a v r i l lavignE

British Columbia Open University, Attended 2001 - 2005, Class of 2005, Bachelor's Degree

skatE bording.., singinG... jamminG!

Over The Hedge...Fast Food Nation...The Flock...Eragon...The Notebook...Titanic...Freaky Friday...The Pacifier...RV...Scary Movie...The Fast and The Furious:Tokyo Drift...Bring it on....Shrek1&2...Saw 1, 2, 3...Son of Mask...The Cookout...Sex in the City...Big Fish...Longest Yard...Pirates of the Caribbean...Charlies Angels...Norbit...Moulin Rouge...School of Rock...Pretty Woman..., How to lose a guy in ten days...Comedy...Drama...Adventure...Action...

Losing Grip. Complicated, Sk8r Boi, I'm With You, Mobile, Unwanted, Tomorrow, Anything But Ordinary, Things I'll Never Say, My World, Nobody's Fool, Too Much to Ask, Naked, Take Me Away, Together, Don't Tell Me, He Wasn't, How Does It Feel, My Happy Ending, Nobody's Home, Forgotten, Who Knows, Fall to Pieces, Freak Out, Slipped Away, I Always Get What I Want, Girlfriend, Girlfriend(remix), I Can Do Better, Runaway, The Best Damn Thing, When You're Gone, Everything Back But You, Hot, Innocence, I Don't Have to Try, One of Those Girls, Contagious, Keep Holding On, I Will Be

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. Its 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 werent, as she says, straight out of my diary. The result is a collection of songs that reveal just how far shes evolved as a songwriter and singer, from the sassy, empowering I Can Do Better (one of Avrils personal favorites) to the irrepressible first single Girlfriendwhich unexpectedly combines a hip-hop beat with beefy power chords, hand-claps, and a chanted girl-group-style chorus with a punk rock twistto the emotional ballad Keep Holding On, which she wrote at the request of 20th Century Fox for the studios 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 Things creation: From being fiercely independent while writing her own songs (I didnt have an A&R guy on this record, she emphasizes.
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.