Avril Lavigne and the gift of songwriting.

A look back on the first record I ever owned that featured real instruments being played by real people and NO Max Martin whatsoever - Avril Lavigne's Let Go.

The country : Canada

The number one worldwide hit : Complicated

The ties : on

The lizard at age 9 : gagged

I talk a lot about the music that formed me as a young girl – my first ever obsession was of course the Spice Girls, followed very quickly by the one and only Ms. Britney Spears. These women were very important to me in my youngest years, but I often w…