Pop Rocks (Houston Press)

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In 2005, pop music was rock music. Between Kelly Clarkson's tarted-up "Since U Been Gone," Ashlee Simpson's raspy, Courtney Love-after-a-bender vocals and Hilary Duff's collabs with her Good Charlotte boy-toy Joel Madden, even the biggest Top 40 starlets liked their guitars cranked up to a sassy 11.

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