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Avril Lavigne - Artist or Rip Off Arist?

Avril Lavigne is being sued by the The Rubinoos' front man Tommy Dunbar claiming that there are more than coincidental similarities between his I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend [released in 1979] and her current smash hit Girlfriend. While the titles seem eerily similar, is Lavigne's new song a lift of The Rubinoos or just coincidence? Judge for your self:



The latest allegations are another song lift and this time it is Peaches 2003 I'm The Kinda that is being compared to Lavigne's I Don't Have To Try, also from her latest album The Best Damn Thing. While the lyrics aren't similar in any way, the beat seems to be a nice copy and the attitude of the song seems like a fit [although I'm sure you can't get sued for coping an artist "attitude"]. Take a listen and hear what you hear:



In the case of the The Rubinoos, Lavigne claims to have never heard the song [or artist] before so her team is saying this is just a big coincidence but she has not said the same about Peaches. Peaches is a fellow Canadian musician and one of her songs was listed as Lavigne's "top 5" in her playlist in July 2007 issue of Instyle Magazine.

In one final note about this would "mess", Canadian singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk, with whom Lavigne wrote the majority of her second album, Under My Skin, spoke to Performing Songwriter magazine about Lavigne's songwriting, saying, "I sent her a song two years ago called 'Contagious', and I just saw the tracklisting to this album and there's a song called 'Contagious' on it — and my name's not on it." Kreviazuk went on to say she crossed "the ethical line and on one says anything. That's why I'll never work with her again".

Days later Kreviazuk issued a statement that the reason she was not going to write with Lavigne again was because they "had no hits together". I'm sure the fact that both Lavigne and Kreviazukare are managed by Network Management in Vancouver had something to do with this retraction but none the less, The Best Damn Thing might just be relabeled as The Best Damn Thing I Stole From Other Artists And Didn't Give Them Any Credit.

posted by TheWino @ 8:35 AM