Singer Avril Lavigne, a 17-year-old from Ontario (安大略省), Canada, is among a new crop of female singer-songwriters who are challenging the notion (观念) that you have to bare (裸露) your navel (肚脐) and cavort (跳跃) around in tight clothes to be sexy. Over the last year, artists like Pink, Michelle Branch, Vanessa Carlton and Lavigne have been dominating the charts (排行榜) by putting the focus on their music, and not their looks. “I’m just saying I don’t want to sell sex,” says Lavigne, whose debut disc, Let’s Go, has gone gold in a month’s time. “I feel that’s sort of lame (不完全的) and low. I’ve got so much more to say.”In recent weeks, her first video, Complicated, bested (打败) Spears’ latest video, Boys, on MTV’s teen-frenzied (使青少年热衷的) Total Request Live.SD-Agencies