Avril's Girlfriend Video
Ok, so it's pretty easy to figure out that I've hated Avril Lavigne since she entered the music scene. Her music's overplayed, unoriginal, and obnoxious. I can't STAND her. But my kid sister completely loved her when she first came out. Then when her second CD came out, she bought it, but thankfully she didn't listen to it every hour of every day like the other one. Now she has a new video out and I assume a new CD. My sister (Bethany) was watching the video while I was in the room and I am HORRIFIED by what I saw in that video.

The song is "Girlfriend" and the lyrics are things like "Hey Hey, You You/ I don't like your girlfriend/ Hey Hey, You You/ I think you need a new one" It's cut with a nerdy red-head dating a scene kid and a scene girl sees them and decides to steal the boy so she and her friends pester the red-head until she wins the guy over.

What kind of message is this sending to the teenage girls of today? That it's ok to just be mean and cruel to someone because they're dating someone you want? And the guy just stands there and watches this girl hurting his girlfriend and ends up making out with her in the end. I know the video is just supposed to be fun, but it's sending a horrible message. If I had been the red-head in this video, I would've slapped the guy and left as soon as it started. Any guy that fickle isn't worth keeping and he'd dump the new girl as soon as someone else that looked pretty came along. What is going through Avril's head? She must know by that horrible tie-craze that she has insane influence with teenage girls and this is what she's telling them? If you want a guy, be a total b*tch? That relationships don't matter? Well, high school ones don't, but things you do in high school can follow you for a long time.

Anyway, can I get an amen? Anybody gonna Anti-Avril it up with me?