She never said this.

It’s from Clickhole. They make up bullshit quotes.

https://clickhole.com/find-out-what-krist-novoselic-gene-wilder-and-avril-l-1825125634/

I'm choosing to assume she was joking, because if she was then she's hilarious

Everyone taking this post seriously is hilarious

This sounds like something a bunch of disconnected music executives tried to tell her.

At least credit click hole.

It’s even worse that it was considered a “big creative risk”.

The 8 is because there are eight skater boys, right?

To my knowledge and nobody ever accused her of being a genius.

I guess she never read "Thrasher" magazine. They were using that phrase well before the song.

Melissa never said that. I must know it, she is me

Big? That's YUGE!

It was a new and original song that didn't plagiarise at all...

For the record, I still love this song.

Next you are going to tell me that the correct pronounciantion for Canadian musician Joel Zimmerman's stage name is not "dead - mau - five"

Only ever confused her

I despise the fact that, I can't read English to fathom this humorous statement.