“Avril’s mellow new album is, in effect, an attempt at reinvention and so far it hasn’t worked,” said Jeff Burlingame, the author of “Avril Lavigne: Celebrity With Heart.”
Oh, right. Because success as a musician has nothing to do with creativity, art, or introspection; it has only to do with record sales and concert attendance.
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For Avril, the dwindling crowds might not matter much. For her agent and everyone else who makes “collateral earnings” from her artistic career, it probably matters. I would think that even the most level-headed of us might respond to a perceived dwindling popularity by asking ourselves “What am I doing wrong?” The answer to that may very well be “absolutely nothing”, but if you’re only in it for the money and the fame, then there might be a completely different answer to the question.