Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? 1. What the Hell
Joanne McNally Investigates
BBC
4.3 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Joanne LOVES conspiracy theories… and there’s one she can’t get out of her head. Is it true that Avril Lavigne died, and was replaced by a body double? Joanne digs deep into the rumour mill, and the more she reads, the more she finds herself believing it.
Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Joanne McNally Investigates is a 6-part series produced by What’s The Story Sounds – for BBC Sounds and CBC.
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| 0:00.0 | From BBC Sounds and CBC Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | I like to swear a lot. |
| 0:08.9 | The following podcast is presented by me. |
| 0:11.2 | Therefore, there will be swearing. |
| 0:13.5 | There will be swear words and there will be bot language, probably regularly. |
| 0:17.1 | If that sort of thing isn't for you, consider yourself warned. |
| 0:25.6 | Thank you. If that sort of thing isn't for you, consider yourself warned. I want to tell you a story. |
| 0:28.6 | A story about something that happened around 20 years ago, or maybe it didn't happen 20 years ago. |
| 0:35.0 | Maybe it did, though. |
| 0:37.9 | The year was 2003. |
| 0:40.3 | Beyonce is crazy in love. |
| 0:42.3 | There's a blockbuster video store on every high street across the Western world. |
| 0:46.5 | And Instagram is called MySpace or Bebo. |
| 0:50.6 | The world has just fallen in love with a 17-year-old girl in its heart and skirt. |
| 0:56.0 | Okay, that sounds weirdly say it out loud, it looked fine when I wrote it. |
| 0:59.6 | Can we rewrite that? |
| 1:04.0 | A Canadian teen named Avery Levine is shaking up the whole music industry. |
| 1:09.2 | The neckties, the eye shadow, the fuck you expression on her face. |
| 1:13.6 | She's the picture of teenage angst and the world laps it up. |
| 1:18.6 | Averill's debut album Let Go is the second best-selling record of 2002. |
| 1:24.2 | She goes on to release six more studio albums and still performs a solo day crowd |
| 1:29.0 | of this very day. But what if that isn't the same Avril we all came to know and love? |
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