  I saw the new Avril Lavigne video "My Happy Ending" recently and it seems like everyone's favorite rebel has decided to grow up. In Avril-world however, growing up means hiring a much older looking guy to cavort around with in music videos.
My god, this guy looks like he's thirty-five and she looks all of sixteen. I know she's of age, but the sight of her in bitin skater pants and doesn't help her cause to be, in her words "like, more mature. " Avril and gramps look so mis-matched that I imagine the cops busting in any minute and arresting him for corrupting a minor. urlLink All grown up. You may think me an Avril-hater, but I'm really not. She's harmless enough and in a few years she will be but a distant memory, like NKOTB and MC Hammer Pants.
I have to say though there are a lot of young and hungry grrrls out there ready to snatch the crown away from our skater girl. My favorite from the bunch is Ashlee Simpson, Jessica's sister. My guilty pleasure of the moment is her song "Pieces of Me". She sings pretty well, and I guess the reason why I like her is that she doesn't seem angsty at all.
It's like she doesn't want to be the new Avril Lavigne, which I think is more reason for her to be the next Avril Lavigne. That reasoning makes sense in my head. I heard there's a Deathcab for Cutie version of "Complicated". If anyone out there is nice enough to find it and download it for me, I'll make you a cheesecake! 
