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"&lt;strong&gt;Earlier this week, &lt;a target=\"_self\" href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2007/07/06/avril-ripped-for-allegedly-ripping-off-girlfriend/\"&gt;TMZ reported&lt;/a&gt; that attitudinal Avril Lavigne's song \"Girlfriend\" was a rip off of a 1979 song by the Rubinoos called \"I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.\" Avril's management flatly denied the band's claims, and now Avril's called BS too. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2007/07/07/avril-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.avrillavigne.com/node/7175#comment_form\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Writes Avril&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;\"You may have heard some news that two guys who wrote for some band from the 1970s I have never in my life heard of called the \"Rubinoos\" are trying to sue me. They have a song called \"I Want To Be Your Boyfriend\" that has no musical similarities to the song \"Girlfriend\" that Luke Gottwald and I wrote together. They claim that a small part of the lyrics are the same and are saying that I took these from them. I had never heard this song in my life and their claim is based on 5 words! All songs share similar lyrics and emotions. As humans we speak one language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Off the top of my head, two other songs that I can immediately think of with this type of lyric are \"Hey, hey, you, you get off of my cloud\" by the Rolling Stones and \"Hey little girl I want to be your boyfriend\" by the Ramones. Simply put, I have been falsely accused of ripping their song off. Luke and I have done nothing wrong and there is no merit to their claim.\"&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;div class=\"related\"&gt;\n&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span&gt;Related&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;\n&lt;h4&gt;Links&lt;/h4&gt;\n&lt;ul&gt;\n    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.tmz.com/2007/07/06/avril-ripped-for-allegedly-ripping-off-girlfriend/\"&gt;Avril Ripped for Allegedly Ripping Off \"Girlfriend\" &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;\n&lt;/ul&gt;\n&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;\n&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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