AVRIL-LAVIGNE-ROCK-IN-RIO-2022-09-09.mp3
Diving into the Pop/sorta-Punk side of things this morning with a set from Avril Lavigne at the 2022 Rock In Rio Festival, recorded September 9, 2022.
I just ran across this article by Mark Savage, music correspondent for the BBC which covers Avril Lavigne in 2022, right when this concert was happening. A good read:
By Mark Savage
BBC Music Correspondent
You wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of Avril Lavigne.
Twenty years after she burst onto the scene with her debut album, Let Go, her music is as spiky and direct as ever.
Exes and foes are dispatched with vituperative glee. "Don't hold your breath / 'Cause you're still choking on your words," she snarls on the recent single, Bite Me. In case her feelings aren't clear, another new song makes it simple: "When I think of you, I just want to throw up".
The song's called Love Sux, and it's the title track of Lavigne's seventh album, written (although she won't confirm this) after a split with fellow musician Pete Jonas.
"When I wrote Love Sux, I was having a moment," she says. "I was feeling really exhausted and jaded on love. I'd gone through a break-up and my feeling was like, 'Ugh, not again,' you know?
"Relationships aren't easy - and I had time to reflect on the gnarly stuff I've been through."
The star, who's 37 now, was previously married to Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger and Sum 41 rocker Deryck Whibley. Despite the break-ups, they remain on good terms and she stresses that her more vindictive lyrics are written with a healthy dose of humour.
"At this point, it's like, I just learn to laugh at these things, versus being upset by it and letting it get me down."
But, in a twist of irony that fellow Canuck Alanis Morissette would be proud of, Lavigne's plan for an album of break-up songs was derailed when she fell for her co-producer, the punk musician Mod Sun.
She tried to resist it ("the most I've ever tried," she has said, external) but there was an undeniable connection. Navigating those feelings while writing about the end of a different relationship eventually inspired the album's most tender song.
"It's not that I don't care, it's just I'm scared," she sings on the piano-led Dare To Love Me. "Why's it got to be this hard just to open my heart?"
Lavigne started her career at the peak of the CD era, but she's successfully transitioned to streaming, with 16 million monthly listeners on Spotify alone.
Promoting her new record, however, meant she had to create an account on TikTok - where practically all modern hits are born.
"Everyone was harassing me to join and, honestly, I wasn't super-amped on it," she admits.
When she finally relented, she insisted on ground rules: "I'm not going to post three times a week [but] whenever something makes sense and it's fun and I've thought of it, then we'll post something."
Her first idea was to make a video for Sk8r Boi, featuring a mini half-pipe she'd recently installed in her Malibu home.
The clip starts off simply enough with Lavigne lip-syncing the lyrics, before the camera transitions to reveal skateboard legend Tony Hawk pulling tricks in her back garden.
On her recent single, Bite Me, she describes taking a boyfriend's clothes, throwing them out the window and setting them on fire.
Has she ever been tempted to do that in real life?
"Tempted? Maybe. Have I done it? Naaaah. I'm crazy but I'm not that crazy."
You can read the whole article at the BBC Website - Avril Lavigne: 'I still do the groceries'
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