We hate Avril Lavigne

[Stripes]

NO!! i want to keep the hate thread!!!
forEVER and EVER!!!
:p

[_Roxy_]

ha ha alright, just for u!! :p

[(*.*)]

Originally Posted by sootynsweep

YOU ARE SO RIGHT...hands up who knows her personally...no one i dint think so

Oh my god kate victory you massive massive toolbag.
get out of my house. and stay out. and no more lame ass comments or your head will explode.

get out out out out out!

[Kara]

HOW GOOD ARE HOT MILOS!!!!!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!! *sipp*

[sootynsweep]

Originally Posted by (*.*)

Oh my god kate victory you massive massive toolbag.
get out of my house. and stay out. and no more lame ass comments or your head will explode.

get out out out out out!

ahh Virginia Taylor.... u need to settle the fuck down....and just to annoy u which it seems to do so much......i'll stay registered and continue to write in this discussion

[veronica tghf]

Originally Posted by sootynsweep

ahh Virginia Taylor.... u need to settle the fuck down....and just to annoy u which it seems to do so much......i'll stay registered and continue to write in this discussion

YAY!!... now this thread will never die.

You do realise that Avril fans coming here and complaining about us bagging out Avril is just adding fuel to the fire... if you keep complaining, we'll keep posting and this thread will continue to grow. :yellowro:

[(*.*)]

What are all the ways to get banned?
*thinks*


You know Kate, there is a big market for burnt CDs around here....perhaps you could get some extra cash in your pocket...

[Jay]

Originally Posted by sootynsweep

....and just to annoy u which it seems to do so much......i'll stay registered and continue to write in this discussion

Ohh. All my Christmas' have come at once

I just dont know how I will contain myself

[Shivagoddess]

come on people i want this tread to get to 1000 post now that would be kewl the first one i reckon

go u good things

[smooth]

I just saw this on another board that I go to and thought some people here might be interested to know....

Avril tour dates are:

June 1 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena
June 3 Sydney Entertainment Centre
June 4 Brisbane Entertainment Centre

Quick people, this show is going to raaaaaaaawwwwwwwkkk!!! Get your tickets fast or you'll miss out!!

*reminds everyone that she's only being saracastic in case of any confusion*

[ryttu3k]

Can we book tickets and bring firearms?

[Beckslee]

Originally Posted by ryttu3k

Can we book tickets and bring firearms?

NO!!!! I cannot condone killing with firearms, not even Avril. :headshak:

Besides if you use cluster bombs that way you'll take out some of the other nutters (sorry "fans") that are there as well.

[Munchkin]

Guns don't kill Avril fans, MOSHers kill Avril fans!

[Pautiric]

An Article published today... I really like this one... It made me laugh.


ON PAPER, Avril Lavigne is the biggest star of the year. Her debut album, Let Go, has shifted 10 million units worldwide since its release last June.
But in reality, Lavigne is one of the most curious musical discoveries of recent times.

Her musical history, like the title of her first hit, is complicated.

The Avril Lavigne CV is scant but reads thus: born in Canada 18 years ago, she grew up "kinda sheltered".

She started singing gospel songs at local fairs. Her first break came when she won a competition to sing with Canadian superstar Shania Twain. She then changed her repertoire to country songs.

While she admits she's never actually bought a CD in her life (she now requests them through her record company), the first she was given as a kid were by country acts Faith Hill and the Dixie Chicks.

Photos of a young, geeky Lavigne have begun surfacing on the Internet, no doubt much to her horror.

She weaned herself on to something a little harder via her brother's record collection: Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls and Alanis Morissette.

"I'm still learning what I like," she told Rolling Stone last year.

Lavigne had a record deal at 15 and, according to her bio, was pushed down the Celine Dion path by her label, Arista.

The bio states that the teenager rebelled and soon found herself in New York, working with mainly unknown producers (one, Clif Magness, wrote hits for Sheena Easton and Celine Dion), who have since been in demand. Her record company put a band together for her (she vetted them to make sure they had "dreadlocks and tattoos").

She's spent a good part of the interviews she's done talking about how she hates stylists, loves singing live and has disowned ties now they've become a fashion trend (she wears a tie and fake tattoos in her Sk8er Boi video - both are available to buy on her website).

And while her skills as a skater, guitarist and songwriter have been questioned, the masses clearly don't care and are lapping up Let Go in numbers not seen since, well, the days of Britney Spears.

The difference is, Avril is "real". Or perhaps it's just her manufacturing seams have been hidden better.

She certainly hasn't been given any media training, her manager Terry McBride, who also looks after Dido, says he wanted her to sound like any other teenager.

"It's more real," he claims.

McBride is not Lavigne's first manager. That was Cliff Fabri, who helped her get her record deal before he was sacked.

He, perhaps bitterly, recently said of his ex-client: "Skater? No. Punk? No. She's probably more contrived than Britney ever was."

It's taken a while to get an Avril interview. An Australian promotional tour scheduled for last year was cancelled when she was wanted in more important markets.

Since then she's sold five-times platinum in Australia (350,000), and that talks. That's why we're talking to Lavigne.

But when Hit finally gets Lavigne on the phone - to promote her Australian tour - she's distracted. She's on a mobile in the back of a van. Talking about herself isn't high on her list of favourite things.

She's already earned a reputation as a poor interviewee who is unable to make or keep eye contact in face-to-face interviews. Her attention span is said to be about as long as the average sneeze. The interview starts with the usual pleasantries.

What are you up to?

Driving (silence).

Has your first headline tour started?

No (pause). Starts in March.

And it's coming here in June.

Yep. I'm excited about it. I've never been there.

There's talk you've got a second album out around the same time.

No. I haven't even started it.

Where did that rumour start?

I don't know. Everyone seems to think that but everyone seems to want that or something. (Distracted) No! Stop it! Sorry . . .

So have you been writing songs on the road?

No. Not for the record.

What are they for?

I just do whatever in my own time, for myself. If they make it they do, if they don't they don't.

There's a good rumour you're doing a version of the Sesame Street theme with Blink 182.

F . . . no.

So you haven't planned any collaborations?

No. I haven't started it. I'm just gonna do it when I do it. I'm not there yet.

Are you coping with the speed at which everything's happening?

No. It's cool. I like it.

Is it daunting to think you've sold 10 million albums in six months?

Daunting?

You know, surprising?

It's weird. I don't understand the question.

Well, is it weird to think about your popularity?

I guess so. I guess it's weird if I sit down and think about it, but I don't really think about it.

You're not interested in sales?

No. I don't care about the business side.

You've said you always thought you'd be doing this since you were a young girl. Is this how you pictured it, out front of a band?

I just wanted to be up on stage rockin' out and I got that. I'm happy. There's a bunch of other stuff I gotta do to get that. Like, a bunch of other stuff that wasn't a dream of mine, like, work and stuff.

So doing promotion and interviews are the worst part of your job?

Yeah. That part is, like, a drag.

But you must understand people are interested in you. They want to read what you have to say through interviews?

That's why I do it. That's how your fans get to, like, hear you. They get to know you in a strange kind of way.

Have you heard about the Avril virus?

Mmm hmm.

I guess that means you've made it - a computer virus named after you.

I didn't understand what people were talkin' about. I was like "What are you talkin' about? I'm not sick." Then someone explained it was a computer virus and I'm like "Oh."

There's a lot of rumours going around about you, including an ex-manager saying you were more contrived than Britney. Did that hurt?

That I'm more what?

More contrived than Britney.

I didn't hear that, but I think everyone kinda knows the truth to that.

What truth? That he's bitter or about you being contrived?

I don't want to talk about him.

Well, what about those rumours that you were a record company creation, just like Britney?

Well, there's that rumour then there's the whole thing where everyone likes me because I am not contrived and because I came out as myself and I stood up for myself. Different people have different opinions. Hearing people say, "Oh you're fake," it's like, OK, right. No I'm not. I mean, like, I wear my own clothes to photo shoots, like, whatever. Everything I do, it's like, me. I'm not, like, trying to be a flower or anything like that.

Your bio says you had to stand up to your record company early on. Was that hard to do?

They thought I was going to be more like something I'm not. They expected that and started pushing me in that direction. Whatever. I wasn't like that, and basically they learned that about me. That's why everything got switched around.

Do you get the feeling people were waiting for someone like you to come along, perhaps kids who were disillusioned with Britney?

Maybe. I think people were looking for something different.

Another thing people question is how much input you have into the songs you co-write. Do you write lyrics or melody? How does it work?

In the beginning the other writers would help me out with lyrics and stuff. Now I write all the lyrics for myself and have more control.

What are the new lyrics about? Has your outlook changed?

I don't want to set it up or anything like that. It's not pop is all I'll say.

You've been quoted - or misquoted - about how punk you are.

(Interrupts) I'm not punk. I didn't ever say I was punk. Everyone labelled me punk because that's what they do when a new artist comes out, they, like, want to stick labels on you which is totally lame. But I don't walk around saying I'm punk. I'm not, I don't make punk music.

There was a quote about you saying you'd never heard the Sex Pistols.

(Briskly) Yeah, I have! Don't believe everything you read.

I'm just using this chance to clear up the rumours now I've got you on the phone.

OK. There's so many rumours.

You did a Women in Rock Rolling Stone cover shoot with Alanis Morissette. Is she a hero?

Hero? I don't consider myself to have heroes. She's cool. I like her a lot. She's like, one of my favourite artists. Um, I have to go right now.

And she does. Nearly 20 minutes ahead of schedule. Apparently she'd been doing a seven-hour photo shoot - a Rolling Stone (this one by herself) cover - and was tired.

Many questions are unanswered.

For instance, we didn't get to ask why her former bass player Mark Spicoluk quit, claiming he was sick of being used as a "marketing tool".

You can guess she wouldn't talk about that either. Like, whatever.

� Let Go (BMG) out now. Avril Lavigne, Rod Laver Arena, Sunday June 1. Tickets on sale March 3.

Herald Sun

[Beckslee]

well she definately sounds a bit dopey.

There's a good rumour you're doing a version of the Sesame Street theme with Blink 182.

F . . . no.

But a rock version was done by Game Over a couple of years ago.