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08/22/2002: "Avril is NOT punk...just a copycat."
Just saw Avril Lavigne's new video for the song Sk8er Boi (Notice the very "cool", very "anti-Britney," very "not molded by record labels" spelling). The police come for her when she sets up stage in the middle of a city and starts singing for a moshing crowd. In the latest Rolling Stone magazine, she insisted that she's never called herself punk. Ahhh, I see. She's not punk, she's just a Limp Bizket copycat.
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I caught her on TRL (I don't watch it, I swear!) while I was channel surfing, and was ASTOUNDED at how totally obnoxious she is! who gave her a record deal?!melantha, Thursday, August 22nd
I personally liked the video, but I must admit that she is kinda being a fruitcake like Limp Bizkit when she says she never saw herself as a sk8er. So I guess she has never rode a skateboard or looked in the mirror. That must be great to be so nieve.MColbyB, Friday, August 23rd
3 words: record label puppet.melantha, Friday, August 23rd
i hate avril. plus, she can't sing for shit live and she looks like a 40 year old crackwhore without make up and she can't even skate OR play the guitar. jesus. she pisses me off. and all my friends are all, omg she's SO punk but that's the only punk i like, i normally like pop and rap and i'm like OMFG and then i get even more pissed. oh well. the world is full of idiots.uhm. me., Thursday, October 17th
It's true! She's a stupid fuck..."I can't call myself punk, because punks aren't on mtv." that's bullshit. Rancid practically WAS mtv back in 94...and they're still core. Avril, even if you weren't on mtv, you're far from being punk, dear heart. Sorry.zxpixyxz@aol.com">Chii Luvz Davey Havok, Saturday, October 19th
Somebody tell me why she never gives credit to her band....She is not the only one in it so y is it just her name? She says "I never said i was a punk" please tell me, how many times has she said she was a skater punk? like a million or so? She gets everything at hot topic which by the why is the store everyone goes to when they are TRYING to be punk and have been told that going to hot topic will make them soo punk.TRANSLATION:ooh yay! more money for us! Avril just prooves by her pop music, yes it IS pop th at she is trying very hard.mandee, Monday, December 16th
avril has NEVER said she was punk she said she likes to liten to punk music, rock music and she only wears makup round her eyes, she is truely beautiful unlike britney spears (AKA. britney the slutty spears) who packs her face with make up. she dresses like that natrully and she dresses like that when she went to high school and she has said as million bazillion times ' when u hear my name i hope u think of the band and me not just me.' she 18. they gave her a record deal cause she can sing!she not a copy cat, her video clips are the coolest unlike britney's who just takes off her clothes.....lil18angel2001@yahoo.com.au lil18angel2001@hotmail.com">natasha kate olsen, Tuesday, January 7th
AVRIL LAVIGNE RULES!!!!!!!! UNLIKE BRITNEY SPEARS!!!!!!!natasha kate olsen, Tuesday, January 7th
i cant stnad avril lavine lavige something llike that, i can barely discuss the subject anymore, it is making thirteen year old girls who would normally buy nsync records think they are hardcore and punk, then they rush by her side to defend her, lets face it most music is fake today. she is a record company puppet and plus what is the think where she can NEVERRR put her hair behind her ears, plus i bet they pay her band bunches of money just to stay with her, because they also look like they "do their own thing, we're individuals" hmmm......i no longer speak about avril now, that was ithmmmmmmmmm, Saturday, January 11th
let avril lavigne be my god!!!natasha olsen, Saturday, January 11th
dude. omfg. Avril sucks. As for being jealous, go on a search engine and search for "avril without makeup." then tell me if im still jealous of THAT THING. Seriously ppl, shes a deformed phreak. someone here said "avril is original. she dresses like she did in high school" well obviously you know nothing little girl. Have you seen her high school photos? i have, and its all lace and pop. Avril is a poseur, and so is all her teen-bopping hippy 9 year old fans. laternewfoundglory055@hotmail.com">ducky, Tuesday, January 21st
Avril sucks shes a stupid ass holeColeyoleyo13@yahoo.com">Nicole, Saturday, February 1st
look who cares if she is cute or not with make up or not? what's the deal? she has a record deal and she is making money. she doesn't write her songs? she doesn't sing well? she is ugly? well she is making money out of this. she is a genius. i like her songs because they are telling my whole life? she didn't write it? I SOOO DON'T CARE!!avril fan, Monday, February 17th
dear fucktards,melantha, Saturday, February 22nd
As an English professor, I think I would have to fail our dear Avril based on her awful grammar. Here is what she submitted to Arista for a final draft regarding the topic "Anything But Ordinary."dot, Saturday, February 22nd
Dear Miss Lavigne,Tara, Saturday, February 22nd
I LOVE AVRIL YOU RULE!Joe, Monday, February 24th
I think Avril kicks ass! I'm her biggest fan!! I think all you who think she sucks or think shes a poser are stupid! She is doing what she wants to do. Being punk is not just doing what everyone does. Being punk is saying what you want, wearing what you want, and doing what you want! Whats wring with you people with your underground bull shit, thats stupid! If you don't like A.R.L. go put your grandma in a bag!Harvey, Saturday, March 1st
Like I said...the average age of these commenters is about 14...Brooke, Sunday, March 2nd
Hey! I take offense to that Brooke! I'm 15, damnit, and I know Avril Lavigne sucks! Ha! You know ever since Avril Lavigne came out I've been labeled as a damn "look-a-like"? It pisses me off so much! I had one tie and after she came out I burned it! If someone tells me I dress like her again it's over! I Hate looking like someone else and especially if she's a frickin' pop star like Avril!china14@ameritech.net">Chyna, Tuesday, March 4th
eh....avril's alright, her songs are pretty good....BUT HAVE YOU HEARD THE GIRL SING LIVE?!?!?!?!? geez, she doesn't even sound like her track records....can you say "studio magic?"Kim T., Saturday, March 15th
avril is a fukin poser ... its not that her music sux its that she keeps callin herself a "punk"gcsum41nfg55@netscape.net">poserneeds2die, Sunday, March 16th
omg i fucking hate that bitch how the fuck can n e one think she is punk? i thought punks were supposed to have tatoos and all that shit like the distillers and rancid! and she has none of that! She tries to hard to be punk and i think we should all get together and kill that poser bitch!avril sucks ass, Wednesday, April 2nd
I think Avril is a smart little one and she can sing too, But she does have alot of growing up to do. I bet ya by next year she will have chngd her whole image and become a dru addict.Nicki, Thursday, April 3rd
Is her name really "APRIL"??? And she chngd it to the french word AVRILhadley, Thursday, April 3rd
no matter what we say or do, people are gonna hate avril, people are gonna love avril, nothing will change that, everyone has a right to their own opinion, and every one has a right to defend that opinion, but when it comes down to the bickering between anti and pro, that's when it gets elementary, no matter what age you are, we all like different things, so we should enjoy that, instead of wasting time arguing and dissing on eachother all the time, yes i do like avril, but i like other bands too, being a musician myself, i respect her as an artist, and i respect every artist or band, even if i dont like them, who are we to say she rocks or she sucks, she's out there in the music business like so many others want but do not achieve, i think that's great, let her do her thing, and you do your thing, and if you dont like her music, more power to you, you can always change the channel or the station, if you do like her, more power to you, and know there are many others out there who think avril rocks, i guess that's all i have to say.lilpixelpoop@aol.com">megan, Saturday, April 5th
alright. here's the short of it. avril lavigne is an mtv whore. done. she has claimed she was punk, for example, take her interview in ym magazine among others... and, in her bio on her webiste, it claims first thing that she is a "skater-punk"... uh-huh. the thing that pisses me off most is the fact that she lets herself be labeled as "skater-punk" and then when anyone asks her about it, it's: "oh, no! like, i'm not punk! i never like said i was punk!" then, she lets all her little poser fans think that she is punk and that they are punk... and it ruins it for people who actually are! i, for one, turned away from punk a while back... because what people think it is today is NOT what it was when it began... and it's not what i was a part of it for. so in general, i'd like to give a big FUCK YOU to all the bull-shit pop punk bands and avril wannabes and punks who all they care about is "i am more punk then you"....anonymous, Saturday, April 5th
true punk today is not what it is about before, before it was about political views, and now all this so called "punk" bands only sing about love and so called "punk" related themes, i feel sorry for punks today, i feel sorry for kids in general today, because nothing is what it use to be, or is meant to be, hot topic the store use to be goth clothes, but then they saw that this "punk" trend is what's hot right now, so they sold out, i dont shop at hot topic anymore. so what if avril did say "i'm punk" or "i'm not punk" we all do that sometimes, say we're something and then the next minute say we're something else. it's human nature, so you should'nt degrade someone and call them elementary names for it. if you think he sucks, how about, instead saying she sucks, say you dont like her, and if you think she rocks, how about, instead of saying that, say you do like her, for some reason when people say the word rocks, or sucks, it gets people mad, which is sad because everyone's so hateful now a days. what's is really really sad especially considering what's going on in the world today. ok, that's your opinion, you think she's a whore, but just because it is your opinion doesn't mean it's the truth. everyone sees their own truth. so what do you believe?lilpixelpoop@aol.com">megan, Saturday, April 5th
"every one is everything at one point or another."lilpixelpoop@aol.com">megan, Saturday, April 5th
dumb ass pricks, avril is a fucken anus. she can't sing for shit, the tie thing is posed off from other people and she thinks she started it and all these fucken preps THINK that they are punk, the fucken eyeliner is copied from preps so therefore make AckaVILLE VAGINA a FUCKEN POSEUR!!! hahah she doesn't write that music, please she fucken sucks. and the fucken record label signed her because "punk" is cool now and they get money from ALL STAR CONVERSE, DICKIES, TIES, AND EYELINERS, I fucken hate her and i bet anyone that by the end of htis year her "music will be gone and she'll be burned, hahahhaah she'll be singing "he was a sk8ter boi" ahahahahJustyna, Thursday, April 10th
avril is anything but a punk she sucks dick she doesnt even have a good voice have u seen this girl on the red carpet it looked like she was either high or stoned she is such a poser she just does this to be diferent i respect that but cmon people she is a poser that needs heloavrilsucksdick@aol.com">kay, Saturday, April 12th
don't you think complicated is a little hypocritcal? Avril is stupid. She is a hypocrite. "I think glamour and gloss is so fake" yeah uh huh and thats why you wear 10 pounds of eyeliner. A lot of kids in my school dress like her. They wear everything hot topic and have one million braclets and put on a lot of eyeliner. Can you say wannabe? Plus at my site I get hate mail and some Avril fans are just about as stupid as Avril herself. One of them said "Avril is being herself. Even if she is a poser. Leave her alone. If a poser is what she really is then she is being herself." I wanted to tell them Hey kid ever hear of an oxymoron? "real Poser" now thats a good one.Ellen, Saturday, April 12th
Yo. Wanna help me kill Avril? All my friends are fans, they start trying to murder me when I talk against her...quicksilver_1602@hotmail.com">Ratty, Tuesday, April 15th
People that give good credits to Avril, you're awesome, for example, saying that "her music is cool"..thats what she likes to hear...or "avril is great"..thats even nice too. But for the people who make malevolent remarks about her..youre all very fucking miserable bitches and shallow in what you say all througout this weblog. You certainly need to rot in hell. I believe (without personally meeting her) that Avril is a Beautiful young girl, and she wants to live her life, so just stop OBSESSING and let the fucking girl go. she DOES know what she is doing. Many of you are probably 13 or 14 year old kids and have no idea what the hell you're talking about.(just by reading these comments, the majority of you people are numskulled). Without any hesitation, You just go along with what everyone else is doing...Labeling Avril as a "poser"..saying shes not "punk"..well guess what? you probably dont know what the fuck punk is or what is WAS or where it even came from!. I know what punk is and its been dead for about 20 years, sure there are some punk bands still around such as The Exploited, but its all old school punk. Punk today is considered a fashion. Your simple-minded views towards Avril are not even worth a thing TO her. She likes the gratification and attention she gets from when shes performing on stage and signing autographs, not listening to fucking feeble-minded bastards like some of you. The fucking hatred keeps spewing out of your mouths. You know what, go ahead and Get pissed off at her just because she dresses different! Get pissed at her because she sings songs that others may see as unsophisticated!..Get pissed at the fact that she wears eyeliner and shes not a gutter whore! God.. cant we learn to all get along and grow up a little? There is not a damn thing wrong with her, shes a girl, so lay off!!. If there are some adults in here that are being disrespectful, that goes for you too. You should have gotten a life by now instead of criticizing a young girl in that manner. As for the Nazis, shut the fuck up about them too..you little fucking Anti-Nazi pricks dont know what the fuck your babbling about in that situation either. ByeYourLeader, Friday, April 18th
Thank you all for filling my blog with such foul language. You're now on my list of people to banish to a desert island. Anyone want to tell me how the hell you find this blog entry? I wrote it eons ago.Brooke, Saturday, April 19th
OMG! Someone said she is singing about their life? She is always damn moaning!e.g. why did YOU have to go and make things so compliacted? And skater boy was a story about a boy and a girl. What the-? And also, i'm not a poser yelling this over the net but i guess i am a punk.I may not dress like one, but i adore the music. I'm not a poser like her. All she does is say she is. And anyway...WHAT HAVE SKATEBOARDS GOT TO DO WITH MUSIC??? PUNK IS NOT ABOUT SKATEBOARDS OR LOOKS. ITS ABOUT MUSIC AND AVRIL IS NOT! SHE IS PLAIN POP. And i'm 12 ok. And i don't remember Avril turning me punk. I actually started listening to it, and seemed to like it. I didn't even know people or even herself said she was punk. But if you think he is punk...i'm sorry but you don't know anything about music...Hamster Girl (Susan), Thursday, May 1st
I wish people went ballistic about MY anti-Avril comments like they do here. I'm jealous.melantha, Thursday, May 1st
don't say that she the best rock star :)Avrile, Wednesday, May 7th
Avril's the best rocker in the world. You guys are just jealous of her success. Avril is the best and there's nothing you can do about it. You're just ordinary girls and boys. you guys suck!!! You are losers and assholes!!! I wish you'd stop writing about shit things that aren't even true!!! Avril is the #1 girl in this whole world. You are stupid motherfuckin bitches and assholes who just wants to pull others down by writing shit stuff about anyone especially Avril. And anyone who writes that she's shit, You're shit, too. So what if she doesn't wear make-up. It's good cause make-up sucks!!! It only makes your face uglier and more un-original. You look so FUCKIN FAKE in make-ups. So if she doesn't wear tattoo. She's only making herself clean. I hate people wearing tattoo. They look like shit prisoners. All her songs are great. If you think it's not, SOOO WHATT? You can't even write songs like she does you bitches. You guys are the WWWWWOOOORRRRSSSSTTTTT! All people who are anti-avril are fuckin shitheads! She's original!!!josh_parker1109@yahoo.com">Josh Parker, Wednesday, May 7th
avril is a pozer and you know it!!!sky_panther_89@hotmail.com">F.M., Tuesday, May 13th
Fuck everybody who hates her.She really cool and pretty.And if people out there don't like her then fuck them.Sara, Wednesday, May 14th
Avril Is fucking cool.She is Also so hot! I am one of her biggest fan.And those who don't like they are so stupid.Brian, Wednesday, May 14th
An interesting note...the previous two comments were left by the same IP number about two minutes apart. Do we have multiple personalities here? One personality is male-ish, and the other female-ish? Or just an obsessed teenybopper? Just something to ponder...Brooke, Thursday, May 15th
erm, FM, I hate to break it to you, but 75% of your list is also carefully cultivated Clear Channel approved acts. just. like. avril.melantha, Thursday, May 15th
avril fucking sucks! everyone thinks im trying to be her because i wore ties and eye linner and spikes ect... even tho i wore all that shit before she came out... she isnt the only one who ever dressed like that and if she thinks she started the tie thing i swear to god im going to fucking take one of her ties and choke her with it!!!!!! im not trying to be avril i hate that stupid bitch! my nickname at school is avril its so god damn annoying... and i hate people who listen to her bullshit music why dont you go listen to some REAL punk... like anti-flag rancid the distillersthe anti-avril, Friday, May 16th
I read an interview from the Matrix (they co wrote most of the songs) and they said that they wrote the music and lyrics to complicated and then Avril came in and changed a word here or there. THAT IS A DIRECT QUOTE FROM THE MATRIX! Do you call that songwriting??? Anybody can change a few words. And for someone who said they played guitar since age 12, why does she need songwriters helping her anyway? She should be able to write music and lyrics if she has been playing guitar for 6 years. Michelle Branch can write her own music so why isn't she as popular as avril? Avril didn't even grow up listening to rock music. Michelle has. But you don't see michelle acting like some "bad ass" rock star.Whisper, Sunday, May 18th
She does look ugly without make up. if you go here: http://kutekitten.com/content/health/withoutmakeup/withoutmakeup9.gifJessica, Sunday, May 25th
i love uwisconsin dead trip, Wednesday, May 28th
i think that avril really is a pozer she cant sing and she deffinetly does not skate!!!!! and if u look in her video to comlicated u will see that when she is "playing the gutar" she is really strumming it and the one only ONE cord she strums is not even in the song!! ITS NOT IN THE SONG!!! what does that say to me?? POZER!!! and i wuz reading a mag. that my sister has avril said "i never waz a gyrly gyrl" bullshit she wuz a cheerleader in high skewl!!! i dont have a problem with cheerleaders or ne thign but u dont really see a very many tomboyz on the squad!!! and did u know that she used to sing country??? COUNTRY and who is she trying to fool with the pozer punk look??? she did not even know who the sex pistols are!! OMFG THE SEX PISTOLS they like totally origanated punk music how can u not know them?? well all im sating is avrils a straight out pozer! so she can take her and her ties and go elsewhere!! she should rot in hell is what it think!!!kris, Sunday, June 1st
1 word for avril: FAKE. but what pisses me off the most and what i dont get is that eva since she came out into the big wide world of music, every chick who is seen with a skateboard or with wristspikes is called an Avril wanabe. Im 14 and i started skateing when i was 11. Ive been wearing wristspikes for about 4 years and now every1 calls me an Avril wanabe. I feel insulted. I dont wear ties or singlet tops because thats not me. I wear baggy pants n tops and i skate yet im still called an Avril wanabe. im sorry but it pisses the shit out of me that all these people like me are now called Avril Wanabes ... ARGHHHHHHjust_kb_2001@hotmail.com">Kristy, Monday, June 9th
She is hot and really nothing else, but at least she it hot!me!, Friday, July 4th
U GUYS ARE ALL F%#$ed up if u think avrile Lavigne sux... Just because u caould never get as good as she was u have to talk trash about her to make u feel good about ur self... Since thats the case ur nothing but a sad person U KNOW WHY BECAUSE SHE'S GOT A GREAT LIFE AND PPL LIKE U DONT HAVE ONE AT ALL SO U THINK ITS GOOD TO TALK TRASH ABOUT ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SINGERS ON THIS PLANET!!!!!!!!!!!Shawn, Tuesday, July 22nd
One of the most sucessful singers on this planet? *blinks* Wow. You must be really really young and really really sheltered.Brooke, Monday, July 28th
avril laviljhbn sux ass. i just want all you prissy avril fans who avril and themselves are punk to where big signs that say "i love avril cus she's punk" that way when i move back to the us i dont have to talk to you poser chode munchers to know that i have to kick your asses. judgement day is 16 days away and when i see you clone poser asses walking down the street im gonna beat the piss out of you, then i'll piss on you. avril and all you fags dont have any punk characteristics at all, you just wish you did. soon enough this goddamn fad will go away and then i can go back to smokin pot and watching tv instead of trying to rid the world of you prissies. beware of the fist, cunt!jytd jtdt, Wednesday, July 30th
you all suck avril is one of the best even if she dosen't sing punk.bryan, Wednesday, September 10th
i CANNOT belive you WANNABE PUNKS have so little friends you sit around defending some sexless little virgin to make yourselves feel important. Here is some REAL rock music, you cunts: Hole, Nirvana, Babes in Toyland, Scratch Acid, Soil, Iron Maiden, Korn, Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, New York Dolls, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Murderdolls, Rammstein, Slipknot, Rage Against the Machine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nina Hagen, Smashing Pumpkins, System of a Down, Nine Inch Nails, Rancid, the Pixies, the Vaselines, My Bloody Valentine, Placebo, Transplants, Sonic Youth, Biffy Clyro, Cooper Temple Clause, Queens of the Stone Age and Mudhoney. Satisfied?Louie, Saturday, September 13th
Avril is such a slut. she thinks she can get all the guys and she thinks eweryone likes her. she is such a bitch!!!!!!!!!!! now, in my city , my and my friends, we write on the wall "AVRIL/BITCH".pimpaila@omni.lt">avril sucks, Saturday, September 27th
KILL AVRIL!!!!! SHE SUCKS!!! SHE IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DUMB; SHE CAN'T SING; SHE'S UGLY AND ALL OF HER FANS ARE SSTTUUPPIIDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!! FUCK THEM!!!!!!!!PIMPAILAXXX@OMNI.LT">AVRIL AND HER FANS-DIE, Saturday, September 27th
Yo, I'm Louie, and I'm mr.punk. And I'm the only real punk, because all of you are poseurs!!! I'm going to yack away at some 11 year old kid because I claim to know more about punk then they do, when really, I'm just a dipshit, who is only trying to defend a subculture that I know nothing about, and the real energy died in the fucking 70's. Yes, Avril's a poseur, but so am I because I'm a judging prick, who doesn't know that punk subculture is mainly about acceptance, and believe that all of this bullshit about wearing some spiked uniform, and listening to the right type of music is the real deal!Louie, Sunday, September 28th
I've got it all planned out, when I meet avril Im gonna kick her stupid poser ass so its all ovet the news, and all you gys will be sitting there ever so proud of me. I cant wait until that day comes.. it will be my pleasure!!lauren, Wednesday, October 1st
You guys r wrong you dont no her as well as i do , she is punk.Not likke you fake immataters!Avril Fan, Friday, November 26th
