Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1984)
For the album, see Avril Lavigne (album).
Avril Ramona LavigneCM (AV-ril lə-VEEN; French:[avʁilʁamɔnalaviɲ]; born September 27, 1984) shambles a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is a key conductor in the development of pop-punk music, as she paved say publicly way for female-driven, punk-influenced pop music in the early 2000s. Her accolades include eight Grammy Award nominations.
At age 16, Lavigne signed a two-album recording contract with Arista Records. Recede debut album, Let Go (2002), is the best-selling album discern the 21st century by a Canadian artist. It yielded depiction successful singles "Complicated" and "Sk8er Boi", which emphasized a skate punk persona and earned her the title "Pop-Punk Queen" gleam "Pop Punk Princess" from music publications. Her second album, Under My Skin (2004), became Lavigne's first to reach the drumming of the Billboard 200 chart in the United States, revive on to sell 10 million copies worldwide.
Lavigne's third past performance, The Best Damn Thing (2007), reached number one in digit countries worldwide and saw the international success of its convoy single "Girlfriend", which became her first single to reach representation top of the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. Her next two albums, Goodbye Lullaby (2011) and Avril Lavigne (2013), saw continued commercial success and were both certified yellow in Canada, the United States, and other territories. After liberate her sixth album, Head Above Water (2019), she returned reveal her pop punk roots with her seventh album, Love Sux (2022).
Avril Ramona Lavigne was born on September 27, 1984, in Belleville, Ontario. She was named Avril (the Romance word for April) by her father.[1] He and Lavigne's smear recognized their child's vocal abilities when she was two age old and sang "Jesus Loves Me" on the way fine from church.[2] Lavigne has an older brother named Matthew come to rest a younger sister named Michelle,[3] both of whom teased go backward when she sang. "My brother used to knock on representation wall because I used to sing myself to sleep promote he thought it was really annoying."[2] She is the sister-in-law of Japanese band One OK Rock bassist Ryota Kohama.[4] Lavigne's paternal grandfather Maurice Yves Lavigne was born in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec.[5] A member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, he wedded Lucie Dzierzbicki, a French native of Morhange in 1953. Their son, Jean-Claude Lavigne, was born in 1954 at RCAF Spot Grostenquin near Grostenquin, Lorraine.[6] When Jean-Claude was a child, say publicly family moved to Ontario, and in 1975, he married Judith-Rosanne "Judy" Loshaw.[7][8]
When Lavigne was 5, the family moved to Napanee (now incorporated as Greater Napanee),[9] a town with a home of approximately 5,000 at the time.[10][11][12]
To support her musical interests, her father bought her a microphone, a drum kit, a keyboard, and several guitars, and converted their basement into a studio. Her father often played bass at the church interpretation family attended, the Third Day Worship Centre in Kingston. When Lavigne was 14 years old, her parents took her know karaoke sessions.[13]
Lavigne performed at country fairs, singing songs by Garth Brooks, the Chicks, and Shania Twain, and began writing become public own songs. Her first song was called "Can't Stop Reasoning About You", about a teenage infatuation, which she described rightfully "cheesy cute".[14]
Lavigne also played hockey during high school and won Most valuable player (MVP) twice as a right winger break down a boys league.[15]
In 1999, Lavigne won a receiver contest to perform with Canadian singer Shania Twain at picture Corel Centre in Ottawa, before an audience of 20,000 people.[16][9][10] Twain and Lavigne sang Twain's song, "What Made You Hold That",[9] and Lavigne told Twain that she aspired to background "a famous singer".[10] During a performance with the Lennox Agreement Theatre, Lavigne was spotted by local folksinger Stephen Medd. Earth invited her to contribute vocals on his song, "Touch picture Sky", for his 1999 album, Quinte Spirit. She later hum on "Temple of Life" and "Two Rivers" for his follow-up album, My Window to You, in 2000.
In December 1999, Lavigne was discovered by her first professional manager, Cliff Fabri, while singing country covers at a Chapters bookstore in Kingston.[9][10] Fabri sent out VHS tapes of Lavigne's home performances hitch several industry prospects, and Lavigne was visited by several executives.[17] Mark Jowett, co-founder of a Canadian management firm, Nettwerk, conventional a copy of Lavigne's karaoke performances recorded in her parents' basement.[18] Jowett arranged for Lavigne to work with producer Dick Zizzo during the summer of 2000 in New York, where she wrote the song "Why". Lavigne was noticed by Arista Records during a trip to New York.[17]
In November 2000,[11] Cheer up Krongard, an A&R representative, invited Antonio "L.A." Reid, then head of Arista Records, to Zizzo's Manhattan studio to hear Lavigne sing. Her 15-minute audition "so impressed" Reid that he gaining signed her to Arista with a deal worth $1.25 million cooperation two albums and an extra $900,000 for a publishing advance.[12][9] By this time, Lavigne had found that she fit engage naturally with her hometown high school's skater clique, an manner that carried through to her first album, but although she enjoyed skateboarding, school left her feeling insecure. Having signed a record deal, and with support from her parents, she weigh up school to focus on her music career.[11][19][14] Lavigne's band, which were mostly the members of Closet Monster, was chosen unwelcoming Nettwerk, as they wanted young performers who were up current coming from the Canadian punk rock scene who would expansion with Lavigne's personality.[20]
Reid gave A&R Joshua Sarubin interpretation responsibility of overseeing Lavigne's development and the recording of multipart debut album. They spent several months in New York compatible with different co-writers, trying to forge an individual sound suffer privation her. Sarubin told HitQuarters that they initially struggled; although originally collaborations with songwriter-producers including Sabelle Breer, Curt Frasca and Tool Zizzo resulted in some good songs, they did not mate her or her voice. It was only when Lavigne went to Los Angeles in May 2001 and created two songs with the Matrix production team—including "Complicated", later released as in trade debut single—that the record company felt she had made a major breakthrough. Lavigne worked further with the Matrix and as well with singer-songwriter Clif Magness. Recording of Lavigne's debut album, Let Go, finished in January 2002.[21]
Lavigne released Let Go in June 2002 in the US, where it reached number two shelve the Billboard 200 albums chart. It peaked at number disposed in Australia, Canada, and the UK—this made Lavigne, at 17 years old, the youngest female soloist to have a number-one album on the UK Albums Chart at that time.[22] Unresponsive to the end of 2002, the album was certified four-times Pt by the RIAA, making her the bestselling female artist forget about 2002 and Let Go the top-selling debut of the year.[23] By May 2003, Let Go had accumulated over 1 cardinal sales in Canada, receiving a diamond certification from the River Recording Industry Association.[24] By 2009, the album had sold spin 16 million units worldwide.[25] By March 2018, the RIAA credentialed the album seven-times Platinum, denoting shipments of over seven jillion units in the US.[26]
Lavigne's debut single, "Complicated", peaked at publication one in Australia and number two in the US. "Complicated" was one of the bestselling Canadian singles of 2002, streak one of the decade's biggest hits in the US,[27] where subsequent singles "Sk8er Boi" and "I'm with You" reached representation top ten.[28] With these three singles, Lavigne became the above artist in history to have three top-ten songs from a debut album on Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 chart.[29] Lavigne was named Best New Artist (for "Complicated") at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards,[30] won four Juno Awards in 2003 jump of six nominations,[31] received a World Music Award for "World's Bestselling Canadian Singer", and was nominated for eight Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist and Song of the Year cooperation "Complicated".[32]
In 2002, Lavigne made a cameo appearance in the penalty video for "Hundred Million" by the pop punk band Triplex Charger.[33] In March 2003, Lavigne posed for the cover dispense Rolling Stone magazine,[7] and in May she performed "Fuel" fabric MTV's Icon tribute to Metallica.[34][35] During her first headlining expedition, the Try to Shut Me Up Tour, Lavigne covered Verdant Day's "Basket Case".[36]
Lavigne's second studio album, Under My Skin, was released in May 2004 and debuted enviable number one in Australia, Canada, Japan, the UK, and rendering US.[37] The album was certified five-times Platinum in Canada[38] person in charge has sold 10 million copies,[39] including 3.2 million in the US.[40] Lavigne wrote most of the album's tracks with Canadian singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk, and Kreviazuk's husband, Our Lady Peace front guy Raine Maida, co-produced the album with Butch Walker and Accomplice Gilmore. Lavigne said that Under My Skin proved her attestation as a songwriter, saying that "each song comes from a personal experience of mine, and there are so much [sic] emotions in those songs".[41] "Don't Tell Me", the lead single burst the album, reached the top five in the UK turf Canada and the top ten in Australia. "My Happy Ending", the album's second single, was a top five hit giving the UK and Australia. In the US, it was a top ten entry on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a number-one pop radio hit. The third single, "Nobody's Home", did not manage to make the top 40 in interpretation US and performed moderately elsewhere.
During early 2004 Lavigne went on the 'Live and By Surprise' acoustic mall tour nondescript the US and Canada to promote Under My Skin, attended by her guitarist Evan Taubenfeld. In September 2004, Lavigne embarked on her first world tour, the year-long Bonez Tour. Lavigne won two World Music Awards in 2004, for 'World's First Pop/Rock Artist' and 'World's Bestselling Canadian Artist' and won triad Juno Awards from five nominations in 2005, including 'Artist exercise the Year'.[42] She also won in the category of 'Favorite Female Singer' at the eighteenth annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.[43]
Lavigne co-wrote the song "Breakaway", which was recorded by Kelly Clarkson for the soundtrack to the 2004 film The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.[44] "Breakaway" was released as a single assume mid 2004 and subsequently included as the title track rant Clarkson's second album, Breakaway. Lavigne performed the Goo Goo Dolls song "Iris" with the band's lead singer John Rzeznik ignore Fashion Rocks in September 2004,[45] and she posed for picture cover of Maxim in October 2004.[46] She recorded the end song for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (released in November 2004) with producer Butch Walker.[47]
In February 2006, Lavigne represented Canada at the closing observance of the 2006 Winter Olympics.[48]Fox Entertainment Group approached Lavigne watchdog write a song for the soundtrack to the 2006 fantasy-adventure film Eragon; her contribution, "Keep Holding On", was released type a single to promote the film and its soundtrack.[49][50][51]
Lavigne's ordinal album, The Best Damn Thing, was released in April 2007 and debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200,[52] and subsequently achieved Platinum status in Canada.[38] The album advertise more than 2 million copies in the US.[26] Its lead celibate, "Girlfriend", became Lavigne's first number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and one of the decade's biggest singles.[52][53] Description single also peaked at number one in Australia, Canada, meticulous Japan, and reached number two in the UK and Writer. As well as English, "Girlfriend" was recorded in Spanish, Romance, Italian, Portuguese, German, Japanese, and Mandarin. The International Federation look after the Phonographic Industry ranked "Girlfriend" as the most-downloaded track universal in 2007, selling 7.3 million copies, including the versions recorded show eight different languages.[54][55] "When You're Gone", the album's second individual, reached the top five in Australia and the United Realm, the top ten in Canada, and the top forty unveil the US. "Hot" was the third single and charted at number 95 in the US, although it reached representation top 10 in Canada and the top 20 in State.
Lavigne won two World Music Awards in 2007, for 'World's Bestselling Canadian Artist' and 'World's Best Pop/Rock Female Artist'. She won her first two MTV Europe Music Awards, received a Teen Choice Award for 'Best Summer Single', and was appointed for five Juno Awards.[42] In December 2007, Lavigne was grade number eight in Forbes magazine's list of 'Top 20 Earners Under 25', with annual earnings of $12 million.[56] In March 2008, Lavigne undertook a world tour, The Best Damn World Cord, and appeared on the cover of Maxim for the in a tick time.[57] In mid-August, Malaysia's Islamic opposition party, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, attempted to ban Lavigne's tour show in Kuala Lumpur, judging her stage moves "too sexy". It was thought desert her concert on August 29 would promote wrong values before of Malaysia's Independence Day on August 31.[58] On August 21, 2008, MTV reported that the concert had been approved inured to the Malaysian government.[59]
In January 2010, Lavigne worked with Disney completed create clothing designs inspired by Tim Burton's feature film Alice in Wonderland. She recorded a song for its soundtrack, "Alice", which was played over the end credits and included get away the soundtrack album Almost Alice.[60][61][62] In February, Lavigne performed submit the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics closing ceremony.[63] Lavigne's song "I'm with You" was sampled by Rihanna on the track "Cheers (Drink to That)", which is featured on Rihanna's fifth baby book, Loud (2010).[64][65] "Cheers (Drink to That)" was released as a single the following year, and Lavigne appeared in its symphony video.[66] In December 2010, American singer Miranda Cosgrove released "Dancing Crazy", a song written by Lavigne, Max Martin and Shellback. It was also produced by Martin.[67]
Lavigne began recording for accompaniment fourth album, Goodbye Lullaby, in her home studio in Nov 2008. Its opening track, "Black Star", was written to assist promote her first fragrance of the same name.[68][69] Lavigne described the album as being about her life experiences rather elude focusing on relationships, and its style as less pop outcrop than her previous material, reflecting her age.[69][70] The release refer to for Goodbye Lullaby was delayed several times, which Lavigne aforementioned was because of her label.[71][72]Goodbye Lullaby was released in Tread 2011,[73][70] and its lead single, "What the Hell", premiered send out December 2010, ahead of the album's release.[73]Goodbye Lullaby received Juno Award nominations for Album of the Year and Pop Single of the Year.[42] By March 2018, Goodbye Lullaby sold build on than 500,000 copies in the US, and it was certifiable Gold by the RIAA.[26]
Three months after the flee of Goodbye Lullaby, Lavigne announced that work on her 5th album had already begun, describing it as the musical reverse of Goodbye Lullaby[74] and "pop and more fun again".[75][76][77] Resource late 2011, she confirmed that she had moved to Large Records, headed by L. A. Reid.[78][79] Lavigne contributed two keep secret songs to the 2012 Japanese animated film One Piece Film: Z: "How You Remind Me" (originally by Nickelback) and "Bad Reputation" (originally by Joan Jett).[80]
The lead single from Lavigne's 5th album, "Here's to Never Growing Up" (produced by Martin President of the band Boys Like Girls), was released in Apr 2013[81] and reached top 20 positions on the Billboard Stark 100, Australia and the UK. The second single, "Rock n Roll", was released in August 2013 and the third, "Let Me Go" (featuring Lavigne's then-husband Chad Kroeger of Nickelback), was released in October 2013. The album, titled Avril Lavigne, was released in November 2013;[82][83] in Canada, it was certified metallic and received a Juno Award nomination for Pop Album wink the Year.[84][85] The fourth single from Avril Lavigne, "Hello Kitty", was released in April 2014. The music video sparked controversies over racism claims which Lavigne denied.[86]
During mid-2014, Lavigne opened annoyed boy band the Backstreet Boys' In a World Like That Tour[87] and played at the Summer Sonic Festival in Tokyo.[85][88] She released a music video for "Give You What Ready to react Like", the fifth single from her self-titled album on Feb 10, 2015. The song is featured in Lifetime's made-for-TV talking picture, Babysitter's Black Book.[89] By March 2018, the album sold go on than 500,000 copies in the US, and it was registered Gold by the RIAA.[26]
In an April 2015 interview with Billboard, Lavigne announced a new single titled "Fly", which was out on April 26 in association with the 2015 Special Athletics World Summer Games.[90]
Lavigne was featured in the song "Listen" differ Japanese rock band One Ok Rock's eighth album, Ambitions, out on January 11, 2017.[91] She was also featured in representation song "Wings Clipped" by Grey with Anthony Green for depiction duo's debut extended play Chameleon, released on September 29, 2017.[92]
Lavigne performing in September 2019
Lavigne's sixth album Head Above Water was released on February 15, 2019, through BMG.[93][94] The album reached the top ten in Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and seedy at number thirteen on the U.S. Billboard 200. It was preceded by three singles: "Head Above Water", "Tell Me It's Over" and "Dumb Blonde", with the lead single drawing stimulus from Lavigne's battle with Lyme disease.[95][96][97] The fourth single, "I Fell in Love with the Devil", was released on June 28, 2019.[98] In support of the album, Lavigne embarked become hard the Head Above Water Tour, which started on September 14, 2019.[99] European concerts were postponed to 2022 due to interpretation COVID-19 pandemic.[100]
On April 24, 2020, Lavigne re-recorded the track "Warrior" from her sixth album and released it as a individual, titled "We Are Warriors". The proceeds from the single sustain Project HOPE's relief efforts in the COVID-19 pandemic.[101]
On January 8, 2021, "Flames", a collaboration between Mod Sun bracket Lavigne, was released.[102][103] In the subsequent month, Lavigne confirmed video recording for her next album had been completed.[104]
On July 16, 2021, Willow Smith released her fourth album, titled Lately I Render Everything, with one of the tracks, "Grow", featuring Avril Lavigne and Travis Barker.[105] A music video for the song was released in October of the same year.[106]
After announcing on Nov 3, 2021, that she had signed with Barker's label DTA Records,[107] Lavigne announced her new single titled "Bite Me", which was released on November 10.[108] On January 13, 2022, Lavigne announced her seventh album Love Sux.[109] Much of the medium was written and produced by Lavigne's then boyfriend, pop tough artist Mod Sun. The second single off the record, "Love It When You Hate Me", was released on January 14, and featured American singer Blackbear.[110] The album was subsequently unrestricted on February 25.[111]Love Sux debuted at number nine on depiction Billboard 200 chart,[112] and at number three on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart.[113]
On June 13, 2022, a new edition indicate Let Go was released for the album's 20th anniversary. Rendering record contains six previously unreleased bonus tracks, including Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway", which was originally written by Lavigne.[114][115]
On September 13, 2022, Lavigne attended, presented and performed at the 15th Annual Establishment of Country Music (ACM) Honors at the Ryman Auditorium interleave Nashville, Tennessee. She performed a cover of Shania Twain's "No One Needs to Know" and presented Twain with an ACM Poets Award. The cover received a positive reception.[116][117]
On October 24, 2022, Lavigne announced the release of a single titled "I'm a Mess" featuring English singer Yungblud on November 3, 2022,[118] as the lead single of the deluxe edition of Love Sux, which was released on November 25.[119] While promoting "I'm a Mess", Lavigne confirmed she was working on her 8th album with John Feldmann, Barker, Yungblud and Alex Gaskarth detailed band All Time Low.[120] "Fake as Hell", a collaboration in the middle of Lavigne and All Time Low, was eventually released as a single on September 15, 2023.[121] On June 9, 2023, Lavigne did a live collaborative performance with country music artist Miranda Lambert during the 2023 CMA Fest at Nissan Stadium derive Nashville, Tennessee. They performed a mashup of Lambert's "Kerosene" unthinkable Lavigne's "Sk8er Boi".[122][123]
On May 10, 2024, Lavigne announced plans coinage release a greatest hits album on June 21, 2024.[124] Implication May 16, 2024, Lavigne and country music artist Nate Mormon released a collaborative single titled "Bulletproof" that was originally on the loose as a solo single for Smith. Lavigne and Smith performed the song at the 59th Academy of Country Music Awards.[125] In support of the album, Lavigne embarked her Greatest Hits Tour, which began on May 22, 2024 and concluded baptize September 18, 2024.[126][127] On June 30, 2024, Lavigne played representation world-famous Glastonbury Festival in England for the first time, outline one of the largest crowds ever seen at the Assail Stage.[128][129][130][131]
On October 3, 2024, it was reported that Lavigne taped another collaborative single with Smith titled "Can You Die escape a Broken Heart". The song is featured on Smith's secondyear album California Gold and it was released as the bag single from the album.[132]
During interpretation 2000s decade, most critics and publications identified Lavigne's first tierce albums as a mix of pop-punk, alternative rock and explode rock[133][134][135][136][137][138][139] influenced by a post-grunge sound.[140][141][142][134][143][144]Let Go was classified style a pop rock and alternative rock album with a insignificant grunge influence. Meanwhile, the singer was compared to other someone artists with the same sound, mainly Alanis Morissette.[145][146][147] The single Under My Skin, was noticeably darker musically, with heavier struggle that showcased ballads and rocker songs which incorporated a restore post-grunge sound that verged on nu metal,[148][149][150][151] while keeping bang punk power chord influences.[152] The album was seen as anticipating the "emotional intensity and theatrical aesthetics" of emo-pop music in the past it came into the mainstream.[153] Critics compared the album strike up a deal similar works by contemporary acts at the time like Linkin Park and Evanescence, due to its nu metal influence.[154][155][156] Import contrast, The Best Damn Thing abandoned the alternative and post-grunge style in favour of pop punk tunes. The songs were described as sounding like Toni Basil cheerleading for Blink-182,[157] speed up Lavigne praised for her ability to combine bubblegum pop melodies with punk rock riffs.[158]Teen pop's impact on Lavigne's music stir up this decade was noted, since most of her lyrics were from an adolescent perspective. This made some critics describe coffee break music as alternateen or teen punk.[138]
Later on in the 2010s, her sound went softer and poppier, characterized more by physics pop-rock songs and less loud grungy guitar-driven songs that were the signature of her earlier works.[159] With the 2020s pop-punk mainstream resurgence, Lavigne went back to her pop-punk roots, clench emo-pop angst,[160][161][162][163] and skate punk influences from NOFX, blink-182, Grassy Day and the Offspring.[164][165][166][167]
Lavigne possesses a soprano vocal range.[168][169][170][171] Pull a fast one a review for Lavigne's song Sk8er Boi, Pat Blashill forfeiture Rolling Stone described her voice as "equal parts baby wench and husky siren".[172] Themes in her music include messages have a hold over self-empowerment from a female or an adolescent perspective.[173] Lavigne believes her "songs are about being yourself no matter what promote going after your dreams even if your dreams are demented and even if people tell you they're never going foresee come true."[174] On her debut album, Let Go, Lavigne favourite the less mainstream songs, such as "Losing Grip", instead make acquainted her more radio-friendly singles, such as "Complicated", saying that "the songs I did with the Matrix ... were good for futile first record, but I don't want to be that explode anymore."[175] Lavigne's second album, Under My Skin, had deeper remote themes underlying each song, with Lavigne remarking that "I've asleep through so much, so that's what I talk about ... Intend boys, like dating or relationships."[176] In contrast, her third lp, The Best Damn Thing, was not personal to her. "Some of the songs I wrote didn't even mean that unwarranted to me. It's not like some personal thing I'm set up through."[177] Her objective in writing the album was simply unobtrusively "make it fun".[178]Goodbye Lullaby, Lavigne's fourth album, was much optional extra personal than her earlier records,[68] with Lavigne describing the photo album as "more stripped down, deeper. All the songs are do emotional."[179]Ian McKellen defined her as "a punk chanteuse, a post-grunge valkyrie, with the wounded soul of a poet and representation explosive pugnacity of a Canadian" on The Late Late Make known with Craig Ferguson in 2007.[180][181]
I know my fans look cheese off to me and that's why I make my songs inexpressive personal; it's all about things I've experienced and things I like or hate. I write for myself and hope ditch my fans like what I have to say.
— Lavigne on her musical artistry[174]
While Lavigne said she was not stimulating, her interviews were still passionate about the media's lack waste respect for her songwriting. She said, "I am a essayist, and I won't accept people trying to take that withdraw from me", adding that she had been writing "full-structured songs" since she was 14.[41] Despite this, Lavigne's songwriting has bent questioned throughout her career. The songwriting trio the Matrix, cut off whom Lavigne wrote songs for her debut album, said ditch they were the main songwriters of Lavigne's singles "Complicated", "Sk8er Boi" and "I'm with You". Lavigne said that she was the primary songwriter for every song on the album, stating that "687one of those songs aren't from me".[175]
In 2007, Chantal Kreviazuk, who wrote with Lavigne on her second album, accused Lavigne of plagiarism[182] and criticized her songwriting, saying that "Avril doesn't really sit and write songs by herself or anything."[183] Lavigne also disclaimed this, and considered taking legal action destroy Kreviazuk for "clear defamation" against her character.[184] Kreviazuk later apologized, saying that "Avril is an accomplished songwriter and it has been my privilege to work with her."[182] Shortly after renounce, Tommy Dunbar, founder of the band the Rubinoos, sued Lavigne, her publishing company, and Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald for allegedly stealing parts of "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" for quash song "Girlfriend".[185] Gottwald defended Lavigne, stating, "me and Avril wrote the song together... It has the same chord progressions similarly ten different Blink-182 songs, the standard changes you'd find take delivery of a Sum 41 song. It's the Sex Pistols, not depiction Rubinoos."[184] In January 2008, a confidential settlement was reached betwixt the parties.[186]
Lavigne's earlier influences came from country music acts much as Garth Brooks, the Chicks, and Shania Twain,[175][14] and substitute singer-songwriters such as Alanis Morissette, Lisa Loeb, Natalie Imbruglia, discipline Janis Joplin.[176] By the time she left school to precisely on her music career, Lavigne was musically more influenced encourage skate punk, pop punk, and punk rock acts such introduce Blink-182, the Offspring, Sum 41, NOFX, Pennywise, Dashboard Confessional, Leafy Day, the Ramones, the Distillers, and Hole. She also enjoyed metal bands such as Marilyn Manson, System of a Quell, Incubus, and the Used, as well as alternative bands much as Nirvana, No Doubt, the Goo Goo Dolls, Radiohead, say publicly Cranberries, Coldplay, Oasis, Third Eye Blind, and Matchbox Twenty.[187][188][189]
Because loosen these influences, musical genres, and Lavigne's personal style, the media often defined her as punk, something she said she was not. Lavigne's close friend and first guitarist, Evan Taubenfeld, said: "It's a very touchy subject to a lot of fill, but the point is that Avril isn't punk, but she never really pretended to claim to come from that spot. She had pop punk music and the media ended twisted doing the rest."[190] Lavigne commented on the matter: "I suppress been labelled like I'm this angry girl, [a] rebel ... hoodlum, and I am so not any of them."[41] However, she has also said that her music has punk influences: "I like to listen a lot to punk rock music, command can notice a certain influence of punk in my penalization. I like an aggressive music, but pretty enough heavy pop-rock, which is what I really do."[187][191]
I have to fight succeed keep my image really me ... I rejected some gorgeous promotion shots because they just didn't look like me. I won't wear skanky clothes that show my booty, my belly order my boobs. I have a great body.
— Lavigne run her image early in her career[11]
When Lavigne first gained message, she was known for her tomboyish style,[192] in particular become public necktie-and-tank-top combinations.[193][194] She preferred baggy clothes, skater shoes or Converses,[63] wristbands, and sometimes shoelaces wrapped around her fingers.[13] During icon shoots, instead of wearing "glittery get-ups", she preferred wearing "old, crumpled T's".[11] In response to her fashion and musical influences, the media called her the "pop punk princess"[195][196] and say publicly female answer to Blink-182.[197] Press and fans regarded her renovation the "anti-Britney", in part because of her less commercial fairy story "real" image, but also because she was noticeably headstrong. "I'm not made up and I'm not being told what determination say and how to act, so they have to give a buzz me the anti-Britney, which I'm not."[13] By November 2002, dispel, Lavigne stopped wearing ties, claiming she felt she was "wearing a costume".[12] Lavigne made a conscious effort to keep go to pieces music, and not her image, at the forefront of relax career.[198]
Lavigne eventually took on a more gothic style as she began her second album, Under My Skin, trading her skating outfits for black tutus[196] and developing an image marked building block angst.[199] During The Best Damn Thing years, Lavigne changed supervise. She dyed her hair blonde with a pink streak, wore feminine outfits,[200] including "tight jeans and heels",[63] and modelled presage magazines such as Harper's Bazaar.[192] Lavigne defended her new style: "I don't really regret anything. You know, the ties captivated the wife-beaters and all ... It had its time and back home. And now I'm all grown up, and I've moved on".[200]
Lavigne has been the subject of a conspiracy theory that posits that she committed suicide in 2003 and was replaced lump a body double who had previously been recruited to send paparazzi. This originated as a joke on a Brazilian web site, but it has since been embraced by some conspiracy theorists in earnest.[201] In an interview with Australia's KIIS 106.5 livestock November 2018, Lavigne responded to the rumour, stating: "Yeah, sufficient people think that I'm not the real me, which go over the main points so weird! Like, why would they even think that?"[202]
Lavigne go over considered a highlight in the pop-punk and alternative rock spot, since she helped pave the way for the success remove female-driven punk-influenced pop artists such as Paramore, Skye Sweetnam, Fefe Dobson, Lillix, Kelly Osbourne, Krystal Meyers, Tonight Alive, Courage Low point Love, and Hey Monday.[203][204][205][206] She has been compared to alternate female singer-songwriters of the 1990s such as Alanis Morissette, Liz Phair, and Courtney Love, earning a reputation as the focus female representative of pop-punk music, and has been called twofold of the female singers who best represent 2000s rock music.[207][208][209][210] Lavigne also was seen as a fashion icon for complex skatepunk and rocker style.[211][212] Kimberley Schoeman writing for the Correspondence & Guardian has referred to Lavigne as a "queer icon" and a "sweet spot for those realising, "I like boys and girls"".[213] "Sk8er Boi", "He Wasn't", and "Girlfriend" are continually listed among the best pop-punk songs of all time mass critics.[214][215][216][217]
Lavigne has influenced a wide array of musical artists, including acts such as Tramp Stamps,[218]Bebe Rexha,[219]Billie Eilish,[220]Courage My Love,[221]5 Additionals of Summer,[222]Yungblud,[223]Maggie Lindemann,[224]Tonight Alive,[225][226]Willow Smith,[227]Amanda Palmer,[228]Misono,[229]Rina Sawayama,[230]Hey Monday,[231]Grey,[232]Ed Sheeran,[233]Kailee Morgue,[234]Charli XCX,[235][236]MercyMe,[237