Now Avril Lavigne Rips Off Peaches?
July 11th, 2007 at 16:30 by Stuart Heritage
Avril Lavigne is slap-bang in the middle of the biggest critical thumping of her life at the moment, thanks to The Rubinoos claiming that one of their songs was stolen by Avril Lavigne for her super annoyo-hit Girlfriend - but that's not the end.
Because now it seems as if Avril Lavigne has been borrowing bits of other songs to use as her own, also. Following the claim by The Rubinoos that the "Hey! Hey! You! You!" hook from Avril's Girlfriend was stolen from the "Hey! Hey! You! You!" hook from their I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend, it's now emerged that Avril Lavigne's I Don't Have To Try seems to be a carbon copy of I'm The Kinda by bearded sex-kraken Peaches. Avril Lavigne has yet to respond to this new ripping-off claim, but the question remains - if Avril Lavigne does keep ripping off other people's songs, then why can't she make any of them sound any good?
Up until last week, nobody had really heard of The Rubinoos, and those that had were probably scared off by the genuinely awful artwork for their Twist Pop Sin album on iTunes, but thanks to all the flap about how much their song To view the link you have to Register by Avril Lavigne, The Rubinoos are now bigger than The Beatles, Beethoven and Jesus Christ combined.
The plagiarism fuss over Girlfriend has got so out of control that Avril Lavigne herself was forced to briefly stop To view the link you have to Register and To view the link you have to Register to jump on her computer and rattle off a quick To view the link you have to Register, adding that she'd never even heard of The Rubinoos, let alone I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend. However, that's not something that Avril Lavigne can really say about I'm The Kinda, a track from Peaches' 2003 album Fatherfucker, especially since July's issue of InStyle magazine sees Avril naming it as one of her five favourite songs. But then, anyone who owns Avril Lavigne's album The Best Damn Thing knew that anyway, since her song I Don't Have To Try is more or less identical. Canada.com reports:
Just days after an American group filed a lawsuit against her, Avril Lavigne is again being accused of ripping off a song. The opening of “I Don’t Have to Try” from Lavigne’s latest CD, The Best Damn Thing, is being compared to a portion of “I’m The Kinda” by Canadian artist Peaches on some blogs and on YouTube. "It's just utter rubbish," says Terry McBride, president of Nettwerk Music Group, Lavigne's Vancouver-based management company. "I'm quite sure the beats are different."
Oh, different, huh? It just so happens that YouTube has gone crazy with videos comparing I Don't Have To Try by Avril Lavigne to I'm The Kinda by Peaches. Look, here's one now…
While it looks like Peaches isn't going to follow The Rubinoos into suing Avril Lavigne, this new plagiarism claim is the last thing she needs at the moment - and it'll only get worse on Friday when the world finally discovers the similarities between Avril Lavigne's Sk8ter Boi and Jewish Piyyut Shoshanet Ya'akov.
I can't believe that... This sucks I hope they don't sue her... She really doesn't need this right now. Dude I hate the Rubinoos their music sucks and doesn't sound a thing like Avril's song Girlfriend... what 4 words that match... if ppl start suing over four words singers all over the world are gonna get sued for crap.. THIS SUCKS...... Avril we're all here for you..
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i think it's sort of a tribute, plus not many people have heard of Peaches outside of Hollywood, she might have been hoping nobody notices and just think that it's cool for her to say "i wear the pants." She said that she likes this song and that she likes Peaches, unlike the rubinoos, she can't say that she hasn't heard of Peaches she already said that she liked her before TBDT came out. She should have said in interviews that she was inspired by Peaches instead of saying that she had this big "vision" for her "project". That's how people get sued. She takes way too much credit for things she's not responsible for. I blame her Luke for this one too.
God! This is bullcrap. Yeah a similar drum beat...Big deal? and the Rubinoos need to go and jump off a cliff! however, I Doubt peaches will sue Avril, I don'tthink she's like that!
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