Avril Lavigne is the Da Vinci of Our Time

Since shedding her post-punk grrl rocker image, Avril has somehow managed to blast out a winning streak of pure, original versatility unseen in culture since Homer.

In this interview with MTV, she shows an unimaginable, super-human depth of creativity.

‘I just wanted the show to be more showy.’

Thank you, Jesus, for all signs of your love.

Thank you, Avril, for leading the attack against shows that aren’t really shows at all.

I can just imagine her inner monologue defining her vision of this spectacular, once-in-a-lifetime event:

‘I’m Avril Lavigne; I’m pretty cool. What should I do with my show? Well, first off, I need a name - something cool, and original… Well, my album was called The Best Damn Thing, and I had a song called, ‘The Best Damn Thing’, maybe I could find a way to incorporate that… WAIT! I KNOW! I’ll call it The Best Damn Tour! But it needs to be really cool, and definitely needs to match my new feminine streak. I’ll get some back-up dancers, get a lot of pink instruments, and some cool LED displays. Show’s are so lame unless they’re show-y. Hey, that’s a good way to describe it. I’ll put on a show-y show, and make it really really really pink!’

Genuflect before this deity of art.

In a related story, has anyone seen these boob pictures? I mean, since when does Avril Lavigne have distinguishable cleavage? And when did my pants get so tight? And this post so awkward… and creepy…

Forget Music, Bring A&R to the Masses

A new web-site www.slicethepie.com popped up recently offering a way for artists to get financing for an album even further away from the major label dinosaur.

Where?

Straight from the fans.

Offering to connect artists with an internet full of self-described A&R people and playing out the idea of everyone being an investor, Slice the Pie aims to simplify the whole process by giving amateurs complete control.

It’s too soon to know if this will break out, but it’s refreshing to see that someone is thinking way, way, way outside the box.

For all their talk about being non-exclusive and ‘artist friendly’, I had a really hard time understanding all of the ramifications of securing financing through them.

Which is completely understandable.

After all, would you invest in an artist if there seemed to be any kind of chance that the $15,000 would be blown on strippers and coke?

No. And neither would anyone else.

The snag in this comes from the motivation of the people choosing to invest in these artists. Are they looking for someone they want to listen to? Or someone that they think that everyone else will.

Hopefully, this will lead to more of this kind of extreme innovation, but I think we’ll all have to keep hoping for something better.