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Cutie Rethinks Union with Frontman of World's Worst Band

A little over a year ago, I had the unfortunate task of informing you that teen angst singer singer Avril Lavigne had fallen for the frontman of Nickelback, reputedly the world's worst band, one Chad Kroeger. Today I bring you the happy news that, a little late, she has come to her senses.

Avril Lavigne, Chad Kroeger Headed For a Split After One Year of Marriage

This rockstar romance may be coming to an end. Avril Lavigne and Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger are headed for a split after a year of marriage, insiders reveal exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly.

Kroeger, 39, popped the question to Lavigne, 29, in August 2012 after dating for a month. They wed in an intimate ceremony in the South of France in July 2013.

Despite their troubles, the couple have yet to hint about a strain in their relationship in public. In July, the Canadian singer gushed via Twitter about the 17-carat emerald-cut ring Kroeger gifted her for their first wedding anniversary. 

17 carats? That's a mighty big rock! Being the frontman of the world's worst band must pay pretty well, despite the humiliation. Now we know what she saw in him.

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Avril Puts Her Foot In It

By way of Ann Althouse, news that Avril Lavigne, Pop Princess and one time Rule 5 selection has stirred the wrath of the chronically offended with this new video:



Why? Apparently she's making fun of, or appropriating, or something from Japanese Pop:

Do you not see what's so cliven about it? Well, then, you might want to submit to Vox, the website that explains everything to the point needed by an adequately intelligent but generally pretty busy person:

Stone-faced, expressionless Japanese sidekick dancer ladies? Check. Inexplicable sushi-eating and photo-taking scenes? Check. Centering the song on a weird, creepily sexual dubstep chorus that rhymes "Hello Kitty" with "you're so pretty?" Congratulations, Avril — you've hit some kind of Orientalist Japanese Stereotype trifecta....

Ann isn't buying it, and neither am I. This is the same type of opprobrium that fell on Katy Perry when she did her Geisha themed video at the AMA awards.



So, apparently, white people are only permitted to act like white people, now. But she's French Canadian, so at least she can act like a Canuck too, eh?  I think Avril has the answer to them in this video . . .

More hilarity ensues when Professor Althouse discovers "PonPonPon".

Stacy McCain asks "It’s 2014: Why Aren’t You Racist Yet?"

More Avril below the fold (I keep a few in reserve for "emergencies"):