maybe not the best damn thing

Researching a project for work (seriously!), I found myself going to Avril Lavigne's myspace page.

I'd already heard the new single, and I kinda got the idea, though it does sound like the greatest Skye Sweetnam song ever. For no good reason, I've been trying to give this girl (Avril) some slack, because she's from Napanee and seemed to start that whole pop-grrl thing, and a hot guy I like thinks she's great in part because she works with Butch Walker, who is pretty excellent. The business of being at Cannes and New York Fashion Week attempting to be glamorous and whatever raised a tiny red flag, but I got past it...mainly because who gives a crap. But she seems to be in a fairly precarious position in terms of her creative life - is she past it? will she change? will she change back? Is this her Under Rug Swept moment, when we all just start to not pay attention?

So back to the myspace page. Of course, down by the top friends, there's a player for the video of the single, so I let 'er rip. I can get through the whole Mariah-Carey-playing-two-girls-who-want-the-same-guy thing.

But then...there's dancing. With actual dancers with "choreography".

That's when I closed the myspace and started waiting for the night she plays Casino Rama.

Still there is some good news. iTunes has that single with the chorus sung in EIGHT DIFFERENT LANGUAGES! You wanna hear her yelling about not liking some guy's girlfriend in Portugese and Mandarin? Of course you do! Check out the list here, and get ready for when she sings every bloody one of them in Monaco on the World Music Awards show. Yes, I'm reckoning that's before the Casino Rama gig.