| Triple 6 |
05-27-2003 02:10 AM |
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Originally posted by BRISK
Avril Lavigne was created at a time when the music world needed an anti-Britney, a slightly-less-slutty-but-somehow-more-dangerous Alanis Morrisette for the mall crowd, and eventually she'll fade away when no one buys her as a sk8er chick anymore. Then will come the Playboy spread, the television appearances on sitcoms, the Osbournes-like reality show, drugs, the VH1 Behind the Music, and, eventually, death.
Avril Lavigne has very obviously been concocted as a way for the younger sisters of Britney's fans?girls who are just now turning 12-14 years old, and who are looking for something to love that will give the proverbial finger to their older siblings. Now they can blast Complicated from their pink bedrooms and dress like punky sk8er chicks themselves and imagine they are making their powderpuff older sisters cringe in fear, clutching their 4-year-old copies of Baby, One More Time before them like protective icons.
With Britney and her copycats (Christina, Jessica, the subversively boring Mandy Moore) entering into the downward portion of their cool cycle, it's inevitable that the Backlash Artists erupt literally out of nowhere, and that they'll be positioned subtly as everything Britney isn't, i.e. they'll be offered up as ?genuine', ?real', and ?honest'. Which is bullshit, of course. Consider, if you can stomach it, Avril's music video now running nearly-continuously on MTV and the like. In it, she and a group of friends invade a mall and basically act like rebellious white-kid brats who have everything handed to them, and therefore have nothing better to do than commit petty vandalism and harassment. Wastes of skin like these kids deserve to be beaten to death and processed into hamburgers to feed the lowing herds of kids just like them that step forward to replace them. Instead, it's offered up as an example of how ?cool' Avril is. She isn't Britney dancing in some ridiculous outfit. She's Avril, and she's fucking rebellious, so vote for her on TRL and buy her album.
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BRISK,
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