The Canadian pop-rocker will release her third album, The Best Damn Thing, Tuesday. It s been three years a generation in pop terms since her last album, Under My Skin.
Avril, a dark eyeliner muse with sweet and innocent eyes, is a bad girl who sings sweet pop songs.
It sells, as she s a reminder of Madonna and Cyndi Lauper in the 80s, back when leg warmers and jelly bracelets were first cool. Why else do you think Kelly Clarkson and Ashlee Simpson pose as almost-mall punks?
Avril likes talking smack.
She once railed that her hometown of Napanee in eastern Ontario was boring, and recently she went after the down-and-out Britney Spears for not dealing with stardom. But Spears is an easy target, and controversy sells too much of the wrong thing.
She s married to pop-punk Deryck Whibley, the frontman of Sum 41, a Canadian band almost as annoying as Nickelback.
Sk8ter Boi : Avril made it OK for skater boys Bam Margera is one to rock on MTV. She also commercialized a scene by posing as one of its members, but she s so cute that it doesn t matter.
Complicated : I fell in love with this song when Carissa s Wierd covered it, turning a trite pop diddy into the emotional grudge (or is that grunge?
) match that Avril wanted it to be.
Don t Tell Me : A great platform for getting back at the guy who thought she was going to give it up. Don t try to tell her what to do.
Together : When being together doesn t feel right at all, it sounds like this a squeaking bird.
Girlfriend : The lead single from the new album has created a new rock subgenre: low-fat bubble-gum rock. You don t have to worry about an aftertaste because it s unmemorable.
Otis R. Taylor Jr.
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