It’s complicated: Avril Lavigne’s 20 best songs

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More than two decades since her debut, the Canadian rabble-rouser has never been more influential. As she gears up to appear at Glastonbury, we rate her bangers, ballads and brattiest moments

20. Here’s to Never Growing Up slipping into wilful self-parody: the video had her skateboarding around the school corridors and causing havoc at senior prom, despite the fact she was 28 years old. Either way, it’s got a big old earworm chorus.Producer Dr Luke was at the height of his hitmaking powers when Lavigne availed herself of his services.

: a 21st-century pop take on new-wave rock, not a million miles removed from 1989. There’s a hint of 60s garage in the reedy organ sound and the chorus is great.Lavigne had a tendency to present her third album, The Best Damn Thing, as evidence of her new auteur status – “I did this record on my own, I didn’t have anyone involved but me” – which was a bit rough on its team of co-writers and producers. But no matter. When You’re Gone is a fantastically polished, lighters-out stadium anthem.

 

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