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15 July 2005 >>
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Live Review: Avril Lavigne
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A much more glamorous Sk8er
Grrrl skips bad-girl act for
empowering show
Her fans may not be old
enough to drive or attend a
concert without their
parents or a curfew but that
doesn't mean that Avril
Lavigne's Corel Centre
concert last night was
child's play.
No way. Not since another
angry female singer-songerwriter
from Ontario, Alanis
Morissette, became the role
model for a generation of
young women with 1995's
Jagged Little Pill has there
been a rock-and-roll chick a
girl could hang her broken
heart on.
More than 15,000 fans,
surely one of the largest
houses the Corel Centre's
seen since the NHL lockout,
filled the hockey bunker
with waving glowsticks and
ear-piercing shrieks enough
to fill a haunted house on
Halloween.
Speaking of the dead, there
was little trace of the old
Avril.
Gone was her signature
skinny tie and mallrat
attire. In its place, the
Napanee native sported a big
blonde perm, a punk plaid
skirt and a glittering
diamond engagement ring that
she recently accepted from
her fiance, Sum 41 frontman
Deryck Whibley.
Suddenly, it's a new Lavigne.
The brat is gone, replaced
by a glamorous chick with
attitude.
While not the most
theatrical performer,
Lavigne demonstrated a level
of showmanship that's just
about right for a teenage
girl ... and her mother.
Splitting from the sex,
drugs and rock and roll
mantra of pop and the
misogyny of hip-hop, Lavigne
for the most part played it
low-key and sincere,
skipping the bad-girl act
altogether to focus on
singing songs of
self-respect and
empowerment.
"Be strong, be the person
you want to be and rock!"
she said, strapping on her
guitar.
It was all business for the
20-year old sugar-coated
punkster covering 17 songs
in her 90-minute set from
her first album Let Go and
2004's Under My Skin.
Good choice too. Co-written
with Chantal Kreviazuk and
former Evanescence guitarist
Ben Moody, songs such as
Fall To Pieces and My Happy
Ending and I Always Get What
I Want showed a more
sophisticated side to
Lavigne both personally and
as a writer, without losing
her touch with a big pop
hook. Little wonder the
album's sold more than 5
million copies and won three
Junos.
Occasionally, she showed her
notorious mischievous side,
wearing devil horns, posing
aggressively for the cameras
and stomping around the
stage in a rage on Take Me
Away.
There were a couple of nice
touches, including the
chandelier-lit turn at a
grand piano for Together and
Forgotten before repeating
the story of how at 14, she
first sang at the Corel
Centre after she won the
Shania Twain vocal
competition.
And even though her vocals
often sounded sharp and
shrill, her best moment of
the night was her solo turn
on Nobody's Home before
punking out with her
excellent boy-band on He
Wasn't and Sk8er Boi.
For her encore, Lavigne
surprised all by playing the
drums on a cover of Blur's
Song 2 before closing the
night out with Complicated.
In the end, what was the
biggest surprise of the
night was that even a
curmudgeonly adult, long
past teenage angst, found a
lot to enjoy in Avril
Lavigne's show.
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