Kevin Bronson on January 26th, 2010

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As the main man in his tongue-twisting side project Everybody Was in the French Resistance … Now!, Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos launches verbal volleys at some well-known pop songs. The video for “G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N.” – off the band’s forthcoming album “Fixin’ the Charts (Volume One)” – features partner-in-rhyme (and girlfriend) Dyan Valdes, keyboardist of the L.A. band the Blood Arm. The song’s barbed-wire couplets are aimed at Avril Lavigne’s song “Girlfriend” and, as Argos points out, the notion that it’s cool to steal somebody else’s boyfriend. Can you spell it out for me, dude?