June 03, 2003
Bad Song, Worse Movie
B3TA is having a photoshop contest. Create a poster for a movie based on a bad song. This is after the news came out that a movie might be based on Avril Lavigne's "Sk8ter Boi" song. I think if Elvis Presley wasn't dead it would be the kind of movie he starred in.
Pardon me for ragging, I'm not real sure why I feel as bitter and depressed about the concept of Avril Lavigne as I do. I think I read an interview with a manager or someone who said that AL could do any kind of album but came up with the punk concept on her own, which, if you read it the way I read it, made her sound highly mercenary: "Lessee, Britney's got the Lolita thing, Christina has got the slutty thing, I guess I'll take the punker thing."
I shouldn't be so concerned, punk has always been about look and posture, and about simplicity. The skater boy song is about as simple as songs come, seemingly plucked from a "True Romance" comic book, or a tale about Betty and Veronica, even.
But enough about that particular bad song. I must have gone through more than 300 entries in the "Bad Song, Worse Movie" contest. I kept looking for a certain entry, the kind that would almost appeal to Hollywood, except that it might get caught at the last minute by someone who points out how lame and farcical the idea is, and that might not even happen. I swear I think they already made some of the bogus movies. Didn't they already make a movie based on Kenny Rodgers' "Coward of the County?" To me, the entry had to also actually be a bad song. I love the song "Video Killed the Radio Star," but I also can understand it as a bad song, and I can see how it would make an even worse movie.
With over 300 entries you know some didn't have a clue as to what to do, but some had a good understanding of what the contest was about:
