Word: avril
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...come from all races, religions and regions. Some support the war, some don't. What they have in common besides their mission is that they are bred-in-the-bone products of American pop culture. They quote South Park while rolling through the blasted countryside. They sing along to Avril Lavigne, compare combat to Grand Theft Auto and recite N.W.A. lyrics for inspiration. One of them--in a twist on a famous theory of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's--suggests American consumerism will pacify Iraq. "How else we going to make these hungry motherf___ers want to stop...
...song, infuriatingly permissive of the band’s mere half-hour set and refusal to play an encore after five minutes of hearty applause.I was disgusted; in America, we would have burned the motherfucker down. Maybe Hot Chip escaped unscathed because of their foreign passports. In that sense, Avril Lavigne is popular for the same reasons that compel the Parisians to exclusively smoke Lucky Strikes (and the Americans to smoke Gauloises, which the French largely eschew). Plus, the problem with a bunch of French bands is that they perform in English. It’s not that the preposterously...
...hardest one was actually Mandarin. Japanese was easy, sort of.' AVRIL LAVIGNE, Canadian pop star, who recorded the chorus to her new single Girlfriend in English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin...
...heard of them. They're the ones who are making TV shows like Ugly Betty into surprise hits and keeping Beyonc and Avril Lavigne at the top of the pop charts. Hollywood, oddly, has been ignoring them lately, as romantic comedies have taken a backseat to guy films like 300 and Wild Hogs, superhero sequels and slasher films. But Broadway, long worried about its graying audience, is in hot pursuit. A good deal of the credit for this nascent relationship goes to possibly the least-appreciated breakthrough hit of the past decade: Wicked. The musical prequel to the Wizard...
...latest album by Avril Lavigne, “The Best Damn Thing,” seems like it has a lot going for it. Brought to you by the producers behind Kelly Clarkson, Daughtry, Green Day, and My Chemical Romance, the album has all the behind-the-scenes muscle to make it exactly what it endeavors to be: fun. However, the brand-name brains settled for a spotty pop mixture based on the sounds of their former clients, and “Damn Thing” retains little of what used to be amusing about Lavigne’s music...