An Avril Lavigne Afternoon At The Mall

John Nova Lomax of the Houston Press was in attendance at the Avril Lavigne’s AOL-sponsored Surprise Mall Tour stop at the Katy Mills Mall food court earlier this month. He writes, “Geez, this has got to be boring for her. Reading accounts of the twentysomething-show tour in other cities, you get the impression that America is populated by robots. The crowds seem like they’re made up of the same people in every town. The malls all look the same. The crowd-inciting pop radio DJs are all the same. The hotels all look the same. Who manages Lavigne? Whose idea was this? Satan himself couldn’t think of a less interesting way to tour, and how much good is this doing Lavigne? How many kids who wanted to go couldn’t make it to the show? After all, Katy Mills is a fair distance down I-10 from the center of Houston, and if you had to go to school Thursday in Clear Lake or Kingwood or Pearland, and if you could persuade your parents to drive you to Katy Mills, there was simply no way you could have made the show on time. Lavigne could have probably just set up shop at the Katy ISD football stadium, as this show pretty much amounted to a private show for Katy’s kids.”