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NO MORE AVRIL LAVIGNE THREAD
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Originally posted by Mugshot
And its gonna outsell the bitches in you avatar HAHAHAHAHA
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LAX are just new in the music scene unlike Avril whose umm,
i can't say it...
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honestly don't be offended
i don't know lax
i never see lax in billboard charts
maybe lax is a uk artist
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^Alright u dont know them,,
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Who are they ??? Stupid Girls ?!
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Fame, marriage and hometown pizza
Avril Lavigne is living the life of the megastar, but she's a Canadian smalltown girl at heart
Amy O'BrianVancouver Sun
Saturday, April 21, 2007
CREDIT: AP PhotoAvril Lavigne.It's been five years since Avril Lavigne popped up on the mainstream music scene as an angry little tie-wearing punk-pop kid. Her bratty tomboy image and teen-sympathizing songs were ravenously devoured by the money-spending masses, making her a millionaire before most of her friends graduated from high school.
Since then, the girl from Napanee, Ont., has glammed up and modelled for the pages of Harper's Bazaar. She's walked down the aisle -- wearing a Vera Wang gown -- to marry fellow Canadian Deryck Whibley of the punk band Sum 41. And she's released her third album, The Best Damn Thing.
The strange thing, though, is that at the age of 22, Lavigne still talks like a 15-year-old girl who just wants to get drunk with her friends and stir up trouble.
But while that attitude has made delinquents out of many a teenager, it's made a superstar out of Lavigne, whose version of getting into trouble includes writing and recording boisterous -- and sometimes obnoxious -- songs.
The new album (released earlier this week) has plenty of the adolescent boy-bashing, defensive-girl attitude and bratty brashness that Lavigne's fans are sure to appreciate.
When she spoke to us from New York, she was in the middle of a furious week of promotional activities that had her performing on Saturday Night Live, David Letterman, TRL and Live with Regis and Kelly. Needless to say, she hadn't had time -- or interest -- to read any reviews.
"I think everything's going really good," she said in her girly valley-girl lilt.
"I'm getting great feedback and I get updated by e-mails sometimes saying, 'You're number one in this country,' or whatever. So it's fun. I'm just really excited."
Review copies of the Best Damn Thing weren't sent out in advance of the CD's release. But while the reviews that have been trickling out in the days since have been less than glowing, most have also acknowledged that Lavigne wasn't trying to do anything more than make a fun album for her fans -- at which she definitely succeeded.
"This is the first record where I had a vision -- a complete vision -- as to what I was going to do on this album. And so on my last tour I was like, 'My next record is going to be really fast, really fun, all the way through.' It was just kind of me just knowing what I like now," she said.
"I think I've had songs like these before -- like Sk8ter Boi on my first record and He Wasn't on the last record -- and realized these are the songs I like the most and enjoy most live when I'm performing."
Like most media-savvy young pop performers, Lavigne claims to not pay any attention to media portrayals of her or her music.
"Oh God no. Reviews don't mean s---. It's just soooo, like, you don't care about that kind of stuff," she said.
"It's, like, one person's point of view. And then usually, the people that are writing them are older and they're not really into your kind of music anyway.
"And then of course you've got your bitter old journalists or whatever."
Whoa.
"No. I'm not saying that about you. You definitely don't sound bitter. But trust me, you can get them. People like to bring you down.
"Plus, you're Canadian. You're going to be nice."
Lavigne lives in Los Angeles with her husband, but says she travels back to Ontario about twice a year. And whenever she's in her hometown of Napanee she says she still heads to La Pizzeria, where they've named a pie after her. (She said she's heading to Kingston "soon" to visit her father.)
She left Napanee when she was 17 to pursue her music career in New York and has lived away from her family since, but she doesn't seem to have adopted a big-city attitude or embraced the lifestyle.
Despite the enormous diamond on her wedding finger, and the multi-million-dollar mansion she shares with her husband, Lavigne seems reluctant to shed her small-town ways.
"It's interesting, because I love living in L.A. I love living there. I love the weather. It's really warm. It's really beautiful.
"But the people there are f----- so stuck up, it's just like, sometimes I'll just look at the people and be like, 'Are you kidding me? You just said that?' And roll my eyes.
" 'Cause I'm from Canada, where everyone's really nice. And Deryck and I are really nice and people in L.A. are really rude.
"There's an attitude and everyone's really caught up in who's who and everyone is really concerned with what other people think about them, which is so silly to me. So we laugh at people a lot. But we have good friends there, which is good."
Those friends -- and her husband -- were included on the album, helping with everything from designing the heart-and-crossbones logo on the front, to Whibley taking the cover photo, to another friend working out the design for the cover art.
"I thought it was funny because me and all my friends did it and we could have paid so much money for someone else to do it," she said, smiling over the phone.
"That's kind of the thing. I have to do everything on my own to actually get it the way I want it. I can't ever rely on the label or whatever."
So is she a bit of a control freak when it comes to her career?
"I guess you could use that word," she said.
"I just approve everything. All their ideas. I'll be like, 'That's stupid. I'm not doing that.' Or, 'Why would you guys do it this way? You should do it that way.' Everything goes through me and I'll be like 'yes' or 'no,' which is because I'm on my third record, so I understand it and I'm older."
She also understands that not everyone is going to like her music or her persona, but she doesn't let it bother her. After all, she says, it's her sometimes-outrageous behaviour and attitude that got her where she is today.
"I think I just have a really strong personality and a strong image, which is the reason why I am successful, because I am my own thing.
"And I think there are people who love me and are hardcore dedicated fans and then there are people who totally don't like me. And that's kind of how it is with me.
"I'm having the time of my life ... I'm one of the lucky ones. You know there are so many talented people and it doesn't work out. It just happened for me. I'm from a small town in Canada and it's so crazy, everything that's happened to me."
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Congrats to Avril for her #1 debut in the UK... now let's wait a couple of days more for her #1 debut in the US...
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it´ll go #1 for sure , i p/d 320k this week, and like 650k WW
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# 1 UK and # 1 US (I hope) and obviously # 1 UWC!
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Avril sold 224,000 Copies in Japan in her first week
She'll be platinum by next week.
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Beyonce, Shakira And Avril Overtake U.K. Charts
April 23, 2007, 10:10 AM ET
Paul Sexton, London
Beyonce and Shakira's "Beautiful Liar" (Columbia) climbed 5-1 on the new U.K. singles chart yesterday (April 22), becoming the second No. 1 in the territory for each of the singers (but Beyonce's fifth including her work with Destiny's Child). Meanwhile, Avril Lavigne's "The Best Damn Thing" (RCA) entered the album chart at No. 1, her third consecutive chart-topping album here.
Both duet partners on "Beautiful Liar" last topped the U.K. singles chart last summer, when "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean replaced "Deja Vu" by Beyonce featuring Jay-Z at No. 1. "Liar" held off the Arctic Monkeys' "Brianstorm" (Domino) from the new summit, as that cut made an 11-2 surge. Also climbing into the top 10 were Ne-Yo's "Because of You" (Island Def Jam) 18-6, Natasha Bedingfield's "I Wanna Have Your Babies" (Phonogenic/Sony BMG) 15-7 and Coventry band the Enemy's "Away From Here" (Warner Bros.) 52-8.
In the chart teens, there was a new No. 16 hit for Irish band Ash with "You Can't Have It All" (Infectious), a 33-17 climb for the prolific Akon with "Don't Matter" (Universal) and a 32-18 improvement for Mika's second hit "Love Today" (Casablanca/Universal Island).
Lavigne leads the album countdown with first-week sales for "The Best Damn Thing" of 60,000. Producer-turned-hitmaker Mark Ronson, whose "Stop Me" single featuring Daniel Merriweather reached No. 2 last week, debuted in that position with his Columbia album "Version," which also features contributions by Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Robbie Williams and Kasabian. Kings Of Leon's "Because of the Times" (Hand Me Down/Sony BMG), No. 1 for the last two weeks, fell to No. 3.
More info: http://www.billboard.com/
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Hello, I'm ismaeel
i was banned without a reason
i asked the administrators why
and they didn't respond me
but i'm back
i miss you all!
Avril, she's doing great! <3
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^ English version, I guess.
I've never listened to radio Spanglish version (which is horrible).
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Great for Avril, although I'm already tired of GF
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Originally posted by Manuelangels
# 1 UK and # 1 US (I hope) and obviously # 1 UWC!
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Wrong it slips on UK chart!! and maybe would get the US #1 but i still have a little doubt...but duh it has three versions on top 20.....
but it wont #go number one on UWC... Give it to me will....
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Originally posted by Suga
Wrong it slips on UK chart!! and maybe would get the US #1 but i still have a little doubt...but duh it has three versions on top 20.....
but it wont #go number one on UWC... Give it to me will....
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i think he is talking about the album not the single "gf"
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Originally posted by Angelo
i think he is talking about the album not the single "gf"
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owww.. ok.. wrong post LOL
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Debuted at #1 in Austria and #3 in France(her best debut ever).
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^# 3 in France
Good job Avril
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