I have posted Avril Lavigne once before but it’s been a long time and most of my thoughts on the whole thing can be found here.  I am only linking it because honestly my thoughts haven’t really changed.  Boxcar is playing through my head as I pick pictures of her.  People probably spent way too much time outraged by what was really the rise of hot topic.  There are so many discussions about authenticity and how the counter culture is always, always, always repackaged and sold back to us one day.  And how it’s never that authentic to begin with because it’s always a carefully crafted thing.  I also always remember this one interview once where someone confronted her about the punk criticisms to which she replied, “Fuck you, I never said I was punk”.  And when I read that I was like, “That’s a pretty punk response”.  But that’s why I linked the other one, I am not really here because of 2002.  I’m here because it’s 2016 and somehow she still keeps coming up.  I don’t mean that derisively, I mean that in the sense that like, I can’t think of anything she has done in a very long time that warrants a lot of fame but she seems to come up in conversation all the time.  Like her level of fame is way higher than it seems like it logically should be.  And I can’t figure out why.  I did find some info of a study that said she is the 6th most recognizable musician in the world and easily the most recognizable Canadian.  Which is insane.  I have no idea why.  Of course, it says something that I was about to make a joke and say, “What about famous Canadian X” and couldn’t think of anyone.  So my top theories are these: she and that whole burst of pop punk and hot topic kids in that 3 year period had a huge impact on people of a certain age.  Not me but like maybe 5 years younger than me.  So she was just so important to a bunch of people born in like 1984.  My second theory is some vast Canadian conspiracy.  I have read more than enough X-Men comics to know the Canadian government is evil to it’s core.  I am not sure which is likely so if anyone has some knowledge drop it on me, because whoever is doing this they are likely the reason why today I want to fuck Avril Lavigne