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Originally posted by RenegadeSoul
Its just a new way of advertising the music, its a new 'package' that they put her in to make her look appealing.
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What do you mean 'new'?
People have been doing this for thousands of years.
In short, Avril Lavigne sells because:
1. She's quite attractive.
2. She has a very well-paid team of producers and hitmakers. They may say she writes her own songs, and I don't doubt that she does, but... she doesn't know shit about recording/mastering/etc. Her bosses have a lot of leeway as far as that's concerned.
3. She's a very carefully calculated product. After all the boybands and shit kinda fizzled out, record companies realized that the little girls who had bought all those CD's were now a few years older; they wanted something with a guise of 'edginess'.
4. The little girl can, in fact, sing. And her songs aren't the
worst thing ever...
All this is IMHO, of course.
EDIT: I just thought of this.
I don't think I've ever once seen her claim to be punk. It's probably just more of the clever marketing, but... try not to dislike someone because they don't live up to the labels that
you made for them.
-D.S.