Hey Hey You You, I Don’t Like Your Video Clip
Music, Rants May 31st, 2007I enjoy pop music though I’m more of a 90s girl myself. There’s plenty of crappy-but-catchy pop music out there today and I’m pretty tolerant of most songs I hear on the air these days. Songs like “My Humps” by the Black Eyed Peas are hilarious! I’m still uncertain whether I think musicians have the duty to be role models to the kiddies or not and usually I’m pretty apathetic (though often accompanied by a bit of eye-rolling) to the over-sexed music clips showcasing the likes of the Pussycat Dolls, Beyonce etc.
And then a few days ago I saw the videoclip the the song “Girlfriend” by Avril Lavigne. Because the clip is SO AMAZING, it warrants embedding into this very entry:
This clip POSITIVELY portrays:
- Unprovoked violence
- Stealing someone’s boyfriend
- Being a “motherfucking princess” (that comes straight from the lyrics!)
- Bullying
What the hell is wrong with you, Avril Lavigne? You’re a grown woman, OLDER THAN ME, and THAT’S what you come up with?? Oh yes, let’s all laugh along with her at that nerdy (you can tell by the glasses!) redhead! Let’s push said “nerd” around and launch a golfball at her head! Let’s be amazed that she must be a FUCKING PSYCHIC with her “knowledge” when a man (who’s already in a seemingly smooth relationship) likes her! Let’s revel in her “princess” behaviour when she and her lackeys brutishly shove people out of the way so she can use the bathroom mirror (to draw on it!)! Because I know that’s acceptable behaviour!
I’m going to look pass the fact that this is a 22 year old woman dressed up as a punky 14 year old. What annoys me is the way she plays up bad behaviour to be a good thing. I annoys me how she packages such terrible behaviours with a sugary “princess” label. What is this, a precursor to being a “bitch”? That’s not “confidence”, that’s plain old douchebaggyness. But then again, I personally have a deep dislike for the Bitch = Good Thing mentality.
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HAHAH, I thought Avril’s new song was ridiculous and disappointing (though infectious) when I first heard it, but seeing the music video pretty much killed it. This is coming from someone who actually liked Avril’s first two albums — her lyrics were never very intelligent, but they weren’t too bad either, and the music was enjoyable. Her new stuff is just mediocre, and she and her songwriting team aren’t even trying: “she’s like, so whatever”? SURELY someone above the mental age of 13 can come up with better than that. It’s as if she’s regressed in maturity from even before the “Sk8er Boi” days.
And yeesh, what’s wrong with “nerdy” girls anyway? It might have made a bit more sense if it was a “bitchy airhead” type (though just as stereotypical and obnoxious), but it doesn’t look like the “nerd” did anything to her. Too bad we can’t all be skinny-jeans wearing punksters! Wasn’t she singing about how it was SO UNFAIR to stereotype skaters or whatever because of what they wear a few years ago, what happened to “I see the soul that is inside”? LOLZ, AVRIL.
Although, it would be nice if nerdy girls got guys who look like that more often. :P
The song’s about Paris Hilton. Get over it.
I’m not sure if these terrible attitudes and behaviours are characteristic of only Avril herself, of if they are par for the course in ‘punk’ music. All I can say is, I strongly disapprove, and that while musicians do not necessarily have a duty to be positive role models, everyone with public exposure has an ethical duty to at least provide context for behaviours and beliefs they portray. One has to make sure that one’s audience does not confuse depiction for promotion.
It’s actually “My Humps”. :P
Also: It’s very classy how Avril is all over that guy, while he just stands there. And then they go off to do… whatever, in a bathroom stall.
To Desiree: I agree with the infectious, I had it in my head the whole day a while ago! And I note the hypocrisy as well. BTW… so, when are you going to get your site up? :P To pressure!
To Mike: I didn’t know that Paris Hilton was known for her “punkster”, high school, 15 year old look. If Avril was going for a parody, she failed miserably.
To Tim: I agree! There was at a point at least when Avril was told what the clip should be about and involve and she agreed to it!
To Josh: Ah my bad! *corrects*
I have her last 2 albums but I won’t be buying the new one if the songs are all like Girlfriend. It was a failed attempt at sounding like Gwen Stefani and it is quite pathetic.
AAARRRRRGH! Avril Lavigne! AAAAARRGH!
That’s all I can say before spinning off into my own rant longer than your own entry :-P
Oh and you hit the nail on the head! More war cries towards Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Hillary Duff and the rest of the doopy lot!
I totally agree with this, unless it’s a really shitty parody =/ The song itself is quite catchy and annoying, but the video is just crap and I really dislike the eh, “message”. Very disappointing indeed.
She’s like so whatever…
I hadn’t seen the video until now and I’m preeetty pissed off by it. Okay, the song is catchy, but bullying? Is being a spoiled little princess the ‘in-thing’ now?
And as for the lyrics - ’she’s like, so whatever’ - WTF? Is that the best she can come up with?
A colleague and I were on about Avril the other day. I said, ‘I don’t like her.’
‘Why?’
‘Because she’s the same age as me yet acts and dresses as though she’s 12, singing songs about boys and ‘yeah, whatevers.’ I mean, someday she’ll have to grow up. She can’t be doing that when she’s 30.’
‘Hmm, you have a point there.’
On a serious note I don’t understand this whole ‘attitude’ thing. I do not see how picking on others and stealing other girls’ boyfriends is decent. Maybe I’m missing something. And I’ll be honest, I’m rarely offended - but having been the ‘nerdy’ girl who had her school life made a complete misery by EXACTLY THIS TYPE OF GIRL - I’m a bit peeved.
Let’s just hope that one day, Avril will eventually grow out of that god-awful ‘like totally cool!’ phase.
I hoped to God that I wasn’t the ONLY one who didn’t like this song, since everyone around me seems to. I mean, I thought that our society was starting to root for the underdog, where the nerds of the lot finally won a battle or two and the bullies were the ones that landed in the mud. So I ran
And here we have Miss Avril LaStinke, the motherfucking princess, sending this all backward. I think I stand for every non-bitchy, not size 8, intelligent but shy girl out there who worries about future relationships. But wait a second, how could I possibly be worried? As long as I know how to make my guy “feel all right” and effectively becoming a SLUT, I’ll be able to keep him, right?
God. This film clip is a disgusting display of a spoilt brat glorifying bitchiness and whoredom. (Yeah, that’s a word…hehe, isn’t it cool?)
And way to completely conform to a stereotype of a nerdy girl by having her be an amazing beauty underneath the tell-tale thick rimmed glasses and the below-the-knees skirt. Oh no! She reads! She can actually keep her knees together! She MUST be stopped.
Grow up, Avril. Stop appealing to the twelve year old wannabe skanks of the world. You used to be a different category to the Hilarys, Parises and Lindsays of the world.
You’re worse.
And you smell bad.
On that note of dignity, I end my nonsensical rant (which is riddled with typos because I’m sleepy.)
- Lolly, comforted by your ranting.
Bullying isn’t trendy or fun. Neither is being a pretentious asshole. Seriously, Your Motherfucking Majesty, you fail. Really hard.
I firmly believe that the year 2000 marked a serious downturn in the overall quality of music and film. This only proves it.
she’s become a pest…DO YOU REMEMBER: she was the one to criticize britney in a bad way now she came up with this bitch attitude tellin’ a boy to leave his girl who seems quite nice for an ass like that! why is she doing ?does she encourage girls to steale others boyfriends?maybe it’s just for fun…what i dont enjoy with avril is that she criticizes other singers for being too sexy but now avril herself is half naked for a cover’s magazine(have you seen it?)and i don’t lie…AND BRITNEY DANCES SO MUCH BETTER THAN HER she’a real dancer while everyone can do the same fucking steps of avril lavigne; everyone knows how to clasp the hands!!!