Our favorite cigar-smoking muthaflippin' princess has had herself a rough week, starting with the Rubinoos' claim that "Girlfriend" ripped off a song of theirs, to which Avril replied via forum post and made a most compelling argument defending the lyrics in common: "As humans we speak one language."
But her deft wordsmithery didn't shield her from attack #2: Is "I Don't Have To Try" just a rip of Peaches' "I'm The Kinda"? (Watch the YouTube.)Maybe so or maybe not, but Av didn't help her case by telling InStyle that "I'm The Kinda" was her #1 favorite song of all time.
So all we've been thinking is, "Avril, what are you thinking?" And rather magnanimously, Ms. Lavigne wrote us a letter (not true), addressed to you, to clear the air.
To all my fans:
It's me, Avril. A few weeks ago, I wrote you all a letter about a little "problem" I was having with a former friend who claimed I had ripped off one of her songs. It was a real pain in the ass for a while there, but then I ran into her at the Viper room and my "attorney" totally put a cigarette out on her forehead and it was like, spurious accusations retracted or whatever and everything was cool after that.
But now I'm writing again, because a bunch of dirty YouTube haters are accusing me of ripping off a song by Peaches. Lies! Total lies! I write all the songs and music that aren't written for me by my label. And I write my songs in the human language, not dirty whore! I've never even heard that Peaches song in my life!
People will say "But Avril, you put the Peaches song in your top five best favorite songs ever." And "Avril, you love Peaches." All of that is true. I think Peaches is an amazing artist -- a real hero of mine. I own all of her albums, and I've seen all of her videos. I even named my vagina after her! How punk rock is that?
But the songs are completely different! Did they even listen to the lyrics? Hers is about being a bitch, and mine is about pants. Pants! Those are two totally different things. I mean, hello?
As far as the drum track goes -- yeah, we totally stole that!
Fuck you all,
Avril
