Avril’s ‘Girlfriend’ is not ‘I wanna be your boyfriend’

The Canadian rock singer and musician Avril Lavigne has denied all charges of her song ‘Girlfriend’ being a rip off of the 1979 song ‘I wanna be your girlfriend’ by the Rubinoos. Avril’s management has rendered false all such claims made by the Rubinoos band and now Avril has called the BS too.

TMZ.com reports what Avril writes in response to the rip off claim. She says “You may have heard some news that two guys who wrote for some band from the 1970s I have never in my life heard of called the “Rubinoos” are trying to sue me. They have a song called “I Want To Be Your Boyfriend” that has no musical similarities to the song “Girlfriend” that Luke Gottwald and I wrote together. They claim that a small part of the lyrics are the same and are saying that I took these from them. I had never heard this song in my life and their claim is based on 5 words! All songs share similar lyrics and emotions. As humans we speak one language.

Off the top of my head, two other songs that I can immediately think of with this type of lyric are “Hey, hey, you, you get off of my cloud” by the Rolling Stones and “Hey little girl I want to be your boyfriend” by the Ramones. Simply put, I have been falsely accused of ripping their song off. Luke and I have done nothing wrong and there is no merit to their claim,” says an angry Lavigne.