Reception
Rolling Stone Magazine readers voted "Complicated" as the 8th Top single of the decade. "Complicated" also ranked at #197 in Blender magazine's "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born". Billboard Magazine ranked it at #83 of the 'Top 100 Singles of the Decade'. In an AOL Radio listener's poll, "Complicated" was voted Lavigne's sixth best song.
David Browne of Entertainment Weekly gave the song a B- and said "Avril Lavigne's not kidding about that title, she's the epitome of the blossoming anti-Britney movement". Christina Saraceno of Allmusic described 'Complicated' as "a gem of a pop/rock tune with a killer chorus" and noted similarities between it and the Pink song "Don't Let Me Get Me". Saraceno highlighted the song as a "track pick" in a review of the album, Let Go.
On a more negative note, Sal Cinquemani of Slant magazine described 'Complicated' as "infectious" and "more poser than punk". In a review of Lavigne's second album, Under My Skin, David Browne of Entertainment Weekly noted that "Complicated felt like strung-together bits of Morissette songs".
As of October 2011, Complicated had sold 773,000 digital copies in the US.
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