Biography Avril Lavigne

Avril Lavigne is a girl who knows what she wants. And when it came to writing her eagerly awaited third album, The Best Damn Thing, she had one very clear goal in mind: To make it fun. While touring in 2004 for her last album, Under My Skin, which sold more than 8 million copies worldwide, the Canadian-born punk-pop dynamo found that her favorite songs to play were the faster, more up-tempo songs—so she resolved to make a record that captured the kind of high-spirited, full-throttle energy that she loved to unleash on-stage.
The Best Damn Thing is brimming with gutsy guitar riffs, instantaneously catchy sing-along party-starting choruses, power pop punk, and rebellious rock ’n’ roll attitude. It’s a marked departure from the darker, more introspective tone of Under My Skin—and on tracks such as the defiant, riotous, kiss-off-to-a-cheating-boyfriend “Everything Back But You,” Avril took pleasure in creating scenarios for her lyrics that weren’t, as she says, “straight out of my diary.” The result is a collection of songs that reveal just how far she’s evolved as a songwriter and singer, from the sassy, empowering “I Can Do Better” (one of Avril’s personal favorites) to the irrepressible first single “Girlfriend”—which unexpectedly combines a hip-hop beat with beefy power chords, hand-claps, and a chanted girl-group-style chorus with a punk rock twist—to the emotional ballad “Keep Holding On,” which she wrote at the request of 20th Century Fox for the studio’s fantasy/adventure film Eragon.

As an artist with a keen and well-trained ear for powerful, magnetic pop melodies, Avril was intensely involved in every aspect of The Best Damn Thing’s creation: From being fiercely independent while writing her own songs (“I didn’t have an A&R guy on this record,” she emphasizes. “I knew exactly how I wanted it to sound”), to choosing her producers and musical collaborators, to obsessively going back and tweaking guitar tones and drumbeats in the studio, she worked hard to ensure that it would be her best record yet.

The album features the production skills of Butch Walker (who has also produced The Donnas, American Hi-Fi, and Avril’s second album, Under My Skin), Dr. Luke (Pink, Lady Sovereign), Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Goo Goo Dolls), and her husband Deryck Whibley (from Sum 41). The process turned out to be a blast: “I didn’t know making a record could be so fun,” she says. She was eager to work with her good friend Butch again, as she says, “What’s great about Butch is that he’s a talented artist as well as being an incredible producer.” And about collaborating with Dr. Luke, she adds, “Luke and I had a really good connection and chemistry.” The relaxed atmosphere in the studio comes across in the songs themselves—Avril’s laughter rings out in “I Can Do Better,” and in “Girlfriend” you can hear her, she says, “playing a beer bottle” (by blowing into it) in the last few choruses.

Four of the songs on The Best Damn Thing—“Innocence,” “Hot, “One of Those Girls,” and “Contagious”—were co-written with Avril’s former bandmate Evan Taubenfeld. “Evan is one of my best friends in the world,” she says, affectionately. “He’s been with me since day one”. Of course, all of the spiky, buoyant energy that drives the album will come to life in the live show that Avril is planning for her tour later this year—she has assembled a new band, and is even bringing along two dancers (“I’m doing choreographed dancing for the first time ever,” she grins. “It’s going to be such a blast”).

A great deal has happened in Avril Lavigne’s life since she released her debut album, Let Go, in 2002, when she was 17 years old. That album snagged 8 Grammy nominations and four Juno Awards (including Album of the Year and New Artist of the Year), spawned the anthemic hit singles “Complicated,” “Sk8ter Boy,” and “I’m With You,” and sold more than 16 million copies world-wide. Under My Skin cemented the Napanee, Ontario native’s superstardom, entering U.S., Canadian, and U.K. charts at 1, unleashing smash singles “Don’t Tell Me” and “My Happy Ending,” and collecting three more Juno Awards along the way.

In 2006, Avril married Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley and branched out into acting, appearing in Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation and lending her voice to Dreamworks’ animated film Over the Hedge.

She may be a bit more sophisticated these days, but she’s still peerless, and still fearless. The Best Damn Thing is Avril Lavigne at a new stage in her life; she’s passed through the shadows of teen angst and emerged in a spotlight, ready to have fun and rock out and yes, even dance. It is, just as she intended, the best damn thing she’s ever done.




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DATE EVENT LOCATION TICKETS
Apr 24 Dodge Arena Hidalgo
Apr 25 Cynthia Woods Pavilion Houston
Apr 26 Smirnoff Music Centre Dallas
Apr 27 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater San Antonio
Apr 29 The Pearl Las Vegas
Apr 30 Cox Arena at Aztec Bowl San Diego
May 2 Cricket Wireless Pavilion Phoenix
May 3 Honda Center Anaheim
May 4 Gibson Amphitheatre Los Angeles
May 6 Santa Barbara Bowl Santa Barbara
May 7 HP Pavilion San Jose
May 9 Spokane Arena Spokane
May 10 Comcast Arena at Everett Events Center Seattle
May 26 Academy (SOLD OUT) Glasgow
May 27 Academy Glasgow
May 29 Manchester Evening News Arena Manchester
May 30 National Exhibition Centre Birmingham
May 31 International Arena Cardiff
June 1 Pavilion Plymouth
June 3 International Centre Bournemouth
June 4 The 02 London
June 6 RDS Simmonscourt Dublin
June 7 Odyssey Arena Belfast
June 9 Rockhal Luxembourg
June 10 Zenith Paris
June 12 Palaonda Italy
June 13 Datchforum Milan
June 14 Grimaldi Forum Hall Monaco
June 17 Zenith Munich
June 18 Philipshalle Dusseldorf
June 20 Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam
June 21 Forest National Brussels
June 22 Rosengarten Mannheim
June 23 Junge Garde Dresden
June 24 Columbiahalle Berlin
June 26 KB Hallen Copenhagen
June 28 Annexet Stockholm
June 30 Ice Hall Helsinki
July 1 Saku Arena Tallinn
July 2 Riga Arena Riga
July 3 Siemens Arena Vilnius
July 5 Hala Stuleca Wroclaw
July 7 Petofi Csarnok Budapest
July 8 Sazka Arena Prague
July 9 Stehplatz Vienna
July 22 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre St.Louis St.Louis
July 23 Verizon Wireless Music Center Indianapolis
July 25 Hersheypark Stadium Hershey
July 26 New England Dodge Music Center Hartford
July 28 Riverbend Music Center Cincinnati
July 29 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte Charlotte
July 30 Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion Raleigh
August 1 Musikfest Bethlehem
August 2 Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs
August 5 Sudbury Arena(SOLD OUT) Sudbury
August 6 Molson Amphitheatre Toronto
August 8 Harbour Station St. John, NB
August 9 Moncton Coliseum Moncton
August 10 Metro Centre Halifax
August 12 Mile One Centre St. John's, NL

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