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More famous in Europe and Asia than America?


Probably yes

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and where´s your source for that?

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Ticket sales

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idk she was pretty famous here when i was a kiddo but i feel like she didnt have a lot of fans

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She was famous but didn't have a lot of fans? That doesn't make sense.
A friend of mine's daughter liked her a lot about ten or more years ago, (I'm thinking she was 12-13 at the time and now she's pushing 30). Other than seeing her on a magazine cover and I believe one song was in heavy rotation, I don't know anything about Ms Lavigne. She didn't look like a very wholesome role model, but then, neither did Alice Cooper when I was a kid and that didn't stop me.

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Hitler was famous but does not have a lot of fans. :)

While that is an exaggerated example people could have known who she was but just not liked her music.

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Well, haha, I get your point, but I'm reminded of maybe Britney Spears. Eventually she became iffy as to whether people actually liked her, but she had to have been very popular in order to become well known. So Lavigne would have had to have enough success to break into the mainstream, which I equate to having fans.
But I don't mean to quibble.
I feel a little bad for Av' as she seems to have fallen off the radar, prematurely perhaps?

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Alice Cooper, interestingly enough, has become one of the most wholesome dudes in all of rock n' roll.

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Took him a while to get there, unless I'm mistaken. Not only was his RnR schtick pretty twisted in the beginning but I'm pretty sure he was a very hard partier/drinker. Not to Jim Morrison extent, but not a healthy lifestyle, from what I remember.

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I think his shows are still pretty wild, but I know he's a vocal Christian now and he says he's been sober for almost 40 years.

Here's an article about it:

https://www.therecover.com/alice-cooper-credits-his-faith-to-saving-him-from-alcoholism/

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She was the in thing for one album like Alanis Morrisette a decade earlier and then well.. she is still recording but no one cares. Like Alanis.

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At least they had a prime in the music market. Most never experience that.

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True. Although I recall Avril changing her image after the first album and I think that lost a lot of fans but then perhaps her fans were quite young and lost interest.

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Um, Alanis was 'in' a hell of a lot longer than just 1995. Her albums after Jagged Little Pill were quite 'in'.

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She seemed to disappear, down here at least.

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Who, Alanis? What part of the US are you in or were in after 1995.

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Yes Alanis. And I'm in Australia back then and now.

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Ah, okay.

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I dont understand why Alanis was even popular to begin with!

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I actually asked that about Kelly Clarkson and Clay Aiken

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Alanis took the US by storm back in her heyday. She was a fresh voice and attitude. I totally admire her, much more than Sheryl Crow, for instance.

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Taylor Swift of the 90s.

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I don't see it that way, but I can understand why someone might.

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Alanis pre-Jagged Little Pill. Lol. Canadian version of Tiffany. https://youtu.be/V9TXQPEJLOE

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Hahaha. I never think about her early career but this is a funny reminder.
Actually, maybe I'd rather NOT think of her early career. That vid is seriously cheesy.

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