that make real musicians not want to try to get known.
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in which is revealed that stereogum commenters have no stirring of joy in their hearts. such malice.
it's almost as good as that nelly furtado song where timbaland stole the backing track from some scandinavian nerd. now //that// song is my jam.
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ew.
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Hey Avril, 2001 called...they want their video back.
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This video is why Canada is not a major world power. It isn't because Canada has not played a major part in any war, their isolationism, the fact that 99.99% of it is just forests that get really cold in the winter, that their army isn't too bulked up, or anything else. It is because the governments of all world powers see this video and feel slight pity for Canadians because they have to say that they're from the same country as Avril Lavigne. They decide to just leave them alone and not cause them any more distress of building up their armies and going to war to become a world power.
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I can't believe I watched the whole thing..
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gwen writes the script.
avril follows suit.
disappointment ensues.
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I counted no less than 4 gratuitous crotch shots. Awesome.
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avril lavigne used to be about as punk as a ham sandwich.... she's stooped lower than that this time. much lower
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i like it! don't think it was made for most of you. but instead people who actually buy records.
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I guess her reasoning is that since her original fans are now adults and listen to actual music she will just target their 15 year siblings. God save them.
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There is no way Avril actually calls the shots about what her songs or especially videos are going to be about. I really feel sorry for her. I bet you anything she hates this thing worse than we do.
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OH MY GOD I AM TERRIFIED.
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sterogum, why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?
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avril should be ashamed. the video is crap...and since her main audience is girls between 10 and 15, she's sending a horrible message, like, be a rude "punk" bully and you'll get the guy! awful (don't even get me started about how retarded the song is!)
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from this video I have learned that in order to have a succesfull relationship both partners need to wear a long sleeve shirt under a black t-shirt.
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holy cow.
she's gonna make millions with this.
say what you will of song quality or creepiness or whatever... this is gonna sell. tons.
it's sprinkled with crack. like reality tv.
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SOooo awful! I kinda liked her before this(her second album has a couple really solid songs, believe it or not) and this song was fun, guilty pleasure fun, mind you, but anyway... buw WTF??? and then she's all over the place telling everyone how serious an artist she is!
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Are there really more than 2 comments about this?
Good Lord.
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Maybe she really is trying to screw over her career. I mean her second album looked like she might be a serious artist someday, but this looks she is devolving in to some Fall Out Boy-esque pop singer, even more than before. i think I heard she wants to be an actress and quit singing. on second thought, I have no idea what she is trying to do, if hse's serious or whatevver...
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Wow, that was so bad. "She's like so 'whatever'," was a lyric? Are you joking?
And to top it off, she was a total asshole in that video. At least if you're going to have no talent, you should make up for it by being nice.
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better than thom
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I can totally see her in rehab soon, or better yet, shaving her head...
I can't believe Avril is so profound in this video. I guess growing up and marriage really paid off, and made her a more mature person. The lyrics has so much depth. She's got mad writing skillz. That's definitely video of the year material. She also looks taller too. Btw, I'm on crack right now...
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"holy cow.
she's gonna make millions with this.
say what you will of song quality or creepiness or whatever... this is gonna sell. tons."
Truth.
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Y'know what the sad thing is? That probably all of you loved the song and, just to maintain your faux façade, you posted an "OMG this is shit" comment. This is an almost perfectly structured pop song, and one that has "hit" written all over it. It's also a catchy song, and I bet you won't change the station when you hear it on the radio.
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amen, carlos.
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Carlos, that's not even close to the truth.
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Why is the redhead always the victim?
Also, you'll all love this song once Timbaland remixes it.
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Tube socks and high heels are an underrated look.
The beauty of the song is the same as Fergie's recent effort. Rip off a sound that is popular among those who listen to a lot of music but unknown to the masses. Fergie popularizes the M.I.A. sound, Avril takes on the Pipettes. Somebody should do an MBA case study because it's brilliant commerce. Did I mention the tube socks and high heels?
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DO NOT WANT
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yeah Carlos. we all secretly love shitty songs about stealing someone's boyfriend. just because a song is catchy doesn't mean it's quality.
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i love it when stereogum posts stuff like this because i can come back 24 hours after and find loads of amusing comments.
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Well. I just watched this and I feel... violated?
It was horrible.
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White belt attack! Death to America!
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Being a ruthless mall-punk bully pays off I guess!
No seriously what the hell was that video about? I watched it all throught the end (the fishnets helped), hoping there would be some sort of "ohh wait it was all a big parody!!" but no...
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hahaha....she dances...DANCE!
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I think it's catchy as hell. If people could stop taking shit so seriously for five minutes maybe they'd appreciate a good pop song like this one.
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bullshit. people appreciate pop. even avril had some decent tunes on past albums, and some dude upthread agrees with that. this song is just fucking pathetic.
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Yeah Beverly, I think so too. The song was catchy as hell, and super fun. Who cares what she's done before? I'm looking forward to this one coming on in the club.
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"... she looks even more like jailbait than she did about 45 years ago when "Complicated" came out."
It really does seems like forever that she's been around. This video confuses me- I wish she'd stop trying to act like a legitimate performer (guitar, "attitude", fake British accent) and stick to being a pop star... and get naked.
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it's like she came out of Hot Topic and decided to sing a song with her mall friends
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Is there any way for me to keep my Indie-cred and still say that I wanna "do" [finger quotes] Avril? I promise, I will only watch this video with the sound down, while Gang of Four are playing on iTunes, and I'll buy whatever Pitchfork is droning on about this week.
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pink skull n crossbones? how very ashlee simpson
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A single pink streak in your hair and coining the phrase "motherfuckin' princess.' Shit...she's too punk for me.
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She's too old for this. However, Gwen Stefani is pushing 40 and still putting out this kind of crap, which leaves the window wide open for middle aged/middle school boyfriend pouting madness in 2027.
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what a load of shit
"10 year old daughters are refering to each other as a 'muthafucking princess'."
true dat
'rebel' pop princess + a few years + blonde hair = pure unadulterated SHIT
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i can see this becoming a hit
on the next kidz bop album.
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she's so punk rock.
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Mark B., as a DJ myself I will take the liberty of speaking for all of us by saying if anyone calling themselves a DJ actually played this out in a club we'd revoke their membership. Then stab out their eyes with a stylus.
Seriously, this has nothing to do with people not appreciating pop or falling in line with their peers. This song is just BAD. In fact, it actually goes beyond bad and goes straight to putrid dreck. It insults the intelligence of anyone with eyes and ears.
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Can we all please agree to stop with the metal studded belts? Enough already. Her whole look is so very OVER.
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it's not about quality nor anything. that's not the point at all. the thing is this 'product'... video + song + image... has all the crowd-pleasing ingredients to make it on the pop-charts.
even the "cheerlead-y" beat and chorus... it's gonna be like printing cash when the CD comes out. if you look at YouTube yesterday, the video skyrocketed into the most-viewed top five.
am i gonna like hearing this everywhere i go for a few months? no. but it's gonna be there. the fact that i don't dig something doesn't blind me to the fact that there's a huge market for it.
it has that "novelty song" appeal the later Offspring hits had. horrendous indeed, but this thing is gonna prolong Avril Lavigne's career for at least six more months.
oh well.
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Hey I enjoied the video I like okay i admit i love it but hey I mean i just think it's fun though I belive she is more mature than what the song is but it's still catchy fun and will make an awsome show !!! It is diferent than what she has done before Witch If it was the same damn thing as before things would get boreing !!! her records vary let go is skater pop/rock undermyskin is deep pop/rock and The best damn thing seems to be up beat pop though When i think of it if any one is going to judge her music they better listion to the whole cd not just to the singles cause the singles are more pop than the other songs most of the time i find songs like my world and any thing but ordinary are better than like complicated and skater boy but any ways back to her new video I love it it's funny catchy and cocky though not a fan of the fish net but at least she isn't useing the head set mic and showing her stomach besides i think it actually looks good with the fish net i don't think it's too too sexed up any ways thats all I have to say for now
peace
rock on
~Liz
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Back oh Yeah I don't realy think it matters of what genre avril is cause in all relatiy she isn't realy any genre she is avril !her sound isn't anybody else so yeah this whole pop rock punk ordeal dosn't realy matter you ither like her or don't who realy cares im just bord so thats why im posting
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"This video is why Canada is not a major world power. It isn't because Canada has not played a major part in any war, their isolationism, the fact that 99.99% of it is just forests that get really cold in the winter, that their army isn't too bulked up, or anything else."
While I agree with your sentiments that the video is a piece of garbage, you might wanna retake whatever history classes you did and realize that Canada played a major role in both World Wars and in fact, almost single-handedly liberated the Dutch during the Second World War. In fact, Canada was involved in both conflicts well before the United States was.
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What the fuck?!
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"I wanna be yr boyfriend", screeching weasel, anybody hear it?
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While I agree the video is the worst thing I've ever seen and I just lost brain cells while watching that, do not attack Canada. It's once that girl came to the US this shit was forced upon her by the label.
I'm not coming to her defense by any means, but it's Americans expectations that caused this.
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Avril Lavigne actually could have gone into a different route in her career but somebody higher up wants her to remain slutty and punky.
There are plenty of time where I've seen pictures of her that doesn't look like some teenage mall slut and she actually looked quite nice.
If you strip away all that hot topic clothings and put her into something a bit more respectful and classy, she's a knock out.
In this day in age, 20 is now considered too young whereas 30 is the new 20.
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Avril is the new Ashlee.
At least with her, "OMG U SUCK U MEAN BOY" songs, there was... I don't know, something more than just, "Look at me! I'm a whore! I'm a whore! I'm a whore! I'll suck your cock! I'm nothing more than the rich man's Antonella Barba-whatsherface from Idol!"
Honestly, if I see Avril anywhere around Toronto, I'm so punching her in the box.
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Avril is the new Ashlee.
At least with her, "OMG U SUCK U MEAN BOY" songs, there was... I don't know, something more than just, "Look at me! I'm a whore! I'm a whore! I'm a whore! I'll suck your cock! I'm nothing more than the rich man's Antonella Barba-whatsherface from Idol!"
Honestly, if I see Avril anywhere around Toronto, I'm so punching her in the box.
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The song and video are so mean-spirited. The whole thing has been done before by what I thought was the most watered down popster: Ashley Simpson. I don't understand what Avril's problem is. She is young, rich, and goodlooking...why isn't she having more fun? At least Ashley seems to be enjoying herself. Oh ya, and Avril's hair pulled back like that looks very Mars Attacks! Is she hiding her super-big brain?
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"Tube socks and high heels are an underrated look."
Obviously you haven't been watching enough Girls Next Door...Holly should be in Avril's band. It couldn't hurt.
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