Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated, for Avril? Nappanee’s own punk-pop princess has been charged with copyright infringement with her hit single “Girlfriend.”
Now, apparently the song sounds almost identical to a song written by a 70’s boy-toy pop band, The Rubinoos, called, “I Want to Be Your Boyfriend.” Okay, so what, the titles are almost identical, that doesn’t mean anything, right? I mean, I’m sure it was just a coincidence. Until Tommy Dunbar, the writer of “I want To Be Your Boyfriend,” released a statement that said, “"We are not so naive as to chalk it up to some sort of cosmic coincidence,"
Alright so, identical song titles, identical lyrics, identical meter, identical rhythm. Um, Avril? Care to explain what the heck is going on here?
Avril responded to Tommy by saying, “All songs share similar lyrics and emotions,” she said. “Luke [Gottwald] and I have done nothing wrong and there is no merit to their claim.” Well, at least she said something to back herself up, even though it was after the fact of her “writing” her song, releasing her song, getting people to love her song, getting someone taking the two songs merging them together and putting it up on You Tube for millions of people to listen to. Yeah, bad timing comes into my head as well.
Speaking of her songs being merged with other songs and posted on You Tube, here are TWO, yes two more examples of her songs being oddly similar to others.
Static Taume. Avril. 15 Jan. 2008. . http://static.taume.com/image/2007-avril-lavigne.jpg
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