Malaysia tried hard but Avril Lavigne still exists. Despite the many attempts to shut down the Canadian singer’s inappropriate concert, the show still went on. As for Avril, she got an even bigger head from the ordeal saying “Well, I’ve actually been approved by the government to play a show. I’ve already sold 10,000 tickets there, so I will be going to put on a concert for the fans.” She’s not letting go of those 10,000 tickets sold over there because she can’t sell that much for a whole tour over in the US. She adds “They tend to, you know, sometimes not want Western artists in their country. I respect that, but at the same time, you know, there’s people that listen to music there and want to see their idols and stuff, so it’s all good: been approved by the government and [I'm] going to go put on a show and have fun.” Since when was she an idol?
Star magazine quotes an insider saying that Avril Lavigne is going to get some work done on her teeth. The insider says “Avril hates her fangs. She is planning on having them filed down by a cosmetic dentist. It’s just something she has always been insecure about, especially since everyone is staring at her mouth when she sings. As soon as Avril finds some time to take off so it won’t interfere with her singing, she’s getting it done!” What are the fangs interfering with when she hardly sings anyway? If you’ve gone to see her live, it’s pretty obvious sometimes that she’s actually just lip synching. No one jumps around on stage that much and still sound like her record.
I guess it runs in the marriage as Sum 41 is suffering the same curse that Avril Lavigne is currently suffering. The has-been pop/punk rockers are having trouble selling tickets for their current tour much like front man Deryck Whibley’s wife, Avril. The band was supposed to play the 7,000 capacity Moncton Coliseum Complex in New Brunswick, Canada last March 7 but the concert venue changed to the 1,200 capacity Club Oxygen. It’s being said that Deryck and his band mates are having trouble selling tickets not just for this one date but for the whole tour. This is just a hunch but maybe the poor tickets sales have something to do with the fact that no one bought their new album.
Ticket sales for Avril Lavigne’s upcoming tour are sluggish – and that’s putting it lightly. So, the singer and so-called songwriter held a press conference to try and muck up some interest in her new outing. She talks about the music she wanted to play live saying she “wanted to play fast, fun songs” and even compared her new album to her previous effort ‘Under My Skin’. She also talked about the show being upbeat with the production being bigger in the sense that she will have dancers during a few songs, LED screens, a pink sparkly drum kit and flags. Wow. The pink drum set just made me want to buy a ticket – NOT!
The Canadian version of the Grammy Awards, the Junos, have recently announced their nominations on Tuesday. Some personal favorites which include the likes of Feist, Chromeo, Rufus Wainwright, Michael Buble and Celine Dion, scored some nods. While I agree with those nominees, there are a couple that I don’t agree with too. Actually, there’s just one – Avril Lavigne.
With all the hate that’s being thrown at her, why can’t the Junos have joined in on it too? Don’t they get it? They are just feeding her ego by doing this. And that huge ego of hers that doesn’t have any merit is what makes her think she can treat people like crap.
The whole world is catching the hate on Avril Lavigne – even her home country of Canada! You know that’s bad. Canada’s national newspaper The Globe & Mail has written an article which basically sums up why Avril is such a douche. They wrote on Avril’s ever-changing image – from being the so-called anti-Britney created by a record company to the now supposed glam rocker. Then there are those allegations of plagiarism, swearing at photographers and fans.
I guess the last straw for them was the ‘Avril in Mexico’ show on MTV Canada where it chronicles the singer’s trip to the MTV Latin Awards. She’s unbearable on that show so I’m not even going to talk about it.
Canadian pop star Avril Lavigne has denied copying a song by 1970s rock band The Rubinoos.
Songwriters Tommy Dunbar and James Gangwer allege Lavigne’s recent hit single Girlfriend was lifted from their 1979 song I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.
But Lavigne said she has “never in my life heard of” the band and says her song has “no musical similarities”.
“Their claim is based on five words,” she wrote on her website. “All songs share similar lyrics and emotions.”
Dunbar and Gangwer launched a legal case against Lavigne in a US District Court in San Francisco last week.
They alleged that “the lyric, the meter, the rhythm” of the Canadian star’s song were “identical” to their tune.
But Lavigne reacted angrily to the claims in a message headed “to my dear media, friends, and fans”.
“Simply put, I have been falsely accused of ripping their song off,” she said.
“Luke [Gottwald, songwriter] and I have done nothing wrong and there is no merit to their claim.”
The 22-year-old singer went on to say that the lyrical conceit of Girlfriend could be compared to other hit records.
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