avril lavigne - "complicated"

this was way better when i had only experienced it on my super-tinny high-end-only tv (with strangely disappointing not-as-good-as-it-should-be avril and friends trash mall video) and i could make up my own chords and bassline without the tyrany of hearing what is actually played - i heard it on the radio for the first time today and the real chords are rubbish! but there are things i still like: avril is of course already queen of the winsome, catch-in-the-throat vocal thing, used so ruthlessly and efficiently on "complicated" that it becomes like one of the many perfect elements of linkin park super rock! i hope avril continues to refine the real-instrument-pop formula until all the shitty things have been removed. (you know, like when the singer tries to impart their personality! and everything about the nick carter song!)

i want to try and record my version of the song with the right bassline.