She didn't like the singles they picked for the album, and there were no major hits from the record. She was pressured strongly by her record label to record more poppy bullshit like Girlfriend, but, at this point, Avril had just gone through a divorce and was feeling depressed. She wanted to make her live shows more fun and lively, so she made more fun and lively singles.Īvril's next album was long delayed, and long troubled. Avril made a choice here for live shows, as she has stated. When You're Gone was quite mature, and so were many of the other songs on the album. They were also wildly immature for a 22-23 year old woman, or so her critics said, and she wrote more mature songs previously. While this album was the rockiest one yet, her choice of singles, Girlfriend, When You're Gone, Hot, and The Best Damn Thing, were less guitar and pop rock styled than the rest of the album. It was her first MV she danced on, and she hired backup dancers and singers, most notable Sofi and Lindsey, known affectionately as Sofa and Loveseat. In 2007, Avril released a new album which had her biggest hit song yet, Girlfriend. Avril's detractors shit on her for this, and explained away the denials as more evidence of some kind of grand Avril Lavigne conspiracy. She got shit here from people seeing her as a sell out because she didn't dress like a tomboy any longer and she died her hair.Īround this time, Avril started to get hit with claims about authorship of her music, with Skye Sweetnam mentioning that The Matrix said she didn't do anything on the songs she cowrote, which they denied, and Chantal Krevuziak(?), a Canadian singer and former song coauthor, also claiming Avril stole some of her songs for her to be released album, which she of course, later recanted, as it was patently false, though a title was similar. In 2005 Avril went blonde, started singing much better, and moved into more grown up clothes, photoshoots, and jobs, including acting. Due to Avril's whiny simplistic songs and bad performances, she got shit. Also, during this time, Avril got to drinking a lot and would perform very poorly live. She once mispronounced David Bowie's name, which people give her shit for as well.īy the second album, she got shit for being too whiny and boring, where most of her songs were midtempo numbers. She was picked up as a country singer who, upon recording many pop country songs, both self written and co written, including Breakaway, which Kelly Clarkson later did, decided she wanted to go a more Alanis route upon hearing many different types of music. She also got shit for knowing little about rock history. She made singer/songwriter dumb pop on her first two albums. Avril denied her punk intentions then and she does now. In her early days, and still today, to a lesser extent, Avril got a lot of shit for trying to be punk even though she clearly wasn't. Avril has had a lot of vitriol thrown toward her over the years for peoples' perceptions of what she's doing, and less about what she is actually doing.
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