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03 Aug 2005 >>
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Avril's Got A New Attitude >> |
She no longer takes the
bait.
It's one of the many things
Avril Lavigne has learned
over the course of her short
but eventful career.
We're talking about the
proliferation of Avril-esque
pop stars out there, and I
-- as a purely innocent
display of journalistic
courtesy -- give the young
Canadian artist the
opportunity to name names.
"Do I want to start that?"
Lavigne says laughing.
"Yeah, let's keep the peace
going."
You can see why she'd want
to do that. Since rising to
the top of the pop heap
three years ago, Lavigne has
feuded or reportedly feuded
with young stars such as
Britney Spears, Hilary Duff,
Ashlee Simpson, Lindsay
Lohan ... did we miss
anyone?
The ironic part about that
is most of those young
performers as well as Kelly
Clarkson, Fefe Dobson and
others have taken a page
from the Avril playbook and
owe a great deal to the
anti-Britney movement she
kicked off.
"I agree," says the
20-year-old who performs
tomorrow night at the 'Dome.
"I think I helped open the
doors for younger, female
singer-songwriters or just
female singers.
"I think there's been
situations where girls have
been dressed almost
identical to me in their
videos and their songs kind
of sounded like Complicated
and they do their little
attitude thing.
"Well,they're not me and
they never will be me and
when people do things that
try and copy me everybody
knows it anyway. It's
flattering but ... I don't
really care.
"I'm my own person, I have a
pretty strong personality
and character and everybody
knows what I'm like."
Maybe not. These days,
Lavigne is far removed from
the baggy pantsed, pout girl
of three years ago, and even
more mature than the person
responsible for 2004's
sophomore release Under My
Skin.
"Well it's so true because I
was only 17 -- I was right
out of high school, I didn't
even finish," she says of
the early Avril. "I was a
spunky little kid running
around flipping the bird to
everyone and a total tomboy
and now I'm a woman.
"I've grown up."
Grown up and now engaged to
Sum 41 frontman Deryck
Whibley, although, like
picking fights with pop
stars, Lavigne has learned
it's best to keep those
things to herself and not
comment on them.
As to when she might comment
on them musically, we're
going to have to wait awhile
for that.
In October, she'll finally
finish up this tour -- she's
been at it for over a year
-- and only then will she
get to work writing material
for her third album.
"It's not so as I have time
off where I get really
inspired, because every time
I go to write out here I'll
be in a magic moment coming
up with ideas and someone's
like 'Avril, you have to go
for a meet-and-greet now,' "
she says.
"I'm not down with it out
(on the road) because I keep
being interrupted and I
can't really focus.
"I went home for the
Christmas holidays and I had
time off -- I wrote five
songs, because no one was
around and I was by myself
... That was exactly what
happened when it came time
to do (Under My Skin). The
day I got off tour I was
thinking, 'What am I going
to do?'
"A week later, I was writing
songs every day."
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