Here is an exchange that i had over the INTERNET in AOL's popular messenger program. She didn't know that by asking me what this avril business meant would result in a long, and mostly pointless internet monolouge on my part.

C: one of my co-workers called me avril because I wore a tie to work
C: you know about this avril?
C: what does it all mean?
J: Here is the explanation
J: at, like, 11:50pm several months ago, nearly a year ago, I was watching mtv and I saw this SUPER catchy video. I called up Erika and told her about it, she knew which it was. Then they slowly started incorporating the song in ads for shows on the WB
J: Before anyone knew anything about the artist behind it, lots of people were in love with the single
J: As it turned out, the song, Complicated was the product of a 17 year old fake punk rock canadian girl with eye liner of black and a heart of gold
J: ... or something. She wore black tank tops with plaid ties and had a group of guys that could have been a boy band, but that they had punky hair and played real insturments to back her up
J: So I went out, got the record on the day that it was released and memorized each and every song on it. So did every pre pube in the world.
J: She was JUST breaking when she was schedualed for the KISS 106 summer stadium show, so she was, like, the third of 6 or 8 acts to play, but the reaction to her demonstrated in the time since planning the show she had become the REAL headliner
J: But she hadn't broken in England QUITE yet, so I went to see her in a smokey club in london 2 weeks later.
J: which brings us to today. She has a handful of grammy nominations, a stadium tour, one of the biggest albums this year...

and the Hot Topics are selling outfits to look just like her
J: sorry for the excess of information. It was more than you asked for, but you hit a vein of Avril Lavigne information