Okay, so we’re all confused as to how Avril Lavigne is still a thing, since her skater-girl-teen-queen years have passed, but if she’s determined to hold that throne… well, no one’s going to take it from her, so that’s okay?
While most of us geeks would normally be ambivalent to her progress as an artist(e), one can’t help but notice that her new music video contains a strange mondo-mixture of… well, “nerd-cred” was already a passe term on inception, so I’m just going to say that you should watch the “Rock N Roll” music video at least once.
In the video (you can ignore the song, really, it’s just distracting from Lavigne’s roll as Earthly savior, I think), watch Avril get paralyzed by the sight of a lobster mere moments after batting a baby away with a tin tray. She knows an alcoholic dog who drives, is friends with Danica McKellar (that’s growed up Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years), and has to fight a SharkBear to save the rock genre… from hipsters? It’s not quite clear who she’s saving rock from, actually, but it probably does need saving, so she’s at least in the public service game these days.
There’s a guitar-saw, a gang of lady misfits, a steampunk Segway rocket that blasts an approving Billy Zane out of the atmosphere, and Avril and Winnie Cooper kiss because youth is about sexual exploration or perhaps just because they’re buddies and that’s totally not shocking these days, okay?
It’s almost like Sucker Punch, if that film had been about disaffected rockers. And less creepy.
Am I wrong for enjoying this? Honestly, I cannot be bothered to care either way. It’s fun, and if I had lots of money to make my own music videos, I’d fight a SharkBear and kiss Winnie Cooper, too.
Emmet Asher-Perrin just wants to stop a crowd of people with the cry of LOBSTER. Please, let her do this.
So… somebody discovered Tank Girl, basically.
It’s more “Josie and the Pussycats and the Apocalypse” than “Tank Girl.”
I love the Guns and Roses reference. Just hilarious.
Not. Steampunk.
Post-Wonder-Years-apocalyptic-retro90s-Tank-Girl-punk.
I have never rooted for anything in my life as hard as I rooted for that Bearshark.
Remember when Winnie Cooper kissed Kevin and it was just as uncomfortable?
You know how in the 50’s, instead of a commercial break you’d have the actors turn to the camera and directly endorce products? Well that was the height of subtlety compared to that shitty product placement in the beginning.
Also, age limit on black eyeliner is something I support now.
To be fair, Fred Savage is about 1000% more talented than Avril on her best day, ever, but he was never that into kissing.
@3
that may be the first time a sentence has started with “I love the Guns and Roses” anything in 20 years.
I ended up putting it on mute, but it was all worth it for the bearshark.
@1 Tank Girl, Trigun, FLCL and I’d even say Borderlands. But they missed an opportunity to reference CRAB BATTLE with the lobster. And yes, it’s definitely not steampunk! The trend isn’t new and it’s probably never going away, but I’m really sick of pop stars marketing themselves as anything but pop.
Well, it’s made me want to watch Tank Girl again, so that’s one good thing to say about it :)