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Yeah... better watch out for those pre-fab celebrities...
What a waste of breath...
Yes. Avril is a product of someone's idea of what works for marketing to young girls. What mainstream music is free of that taint?
That said, would I rather have my daughter listen and aspire to be sex kittens a la Britney and Christina or would I rather have her listen to and aspire to be someone like Avril? Her message seems to be rather anti-authority and be a punk.
Both are extremely surface and both are being marketed at us and our kids as product. While I would hope she would recognize these attempts to mold her way of seeing the world through carefully crafted images... I would also hope that she would be able to take from this, or any pop culture, whatever can empower her.
I don't see the benefit in whinging about how manufactured some celebrity is... Let's face it... it isn't going away.
You don't like don't buy it.
(as for Avril being into country... umm what music were you into at the ages of 10 to 14? What are you into now? Who cares if she dug Shania Twain and wanted to be like her?)
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