Avril Lavigne – Former MVP in Ice Hockey . . .honest!
Brunch with Avril Lavigne today – in concert from Rock In Rio on September 9, 2022.
In case you don’t already know what she’s been up to, the past few years:
Avril Lavigne’s sound went softer and poppier on her fourth and sixth albums, Goodbye Lullaby and Head Above Water respectively, which are characterized more by acoustic pop rock and less guitar-driven songs that were a signature of her earlier works. Despite this, songs on both albums have been labeled as pop-punk, including “Dumb Blonde” on the latter, a collaboration with Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj, with elements of hip-hop. Meanwhile, her fifth album, Avril Lavigne, is more diverse, with a mix of dance-pop and harsher rock tracks, including “Hello Kitty“, that experiments with J-pop, dubstep and EDM, and “Bad Girl”, a collaboration with American rock musician Marilyn Manson, considered one of her heaviest songs. Lavigne returned to her pop-punk roots on her seventh album Love Sux, with the mainstream resurgence of the genre, embracing emo-pop angst, and skate punk influences from NOFX, Blink-182, Green Day and the Offspring.
Lavigne possesses a soprano vocal range. Pat Blashill of Rolling Stone, in a review of “Sk8er Boi”, described her voice as “equal parts baby girl and husky siren”. Themes in her music include messages of self-empowerment from a female or an adolescent perspective. Lavigne believes her “songs are about being yourself no matter what and going after your dreams even if your dreams are crazy and even if people tell you they’re never going to come true.” Ian McKellen defined her as “a punk chanteuse, a post-grunge valkyrie, with the wounded soul of a poet and the explosive pugnacity of a Canadian” on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in 2007.
Now you’re caught up (to 2025) – crank it up and relax.