Stuck In A Pagoda With Motoko Aoyama

I almost threw up in my mouth when I read this on Tokyograph via IntlWota this afternoon:

It was made known on Monday that Puffy’s new single, “All Because of You,” was written by Avril Lavigne and singer/songwriter Butch Walker, who has produced for both Puffy and Lavigne in the past.

I’d love to know how this happened. As stated in the news item, Butch Walker worked with Ami and Yumi on some of the tracks from Splurge (including “Call Me What You Like”/”Shall We Dance” and “Tokyo I’m On My Way”) and Honeycreeper. Sadly, some money from Clive “Old And In The Way” Davis also lured Walker into working on some of Avril’s last album - the one with leitmotifs and styles stolen lock stock and barrel from the Rubinoos, Toni Basil, Peaches, and lord knows who else (besides Puffy AmiYumi). Either Avril, the fake punk married to another fake punk (one of the members of Sum41), had some guilt trips over biting on Ami and Yumi’s past work and is desperately trying to kiss ass, or our punk-poppin’ heroines from Japan caught wind of this little queef’s activities and decided to try to put her to work. Like every other composition credited to Ms. Lavigne, no doubt Walker will be doing at least 90 to 95% of the actual songwriting while Avril forces her way into an unearned equal share of the credit and publishing on the BMI and US Copyright Office forms (a situation not much different from Col. Tom Parker forcibly attaching Elvis Presley’s name and his own publishing company to songs his client recorded).

It doesn’t matter… Avril may have (falsely) declared herself to be “the motherfuckin’ princess” on her last album, but working for two queens of rock should knock her down a few thousand pegs. Avril can always use her cut of the royalties towards her impending plagiarism settlement with the Rubinoos.