Avril Lavigne Is One Curious Musical Discovery

Cameron Adams of the Herald Sun weighed in on Avril Lavigne’s huge popularity and the increasing scrutiny of her past. “While her skills as a skater, guitarist and songwriter have been questioned, the masses clearly don’t care and are lapping up ‘Let Go’ in numbers not seen since, well, the days of Britney Spears,” Adams said. “The difference is, Avril is ‘real’. Or perhaps it’s just her manufacturing seams have been hidden better.” Getting a chance to interview the singer, he asked about the whole talk that she is a record company creation just like Britney Spears. “Well, there’s that rumour then there’s the whole thing where everyone likes me because I am not contrived and because I came out as myself and I stood up for myself,” Lavigne said. “Different people have different opinions. Hearing people say, ‘Oh you’re fake,’ it’s like, OK, right. No I’m not. I mean, like, I wear my own clothes to photo shoots, like, whatever. Everything I do, it’s like, me. I’m not, like, trying to be a flower or anything like that.”