Fully clad in a slightly ripped t-shirt, punk style belt, knee-high black and purple striped socks, and dark blue fingernails, Skye Sweetnam is hardly your typical pop princess. Striving to release her individuality through music, her new CD, “Noise from the Basement” proves to be a true hit.

Canadian born, this young rising star’s lyrics are about more than just guys and romance. With a trendy outlook on life, her words pour out with rebellious ideals and realistic situations.

In her hit song, “Tangled up in Me,” this upbeat mantra has that essential hint of angry girl in it, just enough to give it a kick. You can tell there is something different about her within the first two lines of the song. A girl who talks about “kicking a coke machine” raises an eyebrow compared to pop singers lamenting about unbelievably perfect romances and happy endings.

Growing up listening to Enya, Weezer, the Cranberries and Led Zeppelin, she has had a variety of music to relate to. Incorporating in these artists’s influence, she has managed to reach a wide range of audience.

Though society may have pegged her as a pop princess like many others we have seen emerge rapidly in the last few years, Miss Sweetnam just may be trying to break through the world’s fantasy of perfection and bestow a little reality among us.

So the question is, will Skye Sweetnam continue on her path to becoming a true punk artist, or will she fall victim to the ideals of society and become uncharacteristically like the pop artist she had struggled to veer away from?