Avril Lavigne says she never talked all that smack about Britney that was reported in British rag The Sun. She was quoted as saying, “What’s happened to Britney is all down to who she is as a person. If you want a piece of this business you have to be able to deal with it. You can’t complain about pressures, the paparazzi, the madness because that’s the job.”
Avril said in an interview with an LA radio station that she never said that, but her denial isn’t that convincing to me:
“I didn’t say that,” Avril told Los Angeles radio duo Valentine and Lisa Foxx this morning. “I haven’t even been talking about her. People ask me about it all the time and I go, ‘You know what? I don’t know her.'”
It was all too easy to believe Avril would diss Britney like that, because she seems to say something arrogant everyt ime she opens her mouth. These quotes also came right after her obnoxious interview with Jane Magazine, in which she justified spitting on paparazzi in three separate incidents by saying they were “gross older men, like disgusting — scum of the earth” and that they loved getting spit on. She also proudly told a profanity-laden story about how she kneed a guy in the balls who talked back to her in a CD store. It’s not so much of stretch to think she would verbally bitch slap Britney.
Indeed, Avril has talked smack about Britney in interviews in the past, in a 2002 interview with Canadian music magazine Chart Attack, a then 17 year-old Avril essentially called Britney a hypocrite because she dressed like a “slut” onstage but claimed to be a virgin:
Just don’t expect her to be another Britney Spears. “I mean, the way she dresses — would you walk around the street in a f***in’ bra?” she asks rhetorically. “I’m not trying to dis anyone, but with me, the clothes I wear onstage are the clothes I would wear to school or go shopping. I’m not gonna go up onstage and dress different. Britney Spears goes up onstage and dresses like a showgirl. She’s not being herself up there because she’s dancing like a ho. Is she ho? She says she’s a virgin. Y’know, it’s just not clicking. She’s doing one thing and saying another thing, y’know? It’s definitely not what I’m going to do.”
And in the recent Jane interview, Avril said her mother made her go to a Britney Spears concert when she was young and that she didn’t want to be subjected to it. There’s not a lot of love for Britney there.
Random older Avril looking drunk and flipping off the camera pictures from Avrilontheweb.com.
I don’t like her, at all. Did anyone see the interview she did on Popworld for British TV? It’s all over youtube. She acted like a huge spoilt brat when the interviewer was trying to be lighthearted and funny. She really has no sense of humour at all.
I saw it on Channel 4–she was doing the whole fake smile thing (when someone smiles and you know they don’t want to be smiling because you don’t see the crinkle on the side of their eyes). She wasn’t answering questions much and looked like she wanted to bolt out of there. Popworld have a really cool sense of humour and doesn’t suit interviewed celebrities who lack them.
Looking at this photos – Let this be a lesson: People giving the finger in photos look like immature bratty little spoiled ghetto morons.
At least use something less trite if you’re trying to avoid having your photo taken. Whatever happened to just holding your purse over your face and acting like an adult?
I think she’s a hypocrite, but what else is new. Avril uses her sexuality, like Brit-brit, but in a more subtle way.
Is this girl even worth the air she breathes? What a lousy-attitude-filled, no-talent-having little brat.
I saw her last videoclip. It was all about kicking a “Not Cool Enough” girl away to steal her boyfriend.
Those last pictures just confirm me Lavigne’s descent to Celebrity “Bull$h!t Paradise Megastore”.
She is such a whiney little brat. She thinks she is the alterna-cool skater girl. Hmm- seems to me that she went bottle blonde too and had the whole big white dress traditional princess wedding- so who is the sellout? Someone who dresses like a ho and then acts like one (like Brit) or someone who acts like a pseudo punk Tom Boy Wannabe and turns around and contradicts herself with her private life. This girl really needs to figure herself out- maybe she should try some therapy to get over her addiction to violence and bird flashing.
I have to admit I liked her a couple of years ago (she is so tiny and cute!) but I’m kind of “meh” about her now. It would probably do her good just to keep her mouth shut.
I don’t think having a fairy tale wedding is really contradictory. I mean,technically it could be seen that way, but it was her wedding. Maybe that was just some fantasy she’d had since she was a little girl. Props to her for not feeling like she had to do some tacky, alternative black and red fishnet wedding just to live up to her image if she wanted a pretty fairy tale wedding.
It was reported that Britney was her inspiration in the same interview though.
She is ugly and sucks. Gross.
Ginny, I agree that the white dress/big wedding doesn’t necessarily contradict skater-girl style. After all, we are all complex people and just because we choose one day to dress one way doesn’t mean we need to dress that way all the time. Who says that all skater girls (real or ‘pretend’ like Avril) don’t want big white weddings? That’s stereotyping, I think.
That said, I really dislike this girl. She’s a bratty little punk who really let fame go to her head. *ick*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuBjK54mJ9c
I think she’d rather we all forget about this video, I’m sure. ^_____^
i’ve never liked her or her music. she’s a little wanna be poser punk twit. i wish ppl would stop covering her altogether. suffice to say, i always thought she was rather forgetable, plain, & just flat out unattractive & over-hyped. thankfully, i feel her time is almost up.
I wish some of the USA gossip sites would do a story on Avril “before she was famous’ . She is totaly manufactured. Before she became ‘punk’ she sang with a gospel folk group that traveled to local churches. She was ‘created’ to mimic a punk style while being ‘groomed’ for the role in NYC. It apparently took three months. The Toronto Star ran the full story about 4 or 5 years ago.
As for “tough girl” Avril punching people out, and kneeing guys in the groin… well bring it on Avril. I would dearly love for a rich celebrity to acost me, so I could sue for damages. … See how silly that is? Of course it’s all a made up story to keep her name in the gossip mags.
Can’t stand this little poser puke. I’d pay to see Amy Winehouse or Beth Ditto slap the shit out of her.
I never really liked her personality. But her latest album is nice (the best damn thing) and she is freaking hot.
In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley conjures up a horrifying, but often comic, vision of a future utopia in which humans are processed, conditioned, regimented, and drugged into total social conformity. The World State infantilizes its citizens by allowing them instant gratification and denying them responsibility. It assigns every citizen to a caste and a particular social function before birth, it encourages its citizens to use soma regularly, and it conditions its citizens to have no identity independent of the World State.
The society presented in Brave New World differs drastically from that of our own. Real life is not smooth, it has its ups and downs. The tranquil calm of a summer evening owes some of it’s appeal to the contrast between it and the harsh winter winds, both are beautiful in their own way. The joy of reunion is only possible after the sorrow of parting. That’s life, a rich and varied tapestry, which is something the inhabitants of Brave New World sadly don’t have.
Brave New World is a dystopia. The book suggests that the price of such “happiness” is the sacrifice of many things that we hold dear, family, home, freedom, motherhood, and love. It is not a price that I would be willing to pay. I never had the feeling for even a second, that everyone was happy in Brave New World. It seemed more to me to be a lobotomised society, and “happiness” that was not chosen, but was an enforced norm. If a society were created where everyone had to be beautiful, after the last surgery was performed, or the last genetic manipulation completed, would there be any beauty? Is not every value a contrast to another?
In monkeys given free access to cocaine, they will no longer eat, hold, or feed their young, and will take the cocaine until they die. There is a big difference between this and living. Happiness is certainly one goal, but I believe a bigger goal than happiness is fulfilling the expression of each individual’s potential. The kind of happiness that is ubiquitous in Brave New World is merely the “vulgar” kind of pleasure. It comes at the expense of realizing other forms of happiness, eudaemonia and meaning. It is the equivalent of gorging yourself on junk food. Perhaps the junk food is enough to satisfy your hunger, give you the taste equivalent of cheap thrills, and ultimately keep you alive, but what you miss out on are the more sophisticated pleasures of an exquisitely cooked dinner or a subtle and complex wine, as well as the quality kind of nutrients you need for optimal health.
If everyone were happy, or even sad, all the time, wouldn’t there be a kind of social “heat death”? Without differences of affect from person to person, or from time to time, how could any social change at all ever happen? Uniformity of human temperament would lead to stagnation. If universal happiness requires uniformity of humans, then I won’t have it, even if that uniformity can be achieved through peaceful means.
Also, the society presented in Brave New World is extremely materialistic. Brave New World is the ultimate throw-away consumer state, “better to end than mend” is one of their mantras, after all. Therefore, the problem of promoting happiness then simply reduces to reliance on material competence. The feelies do not provide actual happiness, they do not provide “actual” anything, since they are just a virtual experience. A person who goes to the feelies knows they are going to the feelies. It is not reality, although it is a state-prescribed normality. A virtual experience is just that. it is real in one sense, but only in the sense that a picture of an apple is real. The picture is real, but I can’t eat it.
If happiness is the only goal, what would be wrong with killing everyone in the world except one person, if that one person is irrepressibly happy? If you painlessly kill everyone in the world but that one happiest guy, the average happiness increases.
The inhabitants of Brave New World do have negative thoughts and feelings, but they just stuff them back down with soma. Should we just start dishing out heroin then? In the words of the Resident Controller of Western Europe, “No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy, to preserve you, as far as that is possible, from having emotions at all.” This tells us something about how this society came into being, it alludes to a blood-soaked past in which no pain was spared. Those who have no emotions certainly cannot be happy.
In Brave New World, individuals are conditioned to think, act, feel, believe, and respond the way the government wants them to. Youngsters are terrorised with electric shock torture. Is that a price worth paying for happiness, even “true” happiness? I defy anyone to say it is, unless they are prepared to undergo it themselves, and put their own children through it.
In other words, I believe that everyone is not happy in Brave New World. No-one is happy, no-one is really unhappy, that’s the point. John the Savage has a conversation about this topic with Mustapha Mond. John is bemoaning the loss of real human emotions. Mustafa Mond explains to John, “You’re confusing happiness with the over-compensations for misery”, in his defence of the state prescribed and enforced soma dream of happiness. The artificial happiness they experience is nothing more than the ultimate method of social control.
For example, if you need to keep someone imprisoned for a very long time, you either need to have them under constant surveillance or make them so comfortable they won’t attempt to escape. It’s hard to keep an entire population under surveillance and it is not very effective, peasants have a nasty habit of revolting. So, if you want to keep the people in their places, you must make their lives comfortable.
The World Controller and his predecessors have gone even further, they have conditioned the populace to “enjoy” their lives. Remember the words of the hymn, “The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate.” That’s what this is about, keeping people in their places. It’s why John’s mother speaks of getting pregnant with John, “Imagine it, me, a Beta.” It just isn’t compatible with her station, and she cannot accept it.
Do not mistake Mustafa Mond as the revealer of truth. He is defending a sytem in which he is the supreme ruler. In fact, he himself admits the sterility and joylessness of the Brave New World society, when he talks about Bernard Marx’s reaction to being exiled in Iceland.
“You’d think he was having his throat cut! If he had any sense, he’d appreciate that, far from being punished, he’s being rewarded. He’s going to an island filled with the most interesting people. Anyone worth talking to or with an ounce of independent thought will be there. Everyone who rejects orthodoxy, who has any individuality, is there.”
To suggest that there is no ruling elite in Brave New World is laughable. The Alphas and Betas are a deliberately engineered elite, who occupy all the positions of power and make all the decisions. They rule. To suggest that they are not a ruling elite because they are themselves a part of the system is plain daft. The MP’s in our current society are part of the system and are just as human as you or me, but they’re still a ruling elite. The upper classes perpetuate a system which inflicts deliberate brain damage upon the lowest caste of Brave New World, just to keep them satisfied with drudgery. It is an horrific nightmare of a society.
Therefore, at heart, Brave New World is a state prescribed and enforced dream of happiness, designed to keep people in their places, not for their own good, but for the good of the ruling elite. It also has parallels to keeping people in comfortable slavery, it’s still slavery. Even a velvet cage is still a padded cell. I’d rather be free to pursue happiness, than forced to live out what someone else has decided is happiness, and if that means taking the negative aspects with the positive aspects, so be it. I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery, where independant, unfettered thought is not outlawed. Therefore, I would prefer to live in our current world rather than the dystopian society presented by Brave New World.
“Espariato gwambustrio de bundre de kiritashi yomatoizo”
She had a tough past guyz, give her a break. Yes, its rude! But over time she’ll learn she came unlucky to lucky. And will appreciate those with a problem!
Sappy voice. Sappy music. She ain’t tough, not even close. With so many actual bad-ass females in the music biz, I can’t believe she thinks she’s pulling off this charade. Guess she’s surrounded by people who tell her what she wants to hear. What the record label wants to hear. Boring.