Avril Lavigne has one thing to say about all the criticism for her terrible, horrible, no good, very bad music video for her new single “Hello Kitty”: “LOL.”
The 29-year-old singer’s latest clip hit the web on Tuesday and was immediately wrought with criticism for its nauseatingly jumpy style, odd cuts, and oh yeah, all degrading and offensive things Lavigne does in the jaunting three-minute clip.
Lavigne not only dumbs herself down in the music video, with her parade of stuffed animals and weird candy cupcake skirts but she also used four nearly identical red-haired Asian women as “backup dancers.” It’s all incredibly racist to anyone who isn’t Avril Lavigne or one of her mega-fans, but the “Sk8er Boi” singer is defending herself on Twitter. According to her, the video is nothing but a tribute to Japanese culture and can in no way be offensive because SHE FLEW TO JAPAN TO DO IT, GUYS.
“RACIST??? LOLOLOL!!! I love Japanese culture and I spend half of my time in Japan. I flew to Tokyo to shoot this video,” Lavigne tweeted last night (April 23) “…specifically for my Japanese fans, WITH my Japanese label, Japanese choreographers AND a Japanese director IN Japan.”
OK, then.
The music video appeared on YouTube on Tuesday (April 22) afternoon but mysteriously disappeared from the site yesterday before re-appearing online later in the evening. The clip is now available to watch on YouTube again.
Check out the horror that is “Hello Kitty” below:
“Hello Kitty” is the fourth single from Lavigne’s self-titled 2013 album. It follows “Here’s To Never Growing Up,” “Rock n Roll” and “Let Me Go” (which features her husband, Chad Kroeger).
