Blog:I Made Grounded Videos Out of Avril Lavigne (Unhappy 20th Anniversary), Britney Spears, and the Jonas Brothers on VidLii

You’re out for the first time in a while and it’s 1:13 AM, with you doing a shot and then… wait a second! Are those the opening lines and chords to… could it be?

“Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you’re acting like you’re somebody else gets me frustrated / Life’s like this, you, you fall and you crawl and you break and you take what you get and you turn it into / Honesty you promised me, I’m never gonna find you fake it / No, no, no”

Or could it be…

“Told you I made dinner plans for you and me and no one else / That don’t include your crazy friends, well I’m done (I’m done) with awkward situations empty conversations”

Oh, not that either? Well, how about this…

“You get the best of both worlds / Without the shades and the hair, you can go anywhere / You get the best of both girls / Mix it all together, oh yeah / It's so much better 'cause you know you got the best of both worlds”

Or even this…

“My loneliness is killing me (and I) I must confess I still believe (still believe) / When I'm not with you I lose my mind / Give me a sign / Hit me, baby, one more time”

If any of these songs are playing while you’re out for the first time, you probably know all of the words and want to scream them from three inches away while wishing to have everyone around you be your best friend when the chorus finally drops. You won’t remember any of this tomorrow. But it happened. Avril Lavigne, Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers, and/or Britney Spears did this to you.

Why I Made Grounded Videos Out of Them

Overall

 * 1) They sing generic teen pop songs that are all the same, stupid, manufactured, corporate garbage that’s been spoon-fed and eaten up before. The world is so messed up now because of their teenage, juvenile, overly commercial, Auto Tune-abusing, blatantly pop songs. We live in a post-Kurt Cobain world. In the post-Kurt Cobain world, we have trash. We have trash music that gets looked upon more than and outnumbers the good. We have teen girls like Avril and Britney being used by companies for corrupting purposes and manipulation instead of legends like Tommy, Joey, and Dee Dee Ramone, Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell, Scott Weiland, or Layne Staley. All of them died, more often than not from suicide and/or OD’s. How depressing.
 * 2) All of them except for Britney are posers (see the Avril Lavigne and TJB sections for details), with Avril being the most obvious example, because her music is pure commercial pop trash with live drums every once in a while and rock guitars tossed in so that it counts as "rock and roll" or "punk". Nope. There's no way it does.
 * 3) All over the world, teens are being poisoned and made the next generation of laughing stock by such songs as “Complicated”, “I’m with You”, “S.O.S.”, “Just the Way We Roll”, “Baby One More Time”, “Oops, I Did It Again”, “Girlfriend”, “What the Hell”, “Hello Kitty”, “Keep Holding On”, “When You’re Gone”, “Bite Me”, and “Love It When You Hate Me”. These pop songs have more or less killed both society and sanity. The worst part is that these artists have so many albums and hits. That means some of you are buying this trash. It makes no sense whatsoever for them to be or remain as major celebrities or icons of pop culture. It doesn’t at all.
 * 4) All of them have teenage, meaningless, and juvenile lyrics. While Avril’s lyrics are more thought-provoking with some meaning behind them, even hers are quite teenage and juvenile.
 * 5) If you haven’t listened to Miley, Jonas, or Avril’s music and are thinking of looking some of it up right now, you do so at your own risk. You do so at your own risk because once you hear any of the songs mentioned in the third pointer, you’ll start to believe in everything these three artists say and do. Let’s start by saying that they think what’s outside matters more and that you’ll start to believe you can be “rock and roll” or “punk” (when punk actually defines a derivative of hard rock instead of their clothing) if you listen to them. None of these three artists are rock and roll or punk. In fact, their music isn’t even close.
 * 6) What should it have been illegal for them to make millions off of? Well, it’s the fact that Miley, Britney, and Avril have even bigger manufactured, contrived, anti-authoritarian identities than you'd imagine. It is wrong to make millions by having an identity like this, yet they made and are still making millions. It is wrong to make millions by feeding on mass consumer culture. Becoming a prostitute is not OK in the slightest and it’s wrong to make millions by doing this. Letting companies turn you into a prostitute and a pervert after aging is wrong too, and you shouldn’t even be rewarded with bigger bucks for it.
 * 7) They use Auto Tune, which is a tool that doesn’t make your voice better and just makes everything robotic and mechanical-sounding. It’s one thing to use it, but having a strong, thick accent like Avril Lavigne or Miley Cyrus does is another. Let’s face it, this software was invented in 1997 and it has a terrible pitch detection algorithm that detects notes if you have a little grit in your voice. At worst, your vocals will randomly be transformed into what sounds like Frankenstein banging a chipmunk, or at best they’ll be transformed to sound obnoxiously “cute” and “sexy” and come off as unpleasant (unless you have nothing stuck in your ears). If that’s how Auto Tune is even able to make you sound, then you and your fans shouldn’t find your voice “sexy” or “cute”. Your vocals don’t sound pleasing to the ears at all. Modern pop, hip-hop, and rock are terrible because of how inescapable Auto Tune is. Imperfections are not at all a “marginal human error”. We need human character, so there’s nothing wrong with a “marginal human error”. Similarly, subtle vocal imperfections lend personality to the vocal line of a song. The advent of Auto Tune has changed that. Auto Tune is a monster and various artists, including Nick, Joe, and Kevin Jonas, Miley Cyrus, Avril Lavigne, and Britney Spears have made it their weapon of choice. It has reached a point where dozens of vocal artists have that metallic-meets-robotic texture, making it impossible to tell one from another. There are those who exploit Auto Tune to make repetitive, unimaginative, and generic-sounding vocal lines. All four of these artists can't sing for trash, period.
 * 8) All of these artists play things way too safe. Yes, every single one of them plays it safe with their music. Barely any fast-paced songs, no hard-edged melodies, no experimentation, no mature lyrics, no stripped-down instrumentation, no politics, no harsh vocals, over reliance on angst to the point where it gets old, no screaming, no anger, fake rebellion, no social consciousness, no rawness or even a blurred line between slick and raw, no DIY ethics, nothing original or special whatsoever. That is how safe they play things. Their music is so overproduced and lifeless. They can't explore outside of the safe pop zone they're in.
 * 9) Their music is all Auto Tuned, pre-programmed, computer-generated, manufactured, corporate pop for the masses. It's pop controlled by demands from major record label companies and contracts handed out by these companies to be signed. It all sounds the same. It has the same hooks, the same riffs, and the same beats. It's music made to sound familiar and comforting. More work is done by a lot of pop producers than pop artists themselves. They have assembly line songs that aren’t even pretending to be difficult, unique, or interesting. Yet, some blame is to be shared by the audiences as well. This is pop music that sheds whatever proper personas Miley, Avril, Britney, and the Jonas Brothers could have possibly had. Many pop artists like them align themselves with what they think works. They work with a handful of highly coveted producers who know how to make music for mass audiences.
 * 10) There is a supposition by me that the more these artists are listened to, the more unrealistic bodies are innocently promoted by them… even if that wasn’t their intention. You might even be unaware of the potential effects on your choice of clothing or fashion style because of them. We have things in life that matter more than just beauty and fashion. We can still be whatever we want to be.

Avril Lavigne

 * 1) She thinks we can be “punk rock” and look great on the outside by wearing every article of clothing from Hot Topic imaginable. No… just no. We all have things in life that matter more. She believes she’s punk and that you can make millions by seeking attention or doing anything out of desperation. You make music to make money. It’s not the other way around, you don't whore out or sexualize yourself, and you don’t bend down to corporate demands constantly.
 * 2) It's so annoying that people think they're so “punk rock” for listening to her music, and many of them legitimately think she is pop punk or punk rock. Just because she dresses in black or has colored streaks in her hair doesn’t mean she’s punk. Throwing in rock guitars or live drums does not make generic pop songs rock and roll or punk either. It doesn't. It's what Avril's production and engineering team does, and they seem to slack off as often as her.
 * 3) She isn’t tough, strong, independent, or rebellious. She only blurts it out or dresses like she is. She panders to girl empowerment, a human rights concept. Apart from trying to promote girl power (which she fails at doing), she exists for no good reason.
 * 4) Since 2002, she has been an abomination to pop, rock, and punk. She is currently at large on several counts of world ruining, can’t play guitar, can’t sing, and can’t skateboard.
 * 5) *Because she rarely plays guitar, it makes no sense whatsoever to say "She rocks harder on the guitar than Michelle Branch." Branch has always played the guitar and/or strapped one around her neck live, but the same can’t be said for Avril. Most of the guitar playing in her songs is done by guitar players like Corky James.
 * 6) Her lyrics are thought-provoking, in the way that she makes you realize you need a way out of this world. No matter how much she wants to kick and scream that you don’t, you do. There is a way out of this world, but it’s not suicide at all. If you are having suicidal thoughts, talk about how you are feeling with someone you trust or an emotional support helpline now. You’ll still be able to escape from this world… you’ll just need to figure out another way to do so. Don't ever kill yourself.
 * 7) All those songs she “wrote” at 16 are actually co-authored by others. While not a bad thing, Avril just loves to pretend she wrote all her songs in their entirety and is excessively hyped up as a singer-songwriter, which is further proof of her hypocrisy. As of this writing, only ten songs have been put out by Avril that weren't co-wrote by others and were written solely by her. TEN.
 * 8) Along with Nicki Minaj and Miley, Avril has been trying for most of her career to seek negative attention. How annoying. Like both of them, she prostituted, or in other words, corrupted herself and her talents for the sake of personal and financial gain, as evidenced by such sickening links and photos. Seriously, just look up "avril lavigne xxx", "sexy Avril lavigne", or "avril lavigne sex" on Google or Bing (I hope you don't vomit). She changed her looks and did annoying, sexual things to get attention.
 * 9) She has been cursing more often on her songs since The Best Damn Thing (2007) in a desperate and failed attempt to be edgy.
 * 10) She’s such a valley girl. There is a lot of proof that she’s a valley girl and how concerned she is with fashion, trends, and being “punk rock”. She has nothing to do with or in relation to common sense. She even has a valley girl accent, so her blending it with Auto Tune is absolutely wrong and is a one-way ticket to pseudo-rock/faux-punk songs of ear-splitting tripe.
 * 11) Had she stuck to performing at country fairs (especially only in her native Canada), most of the world would have been spared this artist. She absolutely should have stuck to performing at country fairs and should’ve never gotten a record deal so only Canada would be unable to spare her. She used to perform country songs by the likes of Garth Brooks, the Chicks, and Shania Twain and should've stuck with it. Then her posing, lies, deception, blatant false advertising, greed, anti-authoritarianism, and abuse of Auto Tune began. She began pandering to and cashing in on the pop punk crowd, and thus Avril as we know her today was created.
 * 12) Sadly, not even her second album Under My Skin is rock. Take one listen to it and you'll realize that it's pure pop like her previous album Let Go, but with more of a hard rock/post-grunge tinge to it. It's a slight improvement over and is less annoying than Let Go, but that's not saying much at all. As a matter of fact, her next four albums (The Best Damn Thing, Goodbye Lullaby, Avril Lavigne (2013), and Head Above Water) are even worse and are poppier. She also stopped using Auto Tune minimally and/or sparingly and started using Auto Tune as often as Britney Spears, but why? So she could sound better and because of her aging, that's why.
 * 13) “Girlfriend” is one of her worst songs and it’s even worse than the likes of “Complicated”, “My World”, “Naked”, “Mobile”, and “Nobody’s Fool”. In other words, it’s a step down from all of those songs. It’s one of the most offensive tracks from her extensively offensive catalog, especially because it promotes picking on and making fun of loved ones. Even the choruses prove this truer: “Hey, hey! You, you! I don’t like your girlfriend! No way, no way! I think you need a new one.”
 * 14) Her singing is terrible. Avril may have proven capable of singing in any of her older home performances or as young as two years old, though I highly doubt it, and she absolutely hasn’t been able to for a long time. She sounds so obnoxious on all of her live and studio recordings, and her live voice is even worse. And her valley girl, faux-punk accent… that accent… just her accent. Oh my God. Snow Patrol and Coldplay don’t have over-exaggerated, thick British accents. Adele doesn’t have an over-exaggerated, thick British accent. Carly Rae Jaspen is a Canadian like Avril, but she doesn’t sound as obnoxious or over-exaggerated. As obnoxious and horrible of a singer Justin Bieber is, I don’t believe he has or even needs to have an over-exaggerated, thick Canadian or valley guy accent on his songs. All four members of the Beatles could sing without making anyone want to find a way out of this world. Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin could sing without melting someone's ears off. Michelle Branch sounds better than she does. Put down blame on Avril's accent. It doesn't help that she has been abusing Auto Tune more frequently in recent years.
 * 15) “Complicated”, the single that made Avril famous, is a putrescent display of Auto Tune masturbation in its entirety. The more I listen to it, the worse it gets. Even worse are the vocal doubles they use for Avril during the final chorus. OH GOD, NOT THE VOCAL DOUBLES! NOT THE VOCAL DOUBLES! THIS IS THE WORST PART OF THE SONG AND THAT’S THE FINAL CHORUS!
 * 16) ”Hello Kitty” is by far the worst Avril Lavigne song ever recorded in history and racist towards Japanese people.
 * 17) She was overplayed on the radio from 2002 to 2007, especially on Radio Disney-branded stations.
 * 18) She is not only mislabeled as “punk”, but also mislabeled as “alternative rock”. She’s not alternative nor is her music rock and roll because of how blatant and on-the-nose her pop sound is. “Alternative” and “punk” music are not supposed to sound the same and they’re supposed to be original. “Alternative” and “punk” are about music, not about your choice of clothing or beauty or fashion. Attempting to bring more variety to pop music doesn’t stop it from being pure commercial pop or make it any less terrible. Just because you aren’t dance-pop or bubblegum doesn’t mean you’re better. “Alternative” and “punk” are supposed to have nothing to do with selling out, yet that’s what Avril does. For God’s sake, stop calling her “alternative”! Stop calling her “punk”! Stop calling her “rock ‘n roll” or even a “rock queen”! This is pop music, not punk or alternative. “Alternative” and “punk” are not supposed to have Auto Tune, yet Avril uses Auto Tune to make her voice sound better and her later albums further abuse it.
 * 19) *There is real alternative music out there and true definitions of “alternative” exist, making this music way cooler and more awesome than her songs or any pop music for that matter:
 * 20) **1.) Symphonic Prog: A subset of music (particularly rock) noteworthy for having an experimental sound. It often combines stylistic elements from genres like classical, jazz, folk, or sometimes electronic implementations and is more diverse than regular music. Non-standard song structures (including complex rhythms and time signatures) and complex instrumental orchestrations are used, and lyrics that are fantasy-based are frequently employed. Long and flashy keyboard solos and a synthesizer known as the Mellotron may also be used. Examples of bands and artists who do this are The Moody Blues and Procol Harum. Well-known bands include Yes, Genesis, Aphrodite's Child, Camel, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
 * 21) **2.) Neo-Prog: An eclectic form of music which takes heavy influence from new wave, resulting in a deeper, but less dense sound. Marillion and Spock's Beard are known for this.
 * 22) **3.) Eclectic Prog: A subgenre of music that can pretty much be described as a Genre Mashup, and one that can be summed up as a darker and edgier cousin of symphonic prog.
 * 23) **4.) Psychedelic/Space Rock: Rock music with either off-beat and drug influences or droning, atmospheric soundscapes of psychedelia. Well-known artists include Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Spacemen 3 (and their offshoot Spiritualized), and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
 * 24) **5.) Canterbury Scene: Incorporates influences from Jazz, Pop, and occasionally Space Rock and Avant-Garde Music, and usually has a quirky sense of humor than most other prog. Well-known artists include Caravan, Soft Machine (which featured Kevin Ayers and Robert Wyatt, later solo artists in their own right), Gong, Egg, and the subgenre's own Supergroup, Hatfield And The North.
 * 25) **6.) Jazz-Rock/Jazz Fusion: Mainly boils down to combining the harmony and improvisation of jazz with rock, funk, and R&B. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity, ranging from groove-based ramps with simple melodies, to uncommon time signatures, melodies, elaborate chord progressions, and so on.
 * 26) **7.) Krautrock: Music that seriously adopts electronics and explores world music influences. Takes influences from and was a significant influence on alternative rock, post-punk, post-rock, electronic music, ambient, and progressive rock.
 * 27) **8.) Post-Rock/Math Rock: This music is very hard to define. While the genre might be associated with long compositions with crescendos, many post-rock and math rock bands, especially from the "first wave" write relatively short songs. Most commonly defined as a band that uses traditional rock instruments to play non-traditional rock music, from modern classical to noise. There are some occasional exceptions.
 * 28) **9.) Alternative Rock (excluding modern pop punk/power pop, post-Britpop, nu metal, post-grunge, and emo): A catch-all term for rock music that is different or unique in some way. Pop music with a tinge of, disguised as, or with influences from alternative like the ones mentioned above are excluded for obvious reasons.
 * 29) **10.) Proto-Prog: Defines bands who were instrumental to the formation of progressive rock, even if they aren't properly members of the genre themselves. Examples include The Beatles, Deep Purple, The Doors, The Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, The Move, The Pretty Things, and The Who. These bands are very important.
 * 30) ** 11.) New Wave (Underground) / Post-Punk: A loosely defined music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the late 1970s and the 1980s. Originally used as a catch-all for the various styles of music that emerged after punk rock, including punk itself. Later, critical consensus favored it as an umbrella term involving many popular music styles of the era, including power pop, synth-pop, ska revival, and more specific forms of punk rock that were less abrasive. New wave is more accessible than post-punk in this regard, while post-punk is its darker, more experimental, and edgier cousin.
 * 31) She is the definition of a one-album wonder, yet continued to have hits long after 2002's Let Go. She feels like a joke artist made just to make one song, "Complicated", that would be remixed for the FIFA Football 2003 game. But then she made dozens more songs that became hits and her records were bought in droves. Because her songs are so redundant and catchy, she is more or less mindless pop rock. It's like she knew how to make hits but knew nothing else about music, so she went into her lab and crafted more of these annoying 2000s pop songs. The sad thing is that if it weren't for Over the Hedge, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, her collaborations with Machine Gun Kelly or Mark Hoppus, or Eragon, Avril would have been long forgotten. Unfortunately, she hasn't been.
 * 32) She is both a teeny bopper and a prostitute, and still acts like one today. She's both because of these things:
 * 33) *Her always following or getting others to follow the latest trends in fashion and music like Britney Spears
 * 34) *Her teen angst she pretends to be deep and touching with in her older songs but isn't for real
 * 35) *Her obsession over pop culture
 * 36) *Her lies, fakeness, hypocrisy, and self-contradiction
 * 37) *The damage to our society she has done and her attempts to wipe out the human race
 * 38) *Her posing in pictures with arousing, sexy, scantily clad, skimpy, skanky clothing
 * 39) *Her disgusting, sickening, nasty, good-for-nothing, repulsive sex tapes she made after saying "I like to cover up my body so I'm not selling it" that you can find somewhere on the Internet with a quick Google search if your stomach or mind can handle pornography
 * 40) *Her lack of common sense and knowledge about punk rock, rock and roll, or music in general
 * 41) She got to be in Over the Hedge, the first SpongeBob movie, and Eragon for no reason other than to make herself a marketing/promotional gimmick or because celebrities outside of the movie industry must have movie roles… uh, no. Not all celebrities deserve to have movie roles, especially if they are controversial or loathed by anti-pop snobs. To quote the Angry Video Game Nerd, what were Paramount and DreamWorks thinking when they roped her into these films? That’s like Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato appearing on Barney when they were kids or Katy Perry being in The Smurfs duology, and it's bad. It’s especially a bad casting decision given Avril's hypocrisy, lies, and fakeness and the fact that she’s a poser.
 * 42) Her collaborations with rappers like Nicki Minaj and Machine Gun Kelly are so awful, as well as her rap lines in “Nobody’s Fool”. Why is there even a reason to be mad at her rapping in any songs or collaborating with rappers? It’s because she can’t be a gangster, that’s why. She crossed over into rap music more than once and is a sell-out for this. She thinks that if you listen to “Nobody’s Fool” or any songs by her with a rap line or two, you’ll be a gangster. False. 100% false.
 * 43) Her latest studio album, Love Sux, is way too emo.
 * 44) The single version of “Complicated” (also known as “The Matrix Mix”) is even worse than the album version. The album version at least had live drums every once in a while and louder guitars.
 * 45) She is another Millennial act who simply won’t go away. She has been going on for far too long because people refuse to let nostalgia die and because they refuse to take off their nostalgia goggles, especially since her 20th anniversary approached this year. She should stop giving us more forgettable albums that only die-hards who grew up with her music will buy. Seriously, she’s been irrelevant since 2008. 14 years of irrelevance, people. You should retire in peace, Avril, because we don’t need to hear “Complicated” or “Girlfriend” be repeated in every American venue you've ever been to. We’ve heard them both too many times in every venue she’s been to since their respective release dates (2002 for “Complicated” and 2007 for “Girlfriend”).
 * 46) For all of the reasons listed above, she is not an innocent angel playing pop music. She's abnormal and is both braindead and clueless.

Britney Spears
Read what I said about Avril. Also, her music is arguably even worse and poppier than Avril's. She is, in fact, a complete pop princess. Her voice is so mechanical, unnatural, and soulless. One thing you can say for her, though, is that she isn't a poser.

Miley Cyrus
Same reasons as Avril and Britney. Her TV show Hannah Montana is hillbilly, good-for-nothing, redneck trash in its entirety too, and it ruined and caused the Disney Channel to go downhill. Same goes for the movie, which is even more redneck than the TV show.

The Jonas Brothers

 * 1) They are somehow another generic boy band, despite playing instruments like a real band. A generic boy band with instruments? Who could ask for more?
 * 2) They are mostly popular because of their looks and all their songs are pretty much about the same thing.
 * 3) The lyrics don't promote anything that would ever help listeners in any way.
 * 4) They didn't even work to get where they are now, instead getting famous through Disney in the late 2000s.
 * 5) They write stupid songs with stupid titles like “Pom-Poms”.

Pre-Conclusion
Guys, I know how inappropriate and opinionated this article is. I know for once and I flat out admit that I'm biased and opinionated. I tried to hide this fact in the past. I hid it for so long. But most of what I said about these artists is true, and because of their countless issues I decided to make grounded videos out of them without Vyond/GoAnimate. I was especially true when I said that Avril and Miley have made sex tapes and done sexual things just to line their pockets. (You're both perverts and you're prostitutes. You're sickening and disgusting.) I'm probably going to get a lot of controversy and hate mail for this. I'm probably going to be told "How about you shut up about Avril, Miley, Jonas, and Britney? We get it. You hate them, but that doesn't warrant you forcing it on any of the Reception Wikis. Now stop being disrespectful towards anyone who likes them and let everyone in the world listen to what they want."

My response is this: We all have our own tastes in music, but what Avril, Britney, Jonas, and Miley created in the 2000s couldn't and still can't be considered real music. They are manufactured musical frauds. I have been trying desperately to fight for things like art, rebellion, creativity, anti-corporatism, and freedom. I still fight for these things. I want these things to be fought for. These things are important. Every artist should be challenging.

An artist must challenge his or her audience. Music should never be blatantly commercial, one-dimensional, or non-threatening. Popular music like soul, blues, folk, jazz, heavy metal, alternative rock, alternative hip-hop, and rock and roll often do and should always have sophisticated and witty lyrics. Pop music doesn't have those things and neither does country. Jonas is pop and unchallenging, Avril and Miley are unchallenging pop stars as well as complete posers, and Britney is pop and unchallenging. They are sell-outs like Ozzy Osbourne and Dee Snider. They are corporations, mindless machines that they don’t even run themselves. Their music is just juvenile, mindless pop–often pop disguised as rock–with their names slapped on the covers so they sell. They’re in commercials for T-Mobile, Proactiv, Geico, etc., they’re in films like Over the Hedge, Hannah Montana: The Movie, and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Avril has guest starred or done live performances in TV shows like Good Morning America, Miley got famous through her sitcom on Disney Channel instead of working to get to where she is now and Jonas let Disney do the same thing to them, a remix of Avril’s song “Complicated” was featured in a FIFA game…

Money is what’s making all the decisions with them. They are all about the name and commercial aspect with no soul or creativity brought to the table. They know anything with their names on it will sell and line their pockets. The saddest part about all this is you can’t even blame them for these things. They probably don’t care about any of this.

They are massive cash cows. Avril is a cash cow who shouldn’t have been. She’s been a cash cow whom the music industry loves to milk for all her worth for nearly 25 years now. She probably has enough money already and should focus on skating, since she keeps being hyped up as a skater when most of the time Avril just poses in pictures with a skateboard. I heard she can’t skate and merely does so.

Just because Avril thinks her fans want to hear lyrics that are "more meaningful" and more than just "pretty songs that are all rhymey" doesn't mean that she's ever contradicted this or that all her songs are meaningful; even then, those with some meaning behind them still suck and pretend to be deep when they aren't.

Listen to "I Love You", "Girlfriend", "Hello Kitty", "Rock 'n' Roll", "What the Hell", "Hot", or "Smile". Is there any way, shape, or form in which any of her later songs like these have lyrics that help out listeners like her older ones? THERE IS NO WAY!!!!! THEY DON'T HAVE MEANINGFUL LYRICS, AND THEY'RE EVEN MORE TEENAGE AND JUVENILE THAN HER OLDER SONGS ALREADY ARE (BOTH MUSICALLY AND LYRICALLY)!!!!! These newer AL songs are monstrosities because they were written as if they could only be learned through rhymes. For real, they are nothing but rhymey songs like virtually all of Britney's songs are. Adding insult to injury is that most of them are dance-pop/electro-pop, something that Avril only moved to because she sold out and is willing to be a sell-out. A sell-out now and forever. She is an abominable pseudo-rock/faux-punk outfit who took everything from the world rather than giving to it. She's a terrible influence and a woeful role model.

Aside from all that, Avril was diagnosed with Lyme’s disease in 2014. Just because she was diagnosed with some disease and one must feel sorry for her doesn’t and SHOULDN’T even mean you have to like her or or even buy her CDs. Yes, her diagnosis with Lyme’s disease is awful and sad, but she’s a horrific artist. Avril always has been. She isn’t any less horrific than she was in her Sk8er Boi days. As a matter of fact, she’s even worse nowadays and feels just as washed-up as Britney Spears.

Nickelback. Every single AOR/hair metal band, from Journey and REO Speedwagon to Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe. Jimmy Eat World. Blink-182. Avril. Good Charlotte. Beyonce. Sum 41. Panic! at the Disco. Fall Out Boy. Simple Plan. James Blunt. Matchbox Twenty. Christina Aguilera. Eminem. Celine Dion. Michael Bolton. Stevie Brock. Phil Collins. Pink. Kelly Clarkson. Carrie Underwood. Miley. Justin Bieber. LMFAO. Nicki Minaj. One Direction. Billie Eilish. 6ix9ine. Jonas. Ke$ha. Rihanna. Rebecca Black. Kidz Bop. 3 Doors Down. A Teens. Nelly. Katy Perry. Lady Gaga. The Black Eyed Peas. Britney. You know most of their names and I do too. Most of them can’t sing or rap, none of them can make music that isn’t blatantly commercial or fake, and they're all terrible artists. Many of them sound as unnatural, mechanical, and soulless as the music does, often as a result of Auto Tune abuse.

Fake alternative/indie music by the likes of Blink-182, Avril, Sum 41, Panic! at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, Third Eye Blind, etc. is not even alternative at all. It’s not even aimed at music enthusiasts. Why… they're all pop! How is Avril any exception and, as I’d like to reference one of her songs, why'd she have to go and make things so complicated?

The commercialization of punk rock and other formerly inaccessible music went overboard in the 2000s. Most of Avril’s music is not Green Day, Blink-182, the Offspring, the Sex Pistols, Sum 41, the Ramones, Dead Kennedys, the Descendents, Good Charlotte, Suicidal Tendencies, Jimmy Eat World, or Simple Plan. It’s Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls, Mandy Moore, Natalie Imbruglia, Michelle Branch, Jewel, etc. They’re what her music is, alongside hers being too valley girl, Barbie, juvenile, Hot Topic, and Bratz to even be enjoyable. Those are my favorite adjectives.

This is teen pop. It’s not just pop music–it’s music that rejects any criticism thrown towards it whatsoever. By rejecting criticism, the quality of the music may never improve. This is music that treats audiences like idiots with no discernible taste or standards. Audiences are not dumb. Come on, just because this is teen pop and "it’s made for teens" doesn’t mean it's not supposed to be a form of art. It also doesn’t mean that the music industry can treat music like it’s for teens only. Because it isn't a form of art, it all sucks.

Teens are easy to entertain. We get it. We get that teens are unlikely to understand and/or appreciate more highly complicated and mature music. Music targeted at younger audiences like teen pop tends to be simpler than music targeted at older audiences. However, that doesn't mean that music aimed at teens should all be in the vein of Avril, Jonas, Miley, or Britney. It shouldn't be too simplistic or basic. I care about teens! I care about their lifestyles!

2000s corporate pop, especially teen pop, is known for lacking any real substance or logic. The music industry loves to use the fact that “it’s made for teens” as an excuse. Just because Avril, Britney, Jonas, and Miley “are for teens” doesn't mean that’s a good excuse for making poor-quality, effortless, and excessively kid-friendly music. Not only is this music terrible, but it’s stupid and poorly-executed. This music is so dumbed-down and there’s too much emphasis on visual appeal, dancing, partying, friendship, and puppy love.

I call this pop music "Barbie" and "Hot Topic" too, as it often portrays false images and has a negative impact on listeners. The Black Eyed Peas (mainly because of Fergie), Jonas, the Backstreet Boys, N Sync, Avril, Britney, Miley, Billie Eilish, and Beyoncé are all Barbies; what’s outside matters more to them and they think they must look great on the outside so they can be what they want to be. Teens may worry about their images because of them. There’s nothing wrong with taking pride in your appearance, but this is very damaging. It’s damaging because that’s the focal point of these pop artists.

Many of Avril Lavigne’s songs suck. “My Happy Ending” sucks, “Complicated” sucks, "Hot" sucks, "Smile" sucks, “I’m with You” sucks, “Don’t Tell Me” sucks, “Love It When You Hate Me” sucks, “Mobile” sucks, “Fall to Pieces” sucks, “Nobody’s Home” sucks, “Girlfriend” sucks, “When You’re Gone” sucks, “Here’s to Never Growing Up” sucks… just about all of her songs suck except for the fast-tempo, high-energy “Sk8er Boi”–her only skate punk song and her heaviest one.

As for the other pop punk songs up her sleeve like "Girlfriend", "What the Hell", and "The Best Damn Thing", they're not skate punk. They're not Blink-182, Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, MXPX, Bad Religion, Green Day, or the Offspring. They're really not. "Sk8er Boi" was, but the rest of Avril's songs are way poppier and more accessible. These three songs are not skate punk like the aforementioned "Sk8er Boi" and have a more commercial, mainstream pop (dance-pop/electro-pop) sound than it does as well as bubblegum influences. These newer pop punk songs sound like Avril is trying to be mainstream pop and pop punk at the same time instead of just one or the other. The results are terrible, and she falls flat on her face.

“Complicated”? Pop. “I’m with You”? Pop. “Tomorrow”? Pop. “Mobile”? It doesn’t rock out and is pop. We all, or especially I, wish it rocked out. “Don’t Tell Me”? Pop disguised as grunge, and not even close to having the same rock feel or the same energy to it as “Sk8er Boi”. “My Happy Ending”? Pop disguised as grunge. "Fall to Pieces"? Pop disguised as grunge. “Nobody’s Fool”? More garbage post grunge-influenced pop, or pop-disguised-as-grunge. Still not even close to pop punk or actual punk. “Girlfriend”? Garbage music that tries to be pop punk and mainstream dance-pop/electro-pop at the same time. “Things I’ll Never Say”? Pop. “Naked”? Pop. “What the Hell”? More mid-tempo, purer-than-water pop garbage from her fourth album, which is even poppier than her first three already were. Avril, dear, QUIT TRYING TO BE POP PUNK AND MAINSTREAM POP (DANCE-POP/ELECTRO-POP) AT THE SAME TIME! "Hot"? An even poppier, more commercial regression to slower pop rock a la any of the songs on Let Go or Under My Skin, and without any meaningful lyrics. Not one alternative/post-grunge tinge can even be found anywhere in this song. "The Best Damn Thing"? A generic, poppy, immature, bubblegum-type cheerleader song like "Girlfriend".

“Sk8er Boi” is her only skate punk song and her only good track overall. It's her heaviest song, it's a banger, it really rocks, and it's a total killer. Seriously, if the majority of her songs had the same heaviness and energy as this one, then she only would’ve been non-punk and not as in “pure bubblegum and so electronic that the music isn't even close, or not energetic and heavy enough”. “Sk8er Boi” is her only decent song; the rest sound nothing like this one.

The song began blaring upon visiting her official website in 2002, and obviously they wanted visitors to form an impression of her music based on that song. Unfortunately, the rest of her songs simply don’t sound like it. What a bad contrast to “Sk8er Boi” they all are, am I right?

About “I’m with You”, “Keep Holding On”, and “When You’re Gone”... wait, hold on. Did I just say the names of those ballads? Did I just say Avril Lavigne has ballads? I did, didn’t I? YOU HAVE BALLADS, AVRIL! YOU HAVE BALLADS! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! ARE YOU TRYING TO BE CELINE DION?! MICHAEL BOLTON?! PHIL COLLINS?! BARBRA STREISAND?! ANY OF THEM?! YOUR BALLADS ARE STUPID! To try to explain why she even dared to record or co-write any power ballads whatsoever, she seems to have completely forgotten that it’s never a good idea for artists and bands to have a “soft” edge to them. They don’t need mushy, romantic songs mixed in among the rest of their fare.

Back when Black Sabbath, AC/DC and Led Zeppelin were huge, we had virtually no power ballads. No, not even from any of the three bands. Rock artists and bands used to want to kick it instead of making you fall in love with their sensitive sides. They had no aspirations to tug at your heartstrings with a lush, beautiful melody and heartfelt lyrics. Garbage like that was usually left to Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond, James Taylor, and Barbera Streisand.

In 1976, KISS were looking for a B-side to their “Detroit Rock City” single as they scanned the track list of their Destroyer album. They decided to choose the lone ballad, a song called Beth. This was not a shrewd promotional move on KISS’ part, pairing a rocker with a soft song to appeal to a wider demographic. At that particular time, they thought “Beth” was a real loser and put it on the B-side to bury it.

But then a strange thing happened… radio stations put “Beth” on their playlists and virtually ignored “Detroit Rock City”, the better song of the two. KISS wound up with their biggest single ever, loads of airplay, and a whole batch of chicks at their concerts holding up lighters while they sang along to “Beth”. I bet most of them could sing the melody better than Peter Criss did. It was the first time (and definitely not the last) that KISS would sell out. Just about every album they’ve released since then has had some version of a “power ballad” on it. While none of their other slow jams have reached the same level of success as “Beth”, some of them like “Forever” and “Reason to Live” have come close.

Believe me when I tell you, other bands watched and took notes with their eyeliner pencils. Why not? They wanted more radio play, bigger sales and more chicks with lighters. In the era of the hair bands, the power ballads had long since been reduced to an exact science. For many groups, the ballads were the only true hits they ever had. Nobody would remember Extreme without “More Than Words” or “Hole-Hearted”, or FireHouse without “Love of a Lifetime”. Nobody would have purchased Mr. Big’s album if it didn’t have “To Be With You”. Nobody would have remembered Kix if they didn’t have “Don’t Close Your Eyes” or Sheriff if they didn’t have “When I’m With You”.

And of course, Avril wouldn’t be remembered without “I’m with You” or “When You’re Gone”. She has not learned and still refuses to learn from the mistakes those bands made. She does. Her own ballads have gone to show that she’s picked up from where those AOR/hair metal bands left off. She has ballads like “I’m with You” (UGH!), “Innocence” (DOUBLE UGH!), “Give What You Like” (TRIPLE UGH!), “When You’re Gone” (QUADRUPLE UGH!), “Keep Holding On” (QUINTUPLE UGH!), “Goodbye” (SIXTIMPLE UGH!), “Hush Hush” (SEPTUPLE UGH!), “Falling Into History” (OCTUPLE UGH!), “I Will Be” (NONUPLE UGH!), and “I Love You” (DECUPLE UGH!).

You see why she should’ve stopped making music? You see what’s wrong with her? You see why she’s edgeless and can't rock out? I do for sure. I listened to all those songs once and I’ll never listen to them again. I listened to them so you don’t have to. She has made at least ten ballads. TEN OF THEM! THEY’RE ALL TERRIBLE! She probably has more than just ten of them, I bet… oh, I hope not. Avril is a sell-out! She sold out to make ballads and electro-pop/dance-pop songs that are even worse than her earlier fare. Her ballads and electro-pop/dance-pop songs are true representations of everything wrong with her and she’s a poser who will always be gentle rather than edgy or badass like she should’ve been.

What if you guys have, though? What if you guys have listened to all or even any of them? What if you've never listened to her music and want to look some of it up right now? Well, go ahead. Go right ahead. Listen to whatever you want. Just please know that she's not some little innocent angel and keep the disturbing reality behind her in your minds. Also, stick to her albums Let Go, Under My Skin, and Love Sux. Avoid the rest. Yes, it's easy to see that Let Go and Under My Skin are pure pop albums and that Love Sux is emo, but the first two have more of a rock tinge to them (especially the second one). Skip the rest of her discography. Her other four albums aren't just pure pop–the alternative/post-grunge tinge of the first two is gone, and so is the meaningful lyricism which she swapped out for spoiled brattiness. Those four albums aren’t just pop–they’re purer-than-water pop!

Avril has more pop punk songs up her sleeve than just "Sk8er Boi", but like I said earlier, they're not the same as this one and are completely different. They mix electronic music (or dance-pop/electro-pop, in other words) with pop punk and bubblegum. Her other pop punk songs ("Girlfriend", "The Best Damn Thing", "What the Hell", "Rock and Roll", etc.), instead of simply not being punk, choose not to be punk as in THEY DECIDE NOT TO EVEN BE CLOSE and they're EDM/dance/electronic music. Why… these Avril Lavigne songs are One Direction, people! They're the Jonas Brothers! They're Nicki Minaj! They're Katy Perry! I think I'd rather listen to Toni Basil's "Mickey" than these so-called "hardcore rock" songs THAT AREN'T ROCK, PUNK, OR HARDCORE IN THE SLIGHTEST!!!

Songs like “Girlfriend” and “Hot” do not represent her and are not the real Avril. As bad as she was from the start, songs like “Complicated”, “Losing Grip”, and “Sk8er Boi” are the real Lavigne and they represent her.

She is not the same person she was over 15 years ago. Her voice is not the same either. Her voice has changed since her teenhood and she sounds even more obnoxious than on her first two albums. She's also gone from using Auto Tune more subtly to using the software heavily and flagrantly (but not to T-Pain or Ayo & Teo levels). Her use of Auto Tune nowadays is even more excessive than it was in the past. Dear God, just put her out of her misery already! She's never been able to sing and still can't as of now! She sings so obnoxiously!

The musical simplicity is what makes Jonas, Avril, Britney, and Miley bad too. It makes them representations of everything wrong with corporate 2000s pop. They aren’t just bad because they’re abominations to pop, rock, and punk or unchallenging in general. They are part of an army of shallow, empty-headed posers and hypocrites with more interest in beauty and fashion than music.

Conclusion
So there you have it. This pop music by the Jonas Brothers, Avril Lavigne, Miley Cyrus, and Britney Spears is more commercially successful than higher-quality music like alternative rock based on its lyrical and musical simplicity. Better music like alternative rock and post-punk is challenging, convoluted, ambiguous, and metaphoric. 2000s corporate pop is not worthier than today’s music. I mean, come on. Why on Earth would there be nothing deeper or better understood than Lavigne’s “There’s nothing but the rain, no footsteps on the ground / I’m listening but there’s no sound”? Why and how would anything deeper or better understood than that be blocked from the airwaves?

One could counter that 2000s corporate pop dealt with things like angst, boredom, and loneliness like older music, especially grunge, did. Avril’s “I’m with You” tells the story of her feeling lonely over being single and not being in a committed relationship. So what? That doesn’t bring anything new to the table. Addressing boredom, angst, social issues, or loneliness does not give you legitimacy, particularly if addressing them in a clichéd manner or with a sappy, emotional power ballad is the best you can come up with in doing so.

Personally, I would have loved to see Jonas, Britney, Avril, and Miley condemn violence against homosexuals or sing about how corporate they are and why corporatism is bad. That hasn’t happened and it never will happen, as in reality all of them are just Neanderthal singers. They’re Neanderthal singers who have a million videos where they preen for the camera, especially Britney and Miley. Pop music like this 2000s corporate garbage is despised primarily because of its lyrics. It’s also loathed because pop punk and 2000s pop rock take all the good and essential elements of rock and roll/punk rock, then water those elements down. They puke all over on them.

Through slick production and assembly line work, 2000s corporate pop sanded down all of mainstream music’s edges and cooled down all of its fires. It’s called "corporate" because it’s standard issue, generic bombast from artists who all sound the same. They sound like each other and are the ones churning out this tripe. No originality whatsoever.

If Avril didn’t sound like Britney, Alanis Morisette, Mandy Moore, or Christina Aguilera with a slight post-grunge or rock tinge on her songs, she would’ve been better or even great. If it weren’t for her obnoxious valley girl voice, though, I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between any of them. Alternative rock is the current trend and will never fade from rock history. It is possible, however, that it’ll fade as a moneymaker.

If modern pop music is the most commonly consumed form of entertainment and the most-grasped level of entertainment, then this music and I have absolutely nothing in common. I have nothing in common and don’t want to have anything in common with Britney, Avril, Miley, or the Jonas Brothers.

Like how a member of the Citizens’ Councils threatened to end rock and roll back in the ‘50s by helping set up a 20-man committee, I absolutely think and agree with pop haters that this vulgar, animalistic, teeny bopper, Barbie, Hot Topic, juvenile pop music must be done away with. Rock and roll never deserved to be done away with because it’s awesome.

Rock and roll was not brought to the USA by corruption and manipulation conspiracies, pop music was. It was brought to the USA by the conspiracy to make millions off of manipulating and corrupting, not the legend known as rock and roll. Modern pop music, including the 2000s corporate garbage often aimed at teenagers, is so obscene. Teens are smarter than how the music industry treats them.

Too bad Jonas, Avril, Britney, and Miley want to keep being milked dry. I hope to God that before they die or retire, they give the music industry the finger and do their own thing. They need to go. They need to leave with a bang and not remain as commercial, anti-authoritarian products with tons of lame singles and albums.

This long rant shall be concluded with a great shout: Power to the people! Power to all of us! Close all Hot Topic stores permanently and suspend the careers of Avril, Britney, Miley, the Jonas Brothers, and all the other corporate pop artists and bands! Suspend them! This garbage shall be stopped once and for all! Hot Topic uses a contrived identification with youth subcultures to manufacture an anti-authoritarian identity and make millions, so it must be shut down! Let’s see how these corporations called Jonas, Avril, Britney, and Miley like it when Hot Topic goes out of business and they quit making music forever! Avril is misleading, deceiving, blatant false advertising, full of lies, and the queen of posers! Miley is also the queen of posers, because she's not rock and roll and would rather sing pop songs for teens to dance to with Pom-Poms like Avril! They're not rock and roll or punk rock like they think they are and they're posers! Hot Topic and modern pop music are corporate garbage for the masses and they're nothing but mind control!

The Grounded Videos I’ve Made So Far

 * 1) Avril Lavigne Gets Infinitely Grounded: Based on the video “Warren Gets Grounded For Infinity”. Avril is greeted by Bad Religion, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Green Day, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Loona the Hellhound, Jo Frost (also known as Supernanny), Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Bob Dylan and given a taste of her own medicine. One of those punishments includes her being forced to listen to new wave and/or non-pop artists and bands while being prevented from listening to post-grunge, pop, AOR/hair metal, nu metal, pop punk, etc.
 * 2) Britney Spears Cuts School and Gets Grounded: Based on “Macusoper Gets Grounded”. Drew Pickles receives a call from Mrs. Christina (Dora’s teacher in the Dora Gets Grounded videos) about Britney cutting school and hanging out with the Jonas Brothers, Hilary Duff, and Avril Lavigne and grounds her for this. The video is split in two parts.

Upcoming Grounded Videos

 * 1) The Jonas Brothers Get Arrested
 * 2) Britney Beats Up The Sex Pistols
 * 3) Miley Gets Drew Pickles Arrested
 * 4) Avril Misbehaves During a Lockdown Drill
 * 5) The Jonas Brothers Get Grounded for Nothing
 * 6) Britney Says She's Not Corporate Garbage for the Masses
 * 7) Avril Bullies the Foo Fighters
 * 8) Miley Grounds Liz Phair
 * 9) Britney Bullies a Hipster
 * 10) Avril and Her Flip Buddies Destroy and Smash a VCR/DVD Combo
 * 11) Avril and Chad Kroeger of Nickelback Get Married
 * 12) Avril Swipes Punk Rock from Dora and Boots
 * 13) Britney Annoys the Little Einsteins
 * 14) Jesse and Miley Ground Eddie of Pearl Jam
 * 15) The Jonas Brothers Throw a Party
 * 16) Avril Says She's Punk and Not Pop
 * 17) Britney Becomes an Attention Seeker
 * 18) Avril Changes Her Looks to Get Attention
 * 19) Nick Jonas Misbehaves at a Foo Fighters Concert
 * 20) Britney, Miley, the Jonas Brothers and Avril Get Held Back

Peace.