Cliff Fabri: old videos and Can't Stop Thinking About You

He's saying she stirred up a shit storm with a fabricated self history, but after hitting it so big, it was uncontainable and affected a lot of people. (In his opinion)

He says he's happy with his life, but these aren't the actions of someone who's happy with how their life turned out. This is more like someone who's extremely bitter about how their life turned out in comparison to someone else's.
It's not like he's exposing something that we didn't already know in the first place, so.

As far as I know, Avril has never done drugs. She's always at least claimed to be against them, aside from the occasional cigarette and of course alcohol. I don't believe she would have ever done pot, to be honest.

This guy.... he can't even spell properly so I'm not sure how much merit there is to what he's saying. I do think he has the right to be bitter about the fact Avril became huge and he didn't get the credit or money. But everything else he's doing is just... It's been 15 years. Avril's a grown woman. Exposing intimate details is not the best way to go about this.

IF she ever did pot, I could see her trying it once or twice before the record deal ever happened, like at a friebd's party or something. But I highly highly doubt she was a legit pothead, doing it like every day. Maybe tried it once or twice, if at all. Once her career began, she definitely wasn't doing drugs and certainly doesn't as of right now.

It's true that without Let Go Avril's career wouldn't have blown up the way that it did. However, is he also gonna try to take credit for her other successes, like UMS and TBDT? Yeah she had lots of help on the first album and sometimes acted in interviews like she contributed more than what she probably really did, but we know after that she became much more involved in her albums. It's not like she was pulling a Milli Vanilli or something. She can sing and write her own songs. It's not as though someone else is singing or writing the songs and she's taking the credit. She's proven since then that she's more than capable of writing music, etc. Most artists have a shit ton of help on their debut records.

If he knows the music industry, he also should maybe consider why Avril did oftentimes make huge claims about writing on the album, etc. She's a product and in order to selll the product they had to make it seem like Avril was different from the other pop artists because she wrote her own songs and didn't just have everything decided by other people. It would have sounded pretty lame if she was like "This guy helped me get the chance to write" and "These other writers wrote most of the lyrics, I just changed a few words," etc. Nobody would have been convinced that she was supposed to be the new Alanis of this generation. Nobody would have bought that album. She would have been deemed a bigger poser than people already thought she was. She could have been pressured by Arista to say those things. She was a teen newbie in a very tough industry. Like it or not, it's a game. Avril was playing it and that's why she succeeded. We will probably never know the real truth about what went on behind closed doors as far as writing and stuff goes. I think she should have been a little more honest about what she contributed if it's true she didn't do as much as she claimed and give credit where credit is due, but on the other hand I can totally understand why she would feel it necessary to make boisterous claims if she believed it would help her sell more music. Cliff should have realized, if he knows all this stuff about the music industry, then he should have realized why she was saying those things instead of believing it was to feed her own ego or whatever it is he thinks.

It's especially terrible because he's saying these things about a 15 year old girl. A 15 year old who is now over 30. This isn't normal or healthy.