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.
