Music Debate #136: Avril Lavigne

[Reed Rothchild | 9,592]

@Bearcat-Doug's choice

 

[fcgamer | 4,754]

Brilliant, a guilty pleasure of mine.

The tunes are really infectious, the sort of thing that just runs through your head all day and won't leave. I like the lyrics and the themes, in part because they are quite shallow teenage fluff. I guess part of it might be nostalgic, but sometimes I'd rather just listen to something like this than something heavy, especially if I'm doing some sort of computer work.

She just released a new album last year I guess it was, I had heard one of the songs on the radio while at a junk shop here in Taiwan, and I was thinking, "WTF?" as it just sounded like her old stuff, but while I have mixed feelings on the situation (i.e. should people of her age still be singing the same type of songs as they were doing twenty years ago?), at the same time it felt quite good, in the same way that homebrew NES games feel good.

[AstralSoul | 503]

I've never gone out of my way to listen to her but I've never minded hearing her stuff on the radio. 4/10

[fox | 1,681]

How many 1's am I allowed?  I think I'll be cashing one of those in here.

[Estil | 1,265]

Hard to believe it's been 20 years already since she was in her prime...and since my college days...

[mbd39 | 2,030]

She's a solid 5. Not good, not horrible.

[JamesRobot | 5,839]

Nickleback's girlfriend? 

[Hammerfestus | 3,891]

Sounds like shit.

[Alder | 243]

I got her first album when I was a kid, back in like 5th grade or so. I liked the music but until then I had only heard my parents playing country music, or Britney Spears / Backstreet Boys on the radio. Had a bit of a crush on her going into my preteens, lol. I still like the first album but I've tried listening to her subsequent stuff and it just doesn't work for me. So it might be nostalgia for the first album, but I gave her a 7/10. When her second album came out I had no interest in it since I was listening to metal, punk, and some emo stuff.

[Kguillemette | 1,547]

As far as pop singers go, she is definitely on the bottom tier. 

[The Count | 534]

I always LOL at Sk8er Boi. 2/10.

[RH | 4,980]

35 minutes ago, JamesRobot said:

Nickleback's girlfriend? 

*Wife. For a time.

Anyway, the most "entertainment" I ever got from her is apparently she did that "I don't like your boyfriend" in a BUNCH of languages, so there was compilation of it in the early days of YouTube with all of them.  It made me chuckle.  So much work.  Such a bad song.

 

[Tulpa | 3,537]

The music's catchy for pop, but I was never a fan of pseudo-edgy lyrics like her stuff. Reminds me of early 90s 'tude culture.

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,105]

9 hours ago, fcgamer said:

Brilliant, a guilty pleasure of mine.

The tunes are really infectious, the sort of thing that just runs through your head all day and won't leave.

Same here. I agree that there's also something nostalgic about her music that makes her new songs as enjoyable as the old ones.  She's still going strong after 20 years, so I must not be the only one that's a fan. 10/10.

[TDIRunner | 2,779]

I know who she is and I remember her being a pretty big deal, but I couldn't name a single song off the top of my head.  I had to click on a few of the YouTube videos above as a reminder.  There are a few songs I enjoy, but it's the type of music that I can listen to if it's on the radio, but I don't believe I've ever voluntarily selected one of her songs to listen to.