The other night I was driving back with my friends from a late night Denny’s run. I was sitting shotgun, which meant I was in charge of picking music to jam to. Scrolling through my friend’s playlist, I came upon an Avril Lavigne song that I hadn’t heard in ages. I played it and the excited exclamations from the backseat confirmed that I had made the right choice. Honestly, though, how could Avril ever be a bad choice?!
She was the soundtrack of my middle school years and her music helped me through my toughest times in high school. If I was having a bad day, I’d put my earbuds in and let the angsty rhythms of her songs calm me down. If I was upset about a breakup, she had songs that would help make me feel better about myself and help me move on with my life. That’s one of the reasons why I love her, she has a song that can relate to every single emotion that you’re feeling.
Another reason I love Avril is that she is such a badass and she doesn’t apologize for it. She has a ‘what the hell’ attitude and it translates into her music, hence her song What The Hell. Not only is she a punk princess but she gives inspiration to the people who don’t fit into the mainstream lifestyle; people who are Anything but Ordinary. She sings about heartbreak and feeling lost when the person who loves you leaves you behind, ruining your happy ending.
Then she switches it up and talks about how it’s okay to not be tied down and who cares if you go out on a lot of dates. We’re young and why not have fun and be crazy while we can. When people in your life are being frustrating and Complicated she’s got a song for that too. She encourages us to not let anybody turn us into someone we don’t want to be because we are Nobody’s Fool.
Whether you’re feeling jealous, lonely, confused, heartbroken, super confident, carefree, or you feel like telling someone to go screw themselves, Avril has a song that matches your feelings.
So I want to thank Avril Lavigne for writing songs that speak to the masses. I want to thank her for being a rebel and showing my insecure, middle school self that it’s okay to not know where you belong. I want to thank her for making music that my friends and I can still jam out to in the car ten years later. Avril, you rock and never stop being the “motherf*cking princess” that you are.
