{ July 7, 2007 }
Avril Lavigne are being sued for copying or stealing tunes from the song “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend” by Rubinoos for her song “Girlfriend”. The video comparing both song says everything, they are more or less the same — but the funny part is that Avril Lavigne claims that she have not listen to the song by Rubinoos before.
Even the song title are similar, boyfriend and girlfriend. And for your information, “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend” is released in the 1979, which is almost 30 years old now. Head over FOXNews for full news. Watch the video comparing both songs after the jump.
via Say No To Crack
HI,
Just wanted to mention that Chantal Kreviazuk has since taken back what she said about Avril possibly stealing that song “Contagious”…
Chantal *did* send her a song called ‘contagious’ a couple years ago, and then recently only saw the same song title on Avril’s new CD. That made her think maybe Avril used her old song and didn’t credit her as a writer, but in fact the only similarity between the two songs was the title. The songs themselves are completely different.
Also, in my opinion the Rubinoos song is not very similar to Avril’s at all. I wrote a blog entry of my own about this story and showed there are many songs with the same phrase and subject matter over the years… including video examples.
Just click on my name here on this comment to see my post.
Thanks!
- Courtney
Good entry you have there. But it is not just the “Hey! hey! you! you!” phrase looks alike, but the other parts of the song looks alike too. That’s just my opinion though, thanks for your detailed comment
Aw, did little attention starved Avril try to pull a fast one?