Avril Lavigne, word has it, tends to leave with a song or two from people, and does not issue the appropriate credits. Canadian Chantal Kreviazuk in an interview to “Performing Songwriter” says that the Avril has ripped her off her song!
Performing Songwriter:
We just did a story with Avril Lavigne, whom you wrote with...
Chantal: I find it funny that it’s in Performing Songwriter. I mean, Avril, songwriter? Avril doesn’t really sit and write songs by herself or anything. Avril will also cross the ethical line, and no one says anything. That’s why I’ll never work with her again. I sent her a song two years ago called “Contagious,” and I just saw the track listing to this album (The Best Damn Thing) and there’s a song called “Contagious” on it–and my name’s not on it. What do you do with that?
Performing Songwriter: Call the lawyers?
Chantal: See, I won’t do that. I’ll just tell you. Art should not be subject to that kind of controversy. Art should be pure. In my head it is, anyway.
Avril Lavigne has sold over twenty-six million albums worldwide. In 2006, Canadian Business Magazine ranked her the seventh most powerful Canadian in Hollywood.
Lavigne’s debut album, Let Go, was released in 2002. Her second and third albums, Under My Skin (2004) and The Best Damn Thing (2007), hit number one on the U.S. Billboard 200. Some of her popular numbers include “Complicated”, “Sk8er Boi”, “I’m with You”, “My Happy Ending”, “Nobody’s Home”, “Keep Holding On”, and “Girlfriend”.
Source - Socialite
