{"id":909019,"date":"2026-09-28T21:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T21:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909019\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T21:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T21:36:14","slug":"michelle-branch-reacts-to-avril-lavigne-vanessa-carlton-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909019\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Branch Reacts to Avril Lavigne, Vanessa Carlton Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comparison was everywhere when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/michelle_branch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Michelle Branch<\/a> got her start.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the &#8220;Game of Love&#8221; singer recalled being constantly brought up in conversations about her peers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/avril_lavigne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Avril Lavigne<\/a> and Vanessa Carlton when she rose to fame in the early 2000s\u2014and it wasn&#8217;t exactly a pleasant experience for her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The difference, I think, between being a female artist when I was out and now, fortunately, is everyone just wanted to pit us against each other back then,&#8221; Branch told E! News in an exclusive interview. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what it was, but it always felt like Michelle versus Vanessa Carlton versus Avril Lavigne.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, the 43-year-old said she feels like young artists can grow their careers in a more progressive environment, citing the inclusive vibe of Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s Daisy Chain Fields Music Festival, which took place in August and included an all-female lineup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like there&#8217;s such a camaraderie now between artists and especially female artists, and that&#8217;s the way it should be,&#8221; Branch noted. &#8220;It&#8217;s a really beautiful thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comparison was everywhere when Michelle Branch got her start.\u00a0 Indeed, the &#8220;Game of Love&#8221; singer recalled being constantly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-909019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}