Posted AT 1:33 AM EDT on 05/07/07
U.S. songwriters sue Lavigne over hit song
TORONTO — Canadian punk princess Avril Lavigne is being sued by U.S. songwriters who claim that her smash hit
Girlfriend sounds suspiciously like a single they released in the 1970s.
Lavigne's manager, Terry McBride, said the pop starlet is one of several people named in a lawsuit filed July 2 that alleges striking similarities to the Rubinoos' song
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.
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