{"id":706,"date":"2007-07-11T08:36:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T12:36:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-12T22:22:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T22:22:56","slug":"avril-vs-the-rubinoos-you-be-the-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/avril-vs-the-rubinoos-you-be-the-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Avril vs. The Rubinoos:  You Be the Judge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did <strong>Avril Lavigne<\/strong> rip off the chorus to her smash hit &#8220;Girlfriend&#8221; from obscuro New Jersey &#8217;80s pop-rockers <strong>The Rubinoos<\/strong>?  You be the judge!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Avril:<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6gqSk1UBFyo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And the Rubinoos:<br \/>\n<!--Media Player file:http:\/\/www.rubinoos.com\/new_site\/audio\/i_wanna_be_your_boyfriend.mp3--><\/p>\n<p><big><strong><ins>BREAKING EVIDENCE!?!?<\/ins><\/strong><\/big><!--more--><br \/>\nAnd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/rubinooslavigne.aiff\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/rubinooslavigne.aiff\"><strong>here are the choruses of both songs played back-to-back<\/strong><\/a> (<em>courtesy of Saturnismine<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>(A nod of the bewigged head to the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> for directing the world&#8217;s attention to this Gordian knot of legal intrigue.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Meanwhile, Mr. Mod asks:<\/em> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While we&#8217;re contemplating this important legal case, what suit would you bring to court on behalf of an artist whose song you suspect was ripped off?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did Avril Lavigne rip off the chorus to her smash hit &#8220;Girlfriend&#8221; from obscuro New Jersey &#8217;80s pop-rockers The Rubinoos? You be the judge! Here&#8217;s Avril: And the Rubinoos: BREAKING EVIDENCE!?!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}