Sometimes, music's biggest trailblazers are the least willing. Ozzy Osbourne made a point of saying he "never felt comfortable" being called a heavy metal artist. Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello once outright apologised for influencing the nu metal explosion of the 90s.
And so, when Avril Lavigne kicked down the door for women in pop punk in the early 2000s, we shouldn't judge her too harshly for insisting she had piss all to do with punk at all.
