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朋克小魔女归来――引发全球艾薇儿风潮!When Avril Lavigne released her second album in 2004, the full-of-life teen pop star announced that she was growing up. On that year’s Under My Skin, punky songs were replaced largely with grammatically correct rock songs about teen 1)dilemmas. The black-and-white wild images make it clear that Avril was dealing with some serious late-teen issues. Today, Avril, 22, is done with all that. On April 17th, she released her third album, The Best Damn Thing, and the mood is lighter. “I was just so over writing such serious songs,”Avril said. “Even though they really weren?t that serious. I went through a little dark time when I was 18 and wrote Under My Skin. But I grew out of that.”“Musically, I didn?t know where I was going to go on this record. I totally did not even think about it. I had no theme. I was thinking more about the music and the spirit”The spirit of her latest single “Girlfriend,”which has been playing over and over again throughout the Internet since March, is pure high school, with shout-outs and hand claps. Avril put herself in the character of a rather 2)pompous girl, who is determined to steal a guy from his girlfriend. All signs point to Avril?s moving towards a lighter…r colorful approach to her music for The Best Damn Thing. If the 22-year-old sounds like a kid again, it?s only because she realized that having fun is more important than maturing. 3)Multilingual New Single “It?s so funny. It?s weird. It doesn?t even sound like me,?says Avril Lavigne, about what it?s like for her to hear her Mandarin translation of “Girlfriend.?Aside from English, the punk princess recorded the 4)chorus to the fun, fast rock song in seven different languages ?Japanese, Portuguese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Mandarin. “Mandarin and Portuguese are really hard; French is easy and Japanese was the easiest one,”says Avril, who spent two challenging days working with translators, trying to get all the 5)syllables to fit th