In the track, she says that she’s done with being placed in a box and being underestimated. In her latest album, she also releases a track called ‘Dumb Blonde’ featuring Nicki Minaj, a song that precisely makes fun of the stereotypes placed on women. Yet as she evolved, she realized that petty remarks like that didn’t do anyone any favors, so she opted to record music that was both intimate and therapeutic, not rude or self-important. And it seems like a good chunk of the public is all too happy to slam them for deciding to change things up.Īvril herself was one of the artists who went on about how she was so different from other girls. It’s something to be said about how female artists are expected to just remain stagnant in terms of their persona. It’s her personal choice to play around with her image, and it’s very much her personal choice to transform her sound as she pleases. Many women get labelled as ‘fake’ for deciding to do things differently, but Avril was straight-up subjected to the most nonsensical of rumours. I’ve always felt that I’ve known what’s best for me to do and I’ve had to fight different people on this journey over those 17 years. I’m highly intuitive and I’ve always got a very strong gut feeling. It’s difficult to be a woman and to be heard, and people sometimes don’t take you seriously. When Avril began dressing in pink and venturing into a more upbeat, positive style of pop music, some people just couldn’t take it. Avril’s debut album was based around an emo-punk persona and accordingly, her music also delved into some heavy, dark topics - fairly unusual for young women at the time.īut because this style became such a hit amongst the fans, a lot of people expected Avril to just continue presenting herself as a goth, sullen girl who only liked singing about death and depression. Ultimately, the emergence and widespread perpetuation of this wacky rumour speak to the unrealistic expectations placed on women in the entertainment industry. On one hand, everyone is like, “Oh my god, you look the same,” and on the other hand people are like “Oh my god, she died.” Avril Lavigne to Entertainment Weekly Women feel extra pressure to maintain their ‘look’ It’s just a dumb internet rumor and flabbergasted that people bought into it. They started picking apart the slightest differences from birthmarks to eye shapes, they’d grab onto anything they could find to validate their theory.Īvril has eventually dismissed those beliefs as rubbish. So when Avril changed up her music stylings in the mid and late 2000s, some people legitimately believed it was all Melissa’s doing.
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