I am not a fan really. The only avril things I like are those done by weird al yankavic. At 08:08 p.m. 20/04/2007, you wrote: >my sister is addicted to that stupid shit pile! it needs to die! >----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "talk2" <talk2@AndreLouis.COM> >Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:17 PM >Subject: Re: The Talk2 List Avril's latest: Only the best damn thing if you're >14 > > >>Hmm. With Avril, it seems to be like...One step forward, ten steps back. >> >>THis sounds like an immature pile of shit. I was a little worried when I >>heard that stupid "girlfriend" song, and now...It looks like Avril's jumped >>the shark, folks...And I'm going to have to live with this album because a >>few of my friends like her music...Oh god. >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Samuel Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "talk2" <talk2@AndreLouis.COM> >>Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:17 PM >>Subject: The Talk2 List Avril's latest: Only the best damn thing if you're 14 >> >> >>>This from Toronto's largest newspaper; I thought we were supposed to have >>>love for our fellow Canadians? Huh. Guess not. Honestly...The globe isn't >>>usually this bitchy. >>> >>>Avril's latest: Only the best damn thing if you're 14 >>>The Globe and Mail >>>The Best Damn Thing is not the worst damn thing, but it is a calculated >>>thing -- a shallow, callow, unrefreshing thing. Avril Lavigne, the sassy-imp >>>pop >>>creation from Napanee, Ont., is a 22-year-old married woman posing as a >>>child and performing to an audience that counts training bras and braces for >>>their >>>teeth as their year's eventful acquisitions. Add the new album from Lavigne >>>to the list, and now the pink, sparkly cellphones really begin to squeal. >>> >>>The material is mostly fun and frivolous, a fact the singer readily admits. >>>"My last record had songs that were, like, so literal," she told USA Today, >>>referring to 2004's Under My Skin. "This record isn't a serious diary. It's >>>not even really about anything I'm going through right now." >>> >>>What she's going through these days is married life with Sum 41's Deryck >>>Whibley, her new husband, with whom she shares a newly purchased >>>$9.5-million L.A. >>>mansion. Are there tunes about her man? "I have a couple of, whatever -- >>>love songs, or whatever you want to call them," Lavigne said. Yes, Avril, the >>>resolute Keep Holding On is what we call a love song. >>> >>>You wouldn't know that the Complicated singer is involved in a mature >>>relationship, not with songs (written with the help of professional >>>tunesmiths) that >>>have her bashing boys, being bratty and looking for catfights down at the >>>mall. On the drummy, driving first single, >>>Girlfriend (with the cheerleading Hey Mickey >>>beat), Lavigne is full of herself. "She's like so whatever," sings Lavigne, >>>in bitch mode. "You could do so much better." >>> >>>Like Girlfriend, the following I Can Do Better comes swift with tom-toms and >>>expletives deleted, with our helium-voiced heroine giggling and growling to >>>an old Billy Idol riff. The acoustic strummed intro of the pop-rocking >>>Runaway sounds familiar as well; here, Lavigne is having a bad day. The >>>title track >>>is a swirl of fun, with a highly confident star (oddly employing a faux Brit >>>accent) cheered on by that pom-pom squad again: Give us an "A," give us a >>>"V." >>> >>>Give us a break, which is what we have with the strings and sobs of When >>>You're Gone >>>and the piano-serious Innocence, with its Sarah McLachlan-like vocal >>>nuances. But we're back to merriment on the hip hop and punk lite of I Don't >>>Have to >>>Try, with its fast churn and choir of backup-singing chipmunks. Lavigne is >>>fun and assertive, telling her boy that she's the one who knows the dance and >>>she's the one who wears the pants. "Don't you disagree, 'cause you know it's >>>all about me." >>> >>>Is it all about Avril? Of course it is -- she's the scene, she's the drama >>>queen. Is she having fun with her bratty, spit-at-the-photographer >>>reputation? >>>You would suppose so. Is this album of any interest to any listener over 14? >>>Probably not. Does that even matter? No, it doesn't mean a damn thing. >>> >>> >>> >>>Did you miss a message? Well, don't. >>>http://www.mail-archive.com/talk2%40andrelouis.com/ >>>has it for you. Never miss a Talk2 message again. >> > > > > >Did you miss a message? Well, don't. >http://www.mail-archive.com/talk2%40andrelouis.com/ >has it for you. Never miss a Talk2 message again.
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