30 April 2007

Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend"

Yes, I mentioned this sometime last week or something, but I cannot stress enough how totally fucking RIPPED off "Girlfriend" "by" Avril Lavigne is. The Lush song I'm referencing is called "I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend," and was a B-side to "Ladykillers," in 1996. This version itself was actually a COVER of The Rubinoos song, "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend." I wanna know why no one seems to give a shit? I'll bet the genius who wrote the song does!!! Man! Do people suck.

UPDATE: Other Posts I have written on This Topic:

A Letter to the "Editors" of Rolling Stone 13 July 2007

Loves It 11 July 2007

Your Dear Media 6 July 2007

Vindication: Avril Lavigne, Lush, and The Rubinoos = Lawsuit 5 July 2007

Hey! Hey! You! You! 23 April 2007

1 comments:

Joseph said...

In totally-related-to-Rubinoos News:

1. I just realized that I actually do have your "new" (within the last year) blog's URL and now I don't have an excuse for not reading it, like, 5 times a day.

2. i can't believe you didn't comment on my Ramsey Clark post... I thought it was pretty clever!

3. man, Pete Doherty's teeth are f-ed up...

4. I believe it's pronounced "Dock-erty" and spelled "Doherty"... it's Scotch-Irish or some shite.

- Lenny