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I saw the “Hot” video today.

Mmm.

The song is utter-cods-wallop as a “rock” song (but then again - hate to ruin everything for you little girlies but Avril never was “rock” or “punk”) but I think it’s an “ok-for-what-it-is-pop” song.

Anyway, the point of this blog is to point out a few reasons as to why Avril is better than she was 4 years ago (or however long ago “Skater Boy” came out):

• Everyone can now pronounce her name (when I first heard “Complicated” I used to refer to her as Avril “that surname that starts with lav”).
• She no longer pretends her music is “punk”. It never was.
• All her “biggest” fans hate her ‘cos she sold out. (i.e. stopped pretending she was “punk”).
• All the Kylie Minogue fans like her because she’s now accepted the fact that she’s a manufactured pop star.
• She’s clearly had a boob job.
• She’s clearly been told by her record label to be a complete and utter slag.
• She wears less clothes in her videos.
• The production people have made the songs even louder than ever. Screw dynamics - compress, compress, compress.
• She now uses like 909 claps or something (in Girlfriend) which add to the uber-poppiness. Sammy likes claps.
• The production team decided that she should sound less “rock” and more “pop” so actually decided to use the other 3/4’s of the studio which had gathered dust. This other 3/4 was used to create those reversey, delay-ey, flangey “Hey” and “You”(’s) in Girlfriend.
• She has a Green corset thing in the “Hot” video and a stupid haircut (the “celebrity”, “paparazzi”, red carpet bit).
• They airbrush her more.

I wonder how many kiddies have taken to green “babydolls” as their casual wear instead of black “Atticus” shirts?

I love cliches.

Anyway here is the “Hot” video:

It’s worth putting up with the nasal-ness for the little bit 47 seconds in where she does a little slutty strut.

As for the song - like I said - I like it. But then again I’m not one of those elitist musical types that hate on a song because it’s pop/mainstream/catchy.

Avril Lavigne, Kylie Minogue, Busted, McFly, whatever, is impossible to hate deep down. That’s why the record company have so many people working on each song, manufacturing it so you like it. You can deny liking it on the surface - but I think we all know what happens inside.

Give in guys - pop doesn’t make you gay. It doesn’t make you mainstream. It just means you appreciate that someone (not neccessarily the artist) has put in fuck loads of work to make a song that you can’t dislike and need to play on loop.

Whether you choose to hate it because it makes you uncool is up to you - but any man that says they wouldn’t fuck her is a liar.

Unless of course you REALLY don’t like the song and REALLY wouldn’t fuck her. In which case you’ve just wasted a few minutes of your life reading this.