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Post by Gabo on Jan 6, 2016 7:53:13 GMT
I was thinking on making a wiki article about Avril's legacy on music industry. Since various artists/bands have one, I think Avril should has one since she is an icon that left an important mark on 00's music. So, we can use this thread to find first some good reviews and articles that talks about the legacy, impact, mark, etc... Avril left during 00s on the music industry, what she inspired, and that stuff. So we can do a well-made article. You can see some examples of other artist the following links:
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Post by Gabo on Jan 6, 2016 7:54:58 GMT
Avril Lavigne clones, beware. Pop princess still a street fighterTabloids and pop culture vultures alike love a good cat fight and Canadian kiddie rocker Avril Lavigne never lets 'em down. Since emerging on the scene in 2002, at the age of 17, angry Avril has taken swipes at everyone from Britney Spears to Ashlee Simpson.
CALGARY--Tabloids and pop culture vultures alike love a good cat fight and Canadian kiddie rocker Avril Lavigne never lets 'em down. Since emerging on the scene in 2002, at the age of 17, angry Avril has taken swipes at everyone from Britney Spears to Ashlee Simpson.
Take prissy Hilary Duff, a teen sweetheart who found fame on the Disney Channel TV series Lizzie McGuire. She was a perfect target for a born scrapper like Lavigne. Especially once she dared venture into Lavigne's pop-rock turf.
Duff stirred things up when she criticized Lavigne in an interview, calling the mini-pop-punk ``mean-spirited'' after Avril supposedly slammed her fans for dressing like her. That got the fur flying. ``Hilary Duff's such a goody-goody, such a mommy's girl,'' fired Lavigne in the pages of Newsweek. ``If she doesn't shut her mouth, then I'll shut it for her,'' she snarled at another reporter.
But despite the animosity between Lavigne and Duff, one thing is hard to deny and that's Lavigne's huge influence on her Disney-bred rival. When she began recording in 2002, Duff was as bubblegum as it gets, releasing Christmas albums and sugary pop-jingles for her Disney projects. As her career progressed, however, with each succeeding album, she's turned up the heat increasingly, even recording with her boyfriend Joel Madden of the pop-punk band Good Charlotte to toughen up her sound. The result is a sort of tamed-down Avril knockoff. Pop-rock for the mall-brat set, if you will, with Duff doing her best version of Lavigne's glossy teen-angst routine.
But it's not just Duff who's copping Avril's feel. Such stars as Ashlee Simpson, Lindsay Lohan, Fefe Dobson and Canadian Idol winner Melissa O'Neil have all had great success borrowing a page from the Avril book. The pop princesses have been belting it out like rockers, their carefully constructed images tweaked to betray a hint of Lavigne's rebellious bad-girl image.
Former American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson, who enjoyed one of the biggest hits of 2005 with her woman-scorned anthem Since U Been Gone was clearly going for an Avril-vibe with that songs catchy, scream-along, fist-pumping chorus. Lavigne even co-wrote a tune on Clarkson's latest album, Breakaway.
Love her or hate her, Lavigne's influence in the pop world has been vast.
``Avril came out of nowhere and was such a huge phenomenon that it would be impossible for there not to be a kind of ripple effect,'' says MuchMusic reporter Hannah Sung. ``I think she has influenced a lot of people who are in the pop biz, and the tastes of a lot of young girls as well.''
But how much of Lavigne's impact boils down to her talent as opposed to her timing, coming along when the pop culture pendulum was swinging away from the dance-pop trend that spawned Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys in the late '90s? It's no coincidence that Lavigne was dubbed ``the anti-Britney Spears'' when she first emerged; her baggie-pants-tomboy image seen as an antidote to the tarted-up Barbie doll look Spears had popularized.
Sung notes that artists such as Alanis Morissette, Liz Phair and Fiona Apple played the angry rock-chick card back when Lavigne was just another kid in her Napanee, Ontario primary school. In fact, most critics agree, they did it better than Lavigne; that Avril took their sound and dumbed it down for a pre-teen audience.
``Teenage angst is healthy and there's always a model of that happening in pop culture,'' Sung says.
``There's always somebody there that fills that role, and Avril came along at the right time. But there was a note of honesty in her music and that's why it connected. No matter how much (music mogul) L.A. Reid primps you, you can't be a success unless there's something real in there. I believe in Avril Lavigne's power, for sure.''
Just as the music industry pumped out a bevy of Britney Spears clones (Jessica Simpson and Christina Aguilera started out as just that), the coming of Avril has spawned more than its share of copycats.
Reviewing a recent Ashlee Simpson concert, a reporter noted that her baggy pants were weighed down by her microphone battery pack, exposing her ``butt cleavage.'' Avril made the same fashion statement two years prior on her concert tour. Simpson's also been photographed wearing a P-U-N-K shirt, emulating Lavigne's own ``rock-chick'' style. Website www.amiright.com noted as much with its parody of the Simpson song Autobiography, entitled Clone of Avril Lavigne. The parody lyrics included the line: ``I've got rivals, pop princesses Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff. They're clones too.'' Kelly Clarkson's video for the smash hit Since U Been Gone was clearly Avril-influenced as well, with Clark trashing her boyfriend's home, which was reminiscent of a scene in Lavigne's Don't Tell Me video.
Sung says it was natural that so many artists would be influenced by Lavigne. ``When you've got good girls across the board, it gets boring for young girls. It isn't interesting or genuine. It's more interesting to have a role model who's ... just a little bit angry, like all kids are.'' Clearly, Lavigne has stepped up as that role model, Sung says, with enough edge ``that young girls can get into (her), but it won't be scary, like, say, Courtney Love.''
Despite her best bad girl posing, as a rocker, some say Avril is not that far removed from her pop-rooted imitators. ``Maybe to a young, pre-teen girl, there's a really wide margin between Avril Lavigne and Hilary Duff, but to me, there isn't really,'' Sung laughs. ``Avril is a bit angrier and edgier, but not so much that you couldn't be a fan of both.''
However, Larry LeBlanc, bureau chief for Billboard magazine in Canada comes to Lavigne's defence. ``Everybody underestimates Avril, and they shouldn't,'' LeBlanc says. ``Avril didn't start like (her imitators). She wasn't a Disney doll. . . . She's not up there dancing and doing reality shows. . . . When she came out, she was positioned differently. She was like the girl in grade 10 sitting in the back of the class at 3:10, waiting for the bell to ring, going `I am so f--king bored.' Every small town has a bunch of Avril Lavignes. She was the quintessential Canadian kid from a small town. I think that was her appeal.''
While LeBlanc admits that Lavigne's career has been guided, her image shaped to some extent by her record company, he sees her as a fiercely independent spirit whose persona has been genuine. ``She's a pint-sized whirlwind,'' he says. ``She's had her own look, her own viewpoint. She's been anti-star in a lot of ways. Hilary Duff will sit there for four hours and talk to the press. Avril will walk by and say `Screw you.' The others are products of the Hollywood star-making machine. Avril's not a part of that. . . . There's nobody like her within spitting distance.''
But is Avril losing her down-to-earth qualities? Sung wonders if Avril's Hollywood-spawned imitators aren't starting to rub off on her. ``If you see papparazi photos of Avril lately, there's this L.A-ification happening,'' Sung says. ``Her hair is getting bigger and more beautiful and she's been wearing dresses instead of combat boots. (The imitation) is kind of going both ways.''
Perhaps, but however she evolves, Lavigne has something that her clones do not have, as LeBlanc sees it, and that's staying power. She needs to ``earn her stripes,'' LeBlanc says, and record an album that will win her real credibility in the rock world, much like Alanis Morissette did when she graduated from being a teen pop artist to recording the acclaimed Jagged Little Pill.
Lavigne herself is determined to be around for the long haul. Last year she told the Los Angeles Times that she plans to take her time recording her third album. She wants to grow as an artist, she says, and she has no interest in rehashing her first two records. ``I see people that have been around for a while, and I can really appreciate their staying power,'' she said. ``Look at Green Day. They waited five years to come out with a record, and it's a smash hit. Or Madonna, who's a mother now but still a vital artist. I really respect that ability to sustain a career over a long period of time.''
Is Lavigne capable of such progress? Many critics would doubt as much, but LeBlanc has faith she's here to stay. ``You'll see the others fade away,'' he says. ``Avril Lavigne won't fade away.''
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Post by Avengium on Jan 6, 2016 20:04:36 GMT
Wiki means wikipedia or wikia? I make wikipedia articles, but almost nothing in wikia. The last article i tried to publish in wikipedia, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Paladium/sandbox was declined because the references are of the same site. Saludos  |
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Post by Gabo on Jan 6, 2016 21:15:48 GMT
Wiki means wikipedia or wikia? I make wikipedia articles, but almost nothing in wikia. The last article i tried to publish in wikipedia, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Paladium/sandbox was declined because the references are of the same site. Saludos Both of them would be even better  |
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Post by Avengium on Jan 6, 2016 22:37:33 GMT
I think in wikia already exists a legacy or cultural impact or something.
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Post by Gabo on Jan 7, 2016 5:42:42 GMT
In an article called Punk’s not dead! A new wave of New Wave? , called Avril Lavigne as the most sucessful female artist in the pop-punk scene, it says:"P op punk became commercially available with the likes of Offspring, Blink-182, Sum-41, Good Charlotte and Alien Ant Farm all having international successful, winning over fans who were also listening to popular pop records by Britney, N-Sync etc. It was 2002 when pop and punk became truly united in the form of Canada’s Avril Lavigne, who went on to be one of the most successful females of all time. Pop Punk peaked during 2005, letting Emo bands lead the charge forward." www.swide.com/art-culture/music-news/punk-culture-in-2013-and-the-history-the-movement-in-music/2013/01/31Please, any articles or review suggesting something related to an impact Avril left... it's welcome I think in wikia already exists a legacy or cultural impact or something. No, it doesn't  |
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Post by Avengium on Jan 7, 2016 5:59:23 GMT
I'm going to return to class this days, if i have time maybe i can make an sketch of an article. This articles are good for referencing.
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Post by Gabo on Jan 7, 2016 8:51:09 GMT
Post-2000 teenpop
"If there’s a word for post-2000 teenpop that bullies its way to the front of the stage, it’s angst. Everyone’s got it, but not everyone flaunted it until 2002 when aspiring country star turned uber-authentic songwriting super-teen Avril Lavigne pursued shades of angst in teenpop by M2M, Britney Spears and, more importantly, Michelle Branch’s early confessional single “Everywhere” and P!nk’s landmark from-the-heart overhaul M!ssaundaztood in 2001. Avril brought in loud, ugly, awesome guitars (courtesy Clif Magness), the Matrix production team to help guide the hooks, and a battering ram of a voice only slightly less opulent than Kelly Clarkson’s. It was a sea change, all right, ushering in plenty of second-wavers—many, if not most, of whom I prefer to Avril even if they never really escaped the copycat tag (two of my favorite aftershocks featured on these mixes are Katy Rose and Amy Studt, “the British Avril”).
Angst-rock transcended its “fad” status to unquestionably dominate the decade in teenpop when it capitalized on existing celebrity. The everyday-gal-catapult-to-stardom narrative that typified confessional rock even pre-dating Avril..."
"A new crop of pre-established celebrities did Avril-angst for themselves: Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan, Kelly Osbourne on the heels of The Osbournes, Kelly Clarkson on the heels of American Idol, and Jessica Simpson’s little sister Ashlee on the heels of The Ashlee Simpson Show. Plenty of them, with the help of many of the same songwriters, expanded and improved upon their angst-rock progenitors."
"Kelly [Osbourne]’s best album, Sleeping in the Nothing, suggests an ambiguous author relationship between Osbourne and Perry, with Kelly both finding her voice—in all its blunt, Avril-like awkwardness—"
www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/bluffers-guide-to-post-2000-teenpop.htm
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GIRL, YOU'LL BE A WOMAN SOON
"One of the biggest teen rock sensations of the early noughties, Avril Lavigne continues to draw the black-clad adolescent hordes in record numbers. But can Canada’s most famous skater girl make the transition to adulthood without losing the affection of her notoriously capricious audience?
.....The unwelcome (and patently insincere) egalitarian virus that is currently infecting planet pop (where your average high street sales assistant makes more of a sartorial effort than, say, Girls Aloud or The Sugababes) may have left a lot of us nostalgic for those flood-lit figures of yore who, you suspected, had not only never met a human being, but were quite obviously not even one themselves. Post-Jacko, though, and mums and dads are proving more understandably watchful of the idols their kids are obsessing over. From Pink to Britney to Gareth to Will – pop stars these days fall over themselves to convince us that (whisper it) they’re still one of us. With her tom boy togs, text-friendly titles and slick distillation of pop, grunge, punk, country and power ballads, Avril Lavigne is the (current) apotheosis of this trend."
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