Bunk'd (Season 3)

Avril Ramona Lavigne is a Canadian pop rock, post-grunge, and teen pop singer. Her TV and film roles include her appearance in a 2021 GEICO commercial, Over the Hedge (in which she voiced Heather the o'possum), and Alice in Wonderland (2010) (where she performed "Alice", featured in the movie's soundtrack).

She is highly controversial among the music community, even though she has a devoted fanbase, for her lack of originality and being a poser.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) You might be thinking at first that her songs are so deep, her clothes are so cute, or just totally punk rock. Well, that's false, as she (along with all her fans) missed the bulletin notifying those that dressing in every article of clothing ever put out by Hot Topic does not make you punk. Clothing should not define a musician's style. Their MUSIC should, not clothing.
 * 2) She called herself a skater and posed in pictures with a skateboard, but she only wore the right clothes and tattoos on her arms so she could be punk.
 * 3) She has no aggression, rebellion, social or political themes, or heaviness present in any of her songs when these things all have in common with punk rock. Her songs are not even energetic or fast like the majority of punk is. Even "Sk8er Boi" is just a mid-tempo rocker that is closer to power pop than punk.
 * 4) She overuses pop punk and post-grunge clichés. Her lyrical content includes hanging out, divorce, adolescence, being heartbroken, angst, and skateboarding.
 * 5) She wasn't part of a movement unlike most punk rock bands and artists, instead being part of a marketing ploy designed to attract young rebellious listeners and fans.
 * 6) Upon visiting her official website in 2002, "Sk8er Boi" (her only remotely faster rock song) began blaring so visitors could form an impression of Avril's music based on that song, when in reality the rest of her music simply doesn't sound like that.
 * 7) Despite claims that she emphasizes her songwriting and guitar playing, she has had numerous songwriters work on her albums and barely straps the guitar around her body live. Heck, she barely even plays guitar.
 * 8) She avoided becoming a one/two-hit wonder who could've been known solely for two songs and never heard from again. Instead, she has had many top 40 hits over the last 20 years that have become inescapable in all forms of pop radio, including:
 * 9) *"Complicated" (which started her career on a meh note)
 * 10) *"My Happy Ending"
 * 11) *"Here's to Never Growing Up"
 * 12) *"My World"
 * 13) *"Girlfriend"
 * 14) *"What the Hell"
 * 15) *"Hello Kitty" (argulably her worst song in her entire discography)
 * 16) *"Keep Holding On"
 * 17) *"When You're Gone"
 * 18) *"I'm with You"
 * 19) *"Love It When You Hate Me"
 * 20) **In other words, she is still dominating the Billboard charts. It's like Avril was on a mission to create as many catchy hits to be played to death on pop radio as much as her two best-known songs. Along with Neil Diamond, Journey, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, and many other trash bands and artists, Avril Lavigne is like the herpes of music.
 * 21) Her studio voice is quite bad, especially on her first two albums Let Go (2002) and Under My Skin (2004). Not only does she sound uninspired and barely anything like herself, but her voice is so robotic and blatantly Auto-Tuned. She sounds like a discount Hilary Duff (who also worked with the Matrix) or Britney Spears with messed-up vocal cords. There are even several posts on sites like Reddit devoted to criticizing her voice, like this one for instance.
 * 22) *It doesn't help that she whines in melody rather than properly singing like the majority of post-Smash Mouth pop punk artists like Blink-182 and Sum 41, or emo artists like Jimmy Eat World and Fall Out Boy.
 * 23) Her "serious" songs like "I'm with You", "My Happy Ending", and "When You're Gone" are either power ballads, corny, overly emotional, cliché, or annoyingly sappy.
 * 24) As for the tattoos she wears on her arms, she thinks that wearing them makes her not only punk, but also hardcore (which is 100% false).
 * 25) She was cast as Heather the o'possum in DreamWorks' Over the Hedge, despite her already being a controversial celebrity among the music community. To quote the Angry Video Game Nerd, "what were they thinking'?
 * 26) She can't decide whether she wants to be a tomboy who claims to be a skater or a girly girl who's obsessed with fashion.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Her live voice in her performances from 2002 to 2011 is awesome. With the advancement of technology, her studio voice from The Best Damn Thing onwards is slightly better than on her first two albums.
 * 2) She is much better as an actress.
 * 3) While it started her career on a meh note, Let Go is her only tolerable album. "Complicated" and "Sk8er Boi" are also her most tolerable songs, although that isn't saying much.
 * 4) She's nowhere near as bad as other teen pop artists like Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Rebecca Black, or the Jonas Brothers.

Trivia

 * She is one of the most popular pop artists of all time, but the most disliked Canadian solo artist alongside Justin Bieber, Celine Dion (to a lesser extent, as she got a fair bit of hate when her hit "My Heart Will Go On" received overexposure, but her profile has diminished in the ensuing years along with her hatedom), and Carly Rae Jaspen. She is one of the most disliked music artists in general. Nevertheless, she still has a devoted fanbase.
 * Her image helped her to sell more records because her styles of music, pop punk and post-grunge, were popular in the 2000s. One look through any teen magazine would reveal models dressed in clothing just like hers.
 * She was a late teen pop idol at the height of her popularity in the early '00s, as her debut album Let Go was released when she was 17 years old and pop punk was edging into the mainstream and demand for teen pop was going down. This meant less money for the music execs who spent money made from teen stars. Avril was hyped up as a singer-songwriter due to interest in teen idols and boy bands/girl groups declining greatly. In the end, she ended up becoming rich and has stayed this way since.