Lavigne's main distinction, this early in her music career, is her youth: she signed her record deal at the tender age of 16, debuting with the 2002 album Let's Go. She moves from one song to the next with minimal fuss, focusing her concert performance on her music rather than putting on an "act" in general. Personally, I'm mainly interested in the music, and Lavigne satisfies on that count. Certainly one of the draws for getting the DVD is getting to see the concert experience, for those viewers who like that sort of thing. Her live performance does offer a different experience than just listening to the songs on her studio album. Her best pieces are the punchy ones like "Sk8er Boi" and "Complicated" some of the others (like "Knocking on Heaven's Door") slide off into more generic-sounding territory, but on the whole it's a reasonably satisfying collection of songs. Here, as well as in the album, her work is solid if a bit uneven. Given that Lavigne has released only one album so far, it's no surprise that all but three of the songs come from Let's Go. I did, but they just tasted like regular Timbits.Avril Lavigne: My World is a combination DVD/CD set based around Lavigne's 2003 Try To Shut Me Up tour, in particular the Buffalo, NY concert. I like them all-the Old Fashioned, the Maple Glazed. Over the holidays, I ate a lot of donuts. Just in general, this album has that high energy, so it's going to be so fun to take it on the road.Īs a fellow Canadian, what’s your Tim Hortons order? I’ll have a lot of my family come out to the shows. What do you miss most about your homeland?Īpparently it's been a long time since I’ve been there, like eight years, so I’m really excited. I know you’ll be stopping in Canada on the tour. I was like, “We’re doing 45 minutes of cardio!” We’d drink wine and walk. Before my last tour, my friend and I walked every night. I do cardio-running for an hour and a half and singing at the same time. I deal with wardrobe, which has to be special, because it’s on-stage. Two weeks of band rehearsals, and then a week of pre-production. But still feminine and sexy at the same time.ĭo you think your style has changed at all, though? I have fun with rock and roll, skate-surf, punk-inspired. I’ve gotten to travel around the world to places like Tokyo, and have my own line, Abbey Dawn. But I have a little more fun with my fashion now. I was just wearing my baggy Dickies, and I still love baggy pants and a hoodie. I love that your style has always remained authentic and true to you. I want to ask you a few fashion questions. There’s something about being authentic like that, writing your own songs, and being unapologetically yourself. What’s cool about them is they’re all at the age I was at, when I was 17 and putting out the first album. 17-year-old me couldn’t have seen that coming! I’ve met all those girls, and in person they’ve told me that they were huge fans of my music. And it’s crazy that this year is my 20th anniversary. The next generation of stars like Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo have all cited you as an inspiration. It’s hard to go there again after you’ve been hurt a few times. (I’m a Libra.) I actually had a really hard time opening up I wrote a song called “Dare to Love Me” about it. Obviously, I want to be in a relationship, and do love love. I was just feeling a certain type of way and wrote a bunch of songs about it. I was like, “I’m taking a break, I’m going to focus on myself”-and that didn’t last long. I was feeling that way, and then a few days later, I had a new boyfriend.
The album title, Love Sux, is cheeky-but you must still love love on some level? Let’s go bitches! That song is so energetic, manic, and insane. I love how the album opens with this line, “Like a ticking time bomb, I’m about to explode!” But when John Feldmann played guitar, I was like, “you’re my favorite guitar player!” Everyone understood me and what I was going for. I’ll work with producers and they’ll hire a guitar player, and I always have to sit with them and go through each track and make notes. It really sounds sonically different with their chops on it, instead of just hiring a studio session player. Machine Gun Kelly is a fantastic writer and he played guitar Mark played bass on his song Travis plays drums on some of the songs. Having new people to work with is really inspiring. What did working with all these different artists bring to the table? I worked with really cool fun people on the scene, like Machine Gun Kelly, Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker. I was just not in the mood to sing ballads or mid-tempos-I was like, let’s just rock. I decided to make a fun rock and roll record. I started talking to Travis in 2020, and then I worked on it all of last year.
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