This Day in Pop: 20 years ago, Avril Lavigne releases her legendary CULTURAL RESET debut single "Complicated"

[RadicalOptimism]

7 hours ago, MikeHunt said:

Yes Avril! The girl who slût shamed Britney and called her a hôe for wearing a bra and dancing around, yet when Avril started flopping she turned up the sëx appeal, bleached her hair blonde and was in her bra and panties a few years later! A cultural reset!

 

i like Avril but I’m so sick of the “anti- pop girl” because they always sell out, give into modern fashion, who shows off their bodies and basically are hypocrites. There is nothing wrong with people exploring their ***ualities through their art but it’s self righteous girls like Avril, Lorde, Billie who talk sh t about sêxy pop girls and try to diminish those girls artistry just because they use their sëxuality, and those anti girls win awards but the public lose interest in them and give them 2-3 years later and they are selling sêx too. 

Spillllllll 

[Moscow]

Avril was my first inspiration to pick up the electric guitar and I've never looked back ever since but this women has been nothing but hateful. The thing is that women themselves love to criticise women hence we don't dominate like men. Avril came out as a rockstar who wanted to create her own image and indeed she did but then why you changed yourself against your own thoughts? 

And I don't get this young excuse yes when you are young you do stupid things but you don't shame women and then do the exact same thing years after when you are facing underwhelming commercial success? The thing is that every female and most males were just plain jealous of Britney dominance she was outdoing her peers like nobody and remained humble and now people come out to support her. Let bygones be bygones but sometime you just feel so odd about all this, a women shaming women is so bad we don't like to even uplift our community forget about men doing that for women. 

Avril was a hateful women and she was definitely jealous of Britney's success maybe it came out from label pressure who knows? But Avril was still bad and I feel nothing but disappointment from such comments. 

[MidnightCity19]

How did pink win for the best female video at the vma’s that year over slave 4 u?!? 
 

would of been iconic to see Britney win and have avril give her the award 

[jordeezy river red]

I was 13 and there were 2 musical resets going on for me - it was also the rise of contemporary Christian rock music with bands like Switchfoot 

[stanLOONA]

I always thought the song was #1  I like the song, is cool 

But those Britney comments always stuck with me 

[bbbsss]

Definitely iconic. 

[MissSpearsSaysSo]

It’s right up there with some of the best debut singles of all time. Avril, Britney, Christiana, All the girls of that era have it. Congrats to her I’m flushes still going strong!  

[aleomg]

A cultural reset just like Normani’s Motivation. 

[MyLittlePopstar]

A bop, but I wouldn’t go as far to call it a cultural reset. Avril was huge for a couple years, and then never really hit the peak she had with her debut. I mean it was only a few years later we were getting Gaga, and a slew of new Disney girls Miley, Selena, Demi - I suppose there was a little in fluence there as they started out more pop-rock ish than dance. 
 

I love Avril, her history with Britney is complicated (like many pop stars of that time Xtina, P!nk, Jessica Simpson and more). But she was a teen and it was a different time. I see some of my facebook posts from when I was a teen and I cringe. She said positive things about Britney more than negative. Also sometimes when you’re a teen you still feel awkward and uncomfortable about your body, maybe a few years later when she was a woman she felt more comfortable and confident in her skin you show it and be more ***ual. People do grow and change, I hope people in your life hold things you said/did when you were 17 and 18 against you. 
 

Avril isn’t even one of my top faves, but some of you seem pretty hypocritical for wanting her to be more tolerant as a teen in 2002 but not being tolerant of ppl changing.