Avril Lavigne Sued For Apparently Pinching Other Bad Songs
Then buzz it up
July 5th, 2007 at 14:30 by Stuart Heritage
Although you're flattered that Avril Lavigne said she thinks your girlfriend is crap and that she'd be a better girlfriend than your current girlfriend in her song - we forget what it's called - don't be, because Avril's ideas might not be her own.
It's being reported that Avril Lavigne is being sued by a songwriter who claims that Avril Lavigne's hit single Girlfriend was stolen from one of his old songs. Although Avril Lavigne and her management deny this claim completely, it doesn't stop us from being surprised by a couple of things: 1) Who'd actually want to admit that they wrote Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne in the first place? What sort of compensation does this songwriter expect? A thump in the gob? Also, 2) the song that it's claimed Avril Lavigne stole for Girlfriend is a song other than Hey Mickey. Wonders will never cease.
There's a small part of hecklerspray that's always wanted to be Avril Lavigne. Possibly it's because we're jealous that Avril married the boy from Sum 41 with the Play-Doh face before we could, possibly it's because Avril Lavigne lives in quite a big house, or possibly it's because Avril Lavigne seems to be so blissfully untroubled by thought or any basic understanding of anything that she can float through life like a fairy surfing on a cloud.
However, the rest of us wouldn't like to be Avril Lavigne at all, especially not now that she's being sued by a songwriter who claims she stole her hit song Girlfriend from him. Tommy Dunbar, founder of 1970s group The Rubinoos, alleges that Avril Lavigne got her idea for the bit of Girlfriend that goes "Hey! Hey! You! You! I don't like your girlfriend" from the bit of Rubinoos song I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend that goes "Hey! Hey! You! You! I wanna be your boyfriend" as ABC reports:
Canadian punk princess Avril Lavigne is being sued by U.S. songwriters who claim that her smash hit "Girlfriend" sounds suspiciously like a track they took up the charts in the 1970s. Lavigne's manager, Terry McBride, says the pop starlet is one of several people named in a lawsuit filed July 2 that alleges striking similarities to the Rubinoos song "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend." … McBride says from Vancouver that the claim is baseless, noting that a musicologist he hired to study both tracks has deemed them completely different songs.
Baseless, eh? Let's compare. Here's I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend by The Rubinoos and here's a cack-handed, yet still relevant, remix of Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne. We couldn't possibly say whether or not Avril Lavigne ripped off The Rubinoos, although the choruses to each song could be said to sound a little alike. Then again, we couldn't tell if Beyonce was ripping off Des'ree either. True, that's because we'd rather hack off our ears and liquidise them than listen to a song by either Beyonce, Des'ree or Avril Lavigne, but that's beside the point.
Of course, Avril Lavigne's case does get a little bit stronger when you realise that The Rubinoos weren't the inspiration for all of Girlfriend. The video for I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend doesn't feature three annoyingly bratty young women played by the same attention-seeking, pretend rebellious girl, for example. And the video for Girlfriend does. Whether she stole the song or not, we just want the case to be settled as quickly as possible so that Avril Lavigne can do the thing she's most famous for - getting drunk and being an arsehole in public.
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July 5th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
pretty obvious the slut poached that particular verse…no-talent skank
July 6th, 2007 at 2:07 am
duuuuuude there gonna sue her cause she says hey hey you you i wanna be…..
thats stupid
people find a way to sue someone for no reason huh?
July 6th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I don’t disagree with the point of the song being bad… but you can hardly call those two songs the same… you don’t need a musicologist or whatever it was to figure that out…
July 6th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
oh wait its the ramones from whom i heard it… i apologise… i take it back.. for now
July 7th, 2007 at 3:06 am
That is not for no reason, Avril Lavigne is Canadian and Canadians are well known for being scam artists. :*D Its sad that Canadians are so intelligent but they use their intelligents for stupidity. That Slut copied the lyrics and she knows it as she is enjoying the publicity right now. MORE MONEY COMING FOR HER!! Like she gives a shit that her stupid fans are defending her.
July 7th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
what the hell!
she was driking when she wwrote is I think your guyz are just jelus ASS HOLES AND BITCHS!
July 7th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Shes a CRAP SINGER ANYWAY -WHATS NEW ,LET THE KIDDIES 901 TO 11 ) YEARS OF AGE GO MAD FOR IT ,THATS THE ONLY FOLKS SHE ATRACTS FOR HER MUSIC NOWADAYS
July 8th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Why aren’t the Rolling Stones suing the Robinoos?
Listen yourself and decide:
The Rubinoos rip off The Rolling Stones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBwKQkvXmDU&mode=related&search=
Rolling Stones ~ Avril Lavigne ~ The Rubinoos COMPARE HOOKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FraPFM2LkM&mode=related&search=
So the Stones and the Rubinoos have the same chords in that chorus.. Avril chorus at least are different chords.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:11 am
I am not 9-11. In fact I pay taxes and enjoy singing and dancing with my kid to Girlfriend. Man if you people are the next generation to inheritate the earth. It makes me shudder. I read and listened to both songs. There are five words the same. Maybe the Stones should sue the Rubinoo’s for plagiarism then. I mean they used Hey Hey You You just like on their Get Off My Cloud song. Yeesh. I won’t even get into the Ramones thing …Get a grip already. As well if this site actually updated itself to timely news they would also have posted how Chantal stated to the CEO of Nettwork Music in Canada who reps both artists how she regrets stating what she did since SHE HAD NOT HEARD Avril’s version of CONTAGIOUS on Avril’s new CD when she said what she did. In fact the two songs are totally different and similiarities end at the Title.
When someone is successful people just want to rip someone down or get their 15 minutes of fame at the expense of the successful person. It’s sick how our society is like that. HOw all the people but one on this blog, are apparantely like that…
August 8th, 2007 at 2:44 am
[...] for their Twist Pop Sin album on iTunes, but thanks to all the flap about how much their song I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend sounds like Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne, The Rubinoos are now bigger than The Beatles, Beethoven and Jesus Christ [...]
August 28th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
her song is hey hey you you! their song is hey you not the same…and so all song have similarity! and she was drunk when she wrote this and when your drunk your not going to remember a song that is so shit like that!!!
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:22 pm
ALL OF THE SONGS SOUND THE SAME!!!!*
September 29th, 2007 at 2:47 am
who cares ?????????????
October 8th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
you are so fat and reterded that when you go to the beach the whales sing “WE ARE A FAMILY” (”EVEN THOUGH YOUR FATTER THEN ME”)
October 11th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
i think all of you that are dissin avril are fking retards avril is the best and would not do something like that! all of you are baaaaaaaasterds! so go lick ur fkin grandma’s
vaaaaagiiiinnnnnaaaaaaaaa coooooock suuuuckers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 13th, 2007 at 3:19 am
omfg!
the ONLY parts of the songs that even sound anythink alike is the “hey you”
that’s so fucking gay….
you people are fucking vagina likers so FUCK OFF!
*avril fan
October 13th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Count me in! I know I’m a vagina liker, personally I can’t get enough of ‘em.
November 13th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
hey ima big avril lavigne fan.she is like my bitch and i think ya’ll need 2 fuck off and leave her alone
November 18th, 2007 at 11:28 am
I THINK AVRIL ROCKS AND THAT U PL SHOULD LEAV HER ALONE!!!!!
it doesnt even sound dat alike to me
SO FUCK OFF ARSEHOLES!!!!!
*avril fan*
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:13 pm
hej HEj you jeHH i wanna Love you avriL…
January 6th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
i hope she loses a fortune
March 6th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
hey avril what’s up??
March 6th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
HAAY u btches,, ga fak yersuff n tha slut ho!!!!!!!!!!!!! an, HAAY u btchs stuk id UP YOR PEE WHOLLE 2 nite 4 nuthin, COX SUKKRZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so…..YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*arvil fam*
April 12th, 2008 at 10:40 am
i love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu AVRIL LAVINGNE I MISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
April 12th, 2008 at 10:41 am
hey avril what’s up??
April 12th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
hey avril whats up I am taking French class
and did you now that avril is like french for spring?
u r 2 kul! alrite!
June 18th, 2008 at 1:14 am
Thats fucking stupid as hell they shouldnt even be able to sue her for that… and shes not a no talent skank…. skanks sleep around and she doesnt btw she has way more talent than you have and ever will have… douche