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==It's 2023. You know what this means, right? It means that "Complicated" was released 21 years ago. As you’ve probably heard, 2023 marks Avril Lavigne's 21st anniversary as a recording artist. All I have to say is that this is unfortunate. So unfortunate and embarrassing. After all, Avril is the opposite of what she should've been—a one-hit wonder, but she's not one by any means. Something is seriously still wrong with her 21 years later.==

While her debut album, Let Go, came out in June of 2002, her first introduction took place exactly 20 years ago—in 2002—with the release of her debut single, “Complicated”. Avril now calls it “the most important song” of her career”. “It’s so extremely special, and as the years have gone on, it’s become even more meaningful to me, just with that being my first single,” Avril tells ABC Audio. “I wrote it when I was 16 with Lauren Christy. I put it out when I was 17.” “It was my first song and it was the first video. It was on the radio, it was a huge hit and, like, launched my career,” Avril adds. “So it’s, like, in a way... the most important song, too.” On all her tours, Avril has definitely been singing that song, as well as a good chunk of her new album Love Sux.

Pop: It's Your Decision - A Rant and Rebel on Pop Music, Posers and Scene Kids
You’re out for the first time in a while and it’s 1:13 AM, but if any pop songs are playing at that time, you probably know all of the words and want to scream them at me while wishing to have everyone around you be your best friend. You won’t remember any of this tomorrow, especially if in 99% of all cases you don’t like their songs. I don’t either. It happened this time. Pop artists like Avril Lavigne with “Complicated”, Miley Cyrus with “Party in the USA”, Christina Aguilera with “Genie in a Bottle”, Black Eyed Peas with “I Gotta Feeling”, Blink-182 with “All the Small Things”, Justin Timberlake with “Can’t Stop the Feeling”, Jennifer Lopez with “Jenny from the Block”, Simple Plan with “I’d Do Anything”, the Click Five with “Just the Girl”, Jonas with “S.O.S.” and/or Britney Spears with “Baby One More Time” did this to you.

I absolutely detest:
 * ABBA
 * LMFAO
 * The Counting Crows
 * Aerosmith
 * Jewel
 * Matchbox Twenty
 * ZZ Top
 * Bachman-Turner Overdrive
 * Meat Loaf
 * Scorpions
 * Roxette
 * Shania Twain
 * Gummibär
 * Sonic Youth,
 * Incubus
 * Maroon 5
 * Cyndi Lauper
 * Staind
 * Black Eyed Peas
 * Axl Rose
 * Brian Johnson
 * Miley Cyrus
 * Devoid-of-emotion ballad manufacturers like Michael Bolton, Phil Collins, Rod Stewart, Dionne Warwick and Keane
 * High-pitched screaming by pop sirens like Alicia Keys, Anastacia, Mary J. Blige, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey
 * Train
 * BTS
 * Three Days Grace
 * Bush
 * Puddle of Mudd
 * Theory of a Deadman
 * Creed
 * Lifehouse
 * Hoobastank
 * Cobra Starship
 * Chicago
 * Smash Mouth
 * Garbage
 * Gin Blossoms
 * Boston
 * Foreigner
 * Styx
 * Jeff Rosenstock
 * Billie Eillish
 * Evanescence
 * Hatsune Miku
 * Lionel Richie
 * The Jonas Brothers, TLC
 * Fake "gangsters" like Lil’ Wayne, P. Diddy, 50 Cent, Eminem and Nicki Minaj
 * One or two-hit wonders and cheesy Eurodance devoid of real value like Michael Sembello, scene kids like Blood on the Dance Floor and IWABO, Toni Basil, Daniel Powter, A*Teens, Cascades, the Calling, Corrs, Exile, Player, O-Zone, Eiffel 65, Aqua, Westlife, Information Society, Silver, Monotones, Baby Kata, the Nutty Squirrels, Fast Food Rockers, Rickie Lee Jones, Caramell, Cartoons, Vanessa Carlton, Lisa Marie Presley (R.I.P.)
 * The Outfield
 * Michelle Branch
 * Mumford and Sons
 * Seals and Crofts
 * Kenny Loggins
 * Pat Benatar
 * Kesha
 * Spoilt little fake "punks" and psuedo-rebels like Skye Sweetnam, Lindsay Lohan, Avril Lavigne, Demi Lovato and Pink
 * Primitive, blue-collar rock like Black Crowes, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp and Bryan Adams
 * Ugly neo-Americana rock a la Nickelback
 * Sleepy pop-for-comatose-yuppies a la Dido, the Carpenters and Helen Reddy
 * Laughable baby punk like Good Charlotte, Sum 41, Blink-182, Bowling For Soup, Simple Plan, All-American Rejects and the Ataris
 * Pompous, campy, blatantly '80s, corny, theatrical, hedonistic, synthesized, cheesy, fake, over-dramatic dad rock with similar-sounding instrumentation like Journey, 38 Special, REO Speedwagon, RATT, Def Leppard, Sammy Hagar, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Warrant, Winger, Bon Jovi, Bad English, L.A. Guns, Warrant, Dokken, Damn Yankees, Great White, Whitesnake, FireHouse and Europe
 * Hootie and the Blowfish
 * The Housemartins
 * Britney Spears
 * Taylor Swift
 * Madonna
 * Christina Aguilera
 * Lady Gaga
 * Beyoncé
 * The Spice Girls
 * Gayle
 * Icona Pop, Gwen Stefani, the Jackson 5, brats who can’t sing and are still/were formerly too young to be making music like Jojo Siwa, Celine Tam, Jackie Evancho, Stevie Brock, Angelina Jordan, and Charlotte Church, more pointless one and two-hit wonders like Elvin Bishop, Jars of Clay, Krystal Meyers, Jimmy Boyd, Elmo and Patsy and Benny Bell, childish, bubblegum, corny ‘60s pop like the Archies and the 1910 Fruit Company, Bruno Mars
 * Atonal nu metal and boy band metal like Linkin Park, POD, Bullet For My Valentine, Asking Alexandria and Slipknot
 * Dullards like Michael Buble, Jason Mraz, Gary Moore, Simply Red, James Blunt and Bob Seger
 * Michael Peterson
 * Uncle Kracker
 * Carrie Underwood
 * Rascal Flatts
 * Lady A
 * Hank Williams
 * George Strait
 * Alan Jackson
 * The Chicks
 * Rihanna
 * The Go-Go's

And any other manure ejected in very brownish quantities into the mainstream media by talentless charlatans. Around 95% of the buying public are familiar with these. I'm not part of the buying public, nor will I ever be.

Avril Lavigne is the one of the worst flash-in-the-pans of the pop punk era and so is Pink, as both are spoiled little "punk" brats. They're not the worst, but they come so close. I’ll admit, though, Simple Plan and Yellowcard are way worse. I say that because this isn’t about the deep emo cuts, and I say that because I don’t mean they’re anything but punk. Their music is NOT PUNK as in IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE AND IT'S JUST POP. These two represent the most embarrassing attempts to clone punk rock out there.

Because I have such an attitude, I can blow up in anger all I want to. I’ve talked and talked to my friends about music... but it just goes out one ear and out the other. I’ve talked about pop, how awful it is, how Avril Lavigne and Sum 41 ruined punk, why Auto Tune/pitch correction should stop being used, and that authenticity is important. No matter what, it barely seems to faze them. I talked to myself one day. By the time I reached teenhood, my new attitude became apparent. I suppose that was the beginning of it. I used to never pay attention to what I listened to. I was still a fan of rock, but not as big of a rock fan as I am now. I heard it everywhere. I could use the same argument for why soap operas are bad as I could for why pop is bad. Whether or not I realize it, I must get across the point that I mean business.

I am provoked to wrath, anger and rebellion, so what do I do to correct my problem—the problem being that pop has everything that makes it bad and does a lot to drive me up the wall? I correct the problem using anger. I hate to listen to most pop like Pink, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Maroon 5, Rihanna, Beyonce, Avril Lavigne, Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston (R.I.P.), Hilary Duff, the Jonas Brothers and the Black Eyed Peas. Seriously, the more rock music gets tackled, the more I have to rebel. I identify music so closely that if I attack pop, it’s a personal attack on me. I can criticize pop all I want to. It's all fake. Pop is just as bad as country, perhaps even worse. Some pop music like electropop and J-pop is just as loud as rock, perhaps even louder than rock. Pop isn’t even supposed to be loud and noisy, yet some of it is. I must plead ignorance. Seriously, I can set standards in the home I live in. I can also set good standards for teenagers—both male and female. Any teen girls who haven’t been set good standards are most likely teeny boppers, though some boys are little teeny boppers too. That means they follow the latest trends in pop culture and are incredibly materialistic and spoiled. They squeal and giggle so much, and brag about their boyfriends at lunchtime in school.

They listen to and are often associated with such trash music and horrible scenes as:

Primary

 * Alternative R&B
 * Dance
 * Alternative dance
 * Grebo
 * New rave
 * Dance-pop
 * Bubblegum dance
 * Disco polo
 * Freestyle
 * EDM
 * Nu metal
 * Emo
 * Emo pop
 * Metalcore
 * Mathcore
 * Deathcore
 * Easycore
 * Electronicore
 * Melodic metalcore
 * Progressive metalcore
 * Nu metalcore
 * Nintendocore
 * Teen pop
 * J-pop
 * Pop punk
 * Post-grunge

Secondary

 * Eurodance
 * Electronica
 * Post-punk revival
 * Experimental
 * Avant-garde metal
 * Post-rock
 * Post-metal
 * Avant-pop
 * Biomusic
 * Deconstructed club
 * Krautrock
 * Math rock
 * Noise
 * No wave
 * Neofolk
 * Wave

They also think they are real teens, but they’re actually not. They try too hard to act like real teenagers or normal people. They dress in pink, purple, mini-skirts and T-shirts reading “pop princess” or “miss attitude” and other junk like that. They like typing like this: “l00k AnN I hAvE a NeW cElL!!! I kAn sLeEp OvEr yay!!! Like We CaN caLl up the B0iZ and pAiNt oUr naILz!!!” Teeny boppers are so annoying. They think they’re all that because they have “boyfriends”. They don't know the true definition of the word “boyfriend”, and their favorite hobby is shopping.

Because I don’t ever watch soap operas or reality shows on television, someone could scripturally come up with the same arguments for why soap operas are bad as I could for why pop music is bad. Whether or not parents may realize it, teens watch them very closely. They shouldn’t. Their parents should be watching them. Being a consistent example for their child will ease attention if that's what the parents think will happen. Pop music is one of the most difficult things a young person must deal with. I’d rather lecture potential teeny boppers, unless that turns them off immediately, than not. I can get teen girls who aren’t like that yet into considering their own personal decision concerning pop or music scenes like the ones mentioned above. I want to find out what's bothering them. Parents should convict their children about acting up at home and start in again about their music if those teens decide to straighten things out. Their children should obey them, but it’s hard. On one side, they want to be obedient, then on the other side they seem to get so sidetracked.

A.) The lyrics must not glorify sex, drugs, partying, cars, money and/or alcohol, b.) the lyrics and the music must not be for teeny boppers or designed to pander to them, and if so they must be subtle and indirect rather than on-the-nose and whiny, c.) the music must be as non-commercial and authentic as possible, and d.) I would like a mention of society, rebellion, sociopathy, politics, history, war, diseases, disabilities, mythology and/or legends or two in the songs.

While it’s not necessary for the lyrics to be meaningful, lyrics with something substantial to say helps someone know what’s in your heart. Mainstream music sucks because the lyrics are often not substantial and the artists/bands are often passionate about things they’ve had little to no time to experience. The music that overcompensates, the shallow words and the emotion are created by fans to croon a song for weeks.

Nickelback is probably the worst and most hated rock band of all time. Their lyrics glorify things that shouldn't be glorified. I will repeat the lyrics to “Rockstar” here, because I know them by heart:

It's like the bottom of the ninth, and I'm never gonna win  This life hasn't turned out quite the way I want it to be (Tell me what you want)  I want a brand new house on an episode of Cribs and a bathroom I can play baseball in and a king-size tub, big enough for ten plus me (Uh, so what you need?)  I'll need a credit card that's got no limit and a big black jet with a bedroom in it gonna join the mile high club at 37,000 feet (Been there, done that)  I want a new tour bus full of old guitars, my own star on Hollywood Boulevard, somewhere between Cher and James Dean is fine for me (So how you gonna do it?)  I'm gonna trade this life for fortune and fame, I'd even cut my hair and changed my name  'Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars and live in hilltop houses, driving 15 cars / Hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar, hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar 

There you have it, folks. This song is one of the worst things to ever exist. “Rockstar” by Nickelback revolves entirely around hedonism. The dance-pop group BEP is also an abominable pseudo-rap outfit. They took over the world and too much from it. What I just said can at least be something the group members don’t know already. No one is listening to Black Eyed Peas for meaningful lyrics. They want their bodies to rock all night long, so they put on a Black Eyed Peas song. That’s it. Still, it’s possible to produce an intelligent beat. That’s absurd.

Just because people want to rock their bodies all night long doesn’t mean the music has to be made solely for that purpose and that no effort whatsoever can be put into the melodies, the vocals, the production or the lyrics. If hedonism is all that matters to Nickelback and the Black Eyed Peas or every band/artist like them, then they’re stupid bands. Chad Kroeger is a spoiled manchild as much as his former wife Avril Lavigne is a spoiled womanchild. People with such thoughts or actions will listen to whatever lyrics because the song’s got “a good beat” or because “it’s catchy”. Lyrics should be poetic and people shouldn’t only care about the beat. I’m sorry if I said that, and it’s sad but it’s true. Most pop stars or pop rappers lip-sync, use repetitive electronic loops and barely write their own lyrics. We’ve also lost a lot of talented musicians like Kurt Cobain, Cliff Burton, Chris Cornell, the founding members of the Ramones and Randy Rhoads.

Honorable mentions: Jimi Hendrix, Joe Strummer of the Clash, Ronnie James Dio, Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots, Layne Staley of Alice in Chains, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury of Queen, John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles, Prince, Michael Jackson, John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, Bon Scott of AC/DC, Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, Gordon Lewis of Teenage Head, Eddie Halen of Van Halen, Kevin DuBrow of Quiet Riot, Syd Barrett and Richard Wright of Pink Floyd, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Rick James. Rest in peace.

Dishonorable mention: Aaron Carter.

Avril Lavigne, AKA the Queen of Posers
Avril Lavigne is a pop idol and an icon of 2000s pop culture. She’s spoiled and loves Hot Topic when materialism, being spoiled and brattiness are absolutely nothing that matters in life. She thinks Hot Topic is the best store ever and so do her fans, but it’s actually a contrived identification and an anti-authoritarian identity with manufactured youth subcultures. Every Avril Lavigne album (especially Goodbye Lullaby and Avril Lavigne ‘13, her worst ones) seems to contain forced music rather than music made from a creative gestalt. Her songwriting is heavily artificial and her lyrics are horrible. I mean, “He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious”? “Somebody else ‘round everyone else”? “I have to pull my money out and that looks bad”? “And now you’re somewhere out there with a hey, hey, psycho babe / I hate you, why are guys so lame?” That’s just stupid!

Her fangirls are over obsessive and can’t take an opinion. No matter what you say about Avril Lavigne or how logical you sound, they aren’t gonna take your opinion. You know what? I’m tired of them. All they do is attack anybody who says otherwise. You what? I hate Avril Lavigne! But guess what? I have logical reasons why I can’t stand her! For one thing, her music is pop. I hate pop! I hate it more than country music, and that’s saying something right there! Also, while it’s pretty rare, you’re gonna hear her music if you go out shopping!

Do I want to hear “Complicated” or “Sk8er Boi” while I’m out and about? No, I don’t! Another thing that’s been bugging me is that you see her everywhere! She isn't even safe from being heard of or seen in movies like Over the Hedge, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (no, I'm seriously not kidding) and Fast Food Nation! You even see her on Hot Topic merchandise! Also, here’s a newsflash for you fangirls out there! The Beatles weren’t manufactured like Avril is! Deep Purple isn’t manufactured like her! Liz Phair isn’t manufactured like her! Nirvana wasn’t manufactured like her! Uriah Heep wasn’t manufactured like her! Steppenwolf wasn’t manufactured like her! Avril is just store-bought! If there were a button I could press that would eliminate “Complicated” or “I’m with You” from ever existing, I’d press that button 12 times. Just to be fair, not all modern music (pop or otherwise) is bad. I like Mastodon (metal), The Flaming Lips (alt-rock), Fiona Apple (art pop), the White Stripes (indie rock), the Erkonauts (metal) and Devin Townsend. Pure pop isn’t awesome. Avril Lavigne is pop, and more than half of her entire output is NOTHING BUT.

She’s not original! She’s not an original artist! She was formed by Shania Twain when she won a radio contest in 1999 to perform with her live! That’s not originality, folks! Oh, and marketing ploys! They formed her too! I can tell you right now, I know a lot more bands and artists out there who are ten times better than Avril Lavigne. She sucks and so do her fangirls. She is one of the worst artists known to mankind. Is she among the worst of the worst? No, but she comes close. She barely has any talent. The riffs provided by her guitarists in the songs are just three or four chords. OK, just like the same 3-4 chords. And the solos? Well, forget about the solos, and the chugging too! I mean, seriously, the difference between her guitarists’ skill and, like, Nirvana or Led Zeppelin’s skill is just very vast. Avril Lavigne apparently only seems to be liked because “she’s hot”. So, apparently, everyone just likes modern singers who have “hot” singing voices and “hot” looks all of a sudden. No, they’re not hot! They’re terrible!

One of Avril Lavigne’s worst and most infamous quotes is this: “I mean, the way she dresses... I’m not trying to dis anyone, but with me, the clothes I wear onstage are the clothes I would wear to school or go shopping. I’m not gonna go up onstage and dress differently. Britney Spears goes up onstage and dresses like a showgirl. She’s not being herself up there because of the way she dances.” In reality, she doesn’t hate Britney Spears. She once called her a human being and wanted her to be left alone. "She’s a human being. God, leave her alone!" she said. More hypocrisy, eh?

Her music sucks and, for the most part, is not even rock or punk. It’s just stupid pop music! She claims she’s both rock and punk when she’s not, then she says “I’m not punk.” What a hypocrite! You want rock music? Listen to AC/DC, Van Halen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Presley or Deep Purple. You want punk? Listen to the Dead Kennedys, the Sex Pistols, Unwound, Bad Religion or Suicidal Tendencies. Without Shania Twain, Avril would’ve been nothing, showing how dependent she is to others. She is as dependent on others as much as the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus were once dependent on Disney. Many people have and still listen to great bands with both fanboys and fangirls like the Beatles, Queen, Led Zeppelin, the Who, Metallica, Deep Purple, the White Stripes, the Hives and Judas Priest. Good music and bands like these were or have been around for 15-40 years. Avril is just a pop princess who was forgotten in, like, five years, but she has kept going to this day for one thing: To manipulate and control.

When you go around YouTube, you see that many of Avril’s fans have funny usernames. More often than not, they’ll defend their beloved Avril. Before anyone says “GET A LIFE!” to me, I have a life. It took me weeks to do this, and I’m not wasting energy. This is actually quite fun. Avril is only for these teenage and pre-teen fangirls who think they are punk and that she’s the same. She is the queen of posers, and so are the little teeny boppers listening to her. The only people who think she’s punk are them. No one else. They are the posers who like to hang out at the mall, are fashion obsessed 24/7 and think Hot Topic, Gucci, Macy’s (to a lesser extent) and Walmart (also to a lesser extent) are the best stores ever. While this doesn’t necessarily apply to her music and mostly applies to her as a person, she is not tough, rebellious, strong, anti-corporate or independent like she thinks she is. Why, if Avril Lavigne were tough, rebellious, strong, anti-corporate or independent then she would have to actually try.

Either that, or she would need to be diverse and not pretend she was diverse, as punk is about diversity and an array of ideologies, expression, visual art, dance and literature. Punk music is largely characterized by anti-establishment and anti-corporatism views, and yet Avril has none nor is she independent. As you probably guessed, she is about as punk as and pretty much just Britney Spears, a poppy puppet to the evil major labels and the definition of trash pop. Both are major establishments, and they even try to defend each other. Punk promotes individual freedom and DIY ethics. Avril can’t do anything on her own as a Canadian “punk pop” singer and is far more controlled than free or able to “do it herself”; in fact, she's as controlled by corporate greed as much as Britney Spears is.

Punk is made up of beliefs like non-conformity, yet Avril is a huge conformist. It’s like she changed her behavior and beliefs to fit in with the punk crowd, to pander to scene kids and posers or because of her bad influences, whether it was the media that influenced her or not. This artist sucks. Normative conformity, conformity that occurs the desire to be liked and accepted, seems to be an even bigger problem with Avril. She wants to be liked and accepted; whenever she finds out that someone doesn’t like her or her music, she’ll cry and act spoiled. She’ll go ballistic. Her “totally punk” appearance, which she has changed over the years, has led to normal conformity and an increase in the exclusion of more diverse, less similar musical and physical images.

Avril Lavigne suffers from what is called “Barbie Syndrome” or “the Barbie Effect”. This refers to the popular doll Barbie having an unnatural figure, relying on others rather than having her own occupation or “doing it herself” and the prioritization of her physical appearance. Avril’s case of Barbie Syndrome further proves that she is not punk, is not anything close to being punk, is a poser, has fans who are a bunch of posers and is only around for money. Much like Barbie, Avril just wears the clothes everyone else does. “Everyone is wearing punk clothes, so I must too!” she thinks. Nowadays, many inaccurate views exaggerate the frequency and acceptability of bad, anti-social and socially unconscious things. For example, selling out and consumerism are viewed as good, as OK or as normal when they’re obviously not. Avril’s just a girl and I’m just a boy. Can I make it any more obvious?

Consumerism and commercial media tend not to lead to higher levels of happiness. We have commercial, manufactured, mainstream trash like like pop music, reality shows and soap operas like Days of Our Lives, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the Real World, Ridiculousness, General Hospital, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, teen sitcoms on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon like Hannah Montana, Shake It Up, Sonny with a Chance, Henry Danger and Bizaardvark, cheap, low-brow romance and comedy movies like Movie 43, Desperados, Legally Blonde, Teen Beach Movie, etc.

These things exist to increase the standard of living and the quality of life for some people, and to grab consumers’ attention. However, consumerism can’t make us happy forever. No consumers of pop music or other types of media will always be happy, for that matter. We conform to the media and all the stuff journalists say. It’s not a good thing at all. No conformity allowed in punk. Ever. You can’t be free unless you try to, Avril, SO JUST TRY ALREADY! You don’t even know what freedom is! You’re a poser!

Conformists like Avril Lavigne, Pink, Sum 41 and Blink-182 are not punk because their actions are all based on the real and imagined presence of others. They feel pressured to act or to sound the same as other bands and artists, out of fear they may be rejected by their major labels or criticized. This is why Avril sounds like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera with more of a rock tinge to her. It’s why she sounds like Alanis Morissette. She could’ve been sub-culturally punk, but no, she can’t be.

Avril, if you want to be punk, you mustn’t sell out. Your views mustn’t be anti-authoritarian. You must learn to “do it yourself”. You mustn’t be fueled or let yourself be fueled by corporate greed. You have to know about DIY ethics. You cannot associate yourself with pop or mainstream rock. You need to figure out how to combat what real punks know is the money-hungry music industry. “I’m not punk” isn’t an excuse not to do any of the above or for the sake of being corporate.

Avril’s music is, as I’d like to say, too girly and wimpy when it should be strong, rebellious and tough instead. It’s not just her as a person who should act in such a manner; she shouldn’t even be faking her supposed attitude. The instrumentation should be stripped-down. The lyrics should be about things like rebellion, and anger, and desertion like Nirvana’s song “Lithium”, and politics, and depression, and authority and anti-corporatism. She should embrace a DIY-ethic and write all her songs on her own.

At some point in her career, Avril stopped thinking she had always been a woman and instead thought she wasn’t grown up for dressing in a masculine manner during her teenhood. She lied about writing her songs in their entirety. Over half of her output is pure commercial pop. She’s been against a lot of scripturally-based convictions in the Bible over the last 20 years. Unhappy 20th anniversary, Avril. You are one of the worst artists of all time. Don’t deny it.

Avril Lavigne has no idea what real music or punk is, and she doesn’t even know any examples of what metal, real punk and real hardcore are. If her desire is to be tough, rebellious, strong and independent, then her music should be punk rock or hardcore. Instead, more than half of her music is pure commercial pop trash and nothing but. Because, according to the major record labels, no matter how girly she acts or isn’t herself or is contradictory, she’ll still be “the center of girl power”.

Well, not really. Joan Jett, Debbie Harry of Blondie and even Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie (R.I.P.) of Fleetwood Mac are real examples of girl power, not Avril, Miley or Taylor. These three pop stars are not allowed to be cool. Their loss of creative control only worsens this problem. When their labels signed them, they only did what they could be in their eyes. The labels don’t expect them to be strong or aggressive. No, they expect them to be emotional or loud, obnoxious brats instead of angry or strong. Same goes for their music.

They must relate to teeny boppers, posers and scene kids. They can’t make strong, rebellious or tough music like garage rock, punk rock, metal or hardcore and they can only pretend they’re anti-Hollywood when they’re living in Hollywood. Most people are familiar with them, either solely because of “Complicated” with Avril Lavigne, “Party in the U.S.A.” with Miley Cyrus or all three in a general, half-aware sort of way. Most would struggle to actually name three of their songs. They’re not timelessly cool icons either.

As their record labels require them to identify their target market, they must be artists heard by teens before said teens develop a good taste in music. They never explore or understand what indie and great popular music are. They’re what teens listen to before they go to college. In their songs, they talk about the same stuff… guys. Examples: “Complicated”, “Sk8er Boi”, “My Happy Ending”, “I’m with You”, “Bite Me”, “Don’t Tell Me”, “Our Song”, “Teardrops on My Guitar”, “Love Story”, “Picture to Burn”, “Just Like You”, etc.

More often than not, they’ll go, “I want someone who’s with me even though he doesn’t appreciate me. I like him and I’ve had him my whole life. I know him better than the girl who’s in love with her but she keeps getting him every time.” (“You Belong with Me”), “I hate my life. It’s complicated. Everything used to be all good when this guy made me laugh, and I appreciated him for who he was. Now he keeps putting on a face around others.” (“Complicated”), “We were a young couple. We both fell in love.” (“Love Story”) and the list goes on.

Three words for all of you: Get over it. The guy topic is just one in a million. You know why I hate modern art? You want to know how bad modern art is? It’s really bad. It’s so bad, but no matter what we let journalists convince us that garbage is food. We eat up whatever music is spoon-fed to them because they believe it’s good. In addition to giving up creative control, Miley, Avril and Taylor have also experienced a loss of business control.

We don’t just eat up these three girls, we eat up and basically listen to whatever the media says. It says whatever it can these days. It just says stuff and tells us not to believe our own eyes. “Trust us, don’t believe your own eyes. Don’t believe your own ears. We’ll tell you what to listen to.” Like Mom and Skye told me, things happen. Typically, what the media tries to explain to us is that “bad is good”. This brings me to music that journalists try to make us think is worthy.

I love to sing, and hey, we all do! But I know what to sing and what not to, unless I want to be corrupted or controlled by all the pop, Christmas and mainstream rock music brought to America. I went wild in the juvenile jungle of teen pop music by the likes of Britney, Christina, N Sync and Avril when I was young. I didn’t know any better. I kept getting caught up in the music of times. Have mercy on me, God. One thing majors love to do with them is grab every royalty they can even, if they didn’t contribute to those royalties.

The record labels’ main concern is the monetary return on their investment, but the artists’ main passion is the quality of the music being produced. Conflicting core values between labels and artists unnecessarily inhibit the creativity and uniqueness of the artists' music. Avril Lavigne is pop, so don’t even think about listening to her music. If you really want to and if you really must or if you’re a fan of this wannabe punk singer, you do so at your own risk. Don’t become a poser or a scene kid like her either.

If there are more things you can understand about music than just the beats that you probably like clapping your hands to and dig as deep as you can, your eyes, heart and mind will open to many mysterious musical wonders. Our kids are a gift from God, but if they try to be cool like Avril then they’ll all look like fools. So, why did Avril have to go and make things so complicated? Acting like a trickster and a poser is what gets us frustrated. Angst doesn’t give her art legitimacy and neither do morals.

Avril Lavigne is a poser, or more specifically, the queen of posers because 60% or more of her music is just pure pop. She even prefers to describe her music as “heavy pop rock” rather than punk or pop punk. Well, for some reason, she claims to have “created punk for this day and age” and to be “a skater punk who does guitar-driven rock”. This is nothing but hypocrisy. Only a handful of her music has any punk elements or can be called “pop punk”. “Complicated”, a pop rock song and the most well-known Avril Lavigne song has absolutely zero punk elements.

Her music blurs the lines with pop punk and straight-up pop, and as such she delivers punk-influenced pop. Blink-182, Sum 41, Good Charlotte, New Found Glory, Allister, Fenix TX are the kings of pop punk… and complete posers who are not punk. Then again, most pop punk bands aren’t, but they sound more punk than Avril does and are more punk-influenced. Avril is just pop, not punk or even rock.

To be fair, she does have some pop punk songs, but (with the exceptions of “Sk8er Boi” and “He Wasn’t”) they’re all pop, not rock. Strange, isn’t it? She doesn’t know that her songs are pop and her only rock ones are those on Under My Skin and Love Sux. Oh, and let’s not forget “Losing Grip” and “Unwanted” and “Sk8er Boi”. Yes, her music sucks, but the rest of it doesn’t sound anything like those two albums or these three songs. They signify her intended music direction, to which her label said no at first.

Let’s face it, everyone, most pop punk is NOT punk. Pop and punk do not work together. If you have a preconceived notion of punk, then it can be what it is, preconceived and limited. Punk is way more than its base elements and its boundaries can be pushed further. But pop punk is so far away from punk and hardcore, having eclectic influences and all the like. The guitar riffs are often not heavy, there is no aggression and there is no anger. Not even Avril’s music is anything close to it.

Much like Britney Spears, Avril has ruined everything Nirvana and Pearl Jam did to bring music back to its pure state with her pop songs that only tween and teenage girls listen to! They wrote music! That’s something neither Britney nor Avril will ever know about! Their music is so fake-sounding. It sounds so mechanical, so soulless and so unnatural.

When Avril was asked who influenced her musically, she said, “There was never any person in particular growing up, but music that inspires me is stuff like Goo Goo Dolls, System of a Down, Matchbox 20, Green Day, Sum 41, and Blink 182. I LOVE the Goo Goo Dolls. When I sit there and listen to their CD, it really touches me.” What terrible influences, I must say. Here’s a news flash, Avril! Goo Goo Dolls and Matchbox Twenty are the kings of heroically vanilla pop. They’re incredibly sappy, boring post-grunge bands.

The Goo Goo Dolls and Matchbox Twenty are such average bands with vanilla-sounding songs lacking solos and performance techniques (like shredding and chugging, for instance). They are completely skilless. Both of them are America’s answers to Nickelback; Nickelback is even worse and Canada’s answer to Avenged Sevenfold. Among the worst of the worst and a sucky poser, wannabe pop rock band with no good songs from it. Its members are like the members of Avenged Sevenfold. They are talentless and Chad Kroeger can’t sing.

As for Blink-182 and Sum 41, they only seem to have influenced Avril because they are complete posers like she is and stereotypical teen rock. They’re not even punk, they’re power pop! They have such whiny vocals and deliver them with angst lending to crying. And no matter how influenced Avril was by them, her music is still mostly pure trash pop. She has songs with a lot of acoustic guitar, DJ scratching and limited guitar distortion like Wheatus does with “Teenage Dirtbag”.

Her husband Chad Kroeger’s guitar skills are so weak, they make Synyster Gates look like a god! He can only play three guitar chords in every song and can’t do a solo. Well, neither can Johnny Rzeznik or Kyle Cook. And no one cares about the other members of Nickelback, Goo Goo Dolls or Matchbox Twenty because they’re just here to play generic pop music. People call Nickelback heavy metal and grunge, like how Avril Lavigne (who we’re focusing on right now) is called punk. Sorry, but Nickelback isn’t metal or grunge in any way, shape or form. It’s generic, poppy, radio-friendly rock. Chad Kroeger tries so hard to be hardcore but fails. He even made a song called “Rockstar”. How unoriginal. Chad, you’re not a rockstar. You’re a lame pop boy. Screw this poser who tries to be Kurt Cobain. What a joke. This guy will never be good like Cobain and Nirvana were. Oh, and he used to be married to Avril when the two Canadians are nothing but untalented, mainstream posers who can’t play guitar or even a solo.

Let me just say this once and for all: You suck, Shania Twain. You too, Fast Food Nation. I’m convinced that they’re why Avril Lavigne is still around. You see, mooching off the success of Shania was what Avril thought was the only way she could be popular, and she played Alice in Fast Food Nation. Think about it. More surprising than her ongoing (yes, I’m dead serious) popularity with posers and scene kids is how many people defend her as something to be proud of listening to. It’s pop music! It’s Britney Spears!

Avril still got radio airplay and kept churning out singles as late as 2007, when she was on her peak. By then, she was taking it too far. Actually, she already had before, not wanting people to let go of her after her debut album Let Go. A one-album wonder you wish she were. Unfortunately, she isn’t. Nickelback also gets nothing but radio airplay like Avril used to. They kept milking All the Right Reasons for more singles. You thought seven were enough? Yeah, they took it too far like Avril did.

She can’t use her real voice, and when she does she sounds absolutely terrible. She really does sing like trash live. Chad’s voice is not even real either, and he sounds so awful and draining. Nickelback solely depends on the drums to make them hard rock, while Avril Lavigne thinks that depending on guitars and drums will make her rock or punk. The riffs, non-sampled drums and power chords are so weak and her music is just pop disguised as rock. To add further insult, she sold out on Goodbye Lullaby–with barely any guitar riffs, power chords or live drums–and her music lost its rock flavor.

What sell-outs she and Nickelback are, I must say. They are two of the most unoriginal, commercialized, mainstream pieces of trash out today. I’ll admit, Nickelback is way worse than Avril. Britney Spears is worse. Christina Aguilera is worse too, despite not being pretentious or trying to be “avant-garde” like Avril. The Backstreet Boys and N Sync are way worse, as are all boy bands. Taylor Swift is worse.

Her music has too much sampling, pitch correction/Auto Tune and DJ scratching! Avril Lavigne is mall punk! She’s a great example of corporate greed run amok and record companies scrambling to make a quick profit! Her work is simplified and adds aspects of electronica and simple riffs, chords and chord progressions. It’s sort of justified since she’s a pop singer, but at the same time I’m left with a question mark. “She’s pop, not punk, but why, oh why must her songs be the way they are? Why is her music for teeny boppers, scene kids, posers, soccer moms and consumers (AKA mall-goers or shoppers)? Why did she start dressing inappropriately and exploiting herself for money like the hypocrite she is when she said she wouldn’t? Why must she have unhealthy fashion habits and why did she make them even unhealthier? Why did she dye her hair blonde when it was already clear that she wasn’t smart in her teenhood, back when she was a brunette?

“Why must she be fake? Why does she have to be Miley Cyrus and disrespect everything and everyone for the sake of making rude statements and getting attention, using sex as power? Why must their behavior and clothing be inappropriate? Why must they promote a “I can do what I want because I can” mentality disregarding the impact their actions have on others? Why did they both change their personalities completely lead teen girls into thinking they were OK? Why do they think they can do anything with no consequences?”

My answers for all those questions are quite complicated. Those questions are not easy to answer, but I’m trying my best to answer them. Miley Cyrus and Avril Lavigne are such horrible singers and role models, with Miley being the worst offender. They try so hard to get people to admire them for more than wealth, but we can’t admire them because they’re both posers and hypocrites. They portray a terrible society. Yes, Kim Kardashian portrays the worst of our society and in a much worse manner, but these singers do the same.

They’re money hungry and have been considered “vital to girl power”, when in reality they’re just pathetic, bratty, spoiled little girls who think their lives are empty without boyfriends and outline every aspect of that. These spoiled brats ignore real girl power, which can be defined by girls doing something that girls don’t usually do in music. Solo artists who write their songs and play guitar are way too common. They think they can do no wrong, and everyone who defends Avril thinks the same.

Want to know what real girl power is? A girl drummer in an otherwise all-guy band, or perhaps a female lead vocalist and guitarist in a mostly all-guy band who writes the songs. That’s real girl power, folks. There have just been so many generic musical acts over the last 20 years… Miley, Avril, Taylor, Nickelback and the list goes on. Just about anyone could do the exact same things as them and they’d just be as, if not more, successful. Avril didn’t even deserve her fame. She attained something huge but never should have.

Yes, her popularity has waned over the last 14 years, but she has a pretty loyal and intense following nonetheless; they’ll buy anything she puts out and any record that drops. I don’t care, but it affects my life. I fear her and everything she’s doing to music and our society. If people want to keep going to Avril Lavigne concerts or opening acts and buy her albums, then they can. If she weren’t Miley Cyrus four years early and a precursor to her because she does everything Miley does, she wouldn’t have been egregious.

If not for her over-the-top raccoon eyes, which she has thanks to putting too much make-up on her face because they both probably look ugly, she wouldn’t have been egregious or even laughable. Just looking at her face makes you want to laugh. If she didn’t think she was all that like Miley, she wouldn’t have been egregious. If not for her having as much forced thought-provoking as Miley did back in her Hannah Montana days, Avril wouldn’t have been egregious.

Miley Cyrus used to have such thought-provoking songs in her Disney days as “Nobody’s Perfect” and “Just Like You”. They were thought-provoking in a forced sense, and like Avril Lavigne she’s a self-contradictory hypocrite. Self-contradictory as in, she never learns from her mistakes and neither does Avril, but “Nobody’s Perfect” is about learning from your mistakes. “Just Like You” is about living your dream, and getting everything you want as a pop star but still being yourself.

Let me go ahead and say that Avril Lavigne and Miley Cyrus didn’t follow their dreams. Any dream but theirs is worth following. If they did follow their dreams, they most likely dreamed about–of all things when they were young–becoming shameless corporate pop stars and poppy puppets to the evil major labels. They didn’t know how to follow their dreams or what dream following really is. Following your dreams means to share hope, inspiration and a meaning to live with others.

It means to develop your courage, your fuel to achieve amazing success in life. Following your dreams doesn’t distract you from the negative events in life and helps you weigh up what is more important. Could it be your dreams or the drama? Drama seems obsolete when you are passionate about following your dreams. It means you have something to share and inspire your kids with and that anything is possible when you put your mind to it. Following your dreams is not about selling yourself to some greedy, evil major record label. Following your dreams isn’t about making music for the sake of pretending to put yourself into other people’s shoes or turning your “big problems” into songs. It’s not about making songs where you do nothing but glorify teen life or your boyfriend. Turning into a pop singer and making music to show you only care about makeup, starting drama, having a boyfriend, stylish (or in Avril Lavigne’s case, “totally punk”) clothes, gossiping and being popular is not following your dreams.

15+ years ago, Avril DOMINATED the radio with her godawful songs that sucked as much as One Direction fans do. Since the 2010s, she has become rare on pop radio (at least in the US), and so have rock bands and guitar-centric music. She was (and still is) just as laughable as Justin Bieber. She, like Taylor Swift, can’t appeal to genuinely hip, cool, relatable and admired people like me. She has no precise musicianship, passion, aggression, loudness or viciousness whatsoever.

No gender is better than one or the other, but a major problem with Avril Lavigne is her appeal. Same goes for Taylor Swift. No gender, age group or demographic is better than the other. If your audience is overwhelmingly one gender and it’s constituted of impressionable teenage and college girls, then you don’t have the ability to be an icon in that you’re a universal allure. Avril and Taylor have been more of icons in the sense of being glorified and successful pop stars. They’re not true musicians because their songwriting is unoriginal. Their songwriting skills show that they have no great musicianship nor do they know what it even is. The templates of the songs, the chords, the chord progressions and the melodies are just generic. Nothing special or groundbreaking, overused, worn-out and just plain suckitude. Their songs all use the same obvious and worn-out chord progressions. Please, if you will, just listen to “Complicated”, “You Belong with Me”, “Sk8er Boi” and “Love Story”.

It’s the same, tired, obvious, done-to-death chord progression. You hear it over and over in those songs. No true musical icon would ever be this derivative or this lacking in compositional imagination or so guilty of recycling the same template again. And again. And again! If you’re going to call Avril or Taylor true musical icons, then it’s not in the sense of true musical icons like Bob Dylan, Kurt Donald Cobain of Nirvana (and yes, they had way more to them than three chords and the truth) and David Bowie.

We have our own opinions and tastes in music, yes. But journalists want us to like whatever and hear whatever. No matter what the artists and bands produce or do, all the journalists tell you “They’re amazing.” Avril Lavigne is certainly no exception. She should've been an actress and not a manufactured pop singer. She shouldn’t have already been one before any acting roles could be given to her, except that she already was by the time she appeared in the SpongeBob movie, Over the Hedge and Fast Food Nation.

If Avril were a full-time actress and not one of the most sorry excuses for a singer and one of the music industry’s greatest failures, she wouldn't have had any music whatsoever that wasn't worth trash. Her acting would've been trash if she stuck to her day job, and not the kind of job that made her the awful person we remember her as. There was a time, long ago, when real, authentic music like alt-rock actually meant something and wasn't simply being marketed as real or authentic.

In this day and age, that is no longer the case. Artists and bands like this are created by record companies and/or pre-existing pop stars, given way too much polishing to look stylish or to cater to posers and scene kids, handed over to radio stations (too many of which are owned by iHeartRadio), (formerly) MTV and the Internet where they are played endlessly and are made to force music that matters to fade into oblivion. Whatever happened to being the genuine article and sticking it to the man?

Her lyrics suck so bad, it hurts to think about them. At least do your audience a favor and make it decent-sounding or just shut up, Avril, m’kay? Sure, there’s much worse out there, but Avril is preferable to most of the trash teen pop that contaminated the airwaves in the 2000s. In the end, this is just made-to-order pabulum of somewhat of a less repulsive variety, even though it isn’t that non-repulsive. It’s still vile. For their own sake, kids these days only need the genuine article. They don't Avril. They don't need her at all.

It would be OK for Avril Lavigne to have a few acting or voiceover roles as long as she didn't and NEVER inflicted songs like “Complicated” and “Sk8er Boi” upon the world. She would've gone unpunished as an actress. Unfortunately, no. Avril had already, and was still, cashing in on the punk scene by the time she landed the voiceover and acting roles she did. Maybe DreamWorks shouldn't have created Heather the o’possum because Avril Lavigne sucks. Then again, no pop singers deserve acting or voiceover roles.

There was a time in our lives where we were heavily under the thrall of this ball of foolishness and stupidity who dared to say, “You’re trying to be cool. You look like a fool to me.” Those words sent shivers down our spines. There is no good excuse for the danger at hand or the perpetrators. Should I ever end up as a parent in more than a purely biological sense, I won’t let my own children when they grow up to be teens follow this pied piper of sell-out, punk-ruining, pop-killing, soul-sucking, corrupt, senses-rotting evil.

20 years later, Avril is here to stay for one reason and one reason only: So that modern pop punk remains one of the most toxic musical environments. “Complicated” and “Sk8er Boi”, as bad as they are, are probably two of her best songs rather than her worst ones. Her worst song ever would have to be “Hello Kitty”, which, as stated earlier, is stereotypically and offensively Japanese. Avril isn't even pop rock on this one like she is most of her songs, she’s electronic-based J-pop!

There is no way that poser music like this that's hip, trendy, unrelatable, adolescent and unintelligent isn’t part of some dastardly scheme to take over the world. A lifetime on Mars might be enough time for Avril Lavigne to think things over and see the irony. Her music isn’t complicated, and the guy in “Complicated” who puts on a face around others can’t be the one to blame either. The record industry is to blame, Shania Twain is to blame and her parents are to blame for going and making things so complicated for her. Please, Avril, just stop being a poser and a hypocrite or at least being a waste of time. You need to be sent to Mars before you try for another comeback like what you’re doing right now, 20 years later. If you become the next great Internet meme or if “Complicated” and “Sk8er Boi” become the next Rickroll, I just might die. If you’re not one of the most horrible people to ever walk the Earth, then you may be struck down. And little teeny boppers say you’re punk. I even know you said “I’m punk.” and then said “I’m not punk.”

From where I stand, I’ll you watch you, the queen of posers known for being a hypocrite and contradicting herself and having pop songs that are too girly to be considered punk or hardcore, as you get struck. Revenge is a dish best served cold, and hopefully you’ll have paid back by the end of your life. Who cares about things like substance or quality, when you can boast about “being yourself” and “not like any other girl” only to whip up garbage music that sells over 30 million copies? You’re a girly girl, Avril. You are.

You are good only for poking fun and laughing at, not listening to. I do hereby and solemnly swear, to the best of my ability, to protect my kids (and hopefully everyone in the world) from this girl under the penalty of being strapped to a cold metal table with Robin Thicke playing in the highest volume while Nancy Grace tries to “play” with me. Help me, Freddy Krueger. The adults who listen to this poppy, in-name-only “punk” slop are soccer moms who detest violence and rock music. Everyone else who listens to this are, as stated before, pre-teen or teenage girls and scene posers who think they're punk or that Hot Topic is an awesome store. A lot of the things you say, Avril, are completely false and nothing but lies. Just another corporate pop artist with little to set her apart, folks, is what Avril is. She is an ideal punching bag, and it goes without saying. Her songs, especially “Hello Kitty”, merit a one-way trip to Mars. Why did she even bother with music? Her trash is forced, edgeless and derivative.

Avril, if you're reading this, either start writing better, more mature songs or pack it in. Preferably the latter. You can do so by quitting the music industry or going independent after years of being milked dry. You should have packed it in IMMEDIATELY after Let Go and its four singles. A trip to Mars will serve you right for not packing it in and having a whole string of idiotic hits. Quick! Get to Mars now before the world remembers you exist any longer! They may call you punk all they want to, but you're not punk!

She recently dropped her seventh studio album Love Sux… and it sucks, as the title suggests. It's nothing to love. It's horrible. It's a bad album. The journalists still do their jobs and say that it's Avril Lavigne. “Everything she does is punk! Shame on you if you don't see that!” Her last three albums (Goodbye Lullaby, Avril Lavigne ‘13, Head Above Water) were even worse. All the songs on it sound the same, and the fact that they all sound like “Sk8er Boi” isn’t exactly a good thing either.

It’s sad when a holdover from a bygone age of pop can somehow evade every return to obscurity she seemingly gets. If that’s not enough, all I have to say is “You should’ve known better to mess with someone like me. Forever and ever, you’re gonna wish you were my wifey.” Avril has a lot to answer for; i.e. helping open the floodgates for all the pop punk and noughties teen pop trash. Plus, with her out the way, there’s music that amounts to more than just radio filler out there.

As far as I know, “Complicated” still gets regular airplay, especially on Jack FM. We need to get Avril off this planet before things get less punk and even worse. And she’s still called punk, no matter how clueless she is like her fans because punk is power chords, fast tempos, shouted vocals and loud riffs. And she thinks punk is none of the above in her eyes? Well, I call her music trash. It’s NOT punk. AT ALL. She can’t even be herself just to be punk. She thinks she can and talks about it, but she can’t.

Back in the early noughties, the music playing at workplaces tended to be 1.) Mexican music, which no one was crazy about but could deal with, 2.) country music (and not classic country, I mean the newer trash) or 3.) the top 40 station whose grand total of songs in rotation (like in the past) capped off in single digits. It all depended. Not coincidentally, all of them were awful, and enough so that prolonged exposure might just result in pain and suffering. One of the songs on that aforementioned evil playlist was “Complicated”. There’s a lot with this song I can write about, even if I wasn’t part of that first-hand exposure to it. It won't convey with greater efficiency and effect.

“Complicated”, Avril Lavigne’s debut single, just keeps getting worse the more times I hear it. It’s bad enough that it’s pure pop with a rock tinge to it, but I suddenly had a realization around the tenth time I had been force-fed this garbage. Her debut song isn’t just bad nor is it even awful; ‘‘‘it is one of the worst things that ever existed.’’’ One of the least pleasant songs of all time. I would say that Avril can’t emote for trash and she tries so hard to.

I know her, and everybody knows her too. She’s the one who constantly urges every last one of the unfortunate souls that cross her path to be harmed instantly. Apparently, she can take it. Her whole relationship with the world is based on intimidation. Then she realizes she should be married to someone who acts like himself and doesn’t ever put on a face. She decides she needs to mask her terminal shallowness for a little while. What does she do? She lies, of course.

What else could she do? She begins saying generic things like “I’ve got so much to say in my songs.”, “Be yourself and don’t put on a face.”, “You don’t have to be ordinary.” and “My fans want music that’s more meaningful and has more to it than just words that are all rhymey.” Since no one seems to realize Avril Lavgine doesn’t have a good sensibility, she becomes more confident in the success of her façade. She starts racking her brain for ideas, maybe so she can disprove those who said behind her back that there’s less to her than what meets the eye. After a few weeks, the whole chorus of her first-ever song “Complicated” is what she comes up with. She starts singing it everywhere she goes in hopes of charming the world.

Shockingly, quite a few are reeled in by her snake oil commerce. She becomes relatively sad that her intended abrasiveness, as proved on her post-grunge singles, has been toned down here. She can only relentlessly abuse us when the cameras are turned off, but since it’s all an act she’s warmly reassured that her usual, vile self is still pretty much in command of things.

“Complicated” is so irritating. It represents everything wrong with her. This is complete and utter garbage with horrible pitch correction, a pointless country vibe and pointless melodies. If I’m ever stuck in a relationship I want to get out of, I’ll stand before my partner and sing the god awful chorus. The decision will be made for me and I’ll be mercifully single.

As much as I wish I could say her songs aren’t punk but at least sound punk, they don’t even sound punk and many of them sound way more like generic pop songs. This is not rock ‘n’ roll or punk, and I mean that it’s not rock ‘n’ roll or punk as in IT’S NOT EVEN CLOSE. She represents the most embarrassing attempts to clone rock ‘n’ roll and punk. They’re so calculated and off the mark.

Somewhere along the line, we went wrong as a society. This hollow, mechanical, country-influenced brand of pop rock somehow becomes marketable. In this song, the one that made her famous, she thinks her boyfriend is great when they’re alone. Unfortunately for her, he acts like an idiot around his friends. The song hasn’t been written about anyone in particular, according to Avril. She says, “It's basically about life, people being fake and relationships.”

She pretends she’s not your typical teenage pop star, but she is. She tries to come off as a regular girl who’s goofy and fun. She’s not normal nor does she act normal in reality. Her press plays up this awful image while stressing that she’s a supposedly authentic talent, writing her own songs that deal with matters of the heart. Unfortunately, while her songs used to deal with this, that came to an end with the release of her third album.

She likes to act cool herself when she tries to tell her friend not to do the same in the song. “Quit acting like an idiot and stop wearing such preppy clothes,” she says. She wants her friend to be himself again. Her friend is obviously not listening. Unfortunately for her, she doesn’t listen to us in real life. She doesn’t like being herself.

She doesn’t like listening to anyone in real life who tells her to stop being her generic pop self and go all-in on punk rock, something that little teeny boppers call her when she’s really not. Not post-hardcore, not new wave/post-punk, not hardcore punk, not skate punk… not even melodic hardcore! Just pure commercial pop tripe!

Being pop instead of grunge, punk, metal or hardcore is like she has oversimplified and overgeneralized beliefs about what music is expected of her or considered appropriate. No, wait. I think it’s her labels who have oversimplified and overgeneralized beliefs about what music they expect or consider appropriate. How in the world would this…

Be more appropriate to Avril Lavigne than this in their eyes?

You know what? I have a reason for why her music is the way it is. One day, she was discovered at a local bookstore in Ontario. When she moved to the U.S.A. for auditioning in 2000 and after selling her songwriting in attitude, people were sitting in front of their TV sets watching Total Request Live on MTV and there she was for the first time ever. The first two songs she offered to her label were guitar-heavy post-grunge pieces that signified the direction she wanted to go with her debut album.

Unfortunately for her, the money-hungry executives were simply appalled and wanted “a lighter, Faith Hill kind of vibe” that she was auditioning for. Nearly all the songs on her debut album ended up having a lighter, more country-influenced pop vibe. I bet her record label didn’t find any compromise, no matter how hard it tried. No, I’m not kidding, and when I mean “lighter” I mean lighter as in pop. Yes, her label wanted and demanded for this kind of garbage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N2k-gv6xNE

The order of the single releases was crucial to setting her up for success, but it was also a debate on how she could set herself apart from other pop artists… my response to which is no, she can’t! She can’t set herself apart from Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera or the Backstreet Boys or N Sync because she’s all of them! Her songs are more pop than rock or pop punk! She wanted “Losing Grip”, a grungy, guitar-heavy piece, to be the lead single; her label just sadly disagreed and ended up releasing it almost a year after ‘’Let Go’’.

A power ballad was also considered at the time for its “mature” sound but didn’t wholly represent her as an artist. Now before I continue, one of the worst things about Avril and why she sucks is because she keeps having singles that do not represent her. Guess what vibe most of her albums and singles have to them? A light pop vibe, that’s what. Her albums and singles keep getting poppier and poppier. She keeps getting commercial and worse every single year instead of better.

What this Barbie doll’s labels do is treat her like a baby. They either suggest what she is or she thinks what she is when it’s not what she should be. Oh yeah, here’s another thing: She started liking purple, tutus and bows and acting like a spoiled brat known for wearing them! Uh… that would be fine if she wasn’t “punk”, had any pretensions of being “punk” or “tough and rebellious” or if she was never even called “punk” to begin with!

She must act normal in order to be punk, or to at least try harder to be punk, even if she isn’t punk and her music must be. This means: No going to the mall. Ever. Real punks aren’t mall-goers and don’t shop at the mall, nor is their music for teens only.
 * No feminine colors because punks are not meant to wear them.
 * No tutus because punks are not meant to wear them.
 * No acting like a spoiled brat or showing any signs of materialism. That’s not how real punks act.
 * No attempting to gravitate away from punk preferences because that’s not how she can be a real punk.

She must be strong and so must her music, not wimpy. Pop music is wimpy, including the corporate garbage she churns out for mass audiences. Psychedelic/garage/indie rock/metal/punk is not girly. A lot of pop music is girly, and Avril Lavigne’s songs aren’t an exception.

Avril Lavigne doesn’t even abide by what are considered to be punk values. Even if her music was pure, intense punk rock, it would be difficult to label Avril Lavigne as a punk due to this. Her musical style is controlled by major labels, and she’s pop because they control this puppet. Her lyrics are exactly that of your standard pop music. She rarely plays instruments and only ever does so on a few studio recordings. When she does, she’s terrible at it.

Her fans are so annoying and complain about every comment they see spreading hate about Avril. Of course, there’s something called “ignoring”, but it seems like they can’t get it through their heads. Both Swift and Lavigne are horrible influences on girls. Swift tells them that unstable, sporadic relationships are OK because you can make money off of break-ups; meanwhile, Avril Lavigne tells them they should be posers and put on faces instead of being themselves, yet she willingly sends the opposite message in “Complicated”.

Avril used to sing gospel in church in her teenhood, when she was unknown and used to be so much better. Like, so much better and more innocent. She also performed country songs at county fairs and talent contests. At age twelve, she borrowed her father’s guitar and practiced Lenny Kravitz’s “Fly Away” over and over. Ever since the first time she dared to get her hands on a major record label contract, she’s done a lot worse than being encouraged to use (or exploring) generic pop sounds. A lot. Somebody rescue this poor girl. She’s a poppy puppet.

The first thing Avril needed to do to make money was select a single target market. Whether she had a product yet or not, her chances of marketing success would have fallen dramatically. If you’re making money in marketing, it is mandatory for you to market your product to an entire age group or gender. This is a big reason why 99% of those signed to a major label deal are shelved. It’s also why most of the financial wins in the music industry are seen as some of the worst music in the history of artistic endeavor.

Major labels aren’t looking to develop a business around a profitable product. That’s not specific enough. They are looking for blinding, obscene, almost nauseating levels of fame and success. So, they are willing to churn and burn 99 creative souls in order to find 1 artist they can test against hundreds of others. They don’t care to help you grow a profitable business. Avril needed to be good looking, that’s for sure. America’s musical stars like her were, by and large, fairly gorgeous people.

Then, provided to her were bright and shiny enough, a huge section of the population that needed to be able to relate to her and her sound. This meant that Avril Lavigne’s sound could only be slightly different from anything that was on the Top 100 at the time. The Billboard Top 100 gets more and more generic every single cycle. It makes sense since generic products are what sell best. Avril should’ve found a way to give her music exposure. She should’ve been an underground artist. But that didn’t happen.

Her label handlers were quick enough to smooth out the rough edges she could’ve had. They changed her voice, her hairstyle and her wardrobe so she looked as punk as possible. Labels don’t know how to market very well. Avril's label grasped desperately at whatever success got her into their board room in the first place.

Her concerts are a waste of time and money. She’s just one of a million gigantic facepalms. Most, if not all, Warped Tour and MTV acts like Simple Plan, Yellowcard, My Chemical Romance, Sum 41, Good Charlotte, Jimmy Eat World, Blink-182 and Avril Lavigne are about as punk as Justin Bieber. Now if she were to tour or could do concerts to show she didn’t care about making money, she wouldn’t be trying to attract scene kids and posers who don’t recognize decent or listenable music.

Perhaps I should spare all of you out of attracting the evil she uses to feed her concert-goers like all other generic pop singers and modern rock bands do. I must inform you all of what you’ll encounter. Ever since the beginning of the Millenium, tours have been represented by bands and artists like her, Hawthorne Heights, Paramore, New Found Glory, Yellowcard, Simple Plan, Blink-182, Wheatus, My Chemical Romance, the Ataris, Bowling for Soup, the Used, Mayday Parade, Parkway Drive and even Brokencyde.

Why not include Justin Bieber on the list? He’s about as punk as they all are, even though he’s just a dance-pop singer. Every boy band would fit perfectly too. The people who go to their concerts are often kids and teens who think their opinions are all that matters. All the Warped Tour needed while it was still going were places for N Sync, the Backstreet Boys, California Sunshine and Big Time Rush. Those boy bands would have fit so perfectly that it would please Kevin Lyman, the guy who put this insufferable tour together.

These Avril Lavigne concert-goers are annoying little brats like she is. They equate looks with talent while challenging people to fights. If you oblige, they’ll run away from you. I weep for the future. One can only hope that they’ll be able to choose music for themselves. No matter how harmful pop bands and artists are, no matter how many of them are piles of nerds for the music industry’s syndicate-to-control crime and no matter how badly they act as role models or influence the pre-teens, scene kids and teenagers listening to them…

They will never go away. They’ll never stop making trash pop music.

Radio DJ: Hi, boys. How can I help you?

Kyle: Hello. There are certain artists and bands we see as harmful and poppy, money-hungry puppets to the evil major labels. We want them removed, please.

Radio DJ: Oh, you don’t want to hear our music? Well then, just turn the radio off.

Stan: No, no. Just Pink, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Creed, Avril Lavigne, Sum 41, New Kids on the Block, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Nickelback, Evanescence, Beyonce, Miley Cyrus, Lenny Kravitz, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Poison, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, the Backstreet Boys, N Sync, Linkin Park, System of a Down, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Lil’ Wayne, 50 Cent, the Insane Clown Posse and all the trash ejected into the mainstream media by talentless charlatans.

Radio DJ: You don’t like surfing through all the stations? Oh, we can’t help you with that. There’s nothing you can do about it. We’d be screwed out of our money!

Stan: Well, can you give us some real, challenging, deep music like the blues, punk rock, heavy metal, ‘50s rock and roll, new wave, folk, jazz, Americana, psychedelia, indie rock and worldbeat?

Radio DJ: What? No! Our station doesn’t work that way! You want me to call you a different radio station–oh wait, we’re it! Aren’t we?

Kyle: Can we talk to your supervisor, please?

Poor guys. How unfair situations like this for the boys of South Park, Kyle, Kenny, Stan and Cartman are.

Thank you, God, for making me different from the other people and for everything that can be considered real music or media. I’ve seen that it’s not cool to be like Britney or Avril. It’s not cool to be part of the crowd they’re in. Good Charlotte can be quite useful and meaningful. They said in “The Anthem” that every day feels old and everything just all feels the same. They don’t want to be like everyone else. Well, neither do I. What’s really cool is NOT being popular. How unusual, considering that Good Charlotte sucks.

Avril ended up being part of the crowd Britney and Christina were part of and pandering to the same target demographic as them: Fashion-obsessed, materialistic, trendy, spoiled little teens and scene/poser kids. Seriously, she never even worked to become famous and get to where she is now. As we speak, God, Avril only got famous because she won a radio contest in 1999 to perform with Shania Twain. Upon signing her first major label contract in 2000, she ended up selling both her soul and her life. Permanently.

Remember Kurt Cobain? I simply must bring him up because as we pray, we want to thank you because we’re not popular. Yeah, we remember Nirvana as much as you. God, you made Cobain such a special person. Grunge was special too, but now the legacy created by Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Nirvana is long dead. It’s since degenerated into the likes of Bowling for Soup, Blink-182, Sum 41, Avril Lavigne, Panic! at the Disco, the Ataris, Good Charlotte and Fall Out Boy.

At just eight years old, Kurt Cobain was quite the artist. He liked to draw characters from his favorite comics, but wasn’t appreciated at the time. His life was once perfect up until his parents got divorced and he was only eight. He was shuffled between homes of relatives, and he hated his parents forever for it. He started living with his uncle and aunt and was surprised with a guitar on his 14th birthday. Kurt never stopped playing. He made music with his buddies with his spirit, heart and mind.

As the years went by, Kurt dropped out of school to pick music over education. He jammed day and night with his friends Dave, who played drums, and Krist, who played bass. Little did they know at the time that they would become one of the most influential bands ever. Kurt came up with the band name: Nirvana, freedom from all suffering. To put it bluntly, they were brilliant! Nirvana played grunge. In fact, they started grunge! Success hit them like a storm!

Their songs “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Come As You Are” became anthems for an entire generation. Kurt Cobain became something of a god to many. Everything was perfect… or so it seemed. Kurt had his own demons and he had a hard time handling all the fame and attention. He learned and realized in the end that fame is bad. It made his health worse too. Did he ever dream of the desire to be famous? No. It looked like this to him from the outside, not the inside.

He never lost what made him a person, even though he was labeled as “famous” and that labeling eventually led to his suicide in 1994. He never wanted to be famous. Because Nirvana was (and still is) popular, he was unable to function as a normal human being. His fame was pointless and to him, fame was the worst thing in the world. He didn’t like being watched, photographed or questioned everywhere he went. Having fame would not guarantee him or the other two members of Nirvana happiness.

Kurt sadly and heartbreakingly spent his life feeling miserable and unsatisfied with his own life because Nirvana was famous and because many celebrities had “better” or “perfect” ones than he did when they really weren’t. He and his buddies would’ve easily mooched off the success of any powerhouse in the mainstream media imaginable or become a boy band disguised as a rock one. But they still made music from their hearts and minds rather than from some penny-pinching idiots like the ones at Disney.

Other artists and bands like Joan Jett, Eric Clapton, Queen, Mike Oldfield, Joni Mitchell, Joanna Newsom, the Who, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Metallica, Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Judas Priest, Prince, Steppenwolf, Anthrax and Slayer also decided to make music from their hearts and minds instead of some penny-pinching idiots. Therefore, their music is entertaining and memorable. They were given the creative freedom to do what they wanted to do and not what they were supposed to do.

As talented as the late Kurt Cobain was, as much as we should praise him and many other talented musicians as we do the Lord and as much as he benefited from not being famous or at least having the creative control he wanted and needed when his band Nirvana became famous, his demons and mysterious stomach illness sadly haunted him and took his life. He continued to abuse drugs from a very early age, and found himself abusing drugs more than ever with more live shows and album releases.

In 1990, love happened to him. Literally. Courtney Love, the lead singer and the guitarist of another grunge band called Hole, met with Kurt Cobain at a bar that night and started talking. Courtney Love was a strong, independent woman and it made sense for someone like Kurt to fall for her. She completed him and had more than just grunge singing in common. When Kurt found out that Courtney was pregnant with his child on February 4, 1992, they got married in Hawaii. Kurt was happy again.

Even though Kurt’s demons continued to haunt him, he now had Courtney to take care of him. But when Courtney wasn’t around, Kurt couldn’t stop himself. Even Courtney couldn’t keep him from his addiction to heroin. Things started falling apart. Papers printed lies about him, questioning his morals and songs all on the basis of drug use. Courtney Love was furious, but upset above all. This is something that Kurt couldn’t take. Kurt only wanted Courtney and his baby to stay happy forever.

But he was going to make sure they got their happy ending, even if it killed him. So Kurt made up his mind. He would take a last hit of heroin. It would be his biggest hit ever for everyone and everything he’d ever cared for. On April 5, 1994, the voice of an entire generation was silenced as Kurt was found dead with a gun in his hand and a note by his side. A whole lot of memories have been built in the honor of Kurt Donald Cobain, the most significant still remaining to be the words.

You shall guard Kurt Cobain your love through his afterlife until we all wake up in heaven’s light. You shall bestow no blessings on those corporate singers’ or bands’ lives. They shall be provided with nothing they could ever imagine. You shall not surround them with anyone who dares to look out for them. They will not be blessed with kind words and actions, nor will they be lifted up in ways that keep their eyes focused on you or let you make their spirits soar.

No, you shall not, for their music is horrible and they are willing to pull things like a big joke towards real music enthusiasts. They are all manufactured musical frauds and some of the music industry’s greatest failures of all time. They believe they are good-looking and that boys/girls will actually date them, but nothing could be further from the truth. They are brainwashed piles of nerds and they syndicate to control. I pray you move their spirits more boldly in their lives. That is, if they give up on music.

Even though Kurt Cobain is long gone and Nirvana has long split up, the music and passion of them continue to inspire. “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” - Kurt Cobain. Rest in peace, and thank you for making Cobain such a special person, God. Amen. As for the bunches of spoiled little, bratty posers in present-day, modern, contemporary music of the 21st century like Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears, Demi Lovato, Hilary Duff, Good Charlotte, Sum 41, Blink-182 and My Chemical Romance, they are mindless and stupid parasites who destroyed music. Avril is just a wannabe singer who represents everything punk rock is not. She tries to replicate the success of Courtney Love and her late husband, Liz Phair and Joan Jett in a more manufactured and forced sense. Her music doesn’t come from a creative gestalt.

Avril is a bad role model for and a horrible influence on teens. She’s just another spoiled, corporate, manufactured pop singer.

Avril Lavigne’s had a lot more to her than just “Complicated” and “Sk8er Boi” that made her famous. For instance, she made godawful covers of the SpongeBob SquarePants theme and Green Day’s “Basket Case”. Song covers are usually not terrible unless you’re covering “My Generation” and you’re Hilary Duff. Nevertheless, Avril decided to cover the latter while on tour. Pop punk and metal covers? That’s a smart move there! Uh… no, it isn’t. It’s not in actuality. It can’t be a smart move.

Hey, we heard those songs already, but we can hear them again in a more inferior form this time! Avril can cover whatever she wants, including “Chop Suey” by System of a Down or “No One Needs to Know” by Shania Twain, the latter of which is a country song! Shania is not metal, rock or punk! She elected to cover pop punk songs because “Complicated” and “Sk8er Boi” somehow weren’t enough to pander to the pop punk/emo crowd. Yes, they were!

She even had a thing for Chad Kroeger, the frontman of Nickelback, and tried to defend his band. (Girl, Nickelback is one of the worst rock bands of all time! We don’t care that you like them! Quit defending Nickelback!) The two went so far as to get married. Even after she parted ways with him, she probably still has the mind not to marry any one of her fanboys. This idiot, no matter how inferior she is, simply wouldn’t decide to marry any one of her “fans” who don’t care about what punk rock or real music is.

You all probably already know what real music is, so no examples of real music or real bands/artists shall be stated right now. She represents everything wrong with 2000s mainstream music. At many retail stores, retail workers and consumers are forced to listen to some of the worst pop music of all time on the overhead speakers. Personally, I hate the Bee Gees, Earth, Wind and Fire and Diana Ross. However, I can better understand people liking them and their appeal than I can with Avril Lavigne or Britney Spears.

“Complicated” is pure pop. “I’m with You” is a power ballad and it’s emotionless. “Mobile” is pure pop. “Things I’ll Never Say” is pure pop. “Girlfriend” is pure dance-pop with a slight punk tinge here and there and a rip-off of “Hey Mickey” by Toni Basil. “The Best Thing”, the title track from her third studio album, is also pure pop and a rehash of “Girlfriend”. “When You’re Gone” is a poppy power ballad based around the piano rather than guitars. “”Naked” is undeniably poppy (what a stupid song title, by the way). Too many Avril Lavigne songs are pop!

“Innocence” is pure pop. Even “Don’t Tell Me” from Under My Skin could at least do a bit of rocking out, but this power ballad can’t do the same. “Dumb Blonde” is a hybrid of pure pop and rap. Seriously, Avril, you can’t even rap! What are you, a wannabe gangster? “I Love You”, as its title suggests, is pure pop and too sappy for its own good. I thought you didn’t write any “Oh baby, baby” songs, Avril! This is an “Oh baby, baby” song! You're Britney Spears! Don’t deny it!

Seriously, she mooched off the success of people like (and especially) Shania Twain and has been on multiple counts of selling out. Her fanboys became obsessed with her appearance and how handsome she was. From 2002 to 2008, she was even one of the hottest artists going thanks to her rabid fanboys. She has scammed far too many people out of their money.

In conjunction with her success and corporations like DreamWorks, Electronic Arts and Searchlight Pictures with roles in Over the Hedge and Fast Food Nation and a remix of “Complicated” in FIFA 2003, we have Avril as she is today. She also continues doing concert after concert after concert in the process of making herself even more air-headed than she already is. To think she has ever had the thought of ever being part of punk rock simply baffles me to no end. She yells on stage, acting like she’s the cat’s pajamas, and throws herself away to a bunch of fanboys who are teeny boppers with no idea what real music is or the meaning of the word “criticism”, or think people like me are pathetic.

Avril decided that one of the only ways she could become famous was mooching off of Shania Twain’s success. Another was if most, but not all, of her songs like “Complicated”, “Girlfriend”, “Mobile”, “The Best Thing” and “I’m with You” were pure commercial trash pop. Her songs are lacking in originality and have stupid lyrics. She is a major failure and a brainwashed nerd for the crimes of her major labels.

Avril Lavigne is just like Miley Cyrus. You don’t get famous because of someone like your dad Shania Twain, you don’t ever have Disney create you (even though only Miley was created by Disney and not Avril) as that only shows how trash everything made by Disney in the 21st century is, you don’t pander to high school or tween girls who think you’re an inspiration when you’re not, you don’t take revealing pictures of yourself like Miley to post on the Internet, you don’t ever try to act or voice act without proving you can, you don’t follow marketing scams like Miley did with her having two sides in Hannah Montana (one as Miley Stewart and another as, well, Hannah Montana) to make more money for you and those petty major labels and if there’s Avril Lavigne merchandise everywhere I go, then your marketing scams have made you all the more insufferable of a singer.

You have skate decks, you have T-shirts, you have hats, you have ties, you have hoodies… you have all kinds of merchandise on your online store with “Avril Lavigne” slapped onto them. Avril is not rock ‘n’ roll, people! She’s just lame pop trash like the Jonas Brothers. Stupid chords and riffs that are overly simplistic, overrated teen pop, nothing new or special (I mean, this trash was already done in the past by Alanis Morissette, Michelle Branch, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera even though the latter two aren’t rock flavored), lowest-common denominator garbage with cliché lyrics, a poppy puppet to all the evil major labels, fans who are annoying pre-teen and teenage girls and like her because they think she’s hot or “all that”, fake music by a talentless mall poser who dares to be called rock or punk when she’s too melodic and poppy… there’s just too much wrong with Avril Lavigne. Real music doesn’t suffer from overproduction. Simple, more vital production that adheres to many musical traditions developed by its pioneers. Non-dramatic, free of pitch correction/Auto Tune, no over-the-top theatrics, straight-ahead (in a good way and not too much to the point of boredom) or complex, no bombast and absolutely, without a doubt, no forced or contrived emotion.

What does Avril Lavigne have? Heavy pop rock songs that often aren’t real music in the slightest, not even rock or punk. In many of her songs, the electric guitars are faint and they take the focus off of them to the point where they can only be heard in the background. Some barely even have any guitar distortion or power chords, with Goodbye Lullaby (2011) and Head Above Water (2019) being the worst offenders. She heavily relies on melodic hooks like the post-grunge bands do because, well, she’s pop.

Nearly every Avril Lavigne song ever made features catchy, anthemic, melodic, sing-along choruses. She has the occasional post-grunge or pop punk song, but mostly showcases light pop rock influences. Her vocals are way too clean and pitch-corrected/Auto Tuned, and she doesn’t even sound angry nor is she angry when she sings; she’s just loud. I talked about that with Alanis Morissette earlier, BTW. She also embraces a fun, light-hearted image instead of a melancholic, serious one like all the riot grrls in the emo, punk, indie and goth scenes, who are true rock chicks whereas she and Miley aren’t. They’re just posers. Nearly every Avril Lavigne song ever made features catchy, anthemic, melodic, sing-along choruses. Being a pop singer with the occasional post-grunge or pop punk song instead of a rock or punk one, she showcases light pop rock influences. Her vocals are way too clean and fixed, and she doesn’t even sound angry nor is she angry when she sings; she’s just loud.

She is willing to do as many dirty tactics to sell her albums as she possibly can, including being in Over the Hedge for no reason other than to do a publicity stunt and line her pockets when they’re already full of $$$. Baroque pop, neo-psychedelia, the blues she never got, folk, Merseybeat a la the Beatles and the Who, dream pop, grunge, punk, post-hardcore, ska, 2 tone, new wave, post-punk, prog-rock… seriously, they’re all better than pop. Avril shouldn’t have been pop and anything but instead. Corporate greed, I guess.

Blu Cantrell, Blink-182, Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls, Sum 41 and Willa Ford were already being corporately controlled and manufactured, so why not Avril? She became famous for churning out generic ballads (“I'm with You”, “When You're Gone”), pop punk (“Sk8er Boi”), post-grunge/nu metal (“Don't Tell Me”, “My Happy Ending”) and pop rock/teen pop (“Complicated”, “Mobile”) that sounded like the tripe they all churned out. Her music is standard issue, generic 2000s bombast that sounds non-innovative and inauthentic.

Pop music ain’t worth trash and neither is hers. To say her music’s bad is being too kind; the lousiness thereof scrapes far beyond the aural displeasure created therein. Songs like “Complicated”, “I’m with You”, “Girlfriend”, “Sk8er Boi” and “Hello Kitty” are all awful. They are token displays of so-called “punk ethics” from a corporate-sponsored singer simply going through the motions. She’s more than just a corporation, she’s angst-ridden like GC, Blink, Sum and Simple Plan are.

Seriously, Avril whines in her songs for no good reason. The chorus in “Complicated” even implies that she’s sad and wants to be left alone because you think your relationship is ruined. The guy in the song likes to put on a different face when he’s around other people, and we get that. But guess what? YOU’RE A HYPOCRITE, AVRIL! YOU DO THE SAME IN REAL LIFE! YOU DON’T APPRECIATE WHO OTHER PEOPLE ARE, INCLUDING REAL TEENS! FAKE TEENS ARE SPOILED LITTLE TEENY BOPPERS LIKE YOU!

You’re not for my age. I’m not 16 anymore. Your music is for materialistic, spoiled, disobedient, faux-rebellious pre-teens and teenagers who think they’re punk. You are, as a matter of fact, a little kiddy/teeny bopper with the body of a fully-grown woman. You’re immature and don’t act your age. Only posers who think Hot Topic is the best store ever think you’re punk, you Barbie doll. Listening to you is like watching a meteor fall from the sky…

But being helpless to stop it. You are angsty non-stop in many of your songs. I know you’re horrible, Avril, even after the success of “Complicated” and “Sk8er Boi” back in my childhood and when I used to listen to Coldplay and whatever else was on pop radio. Your lyrics are disgustingly juvenile and I’d rather manually rip my teeth out of my mouth than listen to this garbage. You represent everything wrong with pop punk.

And people call you Avril Lavigne? I call you Barbie. That, or I call you and Pink the Queens of Posers, not by your real name or hers. Avril is Britney Spears, people! She’s Barbie! She’s Barbie if she came to life to make pop music and use it as an excuse to do more harm than good, people! She also dyed her hair blonde when she clearly shouldn’t have done so! She’s always set an abysmal example for little girls! She’s a good example of how far people are willing to go to look perfect, or “punk rock”, in this society. Ugh.

Beauty is distorted by the media and by the music industry. Teens are willing to go through anything to achieve this. We shouldn’t be exposed to these ideas. Instead, teens should be teens. Putting this singer into their hands will encourage them to be posers like her. As one of the most popular and successful Canadian artists of the 21st century, Avril gives teens and big kids a sense of low-self esteem. Some people like them who talk trash about posers are also posers themselves. Posers are so delusional.

I’m talking about posers in general. However, posers in sports and music are the most common and the most annoying kinds of posers by far. Nearly every person I’ve seen wearing a Metallica, Nirvana or Pink Floyd T-shirt doesn’t even realize that they’re iconic bands. It’d make a lot more sense to wear a T-shirt that advertises a band or something you really like, so why wear a shirt that advertises a band something you don’t even like? It’s stupid and all the real fans will easily sniff you out if you’re a poser.

Real fans of the iconic bands that happen to have appealing logos can easily spot a poser. If I see you wearing a Pink Floyd or Sex Pistols shirt or really just promoting Pink Floyd in any way, I’d immediately ask you, “What Pink Floyd album is your favorite?” In order to find out if you were a legit supporter of that group, a lot of the blame for the modern poser crisis can easily be shifted towards Hot Topic. This shop used to be pretty cool back in the ‘90s and 2000s, when it carried a lot of merchandise for underground and upcoming bands. After 2008 or 2009, the company decided to remodel into a bland department store with no personality and began selling merchandise for the most commercially successful rock bands, the most popular rappers, modern boy bands and lame pop acts like Justin Bieber.

Hot Topic should be sued and therefore dismantled by all the true fans that support and know the groups it cashes in on. I have never been to a single Hot Topic store. People have almost always felt like Hot Topic is a poser store. I can agree on that, kinda like how skaters feel the same way about Zumiez as in “No real skaters shop at Zumiez!” That's what the skating community feels. I believe, however, that Hot Topic is just capitalizing on what’s trending and making money from it. Any exceptions? Any underground or upcoming bands and artists, not popular ones like GC, S41, MCR, Evanescence, the queen of posers (initials: A.L.) and B182.

There are bands who are a waste of space, horrible excuses for rappers or just noise-creating piles of trash, and then you have Avril Lavigne. She’s a poser like her fangirls are, yet she doesn’t know that. You might be thinking that ranting on pop music or an ancient and seemingly forgotten pop idol is pointless and a waste of time. I don’t think it is, and you’d all be right if Avril Lavigne, the queen of posers, hadn’t made such unexpected returns to the main spotlight. She has. Multiple times.

I thought for years that Avril Lavigne was dead, not to mention her whole replacement conspiracy theory stating that she died in 2003 and was replaced by a body double named Melissa Vandella. The only reason Avril Lavigne ever made it into the music industry is because of Shania Twain, who she performed with in 1999, Ontario, Canada. She has pretty much been the same person since her mediocre debut album Let Go. As time went on, she became less and less popular every single year, even though she was releasing albums every few years.

There aren’t really any specific songs that stand out in an awful sort of way. No, that’s not a compliment. Avril is the same thing as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Pink, Gwen Stefani, Hilary Duff, Alanis Morissette, Vanessa Carlton and Michelle Branch, who are all bad enough. She thinks she isn’t, but she is. Her music sounds like the tripe they all churn out. Even Kelly Clarkson is better than her.

Too many of Avril’s songs are just boatloads of third world-grade pop garbage. Avril thinks she’s high above pop radio junk, but fails to realize she isn’t. If you hate Miley Cyrus but like Avril, then you probably like Miley Cyrus or listening to her as well. Avril's ties to being called pop punk rather than “punk pop” or simply pop are pretty rare and way too loose.

If Avril Lavigne and her pop music were to cease to function as aspiring bad role models or no role models at all, any exposure to her may very easily induce caring about one’s looks. She epitomizes an unrealistic fashion ideal. Most girls ages 3-16 have at least had a doll or one masquerading as a singer growing up. Avril is not only the queen of posers, but a contributing factor to today’s juvenile delinquency. Then again, many pop songs and artists are.

Avril Lavigne has always been part of some dastardly scheme to take over the world since 2002. She has low self esteem, low pride in her looks because she feels like she’s “not punk enough” and induces desires for a damaging punk image. She is not who she really could be or could’ve been since the day of her birth: A normal person.

In the early 2000s, she tried to do more “boy” things, including skateboarding so she could be hyped up as a skater when she isn’t one at all; like, she even once said “I suck at skating.” By The Best Thing in 2007, things went to pot. She started playing, giving and sucking backstage. She started pairing her garbage power chords with even worse lyrics than on her first two albums (Let Go and Under My Skin).

Want an example? Here’s one. This is an actual example of one of her post-Under My Skin songs. It’s called “Girlfriend”. You're so fine, I want you mine, you’re so delicious / I think about you all the time, you’re so addictive / Don’t you know what I can do to make you feel alright? / Don't pretend, I think you know I’m precious / And yeah, I'm the one and only princess / I can tell you like me too, and you know I’m right

Those are the most horrible lyrics I’ve heard ever. This brings me to my next point and that’s the fact that many of Avril Lavigne’s later songs have no meaning to them co-wrote by her and don’t provoke any thoughts. No meaning or thought-provoking lyrics whatsoever. Let Go and Under My Skin already sucked, yes, and they were trash. But her next four albums are all collections of half-baked tunes and beats strung together to make some sort of noise that sounds catchy to chimpanzees like the Jonas Brothers. “Complicated” and “Sk8er Boi” were already annoying and insufferable enough, but “Girlfriend” is even worse.

When asked why they listen to Avril, some people will answer, “Because we think that she’s hot.” Many of our parents may have listened to the Rolling Stones and thought Mick Jagger was hot or Led Zeppelin because Robert Plant was hot, but their music is actually meaningful. Avril went from trying hard to be meaningful and deep (only to fall flat on her face) to just no longer being meaningful or deep at all so she could “be all happy and fun-loving”. She is just a joke, and her later is nothing more than a joke. She deserves to be shoved up herself; that’s what her music is like and how bad it is too.

Teeny boppers and scene kids love to obsess over her. In other words, to reference her debut single “Complicated”, she shouldn’t keep going and making things complicated for them. They shouldn't have to live in the shadows of any scene they’re part of. They’ll end up having many challenges maintaining their true and generous images rather than being spoiled little, faux-rebellious, “totally punk”, selfish teeny boppers. Did I forget that Avril is a womanchild? Yeah, and she’s 38 now but she still acts like this!

Part of the reason why Avril is such an abysmal role model and influence is because she’s corporately controlled. Astria Records, a major label that gave birth to her, just controlled her and made her a puppet. There are many other major companies and labels besides Astria who control her like a puppet too. About her Lyme disease problem… this disease is serious, yes, and the result is a hard road. But some Avril Lavigne fans may use it as an excuse to not hate her. “Stop hating on Avril Lavigne, please!”

Lyme disease can’t be used as a barrier or an excuse to not hate someone. Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath lost two of his fingers, but didn’t whine nor did he have his fans attack others for the simple fact. Instead, he covered up his lost fingers with artificial ones. There is no Black Sabbath fan who’s ever complained about him losing two of his fingers. Such excuses to defend him or arguments would be pointless and a waste of words. To all you Avril Lavigne fanboys and fangirls, shut up about her health.

Avril belongs on the suck-o-meter and there’s no good excuse for her own Eau de Garbage. She’s just some stereotypical pop singer (and she’s called “pop punk” since “corporate-sponsored garbage created to take shelf space away from independent artists and exploit the dying specter of pop music to sell records” probably didn't test well with the focus groups). She is chiefly responsible for “Hello Kitty”, the absolute worst and most offensive track from her output. It’s offensive towards the Japanese.

That song–just that one controversial song you managed to churn out–merits a one-way trip to Mars. Well, so do “Complicated”, “Sk8er Boi” and “Girlfriend”. “Hello Kitty” is your worst song and it's so much worse than any of the three that she might as well take Chad Kroeger with her on her interplanetary journey. Not helping matters is that Nickelback is loathed by many and is considered one of the worst bands that ever existed. Chad is the frontman of Nickelback.

For selling her soul to companies like DreamWorks so she could be in some kids’ movie, and line her pockets even further and do publicity stunts, she belongs on Mars. That’s what she gets for selling her life and your soul to DreamWorks. You… you can’t even voice act, Avril. What made DreamWorks think you could voice act. What made YOU think you could voice act or do any voice-overs? You can’t. You voiced Heather the possum in the film.

Her dad’s name is Ozzie (not to be confused with Ozzy Osbourne), and he plays dead in response to pretty much everything throughout the movie. Later, Heather plays dead to trick humans into thinking she was dead. She is voiced by–you guessed it–Avril Lavigne. Yes, THAT Avril Lavigne! That hypocritical, lying, misleading, deceiving, cash-grabbing, corporate, manufactured fraudster from Canada! The girl responsible for “Complicated”, “Sk8er Boi” and “Girlfriend”! No, seriously. She really did voice her. What were they thinking when they cast the queen of posers in music as Heather?

That would be like Katy Perry voicing Smurfette in The Smurfs duology or like Beyoncé being on Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! as Shine (the leader of a girl group in Wuzzleberg called the Wubb Girlz)! You're not only a Barbie doll, Avril, but you're a sell-out! You sell out non-stop! More proof that this spoiled brat’s a sell-out are all those contracts that she signed, and she belongs on Mars for it. She belongs on Mars for selling out in commercials for T-Mobile, Geico, Proactiv, Canon, Laundrin, etc. A musician should do more than just sell out and shouldn't always do everything to be famous. That's selling out and a one-way ticket to doing dirty tactics for controversy and attention like the ones she has. She’s still a sell-out, and she never even actually worked to get to where she is today.

Like I said earlier, she mooched off the success of Shania Twain when she got to perform with her live in 1999 after winning a dumb radio contest. That’s not originality, folks, nor is it putting any effort whatsoever in becoming famous. Her teeny bopper fans then became obsessed with her upon the release of Let Go in 2002, with the fanboys becoming obsessed with her appearance and how handsome she was. They are technically the ones to blame for making her one of the hottest female singers going.

She never needed to sell out. For being a sell-out, she absolutely belongs on Mars. She must be deported for selling out, for being a poser and spreading numerous lies about her music or her lifestyle. Or both. Perhaps that she also belongs on Mars for changing her looks like Miley Cyrus did to get attention and to trick people into thinking she was replaced by a clone, or because she wasn’t already horrible enough of an influence on today's youth.

I’m not kidding! Whatever you do, DO NOT, and I really mean DO NOT let Avril Lavigne and Miley Cyrus keep trying to be drama queens. I really wish they stopped being drama queens. If they don’t stop soon, they’ll be hated more and they’ll become beyond bad influences and horrible role models for teens. They’ll also give birth to more and more little teeny boppers if they keep this up. They could even be as hated as Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black. They are horrible influences and bad role models.

If you haven’t listened to Lavigne’s music and are thinking of looking up some of it right now, do so at your own risk. The same goes for the average teens of today because once they hear “Complicated”, “I’m with You”, “Hello Kitty” or “Girlfriend”, they’ll start to believe in everything Avril says and does. She thinks what’s outside matters more and teens will believe they can be “punk rock” by wearing what she does.

I have a lot of proof that Avril is so concerned with fashion and trends. She is beyond abnormal and deserves to get sent to Mars. She has nothing in relation to and nothing to do with common sense. Now had she stuck to performing country song covers at fairs (especially only in Canada), most of the world would have been spared her. She’s not an innocent little angel either, and that also merits a one-way trip to Mars.

What else has she been making millions off? Do you know how horrified I am? Her identity is so manufactured, contrived and anti-authoritarian. For having this identity and making millions off of it, she has committed a big sin against humanity and belongs on Mars. Not covering up when she said “she likes to cover up your body so she’s only selling her music” means she belongs on Mars. For posing in not-so-kid-friendly photos and getting them published in Maxim magazine, she definitely belongs on Mars.

Not to mention, she is a hypocrite for doing so. There’s a supposition that more and more unrealistic bodies are being innocently promoted by Avril, even if that wasn’t her intention. Teens are even unaware of the potential effects on their choice of clothing when they listen to trash like her music. Beauty and fashion don’t matter. Remember when she wore simpler and more “punk” clothes? Those days are long gone.

She used to wear ties with T-shirts, tops, pants and shoes. Indeed, she looked like you came out of Hot Topic, and still she does now, but your old image was slightly better. She used to try to just “be herself and not apologize for it” with her old image, despite still being a hypocrite and a poser, but at the same time she wasn’t punk. She’s even less punk now.

Oh no, she was never punk. Not even the clothes she wore back in her Let Go and Under My Skin days (2002-2006) made you punk. She was still a hypocrite and a big poser. Now she’s even worse and thinks she still looks great on the outside when she doesn’t and must wear every Hot Topic-esque article of clothing imaginable. No… just no. This valley girl has always believed she’s punk and can make millions by doing this. You make music to make money, it’s not the other way around.

Avril: (to inoffensive, laid back pop rock music) Somebody else ‘round everyone else, you’re watching your back like you can’t relax / you’re trying to be cool, you look like a fool to me / Tell me, why’d you have to go and make things so complicated? / I see the way you’re acting like you’re somebody else gets me frustrated / Life’s like this, you

And her music I’m playing right now is not punk rock! My ears are melting! My brain is melting too! Please, someone, help me! Avril, books about Evanescence are not punk rock! Guns N Roses watches are not punk rock! Hello Kitty iPod cases are not punk rock! Rob Zombie lunch boxes are not punk rock! Slipknot binder paper is not punk rock! Led Zeppelin air fresheners are not punk rock! Tupac incense burners are not punk rock! Hot Topic is not punk rock! You’re not punk rock! Britney is not punk rock! Miley is not punk rock! One Direction is not punk rock! Justin Bieber is not punk rock!

I think of all the awful pop music we listen to. I see how many pop songs must be disposed of. Pop music’s so disposable that it should be thrown away. So much overproduced garbage that all sounds the same and so much overproduced pop music that needs to be tossed out. The controversial yet popular Avril Lavigne should really be disposed of and was supposed to have been done away with by 2008, for her concerns about fashion and dressing up in punk have sent me over the edge. I see teens with negative attitudes about beauty because of her. One day, roughly a quarter to half of the United States will be wearing skull accessories… or even strap guitars around their necks to pose in pictures with them. Or even both. I can criticize and make fun of Avril and Miley all I want to. I’m never going to compliment and become a fan of either. Besides, Avril is Miley Cyrus, not helped by the fact that SHE AND MILEY ARE POP SINGERS! This is pop music and it’s all pop songs. Don’t pay good money for any Avril Lavigne or Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus merchandise. Seeing your brother’s friend’s band would be a better way to spend that good money.

Avril Lavigne, in addition to being a sell-out, likes to mooch off the success of one powerhouse after another. Disney gave birth to the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Jesse McCartney, Hilary Duff, Selena Gomez and even Britney Spears (the world was first exposed to her on The Mickey Mouse Club, which ran from 1955 to 1996) when she was a child.

As Disney is known for letting pop stars sell their lives to them for the desperate chance that they will help them “make it big”, with such mottos as “where dreams come true” and “the happiest place on Earth”, they think said pop stars must have the money of big music behind them because they don’t believe Hilary Duff, the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Jesse McCartney, Selena Gomez, Zac Efron or Aly and AJ can do it on their own. Every aspect of their lives is decided by a board of directors or a soulless cutthroat marketing team.

No one who Avril worked with cared about her. They wanted her to replicate the success of Britney Spears, Faith Hill, Alanis Morissette and Christina Aguilera and market her for her “totally punk” looks rather than for her music. While she does have a handful of pop punk and post-grunge songs, over half of her output as of 2022 is entirely pop-oriented and that doesn’t make her any less cocky of an industry product; pop music is created by cynical, greedy music labels for no other reason than to keep 150% of their profits. The penny-pinching executives knew that they’d make millions off of anything branded with “Avril Lavigne” or with her name and designs slapped on it.

For the past 20 years, modern society and every major record label or corporation she’s ever been to for the sake of lining her pockets have pretty much been to blame. She belongs on Mars for doing all this. In “Complicated”, she sings about a guy “coming over unannounced, dressed up like he’s something else”, and the song is a metaphor for being fake–making others’ lives “complicated” because of their mannerisms. However, the meaning of the song that launched her to stardom comes off as hypocritical. She’s fake in real life and goes completely against the meaning of the song with her own mannerisms. Her whole career was mapped out by the dangers of society and her life was also mapped out the same way as all the other girls’ lives were.

Posing with a guitar strapped around her neck in your “Complicated” music video like you always do and smashing it near the end is not being yourself. Doing a show in a Hooter’s outfit is not being yourself; that’s being somebody else ‘round everyone else. Making pure pop songs (and a ton of them) because you think that’s acting like a woman or because of some stupid belief that “pop music is for girls” and “rock and metal are for boys” is not being yourself. Having your music pander to little teeny boppers, posers and scene kids is not being yourself. You can’t be yourself, Avril! You just can’t! Pulling an Alanis Morissette and packing your songs with forced, contrived emotion rather than anger, rebellion or sociopathy (or just any taboo or less relatable subject matter that would have made your music feel more challenging and a challenge to mass audiences) is not being yourself. If you want to be punk and you say you’re punk, or if you think you can kick butt when you can’t, NO EMOTION ALLOWED. THERE SHOULDN’T BE ANY EMOTION IN YOUR SONGS, ESPECIALLY IF IT’S FORCED OR CONTRIVED. This is how Avril Lavigne is. I hate her.

Her songwriting is artificial and her emotion is forced, contrived and pointless. All of her ballads, including “I’m with You” and “When You’re Gone”, are very devoid of emotion too. She is one of the most easily known and potent examples of the rot eating away at what little value was left in pop music along with Alanis Morissette, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Mandy Moore, the Spice Girls and the Backstreet Boys. That didn’t stop her from being famous and making millions, though.

The real Avril Lavigne is no more, people. The real Avril was replaced by a clone. Nah, just kidding. Her alleged death in 2003 is nothing more than a lame conspiracy theory. She hasn’t even improved at all since then. Also, it’s one thing to have put out any trash pop singles in the first place, but her inability to stop is another. SOMEBODY SHOULD’VE PUT HER OUT OF HER MISERY BEFORE SHE RELEASED ALL THOSE DREADFUL SINGLES SHE’S ALREADY PUT OUT! MAKE IT STOP! JUST PLEASE MAKE IT STOP ALREADY! Yeah, “Sk8er Boi” (2002) and “Complicated” (2002) were bad songs like all her others, but they were NEVER as horrible as “Bite Me” (2022), “Girlfriend” (2007), “Head Above Water” (2019), “Here’s to Never Growing Up” (2013) or “Rock ‘n’ Roll” (2013).

Her songs have no innovation whatsoever. She has taken over the market with detuned and substandard products and is currently a victim of pointless gossip news and videos based around her and newer musical celebrities. I’m sick of all this horrible punk-lite/diet punk music. All this extremely pointless news about musical celebrities too.

Her meaningful songs like “Mobile” (which is about how Avril’s life is like a toy, moving around and seeing the world change) and “Naked” (which is about being yourself like “Complicated”) have such horrible lyrics and are often pure pop. Not to mention, by 2007 with The Best Thing, Avril had started to feel like she wanted to “have fun again”; as a result, her music stopped being meaningful and thought-provoking. And she says she isn’t a Barbie doll in “Dumb Blonde”. Yes, you are.

Avril was clearly influenced by both Barbie and Britney Spears. Barbie influenced Britney and Christina Aguilera. All four of them are terrible. Gender stereotypes–oversimplified, overgeneralized beliefs about what men and women are like, as well as what traits are expected of them or considered appropriate–are something Avril originally tried hard to break, only to fall flat on her face.

Gender stereotypes are born in the form of gifts moms receive when they announce their pregnancies. The gifts usually range from bows and onesies with the words “Mommy's Little Princess” for soon-to-be born girls to trucks and T-shirts with “Daddy’s Little Hunk” for boys. A ton of Avril’s music is not only pure pop, but she isn’t tough, strong or rebellious. She can’t even kick butt. She just whines as if she were emo or as if her music were emo pop like Good Charlotte’s, My Chemical Romance’s, Panic at the Disco’s or Fall Out Boy’s music.

Now the toys we play with may also have gender stereotypes showing up in them. Stereotypes are everywhere, unfortunately. Most people offer dolls or cooking sets to girls and toy trains, trucks or tools to boys. Trips to children’s stores will offer overwhelming amounts of feminine colors. What does Avril wear nowadays? She wears pink, tutus and purple and she acts like a spoiled brat too! Uh, Avril… you can’t be “tough and rebellious” and spoiled and materialistic at the same time! You can’t! That doesn’t make any sense whatsoever!

It’s OK for girls and boys to love what they love, but Avril should be gravitating towards gender-typical preferences like a sizable amount of said boys and girls are. Does she feel like doing so or even care at this point? NO! For gravitating away from gender-typical preferences, being a spoiled brat, causing as much drama as anyone on the Internet would and letting sexism damage her, she belongs on Mars. You’re going straight to Mars.

''I ain’t no dumb blonde, I ain’t no stupid Barbie doll I got my game on, watch me, watch me prove you wrong ''

And don’t even say you’re not a dumb blonde or a stupid Barbie doll.

It’s not a woman’s job to cook. You shouldn’t only be cooking in the kitchen for your husband! You shouldn’t be doing that! You should be slacking off because women can do it, not just men. Not only should you be slacking off (but not on your day job), but you should be doing hardcore punk or post-hardcore instead of this stupid, lightweight, girly, corporate, manufactured pop rock/teen pop with no solos, chugging or awesome riffs.

You shouldn’t be playing with your little toy kitchen that should’ve been donated to charity by now. You shouldn’t be slaving over a hot stove when there’s much more to women than just household chores. There are more things that matter in women than just cooking and cleaning. You shouldn’t be a child in the body of a 17-year-old teen (38-year-old woman as of this writing) playing with your stupid Barbie dolls.

Avril Lavigne Is Now An Attention Whore (Extremely NSFW)
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In the past, Avril claimed to like to cover up her body since she was selling her music and not her body. She even said she liked to keep her boobs covered up. This is false now, as Avril now likes to pose in pictures with her boobs exposed and her belly exposed. I looked at the front covers of two Maxim Magazine issues that Avril Lavigne was on. 'HER BOOBS AND BELLY WERE FUCKING EXPOSED ON THE FIRST COVER, WHILE ON THE SECOND COVER SHE WAS WEARING NOTHING BUT FUCKING PANTIES!!! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, AVRIL LAVIGNE?! WHAT ON FUCKING EARTH HAVE YOU BECOME?! YEAH, YOU WERE SHIT 20 YEARS AGO AND SO WAS YOU'RE MUSIC, BUT 20 YEARS LATER YOU'RE NOW FLY-BLOWN SHIT!!! YOU'RE A WHORE AND PROSTITUTE NOW!!! I'M FUCKING PISSED!!! YOU DECIDED TO EXPLOIT YOURSELF AND WHORE OUT FOR MONEY!!! WHAT A FUCKING HYPOCRITE!!! YOU'RE ONLY MAINSTREAM FOR THE SAKE OF TURNING GIRLS INTO PROSTITUTES AND PORN STARS AFTER THEY FUCKING AGE!!! AVRIL HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HYPOCRITE AND A POSER SINCE HER PEAK IN THE EARLY 2000s, BUT NOW SHE'S DONE THIS!!! FUCK YOU AND YOUR SHIT POP MUSIC, AVRIL LAVGINE!!! FUCK YOU!!! YOU'RE NOT PUNK AND THIS IS PROOF THAT YOU'RE LESS PUNK!!!'

What the fuck happened to you? You used to not dress girly and now you do. You're a 38-year-old. Actually, no. You're not 38. '''YOU'RE STILL A FUCKING 17-YEAR-OLD TEENY BOPPER BUT IN THE BODY OF A FULLY-GROWN WOMAN!!! AAAHHH!!!!! MY EYES!!!!!''' You're not just a fucking innocent angel playing pop music for posers and scene kids anymore. You're a fucking skank trying to look hardcore. And you still dress like this as of 2022. I've seen your Love Sux photoshoots and they're all terrible. You wear skimpy clothes in all of them. You can't wear normal clothes. You can't cover up your body anymore, can you?

Fuck this. I'm out of here. Stop making shit pop music for once, you skanky whore. HOW FUCKING DARE YOU WHORE OUT AND EXPLOIT YOUR BODY FOR MONEY LIKE MILEY CYRUS DID!!!!! You are a goddamn misandonist who has no fucking respect towards men and became a fucking skank all because "you wanted to be a woman and because you were a man in your Let Go and Under My Skin days". I'm done. I'm fucking done. Real punks do not fucking sell out, and they don't live in Hollywood, and they don't make pop music with little to no punk elements, and they don't exploit themselves if they're girls for money and they don't show off their pussies or tits or navals for attention. Piss off, you good-for-nothing poser. You're not fucking punk and you'll never be. Fuck you too, Maxim Magazine, and your fucking horrid Lavigne photoshoots. Fuck My Chemical Romance, fuck Blood on the Dance Floor, fuck Limp Bizkit, fuck Weezer, fuck Jimmy Eat World, fuck Blink-182, fuck Fall Out Boy and fuck Paramore.

Avril Is a Misandonist Who Is Rude and Disrespectful Towards Men
“Nobody tells me what to wear. Trust me. I'm a girl and I'm growing up. I wrote my first album when I was a 16-year-old skater who wore size 32 pants and hoodies. I was a tomboy. I had an older brother I looked up to, and I hung out with mostly guys. Now I'm into skirts. I'm growing up, I'm changing, I'm becoming a woman. That happens to girls - they become women.”

So basically, Avril is saying that females that dress more masculine are not “women” and haven’t grown up? Also, she's not even a skater.

Avril Is a Conformist 'Cause She Can't Be Herself
This is because of her fashion line, including "Abbey Dawn", because she markets her fashion line as unique even though it looks almost exactly like what's in fashion right now and it's because she wears glittery skulls with hearts and bows, tutus and zebra print. Her chosen colors? Pink, black and purple.

Avril Was Terrible, Even Before She Abandoned Her Roots; Now She's Even Worse
A lot of Avril Lavigne haters see her that way. She started off with a "punk and post-grunge meet pop" sound, but early Avril was barely pop punk. While there were tracks like "He Wasn't" and "Sk8er Boi", the fact that she got away from pop rock in general is what really grinds my gears. Under My Skin is her most rocking album, and even The Best Thing, as poppy as it can be, has a lot of guitars. You can tell that there's a full band present and playing on that record. However, as Avril continued moving on, things got stripped back and she went in a different direction. With her returning to a more guitar-driven sound on Love Sux in 2022, many of the casual fans seem to be appeased and excited about it. It just isn't enough, however, because the lyrics pale in comparison to her roots.

A lot of people who got a taste of her in the mainstream have seen her as too bratty, and obnoxious, and colorful and vivacious with the music she presents. She is so obnoxious, especially on tracks like "Dumb Blonde", where she adresses the haters who felt like she's this annoying, dumb, over-the-top singer-songwriter. She's had plenty of co-writers and different helping hands throughout the years, but not even that matters.

The Worst Musical Artists Ever (PG-13)
50 Cent: He represents everything wrong with commercial rap. He has a weak flow, unintelligent lyrics and an annoying voice. I hate him. Jessica Simpson: Can you say nauseating? Keith Sweat: The king of new jack swing? His voice is so studio-enhanced. He sings terribly live. Bon Jovi: This band is so scathingly annoying. Kid Rock: He managed to kill two birds with one stone by sampling Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" for this sing-along, white trash anthem. He is an absolute embarassment to American music. Angels and Airwaves: Painfully terrible songs with a frontman who thinks he's a musical genius. Yeah right. This is a good representation of everything wrong with emo. Cannibal Corpse: People actually call this music. The singer sounds like he's vomiting razors. Can you honestly call that musical talent? The lyrics are gross, repulsive, despicable and ultimately unoriginal. So what if they play fast? It doesn't make this "music" (that's what it's called, I'm not so sure) any more listenable. T.I.: "You may see me in the streets, but you don't know me." Yes, I do. You're T.I., so shut the hell up. William Hung: If I need to explain why then there is no hope for you. Lil' Jon: You know what I hate? When people who are into rap say that they hate death and black metal because they scream but still think Lil' Jon, who does nothing but scream, is good. Limp Bizkit: Irritating as hell. Fred Durst tries so hard to be edgy but fails. Good Charlotte: No comment. Paris Hilton: Come on! You didn't think I forgot about her, did you? A list like this is incomplete without her. Michael Bolton: Easily the most annoying musician on the planet. The lyrics are so incredibly self-centred and egotistical that they are unintentionally amusing. He can't even consider the reason his wife left him, the reason being that he is so self-absorbed and/or whiny in his songs. I wanna vomit when I hear this. David Hasselhoff: This guy is just a joke. That's all he'll ever be. Go back to television. The Backstreet Boys: Stupid, manufactured, corporate crap pop for dumb teenage girls. If you were male, hated pop music and had a sister in the '90s, you were FORCED against your will to listen to them. No exceptions. You ended up knowing all the dance moves, lyrics and music video scenes. Their wimpy songs are so overpolished, they'll stick in the back of your mind for the rest of your life. They'll even torture you endlessly whenever you come to think about it. N Sync: Same as above. Kelly Clarkson: I hate her songs so damn much and she's one of the worst American Idols. The way she holds that high-pitched note towards the end of "Behind These Hazel Eyes" will destroy your eardrums. "Because of You" is a sappy ballad that gets played around the clock on mix stations, and it's so sappy that someone should shove a donut in her mouth and shut her up. Beyoncé: Shameless corporate garbage for the lowest common denominator with cliche, hedonistic party songs. She is also one of the worst singers to ever hit high notes. Lady Gaga: Same as above. Lisa Marie Presley (R.I.P.): Woah! Wasn't her dad good enough? Wasn't this awesome legend all we needed? Apparently not. 3 Doors Down: Fuel rip-offs whose songs "Kryptonite", "When I'm Gone" and "Here Without You" are all overplayed. They also have wimpy soft rock ballads made to appeal to preppy girls with cheesy lyrics and vocals. Nickelback: So aggravating. The kings of unoriginal, white trash, generic radio rock that all sounds the same. Simple Plan: The whiniest band in existence and the worst of the generic teen bands. They have two of the most dreary, melodramatic and depressing songs ever recorded for all the wrong reasons: "Perfect" and "Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?)". The All-American Rejects: The worst of the emo bands and also the worst teen band ever. Somebody should slap these whiny little emo brats. '''Panic! at the Disco:''' More emo garbage. Boys Like Girls: A typical emo pop band with a lead singer who belts out obnoxious falsetto notes, which sorority tramps and wimpy jocks mosh then mosh to. The Click Five: It's shit music for brainless little teeny boppers, and they're huge Beatles wannabes. Slipknot: What the hell are you guys hiding behind those masks? It's not scary at all. You look like silly, ridiculous clowns. Celine Dion: Her voice melts my ears off. Avril Lavigne: And little teeny boppers call her punk. She's diet punk, she's punk lite... this spoilt brat is anything BUT punk. The worst of all the fake, present-day, psuedo-rebel "rock chicks" along with Pink. Saving Jane: More poppy, radio-friendly, generic chick rock. Staind: Overrated. Sum 41: This band is a rip-off of Blink-182, Green Day and Yellowcard. They're gigantic posers too. Fall Out Boy: Vomit-inducing. Meghan Trainor: No, NO, NO, NO!!!!!! Britney Spears: Corporate garbage for the masses. Christina Aguilera: Same as above. Katy Perry: An obnoxious singer who shits out sweaty, sugar-fueled electropop songs with obnoxious choruses. Faith Hill: Oh God, she was EVERYWHERE in the late '90s and early 2000s (well, so was Shania Twain). From the shitty intro to the shitty guitar chords, "Breathe" kicked off the 2000s on a bad note. Poison: One of those shitty hair/glam/pop metal bands. It's all crap. No originality whatsoever. Toni Braxton: She can't sing for shit. Whitesnake: I hate them and their cringeworthy, sappy power ballads. Warrant: Sickening, sickening, SICKENING!!!!! RATT: Whatever you call it, hair/glam/pop metal is all manufactured crap. Winger: The worst of the hair metal bands. Oh, and the most annoyingly sappy power ballads in history. Brian Johnson: Mediocre at best, irritating as hell at worst. He caused AC/DC to die a slow, painful death. Sammy Hagar: He screwed up Van Halen and his solo shit sucks too. J-Kwon: This shit belongs in the trash. Youngbloodz: More modern (post-Notorious B.I.G.) hip hop trash. Foreigner: It's funny how this band is called hard rock, when as far as I can tell they're one of the blandest rock bands around. Styx: Arena rock at its most irritating. Def Leppard: Their music is pure SHIT!!!!! Journey: Also pure shit and wimpy as hell. Hilary Duff: Oh God, she sucks badly. She was good in her Lizzie McGuire days, but not anymore. Her music is trash and it all rips off Avril Lavigne's music. Oh, AND AVRIL IS ALREADY BAD ENOUGH. Jennifer Lopez: Who doesn't agree with me on this? Ricky Martin: A sad commentary on the music world today. Lil' Wayne: Mind-numbing, completely unintelligent and brain cell-destroying. Jesse McCartney: A rip-off of Nick Carter, Stevie Brock and Justin Timberlake. Garbage music for tweens. Cradle of Filth: Disgusting and sickening. Mr. Mister: What a stupid name. The music is so damn cheesy. It's not even new wave, it's soothing and gentle arena rock. I wanna scream when I hear this.

==Mom from Dexter's Laboratory here. The Excellent Music Wiki should be deleted because it supports pop/corporate/mainstream music. Just because we hate it doesn't mean this wiki should even still be up and running. It keeps putting up pages of songs and artists/bands that were positively received SOLELY because of their positive reception and not because the admins care about the lack of creativity and invention in pop/corporate/mainstream music. Also, corporate/pop/mainstream music establishes too much broad appeal based on heavy marketing and saturation.==

Everything Wrong with Let Go by Avril Lavigne
Artist: Avril Lavigne Album: Let Go Year: 2002

Genres: Scenes: Alt-rock, emo pop, pop punk
 * Overall: Pop rock, folk pop, folk rock
 * "Losing Grip" and "Unwanted": Post-grunge, pop rock, emo pop
 * "Sk8er Boi": Pop rock, pop punk

'Let Go'' is one of the worst and most boring albums of the 21st century. No, make that one of the worst and most boring albums of all time. I don't want to judge Avril based solely on "Complicated" or "Sk8er Boi" either. Avril plays things way too safe on all of the songs here (save for "Sk8er Boi", "Losing Grip" and "Unwanted") and they're so freaking inoffensive. The fans who consider her rock and roll or punk are wrong because, let's admit it, this album is pure commercial POP TRASH A LA BRITNEY SPEARS!'''


 * I, Dexter's Mom from Dexter's Laboratory, have observed people's love and backlash against Avril for quite some time now. Here's what I have to say: Avril is quite possibly the least real person in the music industry. She isn't any more real than Britney Spears, unfortunately. Does she write her own songs? NO! She writes them with the help of other professional pop songwriters, meaning that she may have contributed a line or two. Does she have any guitar-playing talent? NO! She holds the guitar and poses with it in pictures so she can look cool. If she actually played the guitar, then she'd have to play it live. Is she rock and roll or punk? NO! She's pop rock. Even the Beatles, as poppy as they were, were rock and roll and could at least be creative; they also wrote far more meaningful and mature lyrics than Avril.
 * 1) When she first appeared, she claimed to have reinvented punk rock for "this generation" and was "this generation's" Sid Vicious. Never mind that she admitted that she didn't even know who Sid Vicious or the Sex Pistols were.
 * 2) She was ultimately picked by a major record label to cash in on Britney's waning fanbase with the same primitively Auto-Tuned, bubblegum, easily digestible, safe pop trash about puppy love.
 * 3) People like her because they think she's cool and they care about her style more than her music. They also think that her success is based on the fact that she's a good musician, which is false, as described in the pointers below.
 * 4) Avril DID NOT get famous based on her talent. She debut on MTV and the radio in order to get famous. She sold her soul to the devil when she signed a record contract with Sony Music in 2000. Her "band" was also given to her and she didn't meet them.
 * 5) People lie about her not wearing skimpy clothes and parading around in them when she, as a matter of fact, does. Seriously, look up some images of her.
 * 6) She warned her fans that she "totally sucks" at playing the guitar, while her publicity shots with her guitar show her holding it the wrong way and strumming non-existent chords. The "Complicated" music video even shows her playing a G-chord, which isn't in the song. She also has publicity photos of her playing the drums where she holds one drumstick UPSIDE DOWN and makes a fist around the other. She can't even hold them.
 * 7) Avril did not start any trends. She rode on existing trends and capitalized on their popularity. I'm angry at anyone who lauds her for "bringing back the tie on girls". Alt-girls across the country have been wearing ties since the early '90s. The Spice Girls even wore ties before her, and get this, Avril has a STYLIST. In fact, she has many stylists who are ready to scout out one trend after another.
 * 8) She thinks she's a skater. However, Avril was quoted as saying she likes wiping out, hurting herself, crying, showing off her bruises and messing around on them with other guys. When asked about her shredding skills, she typically responds with "Dude, I suck."
 * 9) In the "Complicated" video, she and some other boys play hide-and-seek while running away from a bodyguard who was assigned to her.
 * 10) Avril's past is a lie. Much like Vanilla Ice, she makes up things so she can be more hardcore. In reality, she was raised to be a Christian school girl, was a cheerleader and sang country pop at fairs.
 * 11) She couldn't name a Ramones song to save her life. She even said she was punk and wore clothing that read "punk", "punk princess" or both. She also lies and contradicts herself, like when she says "I'm not punk" after saying that she IS punk.
 * 12) Her fans like to post all these enthusiastic reviews on websites, even after hearing their idol live.
 * 13) She uses vocoders and pitch correction. All the credit for her Let Go CD belongs to the sound engineers, who ran her voice through a TC-Helicon VoiceOne computer program that beefs up a thin, weak voice.
 * 14) Basically, her albums sound like they came from Britney Spears' bratty older sister. She might like going around in spiked bracelets, talking about how "punk" or "hardcore" she thinks she is, but the truth is that her punk influences are non-existent and skin-deep. Even the guitars on her 2002 and 2011-2019 songs are mostly non-existent. She dresses up the part, but her lyrics are not about challenging the establishment and the music is nothing other than what you normally hear on your local "soft rock" station. I, Mom from Dexter's Lab, am so willing to bet that when asked about what her favorite band is, she'll respond by saying, "Blink-182." It's clear that she's not what she claims to be. If there are any doubts that she belongs in the teen pop genre, one listen to one of her albums will clear them up. This is teen pop, people.
 * 15) Her song "Complicated" has such a childish, Britney-like intro. The lyrics here are also embarrassingly immature and whiny, much like on the rest of her songs. It's hard to imagine anyone over 17 listening to this without cringing in horror. In fact, Avril's lyrics are so immature, they sound like they came from a whiny little girl who lost her favorite Barbie doll.
 * 16) *The pitiful lyrics don't even end there–here's some examples: 1.) "I never spend less than an hour / Washin' my hair in the shower / It always takes five hours to make it straight / So I'll braid it in a zillion braids" (from "My World"). 2.) "I'm not the milk and Cheerios in your spoon / It's not a simple 'Here we go, not so soon'" (from "Nobody's Fool").
 * 17) She voiced Heather in Over the Hedge, despite her being a controversial celebrity among the music community and being referred to as a poser.
 * 18) *Speaking of Heather, she is just a filler character who doesn't serve that big of a purpose in Over the Hedge.
 * 19) **Throughout the movie, she is embarrassed by her father for playing dead in response to even the slightest things that happen to him.
 * 20) **She doesn't know why possums play dead and hates it when Ozzie does it, yet she plays dead at the end of the film to trick humans into thinking she died, which is hypocrisy.
 * 21) **The running gag where she hates seeing Ozzie acting dramatically is annoying.
 * 22) In "Anything But Ordinary", Avril states that she wants to be anything but ordinary when she's too generic not to be considered ordinary.
 * 23) Her music has received far too much undeserved acclaim, which means that the critics who gave her music such acclaim are most likely tone-deaf, tin-eared peasants. Nothing on her albums justifies the press she receives and they should be passed on.
 * 24) *I'm convinced that 1.) constant PR (public relations) and 2.) the aforementioned tin-eared critics are the biggest reasons why many artists whose catalog comprises the absolute worst music in recorded history are still around. More surprising than Avril's popularity is the number of people who still defend her as something to be proud of listening to. IT'S STUPID POP MUSIC! IT'S CORPORATE GARBAGE TARGETED TO THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR! IT'S MUSIC WITHOUT ANY ARTISTIC INTEGRITY! WHY, IT'S BRITNEY SPEARS! Why in the name of Christ (the most metal of all deities) do people consider her rock and roll or punk? Only I seem to know the answer to that.
 * 25) Avril's music is an example of corporatism ruling the music industry and the only purpose some of her songs (namely "Complicated" and "I'm with You") serve is background noise for large gatherings. Now believe it or not, I actually love Weird Al's parody of "Complicated". But Let Go and The Best Damn Thing comprise some of the most repetitive, cliché, whiny, unimaginative, bland and immature music in the entirety of the music industry (aside from country pop, electropop by the likes of Gwen Stefani, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga, nu metal, metalcore, hip hop and post-grunge).

"Losing Grip" and "Unwanted" are the only rock tracks on Let Go (depending on your view). I actually think they're pretty good. To hell with the rest of this pseudo-rock, whiny, faux-punk garbage. I can't believe just how whiny all of the songs on "Side 1" (tracks 1-6) are, with the exception of "Sk8er Boi", and how hard they try to be "emo" when they're not. Even "Sk8er Boi" is the worst song on the album next to "Complicated".

Everything Wrong with A Fever You Can't Sweat by Panic! at the Disco
Artist: Panic! at the Disco Album: A Fever You Can't Sweat Year: 2005

Genres: Pop rock, dance-punk, baroque pop Scenes: Alt-rock, emo pop, pop punk, electronica

'A Fever You Can't Sweat'' is an album that pretty much sums up why I hate pop punk as a subculture, as a genre or both. I'm pretty sure this is what the whole "pop punk" thing has more to do with being and truly is: A cultural movement and a terrible one at that.'''

A Fever You Can't Sweat? Ha-ha. I think a lama could produce better sounds than what this so-called "emo" band that's not real emo ever came up with. I absolutely hate "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", its pickup and that stupid line made for insecure teenagers to sing along to–that's "closing the damn door" as if they want controversy or don't want it. This is a prime example of how pitiful the music industry is; my son Dexter probably remembers when they would play this on MTV every 15 minutes and thinks how much the teeny boppers loved this garbage because there was, and is, no talent. This album is incredibly bad. It's not just the execrable music I hate, but every facet of it that I hate too. From the long titles to the amount of time Brendon Urie clearly spent on his hair, such bands as Panic! at the Disco have engendered a lot of hatred in me. Whatever it specifically was that Panic! at the Disco did to inspire so much hatred needed to stop. Unsuprisingly, they did in 2023 when Brendon Urie announced that his solo project of the same name was disbanding. This album is pure trash, as you'd come to expect from "emo" that's not real emo these days. Panic! at the Disco only got popular due to a fad and because 14-year-old girls thought Brendon was hot. Listening to this album is like getting spanked by your father. It's almost difficult to describe how absolutely terrible A Fever You Can't Sweat is. Brendon Urie sounds like he has a filing cabinet crammed up his nose, which isn't helped by the primitive Auto-Tune and terrible vocal effects. Hearing songs and music like this makes me realize just how far the music industry has fallen and I can completely understand why music sales are in freefall–here's the reason right here. This album is the perfect storm of what has come to be known as "emo"–self-hating lyrics, annoying riffs, an indecipherable lead singer and loud choruses. Who ever thought that a so-called "emo" producer would take cues from "My Humps"? Who could have expected the evil spawn of Morrissey and Jessica Simpson to be the most pervasive pop band of 2006? Why won't everyone just take a sledgehammer to their car radios? This sounds very generic and the synths do not mix well with the band playing. They try so hard to be original with the whole "electronic pop rock" aesthetic, but it's so out-of-place; same with the samples and stuff. What's up with that? Somehow, they make something that sounds uninteresting and bad. Despite making it less "generic", the addition of synths doesn't work well. The lyrics suck too. They're just so embarrassing and the production is all over the place. A Fever You Can't Sweat and the rest of Panic! at the Disco's catalog are:

1.) NOT ROCK.  '''2.) NOT PUNK.  3.) NOT EMO. THEY'RE NOT EVEN CLOSE.'''

This is manufactured garbage made to steal money from teens who have never listened to quality music like Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Bad Religion or the Clash and can't think for themselves. I'm sorry, but to everyone who listens to this, you're all just cliché losers who haven't experienced any form of quality music in your life.

Everything Wrong with Into the Rush by Aly and AJ
'''Disney girls who got famous solely because they wanted to. No! I say no! No to Disney and no to this alum!'''

Artist: Aly and AJ Album: Into the Rush Year: 2005 Genres: Pop rock, teen pop

There simply isn't any originality in Aly and AJ's music. We've heard all this music before with Lindsay Lohan, the infamous Avril Lavigne, Hilary Duff, etc. There isn't anything new or exciting here that stands out. Since Aly and AJ came from the whole Disney background, maybe that's where and why I got lost in this pop fluff. I can see where kids would like it, but this is just too predictible with it's chourses and guitars that make each song bleed into the next.

Everything Wrong with The Young and the Hopeless by Good Charlotte
Basically the Backstreet Boys pretending to play instruments.

Artist: Good Charlotte Album: The Young and the Hopeless Year: 2002

Genre: Pop rock Scenes: Alt-rock, emo, pop punk

Let your loving and caring mom from the most well-known of all the Cartoon Cartoons that used to air on Cartoon Network, Dexter's Laboratory, start off by saying this: The Young and the Hopeless and the rest of Good Charlotte's catalog are:

1.) NOT ROCK. They don't even have any of rock or punk's darker qualities.  '''2.) NOT PUNK, for the same reason as above.  3.) NOT EMO. 4.) TEEN POP TRASH.'''

Good Charlotte is a boy band consiting of Joel Madden, Benji Madden, Paul Thomas, Billy Martin and Dean Butterworth. The summary of this review pretty much sums up what this band is, but I'll elaborate a bit to kill some time. Once upon a time, the record execs at Sony got rich off of posers such as Avril Lavigne and Pink. As they searched far and wide for more posers who pretending to rock or punk (or both) to make money off of, they found four pretty boys known as Good Charlotte. They thought they were perfect for the job. Good Charlotte's hair was spiked, they did their best to look real good on-camera, pretended to care about everyone and had none of the darker qualities that make up rock. It didn't matter if no one knew how to play their instruments or that they lacked even an iota of credibility. To Sony, they looked great. They knew that all the little "rebellious" teenage girls would love them. Sony couldn't have been more right and in a year or two both Sony and Good Charlotte were rolling around in money harvested from the teenage girls who couldn't see that Good Charlotte's angst was contrived solely for the purpose of making their wallets a little lighter. It's sad, but it's true. Now Good Charlotte gets to sit in a mansion for having no talent, sincerity or integrity. Their only accomplishment was being in the right place at the right time when Sony made a big cash grab with their "N Sync as a rock band" idea. This album is why I hate pop punk, people, but that's not even the reason I'm reviewing this. It's way past time for people to stop buying every piece of trash big record companies throw at them. I know no one cares what I think, but it's way past time for someone to stand up as a voice of dissent. Screw this album, The Young and the Hopeless, and all the other homogenized trash music out there. I hope all the posers disappear so they can make more room for true talent to be finally recognized. I know that will never happen, but it seems like a nice thought.

I have a problem. I just got blocked from LCW recently.
Yeah. It happened for some reason. I got blocked on all the other Qualitipedia wikis (most of which are now closed). Didn't even know that there was no place for a "Randomness" sandbox and that all the sandboxes were for templates only.