This lot walked so Olivia Rodrigo could run
There’s nothing like a new year to make us feel nostalgic for the past. With that in mind, we’re throwing it back 20 years to the era where pop, punk and neck-ties met in a beautiful symphony of teenage angst and eyeliner rebellion.
POV: It’s the beginning of 2002, Nelly, Shakira and Ashanti are all blowing up on MTV, Britney and Justin are breaking up, and Halle Berry’s set to take home the Oscar for Best Actress in Monster’s Ball. And over in Canada, a pint-sized punk princess is primed and ready to rule the world. Her name is Avril Lavigne, she’s a 17-year-old singer-songwriter, and she’s about to do for your dad’s ties and Converse shoes what Madonna did for conical bras.
Let’s consider the musical landscape at the time. The turn of the Millennium and the very early noughties were ruled by Britney and her so-called clones, who flashed their midriffs and danced in synchronised steps to highly-produced beats. Then Avril came along. She was grungy, gutsy and brooding – and she straddled the line between punk and pop.
Her influence was ground-breaking – and two decades later, she’s still making waves, as she recently revealed she’s making a movie based on the heartbreaking story of Sk8er Boi And in her wake, over the next few years, a roll call of female pop punk artists emerged, hoping to capitalise on the Avril impact and share a bit of the angst-ridden stage. Like these punk-lite princesses…The first and foremost Avril scion, Ashlee took the heavy-set eyeliner and baggy trousers motif and ran with it.
Let’s be clear, Pink was no Avril copycat. She was more Avril-adjacent, unleashing her punk-rock side around the same time as her Canadian comrade. Forever plugged as the “Anti-Britney”, her debut album Can’t Take Me Home had an R&B sound. But it was her 2001 album Missundaztood – which actually pre-dated the punk princess revolution – that set her apart as a headbanging, rocking badass global superstar.
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