LONGEVITY: 2/5
Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" is not quite her greatest hit, but synthesizes her new girly-girl image with her hard-rock roots to make this song the French Canadian's highest-ranking chart debut. Once again, Avril has found a way to appeal to her wide-ranging female audience with a pop-punk sound after several consecutive melodic singles. This is the powerful Avril many of her original fanbase missed for the past three years (minus the ties, of course). The song is fast-paced like "Sk8er Boi", but unlike Lavigne's second-ever hit single, the foundation of "Girlfriend" is Avril's multi-track vocals and her drummer (versus the dominant electric guitars in "Sk8er Boi").
"Girlfriend" could very well become the song of the summer, and Avril certainly has a grasp as to adjusting her music and image with the times (unlike her then-rival Britney Spears).
Join me on my mission to become one of the first DJs to mix Soulja Boy with Shwekey, Gaga with Gabay, Judas Priest with Yehuda!...and everything in between. I will pimp your simcha.
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