It’s that she never seemed to want to grow up. It’s not that she didn’t have an indelible look: her low-slung skate pants, tie and ramrod-straight hair are an enduring fancy-dress costume. Somehow, this tension never affected Avril Lavigne, the Canadian pop-punk star who arrived in 2002 aged 17 with the brilliant Complicated, a heaving teenage sigh directed at some poseur boy. Breaking the ice usually involves a bad-girl reinvention, if not a genuine breakdown. P op stars – especially women – are frozen at the age they become famous.
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