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Which Avril Lavigne song are you?

12:09 / 26.11.02

Inspired by the Bad Lyric Planet thread I did a bit of research on Avril Lavigne and turned up this invention of indescribable beauty:

The "Which Avril Lavigne song are you?" test

Find out what kind of sk8 d00d you are! I find myself to be:

Sample lyrics:

Sometimes I get so weird
I even freak myself out
I laugh my self to sleep
It's my lullaby

Is it enough?
Is it enough?
Is it enough to breathe?
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please

Fucking wonderful. Any comments fearfully accepted...

12:47 / 26.11.02

Which Avril Lavigne Song Are You?

I disagree! And I didn't even pick the depressing options!

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

13:27 / 26.11.02

Gnarly-o.

Samples:

"Uh huh, life's like this
Uh huh, uh huh, that's the way it is
Cause life's like this
Uh huh, uh huh that's the way it is"

"Somebody else round everyone else
You're watching your back like you can't relax
You're tryin' to be cool you look like a fool to me
Tell me

Why you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated
Life's like this you
And you fall and you crawl and you break
and you take what you get and you turn it into honesty
and promise me I'm never gonna find you fake it
no no no

You come over unannounced
dressed up like you're somethin' else
where you are and where it's at you see
you're making me
laugh out when you strike your pose
take off all your preppy clothes
you know you're not fooling anyone
when you've become

Somebody else round everyone else
You're watching your back like you can't relax
You're tryin' to be cool you look like a fool to me
Tell me"

Rock on!

13:33 / 26.11.02

I too am losing grip...because of my love for Avril, that is!

So is Avril an anti-Britney or a Britney clone? I'm going with clone, because if you ask a clone if they're a clone, they'll get really mad and insist that they're the real deal, and hey, maybe you're a clone! That pretty much seems to sum up Avril, if you get my jist.

"Avril." Did her parents have a speech impediment or something?

13:42 / 26.11.02

Yeah what's the deal with her anyway?

This is what she says about Britney -

I mean, the way she dresses — would you walk around the street in a fuckin' bra?" she asks rhetorically. "I'm not trying to dis anyone, but with me, the clothes I wear onstage are the clothes I would wear to school or go shopping. I'm not gonna go up onstage and dress different. Britney Spears goes up onstage and dresses like a showgirl. She's not being herself up there because she's dancing like a ho. Is she ho? She says she's a virgin. Y'know, it's just not clicking. She's doing one thing and saying another thing, y'know? It's definitely not what I'm going to do."

Handbags eh

The Apple-Picker

14:12 / 26.11.02

No, her parents didn't have a speech impediment. They're French-Canadian.

She's an anti-Britney within the Britney model. There's an interview with her in some book of interviews, and I think she advertises her realness far too much to convince me that she actually believes it.

Anyway, I'm

Which Avril Lavigne Song Are You?

The Apple-Picker

14:18 / 26.11.02

One remarkable thing written by a fan of this song (the song I am, supposedly) on a lyrics site was:

Avril Lavigne is the Next Led Zeppelin! And this song is the next "Stairway to heaven"! Enuff Said!!

15:04 / 26.11.02

No, her parents didn't have a speech impediment. They're French-Canadian

Six of one and a half-dozen of the other, eh?

I think she advertises her realness far too much to convince me that she actually believes it.

See my comments regarding "Clones, questioning realness of..."

The Apple-Picker

15:31 / 26.11.02

Yep. I was adding my "yay" to the pile of votes you were tallying.

16:39 / 26.11.02

Thing is, shit as she is...

...she does have the most beautiful eyeliner. And most beautiful eyes, in fact. And is far too pretty to be making shit music for the rest of her life. I'd pay her to stop...

16:40 / 26.11.02

Woo! I get the eyeliner staring back at me!

Which Avril Lavigne Song Are You?

I think they might have to lock me up.

Tryphena Absent

16:45 / 26.11.02

Which Avril Lavigne Song Are You?

Eugh. Paleface you make me sick, how on earth could you fancy a sell out little fool because she wears good eyeliner? Let's get Avril Lavigne - a steak knife in the heart and her career is over.

The Apple-Picker

16:59 / 26.11.02

Janina, you must be a heartless preppy snot if you hate Avril.

Tryphena Absent

17:16 / 26.11.02

That I am. Very heartless, very preppy, very snotty. I wear pink jumpers round my shoulders and drown dogs in public swimming pools and my hobby is making small children fall of their skateboards by throwing sticks at them. I manage to retain a veneer of calm and sweet intellectualism and I play an awful lot of sport too.

17:34 / 26.11.02

Please make it stop. The pain... the endless media coverage of how PUNK she is. the horror.. please, stop it!

19:28 / 26.11.02

God, im sorry, i never normally do this, cos musical elitism makes my blood boil (WHY CANT I LOVE THE CLASH AND ABBA IN EQUAL MEASURES?) and it fucks me right off when i watch top of the pops and my dad says, "this isnt real music", when Britney comes on, BUT! Avril Lavigne makes me SO FUCKIN ANGRY! i dont know why, if its the obvious fakeness, or the fact that i never thought the british press would ever take this shit, but she sends me into an uncontrolable rage.

As i said, i am usually the first person to defend throwaway pop music but what pisses me off is the denial of fakeness when its SO obvious. why cant she just admit it? Someone tell me that the kids arent stupid enough to believe this are they?

the bottom line is that when someone like Robbie Williams tries to rock, they arent trying to woo the teen punk market and when people like that do, the "kids" can see right through it, but for some reason Ms Lavigne gets away with it... GGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Suddenly the gate between truly shit, manufactured, soul-less, cynical, music (and if you just read that as POP, you've missed my point entirely), and the ever weakining bastion of indie, has been opened.

sorry im just repeating myself now

"hur, ya think its funny, turning rebellion into money"

sorry if this is too long and rambling

riot x

19:34 / 26.11.02

Janina: it's not just GOOD eyeliner. It's the GREATEST eyeliner. (Or rather, the greatest eyeliner on MTV at the moment). She's so punk she has a full make-up team to keep it like that.

But I stll fucking hate her, and will happily knife her in the back. Also: can I come and through sticks at skater-kids with you? The most annoying sound in the world when you're trying to work is the clatter of skateboard on concrete as the local kids have come to the library on a Saturday afternoon in order to fail entirely at doing fucking kickflips for a full two hours.

I like skaters who can skate. The rest... practice in the privacy of your own homes.

19:39 / 26.11.02

Say what you want, but "Skaterboy" still makes me cry. Big manly tears.

You go, Avril!

Matthew Fluxington

19:44 / 26.11.02

Here's a recent interview with Avril in Rolling Stone that has since changed my feeling about her from bemused indifference to being genuinely concerned about the generation of young women she represents. The bit about her being entirely clueless about what feminism is really bothers me, because I know so many girls her age are similarly clueless. There's a lot of girls her age and younger to which feminism means little more than girls not shaving and being angry. Then the bit about how she doesn't buy or listen to much music, and when she does, it's freebies from her record label - that just makes me mad. At least she has the good sense to shoot down any notion that she is in fact a punk herself.

She's indicative of any entire generation to whom everything is defined through advertising and junk culture, a generation in which everyone's identity is little more than a set of consumer decisions, and complex and powerful ideas like punk and feminism are reduced to dress codes with little to no intellectual or emotional baggage.

20:25 / 26.11.02

Which Avril Lavigne Song Are You?

'Don't get your hopes up'? Thank you, online quiz.

I like Avril, and I don't care.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

21:40 / 26.11.02

Hey hey hey! Don't berate skaters on the basis of Avril. Please!
I used to do it once. It can actually be a pretty cool form of expression. Obviously now, it's all a bit popular and you get a bunch of kids who do it just to be cool... but still...

(And do you know how hard it is to skate on a carpet?)

The Apple-Picker

21:44 / 26.11.02

Oh Johnny, sk8er bois are fine. I really pity them, though, because chicks just won't pay them no mind.

But really--I don't *hate* Avril Lavigne. She just disturbs me. A lot.

22:45 / 26.11.02

Oh, I detest skaters.

And yet, I like Avril - possibly 'cos she co-opts that into a nice commercial package, making it once and forever uncool.

Excellent, new ways to wind up skaters.

Good, good.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

23:23 / 26.11.02

Oh good god. I don't even skate anymore, but this is just unfair...

13:33 / 27.11.02

Sorry, man.

I'm just anticipating talking to skaters, and calling them 'sk8er boi', and asking if they like, really like, Avril. My other favourite is "Aren't you a bit old to be doing that?"

I'm probably going to get punched.

16:09 / 27.11.02

yes!
i am the first ever:

Which Avril Lavigne Song Are You?
even tho the lyrics are a bit rub, it's a fun song. at first, i couldn't help but like avril lavigne. now i can't help but dislike her. how fickle i am.

17:08 / 27.11.02

I read that article. Yeesh. I'm glad to know there's "more to her than [just being a skater]."
She mentions clothes a lot. The role models for this coming generation (the one GM claims will have some big impact on society) are frightening; our world is beginning to resemble the settings of bad future-themed movies and cartoons.

And she claims Alanis Morisette to be a big influence, and how rebellious it was for her to curse in her songs. I'm 20, and I remember seeing Morisette and other mid-90's "girl power!" groups like No Doubt as MTV tools: the Wal-Mart acceptible version of the whole riot girl thing. I know this sounds crazy. Perhaps it is.

01:36 / 28.11.02

Unwanted, perhaps. Center of attention, no thank you.

06:25 / 28.11.02

Which Avril Lavigne Song Are You?

06:52 / 28.11.02

What on earth is it?! I still dunno how to fill in the abstract.

Which Avril Lavigne Song Are You?

Though I very much wanna say my song is Poisson. Me thinks this sucks. But I like it. The Better sucker thrills.

22:42 / 02.12.02

I have to share this. Right now. Avril Lavigne's old school photos: