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"Silly Little Girl"

I've been hearing someone called Avril Levigne (sp?) all over the radio and everyone raving about her. Seems like Alanis Morisette-lite to this bloke.
To the extent that the verses actually remind me of a Morrisette song called "You live, you learn".

*shrugs* Anyhoo, her record company are trying to promote her as a genuine, tortured fem-angst artist blah blah. And today I saw her video.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!

Can you say "Contrived Corporate Posturing"? She's about 16, nice clean skate-clothes, her "band" consists of other 16yr olds all with trendy-messy clothes and the video consists of her
(a) Running around Mall doing amusing anti-social things like stealing a slush puppy from a security guard, driving little push-cars around and, gosh, knocking a display over
(b) Playing in front of a half-pipe whilst clean-cut skater types stand about and nod.

*shakes head*
Oh man, a teen Riot Grrl trying to come off like this beacon of Feminine Solidarity? She's Britney Spears in combat-trousers. There's no difference here folks, it's the record label aiming for the disaffected-teen whilst also carpet-bombing the perky/happy teens with Spears, Aguilera et al.

I'm not ripping the song, it's ok for what it is. But the way she's being promoted is hilarious.
"She's the anti-Britney" "She's a voice for young women"
Really? You actually think that do you? As much as I'm aware Morisette had her start in bouffant-haired pop stardom, at least she's genuinely experienced life and her songs have that twang of anger.

Compare:
Alanis Morisette
"You took me for a joke
You took me for a child
You took a long hard look at my asss
And then played golf for a while
You shake is like a fish
You pat me on the head
You took me out to wine dine 69 me
But didn't hear a damn word I said"

Avril Levigne
"He was a skater boy
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
She had a pretty face
But her head was up in space
She needed to come back down to earth"

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Now I'm not saying she doesn't have a good voice or anything like that, I'm just saying please dont get sucked into thinking she's anything other than another production-line Dancing Bear.
Enjoy the music by all means, just don't kid yourself she's anything remotely close to Tori Amos/Alanis Morrisette/Beth Orton etc.

She's a 16-18yr old girl that sings about skater boys.
End. Of. Story.

Hell yes.
And on a connected theme - blokes do not belong at pianos.
Thom Yorke, Chris Martin, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Stigers etc.
Only Dr John can pull it off, every other bloke looks like a tranvestite with "emotional difficulties"

Pianos = Girly instrument

Chicks look good at pianos cos sitting down hunched over one accentuates their cleavage.

Only keyboards men look cool with are those ones you hold like a guitar.

Rock posturing, see.

Worst keyboard playing chimp - that mop haired fool from Toploader.

Big gay mule.

Yep.
And piano playing encourages Rain-Man like rocking, witness Yorke and Martin and you think "I should be watching spakkers should I?"

Infact I think there should be a universal ban on playing any instrument other than the drums sitting down.

Strap a baby grand round Martin & Yorkes necks - then watch them jib.

Ah, but Jools Holland looks pretty cool at a piano. So him too.

And yeah, chick rock usually does suck. But Ani is pretty cool in my opinion. At least try, don't care what you think in the end, just try.

Swing, or Little Plastic Castle - Ani DiFranco. Go on, download. Apparently it's folk, but it sounds too cool.

I think Jools Holland gets away with for the same reason Dr John does: Boogie-Woogie Jazz is inherently cool.

But pianos onstage for music other than old-timey jazz/big band music is just plain wrong.
Keyboards are alright, Faith No More got away with it.
It's just whenever you see a piano onstage, you immediately think "Oh dear, tortured artist coming up"

I thought Axl Rose got away with it as well. I downloaded a live version of November Rain and there is this 3 minute piano solo before the song starts, and it rocks.

Duritz got away with it as well, when I saw them at v2002. I think he only sat down to play a piano song because he was having trouble standing up though...

Gabbo wrote:
> I thought Axl Rose got away with it as well. I downloaded a live
> version of November Rain and there is this 3 minute piano solo before
> the song starts, and it rocks.

Musically it may have rocked (thats up to you), but I bet the sqwawk voiced ginger buffoon looked a right slack jawed panty boy sat at his oversized grand with that furry haired tramp stood on top weilding his 'axe'.

Rosalind wrote:
> The anti-Britney? (I read about this in the Big Issue). At least
> Britney doesn't pretend to be something she isn't.
******

And her whole "I won't have sex til I'm married" is true.
;)

Mystique wrote:
> Rosalind wrote:
> The anti-Britney? (I read about this in the Big Issue). At least
> Britney doesn't pretend to be something she isn't.
> ******
>
> And her whole "I won't have sex til I'm married" is true.
> ;)

Yeah but even I said that when I was 16.

LOL