ooh ooh perhaps a debate settling is in order… is it pronounced the french way, like “ah-vreel” or americanized like “(long ‘a’)-vril”
She is from Napanee, a very small town in Ontario not far from my hometown. It’s just west of Kingston if you’re ever near a map.
Small town Ontarians often speak like that; it’s a real accent, not made up. The McKenzie Brothers accent is basically rural Ontarian; hers is distinctly eastern Ontarian, found in the rural communities from the Quebec border as far west as Toronto. Western rural Ontarian is almost the same but has a small flavour of the accent used by flappy-headed Canadians on “South Park.” I actually know people who say “buddy” as “budd-ay.”
And it’s “Av-rill.” She isn’t Francophone.
Oooh, what did he do to her?
My sister got a copy of Avril’s CD a while back. She said she felt dumb getting a CD with a song called “Sk8er Boi” but she said the whole CD is quite good. After I picked up a copy, I had to agree. I don’t pay attention to the interviews; I just listen to the music.
Let’s not forget that when she was announcing grammy nominations, she mispronounce David Bowie as David BAU-EE. What a moron. Whatever dignity rock had, died with her one breath.
Love her or hate her, anyone who has been parodied by “Weird Al” has made it in the music world.
Mad props to Hoser music! Woo Hoo!
Yes, I agree, people should all talk like New Yorkers or Los Angelenos or be shot. OK, one exception, spanish accents in California are OK.
Basically, the old comedy trick of taking clips from a real interview (I think with MTV?) and interspersing it with his joke questions to create context comedy (which is why, Cat Fight, I can’t point you to a transcript at the moment.
But the thing is, the bits from the actual interview made her look SO bad on their own that I almost felt bad for her. She sounded like there wasn’t a coherent, intelligent thought in her head. And I don’t think it was just the editing, either - she really struck me as someone with, at the least, very poor speaking skills.
Now, I like Bowie and think he’s done a lot of great stuff. But I can understand Avril having no knowledge of him, and I don’t think she should be really criticised for that. She’s a pop chick - not the sort of person who generally explore music older than herself, and Bowie probably hasn’t had a big hit since before she was born. I wouldn’t expect the artists of the 60s to have been up on pop icons of the 1920’s, and the criticism of her failure to pronounce Bowie’s name correctly smacks of Baby Boomer self-obsession to me. It’s like all these 40 and 50 year olds have recoiled in horror at the thought that there could be people that have no interest in the pop culture of the 1960s and '70s. “My god, is it possible that these idiots don’t know that my teenage years were the most important cultural event in the past millenium!”
Well, I’m not really a fan of her music, but it doesn’t grate on me like Brittany or “Xtina” (gawd). I think that she’s a fairly down to earth, if no a little bit ditzy teenage girl. No harm in that, really.
She’s pseudo-Californian, but she’s really Canadian?
Darn it, why’d she have to go and make things so complicated?!
Is the way she’s acting like she’s somebody else getting you frustrated?
I’ve heard nothing but good things about her here in Houston.
I really like her song “Losing Grip”, it’s quite different than Sk8r Boi, sounds similar to Alanis to me.
Plus, she told the DJ’s here (I think, or they read it from an article…) that she thought it was silly that Britney Spears had so many clothes. She said it was a waste of money.
I like her