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“Sometimes I get so weird, I freak myself out,” Lavigne sings on “Anything But Ordinary,” a track from the same year’s debut LP Let Go that song was originally going to lend its name to the album. In her casual goofiness, she is both one of the boys, and yet more than them, a focal point and a catalyst. ![]() ![]() When Lavigne and band do “crash the mall” - the scene plays out in the video for ’02 debut single “Complicated” - their shenanigans extend only to toying with a retail worker in a hot dog costume, dressing in wacky outfits, and teasing some mall cops. But Avril Lavigne accentuated her apparent remove from the dominant culture via the trappings of punk - particularly the trappings of punk at a time when the form was exemplified on one hand by the boyish crudities of Blink-182, and on the other by the boyish crudities of MTV’s Jackass.
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