Avril Lavigne reached a confidential settlement with ‘70s rock band the Rubinoos over the claim that her song, “Girlfriend,” sounds a hell of a lot like their 1979 single, “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend,” The Canadian Press reports.
Lavigne has said that she had never heard the Rubinoos song. And her manager consulted a musicologist who found no similarities between the songs. The manager said they settled to avoid the steep costs of a legal battle.
Be a musicologist yourself and take the Pepsi challenge. Here’s the Rubinoos’ song And here’s Avril’s song.
I hear Prince has a Musicology degree under his paisley belt.
bradford
you can always find an expert who agrees with you. maybe this just happened to be a deaf musicologist
brian
i LOVE THAT SONG!
Mariah