Hannah Labonte

11/20/12

A Period

POS Song Comparison

                The solo artist, Avril Lavigne is known as a great pop artist from the early to late 2000’s. Lavigne uses many different genres of music in her songs. She switches from hard rock to girly pop and mixes them into one. The Rubinoos are more of a laid back love song band. There are many songs that differ and have many similarities to one another with the same topic. Avril Lavignes song “Girlfriend” And the Rubinoo’s song “I wanna be your boyfriend” are a great example of this.

                Avril Lavigne does have much of her own original twist to her song that makes it much different from the Rubinoo’s song “I wanna be your boyfriend”. One of the major differences if Avril’s song compared to the Rubinoo’s song, is her use of aggression throughout her lyrics. Avril Lavigne shows that she is better than this boy’s current girlfriend by using insulting quotes and aggressive lyrics. “She’s like so whatever/ you could do so much better “. Another one of the major differences in this song is the change in sex. Avril Lavigne is saying that she wants to be the boy’s “Girlfriend”. Avril Lavigne expresses her aggression through inappropriate language and using cuss words.

                The band The Rubinoo’s, has a much different approach to their song. The topics of the song may be the same, and they are also asking for the same type of relationship. The Rubinoo’s go about it in a much different manner than Avril. In their song, “I wanna be your boyfriend”, The Rubinoo’s are lacking the aggressive, sassy approach that Lavigne takes on in her song, “Girlfriend”. They are more-so trying to win the girl over by using intense imagery and not using cuss words. “When I see you smile”, “Sitting here so close together” This gives a vast image of how the band feels about this certain girl. They leave out the inappropriate language and leave out the forceful language about other males and say that they want to be her “number one”. Unlike the song “Girlfriend”, there is a change of sex. The boy is trying to win the girl over in this song rather than the girl trying to steal the boy.

                Though there are many differences in each of these songs, there are also many reasons in which the songs remain similar. One of the main reasons these songs were chosen to be compared is their similar choice in topic of the song. Each song is about youth, and how important it is to each artist to have a boyfriend/girlfriend. Each artist is forcefully showing their love toward the opposite sex and how much they want to make it “official”. Many of the words that are used throughout both sets of lyrics make the songs very similar. There is frequent usage of the words “Hey” and “You”. These words show that the artists are directing the song particularly at someone. It shows that the song is most likely only directed at one person, rather than an entire audience. These artists and their songs are a great example of how songs can be both different and similar to one and other.