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Avril Lavigne - Biography
| 07-07-2006 20:37 | 5 reaction(s) | add reply |
| Wild child Avril Lavigne hit big in summer 2002 with her spiky-fun debut song, "Complicated," shifting pop music into a different direction. Lavigne, who was 17 at the time, didn't seem concerned with the glamour of the TRL-dominated pop world and such confidence allowed her star power to soar. The middle of three children in small-town Napanee, Ontario, Lavigne's rock ambitions were noticeable around age two. By her early teens, she was already writing songs and playing guitar. The church choir, local festivals, and county fairs also allowed Lavigne to get her voice heard, and luckily, Arista Records main man Antonio "L.A." Reid was listening. He offered her a deal, and at 16, Lavigne's musical dreams became reality. With Reid's assistance and a new Manhattan apartment, Lavigne found herself surrounded by prime songwriters and producers, but it wasn't impressive enough for her to continue. She had always relied on her own ideas to create a musical spark, and things weren't going as planned. Lavigne wasn't disillusioned, though. She headed for Los Angeles and Nettwerk grabbed her. Producer/songwriter Clif Magness (Celine Dion, Wilson Phillips, Sheena Easton) tweaked Lavigne's melodic, edgy sound and her debut, Let Go, was the polished product. Singles such as "Complicated" and "Sk8er Boi" hit the Top Ten while "I'm with You" and "Losing Grip" did moderately well at radio. Butch Walker of the Marvelous 3, Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida, and Don Gilmore (Linkin Park, Good Charlotte) signed on to produce Lavigne's second album, Under My Skin, which appeared in May 2004. The album topped the Billboard charts and produced the number one hit "My Happy Ending." Other singles like "Nobody's Home" and "Fall to Pieces" did respectably well also. Settling down a bit from her punk rock wild child persona, Lavigne married her boyfriend of two years, Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley, in July 2006. Throwing her 'punk' tag even further out the window, she released the single "Girlfriend," a bouncy teen-pop ditty from her 2007 album The Best Damn Thing. |
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06-01-2007 15:56 mR_PoP | 
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| Avril rocks! | | 13-05-2007 18:13 sam2754dance | 
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| Avril is awful. She sucks. Girlfriend is the worst song of all time. | | 25-05-2007 18:19 Hjaerta |
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| She's kinda bad.. I still can't get how they can call her punk? Girlfriend is so far from punk as anything can be >_> It makes me a bit sad. Well, it's not up to me to define the general definition of punk, I just can't stand Avril. | | 07-01-2008 19:10 DavidMateuZ | 
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| avril rocks and if you dont like her go waste your time hearing brit | | 18-01-2008 17:13 Bloodshed | 
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| @ Sam and Hjaerta: If you only know "Girlfriend" I might understand your reactions - although they really don´t fit her complete history as an artist.
@ Hjaerta: It really seems as if you didn´t even read the Biography to the end, and if you did you didn´t read carefully. It´s written, that she threw away her punk-image by publishing "Girlfriend" - NOT that she remains punky. Many of her songs from "elder days" were punky I´d say. Sure, I listened to real punk-music as well (no choice if the neighbours turn on the music at 11PM...) and it was completely different, but for some people Avril is at least punky. And in my opinion being punky has nothing in common with being a real punk.
Avril does good music one can listen to quite often, but I guess she´s even better as a wife. XD |
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