Avril Lavigne’s past love life helped inspire her new album Love Sux.
26.02.2022 - 00:57 / glamour.com
Love Sux, out now. The line—from the song “Cannonball”—is angsty and maybe even a little rude, but you can't miss the joy in her voice as she shouts over a drumbeat so driving it sounds like the heartbeat of someone who just downed three espressos, a Red Bull, and an unknown number of green tea pills.
It's everything we've asked Lavigne to be, sonically, since she first came on the scene at 17 years old back in 2002.If you're reading this, you probably don't need to hear from me how impactful her debut song “Complicated” and its accompanying album Let Go were in the early aughts. Lavigne's image as a pop punk princess smartly capitalized on the era's trends—a time when the original run of Jackass was on TV, professional skateboarders were the celebs of the moment, and bands like Blink-182 dominated the radio.
But it went deeper than that: Speaking from personal experience, Lavigne was the first time that I—an awkward preteen experiencing a lot of rage I didn't know how to name or understand—saw a woman in the mainstream embrace her angst with glee. Screaming along to hits like “Sk8er Boi” was an incredibly refreshing outlet, and her record sales from the time tell me I can't have been alone. Over the course of her decades-long career, Lavigne has found ways to stay relevant and switch up her sound and image without every straying too far off course.
She might dye her hair pink for an album or embrace a moodier tone, but she always knew her point of view: It's rock and roll—it's not meant to be that deep. Love Sux keeps on with the tradition. “I kind of just got together with my friends and made a really fun record,” she tells me over Zoom.
Avril Lavigne’s past love life helped inspire her new album Love Sux.
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Avril Lavigne has opened up about her love life and how it has influenced her music.MORE: Avril Lavigne stuns in neon green outfit you need to seeChatting to Kelly Clarkson while on her show this week, the hit singer revealed that she had gone to the recording studio feeling a bit down about her love life, only to come out of it in a relationship.Kelly said: "Your new album is called Love Sux, which well… sometimes it does," to which Avril replied: "I heard, ironically enough, that you met your new boyfriend while making it.VIDEO: Avril Lavigne makes bold revelation about boyfriend Mod Sun"I was in the studio and I was like… I'm jaded on love while now. You need to do that in recording sessions, say where you are at, and that set the tone for this album.PHOTOS: Inside Avril Lavigne's jaw-dropping $7.8m Malibu mansionWOW: Avril Lavigne poses in fishnets for major new photos you have to see"Then a couple days later I had a boyfriend! I'm literally never single,"The clip was shared on Instagram, and many fans were quick to comment.
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Sasha Urban editorIn the 20 years since Avril Lavigne set fire to the music scene with her debut album, “Let Go,” the princess of pop-punk has lived several lives. She’s released six albums since then, incorporating every genre from bubblegum pop to R&B, rock and even J-pop.
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Ellise Shafer Avril Lavigne — the original pop-punk teen queen — is returning to her rebel roots with “Love Sux,” her seventh studio album out today via Travis Barker’s DTA Records.In a December interview with Nylon, Lavigne described the 11-track project as the album “I’ve wanted to make for my whole career,” calling it “anthemic” and “powerful.” Indeed, the album’s two singles — “Bite Me” and “Love It When You Hate Me” — recall the in-your-face attitude of Lavigne’s earlier hits, à la “Sk8er Boi” and “Complicated,” while also presenting a more confident, independent woman and artist.
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Lorraine Kelly was stunned by Avril Lavigne ’s youthful appearance as she interviewed her on Thursday 24 February. The 62 year old presenter was shocked by how young the punk star looked, twenty years after her debut album, Unplugged, was released.