Avril Lavigne's 10 commandments - You HAVE to read this
 

thats like so like honest.

Moses is way more talented.

Avril Lavigne sucks smooth butt.

can you believe number 5????!!!!!!!???????

She told her assistant to take boxes of her shit to 'Katrina', not realising Katrina was a hurricane and not an actual place.

PUNK RAWK!

it's from Q magazine, anyone read Q??????

I do when I have some spare change and want to spend it on something that will make me despair at the state of the world even more. I read any sort of rubbish because, in a way, I find it interesting.

i didnt even know q magazine,it seems to be one of those toilet magazines.
they are wonderful.

Q magazine is actually pretty good quality. But just focuses on popular music.

i bet they have all the top 10 whatever i've been wanting to read

I have that issue too. I find that the writing is of incredible poor quality, but it's aimed mainly at people who haven't got enough time and patience for music, so it makes sense. Occasionally it's entertaining, like when someone described a Garbage album as being so overproduced that even the silence between the songs sounded like it was.

"MORRISSEY - He's gone sex mad." hahaha

what a load of bollocks (the avril thing that is). I hate people using new age buzzwords, "energy" what fucking energy, "picking up energy", you are just reading peoples body language you tart. Ok you can call it "energy" if you want, I'll call it common human perception. And this silly 'Im so hardcore attitude'. I'm sure I can out party Avril and without making a jackarse out of myself and telling everybody how I jump on tables. Thurston was right. Yoko Ono now THAT is a women who rocks. Still Complicated and Sk8ter Boi (the spelling makes me wanna puke mind you) are great songs.

I read Q there's a much better thing in that issue...The essential SY albums. That Avril interview is just fucking funny. If she wants to think she's all cool and saintly then let her. Grrr thinking about her makes me angry...although I wouldn't say no to her.

That can't be genuine, although the stupid 'strong, tough girl' pose to the right can't be fabricated.
I think no. 3 is the daftest.

Avril Lavigne in talking out of her arse shocker.

Seriously now, she annoyed all the people who took their skate-punk aesthetic beyond just dressing up and having fun to pretending they were somehow on the fringes of society, and that pleased me enormously.

But do people actually give a damn what she says any more than Britney or Rhianna or whoever? And complicated and Sk8er Boi are really not good songs at all, the collossal amount of effort put in by all concerned to be something they arent just washes across the room and sticks to your stuff and makes it dirty and wrong whenever her music is played. It doesnt matter how hard I try, i just cant pretend its not there.

The sad thing is that it probably is true. Journalists are generally arseholes, especially those who write for magazines like that, but it's also a hard task for them to extrapolate anything vaguely entertaing from some of the stupidest people that they have the misfortune to interview.

On the subject of muso journalism:
I dont trust any of the reviews i read anymore, which is probably a good thing. Im more likely to take advice on what to listen to from freinds or from somewhere like here. I dont know what it is, there seems to be this mandatory culture of giving the right bands the right ratings to keep them onside. I mean, Q gave the last Razorlight album 5 stars.... Razorlight. When that sort of thing happens theres got to be some kind of conspiracy going on.

Oh and say what you will about Pitchforkmedia, but more often than not their reviews of trendy young British bands are considerably more reliable in terms of scoring (even if you dont like the writing) than British newspapers/magazines

That's a very interesting thing that you are saying, there. I was in fact thinking of something similar about music criticism in general because of those reassestment threads. A good music journalist would criticise the music simply for what it is, regardless of their perceived feelings of what it is or what it might be, when it's simply not what they might think it is. Also, attacking the music because the reviewer doesn't have simpathy for the musician is one of the worst acts of unprofessionalism ever. Who gives a toss if such and such musician is a real arsehole? For as long as they make good music, it's all fine by me. Then you have cases when both the musician and the music are shite, and in that case they don't stand a chance. In general, music journalism is one of those professions that's being shat upon for so long and so many times, that it became really hard to find out who's doing a good job, rather than being a haven where people flash their own arrogance around.
Another thing is people who improvise themselves as experts in music simply because they have a big record collection, or because they have half an idea of this or that. They are the worst, same as those people who have access to gear and want to make music, but fail to sit down and truly think hard about the amount of talent that's in them. Sorry for this long rant, but it's a quiet day at work.

that was so stupid it was brilliant...thats exactly the kind of fluff i'd give to a mag such as Q....on that note, perhaps I should mention Im working on an album, in which i cover avril's Let Go from start to finish from memory...only i'll listen to the last track, "Naked" because i want to get the lyrics down, but the rest will be from memory....i think i last heard it 3 years ago...Im blatantly copying what Dirty Projectors did with Black Flag;s album this year, but its ok...

yeah, poor dumb girl.

awesome songs, though.

that was boring and not a big deal at all. and avril's ugly. hardly a must-read.

she is a fucking dumb shit fuck and you all know it and if you don;t beleve it then YOU are the deluded one. she is a fucking mas smarket dipshit fuck. the sooner she dies of an O/D the better our world will be
hallelujah

"I am a very giving person, when the hurricane thing happened, i went to my closet, filled six boxes of stuff and said to my assistant, "Take it to Katrina" I also like to give stuff to people who are my "Workers" espcially if they don't make much money"

"It's important to be thankful, even if your poor. I mean come one, we all have clean water - well ok not people in the developing world."

How can you not find this shocking!

Exactly, and I want to take this occasion to wish you a happy birthday, Rob.

when I say wasted, I mean wasted.

This one doesn't even make sense. I can see why Lindsay Lohan get's her kicked out of clubs when she arrives.

"When i go to a party, i am the party! I'm the girl doing shots, jumping on tables, screaming and getting wasted.
Am i advocating drugs? No! When i say wasted, that doesn't mean i go crazy, Drink in moderation, Be responsible, yeah?"

"I am the girl doing shot's, jumping on tables, screaming........"
"Drink in moderation, be responsible......"

Wha?????

you'd be surprised then, how many "normal" girls (and guys) don't even think like that.

In other words, you're the attention whore that's getting on everyone else's nerves? Awesome.

i always hated her, but now its been taken to a whole other level.

why do you let yourself hate someone like her? people like her just need to be ignored.

Yeah, Avril Lavigne is cool because you can jump over her many levels and get to the next one just like that!

Deep.

ha ha ha ha ha ha

Well i just reckon theres a certain culture of it at the moment, and i suppose in a way because of the internet it means that people who did sit up and think "Hang on, The Neon Bible really wasnt that much cop" have an easier way of finding people who agree, and just appreciate a more objective methodology of reviewing. I do think theres a load of vested interests informing the way the mainstream press reviews music at the moment. Then again i could be reading too much Private Eye.

I have a couple things I'd like to discuss.

A 17-year-old can hold a good conversation with an adult. It's not hard. I somehow doubt she could now too.

I also doubt she'll be in a "super-cool indie flick". I get the feeling that the problem isn't with the script, it's her. She doesn't seem too bright.

And lastly, I'm a simple midwestern boy, could someone explain what spirituality is? It seems to be the kind of thing people say to pretend to look smart. Seriously, what is it? I have no fucking clue and I've heard it countless times. I'm starting to wonder if no one knows what it is.

she had a bit-part in Linklaters 'Fast Food Nation' didn't she?

I can tell you one thing it isnt anything to do with rotating the contents of your room through 90 degrees.

It's something people say that have to sound more interesting, and something that few people actually really have.