People find it hard to believe that women can make are and if they can, it's like there's got to be some other explanation for it. And i think its, yes. I mean, she was 16 when her first album came out. Her voice is incredible. But with every single person we see in the mediar landscape, no matter how much of an autor they claim to be, there is a mix of influences and references and coaberations going on. People want someone to either be 100% authentic or 100 % fake. Am to like to be that strong and be that self determined - even if she's not writing every lyri.
It's time to go back to an era where you hung around a shopping centre all day with no money for no reason! We talk about Avril Lavigne's impact on millennial women, the allure of being "one of the boys", the Girlfriend era, the question of authenticity and Avril's eventual life with the Backstreet Boys.
Annie Lord's first book, Notes on Heartbreak, is out now.
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