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Has Taylor topped Avril's Let Go IMPACT?
Has any Taylor era topped Avril's Let Go IMPACT?
Other: We Are Never Getting Back Together shamlessly copying Let Go's sound (check: Complicated, Things I'll Never Say and Anything But Ordinary)
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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.''
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The logical next step after the late-'90s/early-'00s teen-pop explosion was a more rock-oriented but every bit as market-tested version of the same basic template. Enter Avril Ramona Lavigne, a saucy Canadian teen whose ability to smash punky angst into a poppy package brought her great success in 2002, when she released her debut on the strength of single "Complicated." Her first album, Let Go (Number Two, 2002), released when the Ontario singer was 17 years old, sold more than 6 million copies and earned the singer-songwriter eight Grammy nominations. Alongside "Complicated"(Number Two, 2002), the album included singles "Sk8r Boi"(Number 10, 2002) and "I'm With You"(Number Four, 2003), as well as the Number 64 "Losing Grip"(2003). Lavigne has affixed her on-cue snarl and Valley-girl-inspired vocal to pop culture's center ever since.
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Rolling Stones
Rolling Stones describing her as a game-changer.
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