10 Pop Stars Who Should Have Been One-Hit Wonders

10. Avril Lavigne

Though it might be a stretch to still be calling Avril Lavigne a "pop star" by today's standards, she's managed to scrape together a couple of hits over the last few years. Her relationship with fellow Canadian musician (and equally unlikely pop star) Chad Kroeger probably helped keep her in the spotlight. (Together, they form the power couple that no one wants to get stuck talking to at the awards show after parties.)

Lavigne's debut single, "Complicated," was a polite, inoffensive little slice of pop music played to a pre-teen market that had just missed out on the Britney/Christina years. It was fine. It did it's job. But then "Sk8er Boi" happened. It was incredibly painful to type the name of that song just now, but it was even harder to constantly sit through a three and a half minute insult to punk music that would make Good Charlotte cringe. Yet, it was a big time hit. 

And she wasn't done yet. A few years later the world let her have another big seller with "Girlfriend," a watered down rip-off of Toni Basil's "Hey Mickey." This is why people find it so easy to mock Canada at times.