{"id":193346,"date":"2017-05-17T01:56:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T05:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/why-fans-think-avril-lavigne-died-and-was-replaced-by-a-clone-named-melissa-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2017-05-17T01:56:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T05:56:26","slug":"why-fans-think-avril-lavigne-died-and-was-replaced-by-a-clone-named-melissa-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/cloning\/why-fans-think-avril-lavigne-died-and-was-replaced-by-a-clone-named-melissa-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Why fans think Avril Lavigne died and was replaced by a clone named Melissa &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>  What could possibly explain the small changes in Avril Lavignes  appearance that took place between 2002<\/p>\n<p>    Did you know Avril Lavigne was    replaced by a lookalike named Melissa in 2003? At least, thats    what the internet would have you believe. The old conspiracy    theory that Lavigne was cloned resurfaced on    Twitter over the weekend, but it has been bandied about the    internet since 2005 and is thought to    have originated on a Brazilian fanpage.  <\/p>\n<p>    The theory claims Lavigne, struggling with fame at the    beginning of her career, began using a body double named    Melissa. At some point, the real Lavigne is said to have died,    so the record company replaced her with Melissa full-time.    Proof has included Lavignes red carpet shots (Lavigne wears    trousers; Melissa prefers dresses and skirts) and supposed    differences between the facial features of pre-2003 Lavigne and    the current incarnation. Theorists also believe Melissa has    left clues in songs, such as Slipped Away, in which    she sings: The day you slipped away was the day I found it    wont be the same. There was even a publicity shot in which    Lavigne had    Melissa written on her hand. Spooky.  <\/p>\n<p>    But Lavigne is not the first celebrity to be subject to a    (completely unverified) cloning conspiracy theory, as the    following examples show ...  <\/p>\n<p>    Possibly the best known example is the claim that Paul McCartney was replaced    with a lookalike after he had been killed in a car    accident. The urban legend took root in 1969, following the    release of the Beatles Abbey Road. Fans hunted for clues     they were convinced John Lennon was saying I buried Paul in    Strawberry Fields Forever, for example (Lennon said he was    actually saying cranberry sauce). Unlike some more recent    conspiracy theories, the person at the centre actually rebutted    the claim. In an interview with Life magazine in November 1969,    McCartney said: Perhaps the rumour started because I havent    been much in the press lately.  <\/p>\n<p>    Moving away from the clone replaces celebrity genre,    theorists believe Taylor    Swift is, in fact, the clone of a former satanic priestess.    Seems reasonable. The theory, which dates back to 2011, claims    Swift is an    Illuminati clone of Zeena LaVey, the daughter of the    founder of the Church of Satan. Essentially, the two look    similar. There are thousands of videos on YouTube comparing    the two, which surely counts as proof.  <\/p>\n<p>    Beyonc    and Jay Z have long been associated with the Illuminati on    certain pockets of the internet  so much so that Beyonc    referenced it    in Formation. It is also claimed that    the Illuminati uses clones to brainwash society. Sometimes,    all it takes to set the conspiracy wheels in motion is two    different pictures of the same person, and the Beyonc cloning    theory gained a flurry of attention last year when a Facebook    post that compared images of the singer from 2010 and 2016    went viral. It read: Fans the chick on the left is her but the    chick on the right is not. This high degree masonry witch on    the right is a cloned [sic].  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Visit link:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/shortcuts\/2017\/may\/15\/avril-lavigne-melissa-cloning-conspiracy-theories\" title=\"Why fans think Avril Lavigne died and was replaced by a clone named Melissa - The Guardian\">Why fans think Avril Lavigne died and was replaced by a clone named Melissa - The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> What could possibly explain the small changes in Avril Lavignes appearance that took place between 2002 Did you know Avril Lavigne was replaced by a lookalike named Melissa in 2003?  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/cloning\/why-fans-think-avril-lavigne-died-and-was-replaced-by-a-clone-named-melissa-the-guardian\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}