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I have to admit to finding Avril's songs a bit catchy. They stick in your head a bit and they're easy to follow which makes them easy to remember and perhaps because of contact theory (you hear them a lot) easy to like. The changes that we've watched Avril go through over the last few years have been incredibly disappointing though. Whereas she was once a different, tough, I think I even used to call her "a good role model for young girls", she's now turned into one of the rest. It seemed that with her platinum blonde hair came the shortening of her skirt, the raising of the height of her heels and the lowering of her intelligence. I did a quick search on youTube for an interview with her saying something smart or even the slightest bit profound and I came up empty-handed. I'm especially disappointed in her video for the song "Girlfriend". She actually promotes bullying and social aggression throughout. It's easy to tell me to lighten up about it but for a generation learning social skills and behaviour through television and the internet, these messages are incredibly harmful.