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Avril Lavigne: Under My Skin

Todd L. Burns, Stylus, 21 May 2004

NEO-FEMINIST (the kind where everything's quite complicated, frustrating any attempt to truly unpack exactly what's going on), gleefully ignorant of music history (the kind where your CD collection can be counted on your hands and feet before your first record is released) and Canadian (the kind where complicated rhymes easily with frustrated), Avril Lavigne found herself in the summer of 2002 with a debut album, Let Go, that was, to put it mildly, an unlikely hit.

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