Last week Miss Lavigne dropped by Jo Whiley's Live Lounge and delivered a song that sounds suspiciously like Coldplay's "The Scientist"! (Zing!) In Avril's hands, one of Coldplay's best ballads is rendered truly tepid, and dare we say ... a little pitchy? Perhaps we're just partial to Aimee Mann's take. We're not anti-Avril, but between this and her mawkish take on "Imagine" (hasn't Darfur suffered enough?) we're thinking girlfriend should stick to the mall punk. Check out "The Scientist" at Mixtape Maestro.
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