<![CDATA[Avril Lavigne Settles Suit, Flings A Pile Of Money At The Rubinoos - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Avril Lavigne Settles Suit, Flings A Pile Of Money At The Rubinoos - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:40:33 EST Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:40:33 EST http://idolator.com/343395/avril-lavigne-settles-suit-flings-a-pile-of-money-at-the-rubinoos <![CDATA[Avril Lavigne Settles Suit, Flings A Pile Of Money At The Rubinoos]]> http://idolator.com/343395/avril-lavigne-settles-suit-flings-a-pile-of-money-at-the-rubinoos#c3653118 @Thierry: Remember when the Matrix said the only contribution she gave to "Complicated" was changing the lyric "take off all your stupid clothes" to "take off all your preppy clothes?"

dollywould

]]> 33:343395:c3653118 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:40:33 EST <![CDATA[Avril Lavigne Settles Suit, Flings A Pile Of Money At The Rubinoos]]> http://idolator.com/343395/avril-lavigne-settles-suit-flings-a-pile-of-money-at-the-rubinoos#c3652927 I think the settlement was a good way to avoid a trial, which would have certainly exposed Avril's "songwriting" technique for what it is - taking the song some producer wrote for her, adding a pout or two, and voila, another songwriting credit!

Thierry

]]> 33:343395:c3652927 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:29:15 EST <![CDATA[Avril Lavigne Settles Suit, Flings A Pile Of Money At The Rubinoos]]> http://idolator.com/343395/avril-lavigne-settles-suit-flings-a-pile-of-money-at-the-rubinoos#c3651268 Avril Lavigne sounds more like Alannis Morrisette everyday.

Cos

]]> 33:343395:c3651268 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:07:27 EST <![CDATA[Avril Lavigne Settles Suit, Flings A Pile Of Money At The Rubinoos]]> http://idolator.com/343395/avril-lavigne-settles-suit-flings-a-pile-of-money-at-the-rubinoos#c3650603 i got into a fight recently about whether the odds were better that avril might have heard the rubinoos song (because, you know, they're both canadian) or the lush cover of the song. because, i don't know, it seems like she might be a closet lush fan.

bcapirigi

]]> 33:343395:c3650603 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:43:33 EST <![CDATA[Avril Lavigne Settles Suit, Flings A Pile Of Money At The Rubinoos]]> http://idolator.com/343395/avril-lavigne-settles-suit-flings-a-pile-of-money-at-the-rubinoos#c3650523 ruby who's ?

worldsfair

]]> 33:343395:c3650523 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:41:25 EST <![CDATA[Avril Lavigne Settles Suit, Flings A Pile Of Money At The Rubinoos]]> http://idolator.com/343395/avril-lavigne-settles-suit-flings-a-pile-of-money-at-the-rubinoos#c3650198 @galacticfuzz: It's not a question of trust, it's a question of not letting what we've built up crumble to dust. Really, it's all of these things and more that keep us together.

KinetiQ

]]> 33:343395:c3650198 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:30:29 EST <![CDATA[Avril Lavigne Settles Suit, Flings A Pile Of Money At The Rubinoos]]> http://idolator.com/343395/avril-lavigne-settles-suit-flings-a-pile-of-money-at-the-rubinoos#c3649878 Of course SHE didn't know about the song but her svengali certainly did. Stolen...if not directly then indirectly.

SmedIndy

]]> 33:343395:c3649878 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:20:32 EST <![CDATA[Avril Lavigne Settles Suit, Flings A Pile Of Money At The Rubinoos]]> http://idolator.com/343395/avril-lavigne-settles-suit-flings-a-pile-of-money-at-the-rubinoos#c3649644 Oh man, I had no idea that Idolator commenters were such wankers compared to the people over at Wonkette. You trust a shitastic pop singer to come up with her own crap? Come on!

galacticfuzz

]]> 33:343395:c3649644 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:12:56 EST <![CDATA[Avril Lavigne Settles Suit, Flings A Pile Of Money At The Rubinoos]]> http://idolator.com/343395/avril-lavigne-settles-suit-flings-a-pile-of-money-at-the-rubinoos#c3649635 I think we're all forgetting one of the key points in all of this: Avril's song sucks. The Rubinoos song does not.

bbernardini

]]> 33:343395:c3649635 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:12:43 EST <![CDATA[Avril Lavigne Settles Suit, Flings A Pile Of Money At The Rubinoos]]> http://idolator.com/343395/avril-lavigne-settles-suit-flings-a-pile-of-money-at-the-rubinoos#c3649610 Yeah, I don't think I buy that she's sitting at home with a stack of old 45's looking for her next single. This sounds more like "The producers gave me this song to sing, and they must have clip-arted it together from all over the place"

Plus, think of how many pop songs are out there. There are only but so many charming little syllable-melody-theme variations to be made. Eventually some of them have to overlap somewhere.

DeeJayQueue

]]> 33:343395:c3649610 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:11:38 EST <![CDATA[Avril Lavigne Settles Suit, Flings A Pile Of Money At The Rubinoos]]> http://idolator.com/343395/avril-lavigne-settles-suit-flings-a-pile-of-money-at-the-rubinoos#c3649476 the choruses are the same, and the first time i heard avril's song my first thought was 'hey cool, someone's covering the rubinoos'. still, i can believe that she'd never heard their song before... but Lukasz Gottwald sure had.

dippinkind

]]> 33:343395:c3649476 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:06:41 EST <![CDATA[Avril Lavigne Settles Suit, Flings A Pile Of Money At The Rubinoos]]> http://idolator.com/343395/avril-lavigne-settles-suit-flings-a-pile-of-money-at-the-rubinoos#c3649089 I'm not entirely convinced. I admit that the choruses do sound similar, and maybe I'm just far too trusting a person, but I give her the benefit of the doubt. Though I definitely do hear a little of The Rolling Stones "Get Off Of My Cloud" in the Rubinoos' original.

JimStark

]]> 33:343395:c3649089 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:53:32 EST <![CDATA[Avril Lavigne Settles Suit, Flings A Pile Of Money At The Rubinoos]]> http://idolator.com/343395/avril-lavigne-settles-suit-flings-a-pile-of-money-at-the-rubinoos#c3648053 I always felt the similarities were very surface-y and that the Rubinoos' suit was a desperate grab by whatever lawyer was advising them.

So, given the settlement, which probably made them all a little richer, the upshot is: go, desperate grab!

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:343395:c3648053 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:20:27 EST