Avril Lavigne: Hot or Not?

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I purchased this LP this weekend at the local record store and I was wondering if any of the folks on this site had heard it or even purchased it. Could you please post your opinion about the album? Reactions? Like/ Dislike, etc....

― bobby, Monday, 7 October 2002 04:23 (twenty-three years ago)

i think shes great!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 7 October 2002 04:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw her on David Letterman. Even though Avril doesn't look like a genuine anything, the guys on bass and guitar could pass for actual pop punkers. what sorry bitches. how do they sleep.

― Aaron A., Monday, 7 October 2002 04:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Good stuff. I'm still surprised at just how much I like it, since at first it just fell into the category of "well, when MTV plays this I won't change the channel, I'll chill and wait to see what the next video is." But it grew on me, and it's a solid album. Juvenile and adolescent? Sure. But give me a dozen juvenile and adolescent Avril Lavignes, who are at least in their teens and have some claim to juvenalia, over any of the juvenile, adolescent, twentysomething and thirtysomething angsty bands who clogged up "alternative" radio for the better part of the 90s, and persist in not going away fast enough.

Besides, Classic Lyric Props have to go to her for having a song ("My World") with the lines "I never spend less than an hour washin my hair in the shower, it always takes five hours to make it straight," followed shortly by "in this head my thoughts are deep."

As far as the videos go ... chicks in white button-down shirts and ties are Classic.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 7 October 2002 04:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish she was a bit of plankton.

― Ashley Andel, Monday, 7 October 2002 04:44 (twenty-three years ago)

oh god. i saw some 14 year old wearing a tie under her drama club jacket today. make it stop.

hey aaron i don't think you'll have to worry about anyone's 'oh my god, MY CRED' sleeping habits -- search on 'april lavender'

btw: can we get a ruling on who lyric props go to when the person singing the song didn't write said lyrics? not to be a stickler here but the rules seem to shift on this point.

― maura (maura), Monday, 7 October 2002 04:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I always liked the preppier girls more than the punk girls in high school, and Avril Lavigne is a good reminder why. "Complicated" blew; I gotta admit that Sk8ter Boi has some killer hooks but the lyrics, particularly the last verse, make me want to retch. Stuck-up little wannabe.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Monday, 7 October 2002 04:54 (twenty-three years ago)

maura those are the worst reasons to dislike avril ever, do you hate fun??

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 7 October 2002 04:55 (twenty-three years ago)

sk8er boi's pretty catchy up until she yodels at the end.

as for hot or not...yes, rather.

― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 7 October 2002 05:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Am I missing something? She did write (or co-wrote) the "My World" lyrics -- and the rest of the album, as the "teen singer/songwriters are the new orange" marketing keeps reminding us.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 7 October 2002 05:04 (twenty-three years ago)

so sk8er boi is catchy - the matrix are professional SONGWRITERS! "catchy" is nothing but a marketable skill! at some point it's not so much fun as it is CRASS!

And the "irony" of liking this shit is so transparent! All it takes is money to get your ILX props!

― Aaron A., Monday, 7 October 2002 05:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Avril's songs are DAMN catchy, great great soaring whizbangtastic pop melodies, but everything else about her is pretty lame. And those lyrics... oy. I cringe every time I hear her sing "Can I make it any more obvious?" (no) and "What more can I say?" (a lot).

― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 7 October 2002 05:35 (twenty-three years ago)

did you see on letterman her drummers bass drum said "the pixies rule" on it? man shes hot.

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 7 October 2002 05:53 (twenty-three years ago)

My friend Emerson Dameron (name dropped for Mr. Trife's possible amusement) insisted her last name was "Legrange" when we were talking about her earlier tonight.

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 October 2002 05:55 (twenty-three years ago)

omg check it out this dude is too smart to fall for record company machinations or their dirty money!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 7 October 2002 05:56 (twenty-three years ago)

oh hi jb, i think i met this emerson dude once, anyway big ups lagrange, original bubba country!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 7 October 2002 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

anyway fuck you aaron a all it takes is PICTURES of money to get my props, i love my pen & pixel niggas

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 7 October 2002 06:00 (twenty-three years ago)

simon, I actually showed him your Eminem review and he said 'that's the best thing I've read on Pitchfork'.

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 October 2002 06:05 (twenty-three years ago)

beautiful!! hey isnt he the wuog dude, can you get me like a super late night show there?!? i promise ill radio bleep big tymers songs and everything

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 7 October 2002 06:09 (twenty-three years ago)

All it takes is money to get your ILX props!

hooks and teen girls get props from me all day.

― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 7 October 2002 06:10 (twenty-three years ago)

no no it was the money admit it you fucking sheep! youre all sheep! baaaa!!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 7 October 2002 06:12 (twenty-three years ago)

He is most definitely the WUOG dude. If you're a UGA student you can get in, otherwise the answer's no (although Jon Fernandez from Olivia Tremor Control / Wuxtry once signed up for a shift and it took them a few weeks to realize he wasn't a student, so who knows?)

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 October 2002 06:17 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah i dont care if you really like her, 'making a music people like' is nothing more than a marketable skill!!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 7 October 2002 06:18 (twenty-three years ago)

oh hi again jb, jons never told me that story but hmm maybe i should try, when i first moved here i tried to get a job at the gospel rnb station on w broad near the dairy queen but they told me the only dj they have is an mp3 randomizer on their server!!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Monday, 7 October 2002 06:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Disillusioned! 880 AM off my pre-programmed dial! Wait, don't they have that guy who played on Brilliant Corners, etc. (ask Jon, and tell him 'hi' from me) doing a jazz show or something?

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 7 October 2002 06:28 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah, i like her fangs too.

― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 7 October 2002 06:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I listened to the LP on a listening post on Saturday. I think the singles are great (=> Avril L is grebt), but there was nothing else as good on the record. More uptempo stuff like Sk8er Boi please!

She was truly appalling on TOTP last Friday tho.

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Monday, 7 October 2002 07:33 (twenty-three years ago)

avril rules!!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

My blog keeps getting referrals from people searching for "Avril Lavinge" and "Avril Lange." And especially "Avril Levine." Jeez... I realize the whole French-Canadian deal is difficult for some Americans to wrap their heads around, but her name's not THAT hard to spell, is it?

― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 7 October 2002 08:27 (twenty-three years ago)

her real name IS April Levine tho i figure...

― blueski, Monday, 7 October 2002 08:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I sort of assumed she'd be rubbish based on a giveaway track on some HMV sampler but "Complicated" sounded great on the charts! She has a really nice voice. Off to find a download...

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 7 October 2002 09:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Fascinating things about Avril Lavigne:

1) If Kate Winslet and Leonardo di Caprio's characters in Titanic were to have a child, she is what it would look like (she is)

2) I'm just waiting for her nervous breakdown, then things'll get really interesting.

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 7 October 2002 09:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Avril is Alanis M without the 69 mile long face. There's nothing in her music (or look) that I can relate to. Saw her on Top Of the Pop and her look and presentation was pretty bland, which, despite my dislike of her, surprised me.

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 7 October 2002 09:21 (twenty-three years ago)

But her vowel sounds are SCRUMPTIOUS!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 7 October 2002 09:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Y'all don't know what it's like
Being female, middle class and white.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 7 October 2002 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Dom you're right I DONT!!!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 7 October 2002 09:28 (twenty-three years ago)

her real name IS April Levine tho i figure...

You probably wouldn't figure if you knew how common names like 'Levigne' are here. In fact it's 'Levine' that sounds more unusual to me.

My two cents - I'll admit that I've only heard her two hits so ths isn't a comment on any more than that, but I went to highschool in town next to Avril's and god, and practically everything about her reminds me of why I got the fuck out of there (ESPECIALLY those vowel sounds!!! I'm trying to ditcch mine). It's hard to explain perhaps, but there did seem to be a particularly shallow element to the juvenile social machinations out there - and she's showing her roots (can I say that or is it a hoary old cliche?). Radio oversaturation has destroyed the appeal that any of the hooks had in the beginning. The only redeeming bit I can still mention is that bit near the end of 'Sk8er Boi' (it physically HURTS to type that) where the song kind of ascends and really sounds good for about four whole seconds, but then the aforementiones "yodel" drops with all the welcome effect of a stinkbomb.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 7 October 2002 09:37 (twenty-three years ago)

pls excuse typos - apparently not awake yet.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 7 October 2002 09:38 (twenty-three years ago)

crap. lame. just very bad.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 7 October 2002 09:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the central theme of "complicated" is fairly easy to relate to, it's just about people rushing about and not taking it easy, I can relate to that.

It's a nice little song, that I will probably have forgotten in six months = the sign of a great pop song.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 7 October 2002 09:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Annoying melodramatic vocal style as bad as Alanis and 4 Non Blondes, the music/production is ghastly too - overbaked corporate rock. Avoid.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 7 October 2002 09:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Are y'all hearing a different song? My ears must be on a different wave length!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 7 October 2002 10:04 (twenty-three years ago)

(yes they are, jel. melodramatic? like alanis???? pfffft!)

― zebedee, Monday, 7 October 2002 10:12 (twenty-three years ago)

prefer Pink, i think...

― blueski, Monday, 7 October 2002 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Can someone fucking hate her please? I'm getting disturbed.

She's like Limp Bizkit for girls, Dom appears to be suggesting this also and he's otm. I keep hearing the Alanis comparisons but at least Alanis had the fucking decency to sing about a vaguely trendy buzzword, I mean a song about how your boyfriend is um....different with his friends is just fucking ridiculous whining a la nu metal.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 7 October 2002 11:06 (twenty-three years ago)

oh but every girl singer who goes anywhere near a musical instrument gets compared to alanis!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 7 October 2002 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Limp Bizkit for girls = A GREAT IDEA, I think.

AL = Buffy x Fiona Apple x Dawson's Creek x Wheatus divided by Britney = the best new US (ok, she's Canadian) teenpop act this year.

(and I wuv the ties)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 7 October 2002 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah I don't think she's anything like Alanis and as cute and all as she is I can't think of many things I think are worse, where's the twee motherfuckers emoticon gone.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 7 October 2002 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Fupping horrible! Total DUD! If we find out that she uses her ties in kinki-choking sex, then I may change my mind.

She makes Veruca Salt look like The Fall, and now we must prepare ourselves for all the Avril copycats.

― kinski (kinski), Monday, 7 October 2002 11:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I think there are similarities to Alanis - the pert but slightly tremulous vocalising for instance - but the outlook is daytime soap not daytime talkshow.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 7 October 2002 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

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I can live with that.

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 25 May 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

i saw the newest video yesterday and my jaw dropped. Avril lavigne can be the most beutiful girl when she isnt acting like a skater punk. infact when she is in her underwear she is down right mesmerizing.

― thoreau, Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

oh no shes in her underwear?!?! omg im gunna die boing boing. i love avril seriously.

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Sunday, 11 April 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

don't fight it, dood.

― ModJ (ModJ), Sunday, 11 April 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man that was hot.

― cws (cws), Sunday, 11 April 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.avrillavigne.com/video.html

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 11 April 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

She's so badass!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 11 April 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd hit it. Or wait, tap it.

Which is the good one?

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 11 April 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"Don't Tell Me" has been the most played song in my iTunes for weeks. I'm distressingly excited about this record--though the underwear in the video does nothing for me. Too indie.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 11 April 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, I seriously hope Avril has a long and productive career.

― ModJ (ModJ), Sunday, 11 April 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

well arista's kind of falling apart/being assimilated into BMG right now, right? It will be interesting to see if marketing can maintain their focus.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

am I the only person who think her songs are all really pop-country sounding? They tend to have more story-based lyrics, that weird Canadian twang in her voice...is it just me?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

No. A Shania Twain/Avril Lavigne tour wouldn't be completely nonsensical.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah she's way more Shania than Alanis, style-wise (even if she has that post-Morrissette shameless eccentricity, i.e. those "yeah-yeah"'s on "I'm With You" - which is easily my fave Avril song)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 11 April 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Uuh did someone actually compare avrils shit to my beloved Andrew WK???? I hope not. Avril sucks, im not jealous, she actually does suck, get over it, there im done. Have a super day. :^)

― Tha Girl You Dont Know, Sunday, 11 April 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn. Debate over.

― adam (adam), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

eyeliner = hott

― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, 12 April 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

http://www.maximonline.com/girls/avril_lavigne/gm_l4.jpg

From her new Maxim shoot.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god, just wait until Catty sees this... argh.

― The 120 Days Of Streatham (kate), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd really have cut that off at the first two images.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that middle one her Lynndie England pose?

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

why is she pointing to her uterus?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Giving the finger hasn't been punk for years. Where has she been?

― billstevejim, Monday, 20 September 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

why is she pointing to her uterus?

She is saying, "This is where the Sum 41 sperm goes."

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

NO YOU DIDNT

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry:

"This is where I keep my Sum-jizz! WOW PUNK ROCK!"

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Where'd all the cleavage come from?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

it's maxim. contractual obligation.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 20 September 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

she looks like a female axl rose.

― aa, Monday, 20 September 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Which should be tremendously hot but somehow isn't

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 20 September 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet she's hot sans makeup walking around the house in barefeet and some dude's boxers. She just has a bad stylist.

― Thea (Thea), Monday, 20 September 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

thea otm, i think

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 20 September 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I[D HIT IT

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

jon otm

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I think she is very attractive.

I hope that she is not led astray.

― the bellefox, Friday, 24 September 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

too late

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope she has a long and erotic career.

― Jimmy Mod, Los Sexx Yanqui (ModJ), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

doesn't the quote on her black whateveritscalled refer to fred durst trying to get in her pants?

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, you mean someone actually said no to fred durst?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Where'd all the cleavage come from?
No, that can't be cleavage ... you must be hallucinating because Avril has repeatedly said that she would not use her body to portray a sexy image and sell records.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

i love all of you song you rock keep bering out cd

― shannon young, Monday, 27 February 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

she looks like an animal, which is nice, but i don't like her nose/mouth, and there's nothing elegant whatsoever about her.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

That's actually kinda why I like her face - she looks like a wolf. She's like strangely exotic Ontario trash.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

ha! perfect description.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

< heart avril >

― Jimmy Mod: The Prettiest Flower In The Pond (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Did you see her singing at the Winter Olympics closing ceremony?

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Love her. What song did she sing?

― Harpal (harpal), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

shes my baby

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

She should have done a track with Richie Hawtin.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

dont dis avvy she tottally rocks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love her heaps and she will alwyz rock

― india, Monday, 27 March 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

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