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==Background and release==
After the success of her debut album, ''[[Let Go (Avril Lavigne album)|Let Go]]'' (2002), Lavigne released her second album, ''[[Under My Skin (Avril Lavigne album)|Under My Skin]]'' (2004), which debuted at number one in more than ten countries and went platinum within one month.<ref name="allmusicbio">{{cite news|title=Avril Lavigne | Biography | Allmusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/avril-lavigne-mn0000762885/biography|access-date=February 17, 2014|newspaper=[[Allmusic]]}}</ref> She spent the majority of 2006 working on her third album, enlisting [[blink-182]] drummer [[Travis Barker]] to play drums, and cherry-picking a variety of producers (such as her then-spouse [[Deryck Whibley]]) to helm the recording sessions.<ref name="allmusicbio"/> One of the songs in the album, "Hot", was produced by [[Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald]], and co-written by Lavigne and [[Evan Taubenfeld]].<ref name="bigmachine">''[[The Best Damn Thing|]]''The Best Damn Thing'']] (CD liner notes). [[Avril Lavigne]]. [[RCA Records]]. 2007. 88697 03774 2.</ref><ref>"Hot" (CD liner notes). [[Avril Lavigne]]. [[RCA Records]]. 2007. 88697 17036 2.</ref> Lavigne described the album as "really fast, fun, young, bratty, aggressive, confident, cocky in a playful way."<ref name=mtvnews1>{{cite news|last=Montgomery|first=James|title=Avril Lavigne, Deryck Whibley Dish Details On 'Fun, Young, Bratty' LP|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1548280/avril-lavigne-dishes-on-fun-young-bratty-new-lp.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107021228/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1548280/avril-lavigne-dishes-on-fun-young-bratty-new-lp.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 7, 2012|access-date=February 17, 2014|newspaper=[[MTV News]]|date=December 16, 2006}}</ref>
The album, named ''[[The Best Damn Thing|]]''The Best Damn Thing'']], released on April 17, 2007;<ref name="ewreview">{{cite magazine |last=Willman |first=Chris |date=13 April 2007 |title=Entertainment Weekly review |url=https://ew.com/article/2007/04/13/best-damn-thing/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607015836/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20034631,00.html |archive-date=7 June 2011 |access-date=11 August 2010 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> "Hot" is the seventh song on the albums track list.<ref name="bigmachine" /> The first two singles from the album, "Girlfriend" and "When You're Gone", released throughout 2007.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Burlingame |first=Jeff |title=Avril Lavigne: Celebrity with Heart |date=July 2010 |publisher=[[Enslow Publishing]] |isbn=9781598452044 |pages=83-84}}</ref> With "Girlfriend" in particular, Lavigne was accused of plagiarizing a song by [[Chantal Kreviazuk]] when writing the song, which she denied and continued releasing music from the album.<ref name="nmeplag">{{cite news |date=July 9, 2007 |title=Avril Lavigne responds to plagiarism claims |url=http://www.nme.com/news/avril-lavigne/29587 |access-date=February 18, 2014 |newspaper=[[NME]]}}</ref> In October, she released "Hot" as the third single from ''The Best Damn Thing''.<ref name="bbcmusic" /><ref name=":0" />
==Composition and lyrics==
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