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| From | Mike Vancha <mvancha@sasktel.net> |
| Subject | Re: Avril's MySpace comments |
| Date | Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:31:51 -0600 |
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Hi everyone,
I think that Shania (Eileen) Twain was a major role model for Avril and had
even formed a friendship with Avril and was guiding her along in her career,
was she not? Avril may have either been opening for Shania or at least she
had some contact with Shania.
Someone got a hold of Avril and turned her into a pop punk artist, with a
singing style change, a wardrobe change and a complete makeover so she is
really just a packaged product.
From what I remember, someone has asked Avril if she had much input into her
music and if she had punk roots or even knew who the Sex Pistols were and
she said she had no idea who they were. Therefore, I find it hard to believe
that she would even had heard of the Rubinoos or one of their songs. I think
it is most likely that anyone who has guided Avril in her new punk pop
direction may be responsible for all she has done musically.
Mike V.
even fon 7/8/07 9:32 AM, Alan Haber at zoogang@cox.net wrote:
> Avril Lavigne was a country artist?! I didn't know that. I can't even
> imagine it. Wow.
>
> I think Jamie is right on with his assessment. It's the producer who's at
> fault, if anyone actually is at fault.
>
> Alan
> http://www.buhdge.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of
> Jaimie Vernon
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 11:08 AM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Avril's MySpace comments
>
> AT Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 02:49:57 Don wrote:
>
>> She's never heard of the Rubinoo's....some band from the 70's? That's kind
>> of interesting. It would be like some Cool Gen X'er saying they never heard
>
>> of
>> Nirvana.
>
> That's pretty presumptuous. Until the controversy this week I had never
> heard the SONG "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" and only knew the name Rubinoos
> from mentions on this mailing list. And I consider myself pretty well versed
>
> on '70s pop having forged my musical career living through that decade.
>
> "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" was never a radio hit in Canada. It's not on any
>
> K-Tel albums. It's not the theme song to some TV show or was used in a
> pivotal scene in a Ben Stiller comedy. Avril is from a very small town in
> rural Ontario, Canada...and until someone re-invented her as a skate
> pop-punk at the age of 16, she was strictly a country artist (gasp!). Even
> if she were listening to pop and rock radio delivered to her by the two
> major radio stations in Kingston starting at the ripe age of one or two
> years old, her musical reference point starts in the height of the SYNTH-POP
>
> era - Tears For Fears, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode - and bad adult
> contemporary movie soundtrack hits.
>
> It would be like asking Hilary Duff if she's ever heard "Ramona" by The
> Stampeders or "Cry Your Eyes Out" by Les Emmerson. Big hits in Canada.
> Non-starters in the US.
>
> Someone else on this list already connected the culprit of the crime -- her
> co-writer/producer Gottwald who DID produce a remake of the song in the '90s
>
> for another band. It's most likely his influence on the song that has put
> Avril on the hot plate.
>
> Jaimie Vernon,
> Bullseye
>
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