Quote Originally Posted by Pure Strife
I hate it when people know what they're talking about.

My basic point was that in a way, she was like Sid Vicious because she is where she is because of how she acted and what she did, not because she had talent, which you picked up on. Whatever the specifics of what Sid did are irrelevant there though, because it comes down to the same thing even if she respects authority or whatever. It irks me to hear Sid Vicious called a great bass player (not something that happens all that often, I'll admit) because he didn't play any better than the guy from Good Charlotte. However, even Good Charlotte are a band I'd be more inclined to catagorise as punk than Avril because like the Sex Pistols, they write their own songs (however bad), and play them too.

So hearing Avril touted as a great artist/songwriter is equally annoying because she has everything "co-written", and has said in two different interviews that a) she wrote all the songs on Let Go herself at a young age, and b) said they were co-written in another one. Though I'd be bloody astounded if anyone who actually got paid to help her wrote the verse lyrics for Don't Tell Me on the second album, for instance.

So my beef is with the poser thing, and passing yourself off to clueless individuals as something you blatantly aren't (though I doubt Sid himself made any claims about musical greatness, he's not that great an example because it's more others who hyped him than himself), not with punk in general, if that's how the Sid Vicious comment came off.
Agreed, and well said. I certainly share that same annoyance.