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Avril Lavigne to Give Everyone the Bird on Upcoming Tour

2/6/08, 12:20 pm EST


For her upcoming tour, Avril Lavigne is taking a cue from Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera. “They go offstage ten friggin’ times!” says the singer, who plans to take nightly breathers when she crisscrosses the globe on her five-month trek, which kicks off on March 5th in Victoria, British Columbia. “I’m going off, like, twice [per night]. I’ve never done a change or a break.”

On this tour, her third, Lavigne’s clothes won’t be the only thing changing: For the first time, dancers will join her onstage, hyping the crowd on big numbers like the amped-up “Girlfriend.” “There are kicks and punches, but nothing cheesy or super bubblegum,” says Lavigne, who will also revisit her earlier hits. And while the twenty-three-year-old says she’s grown out of her “Sk8er Boi”-era sassiness, her inner badass lives on. “I’m covering [Joan Jett’s] ‘Bad Reputation,’” she says. “While I’m singing the track, there will be a montage of videos of me with a cigarette, flipping the bird.”

Avril will pause her tour on April 6th to perform at the JUNO Awards (Canada’s version of the Grammys), where the Ontario-born singer scored five nominations, including Album of the Year for 2007’s The Best Damn Thing. But she’ll be looking forward to getting back on the road. “I just went back to Canada to visit my family and I got off the airplane and was like, ‘Fuck that!’” she says. “It was so cold I couldn’t deal.”

When Lavigne’s tour wraps in June, she’ll go back to sunny Los Angeles to spend some quality time with her hubby, Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley, and she’ll also dive back into a new batch of songs. “I have so much creative energy, so I’ve been writing,” she says. “It want to do more acoustic stuff. It doesn’t mean that’s what my next record is going to be, but I’m doing it to get it out.”

In the meantime, she’s resting up—and watching the presidential candidates battle it out on TV. “I wish I could vote here,” she says. “I think Hillary might get it. It’d be fucking awesome if a chick won!”


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Margaret | 2/6/2008, 1:02 pm EST

She’s retarded. Punches and kicks but nothing cheesy…right. Creative Energy…keep telling yourself that. Then again, just keep telling other people that, didn’t she learn that’s how she got sued, taking credit for what a producer wrote, and insisting on putting her name on it.

JJ McClure | 2/6/2008, 2:29 pm EST

Wow…now thats special effects. Videos of her flipping the bird and smoking? Whoa, what a creative rebel genius! Hannah Montana is at least honest about being an airhead pop star. Another Britney in the making!

Pat Benatar | 2/6/2008, 3:25 pm EST

Please, snipers, please!!!

Grow Your Hair | 2/6/2008, 6:27 pm EST

Where is a hit man when you need one?

DALE | 2/6/2008, 7:00 pm EST

Marget what have you acomplished? Avril’s vocal’s sound fantastic acousticly (as witnessed by her roxy theater performance) she’s always been a trained songwriter since she worked with peter zizzo in new york. If haters actually had real evidence as opposed to sucking on perez hiltons #%@ then some people might know the “real truth” as opposed to smear campaigns, also if Pat Benetar’s career was still vibrant today (as their was no internet or blog sites) she would get pounded for her “bad behavior” lastly your comment about her “stealing a song that some producer wrote” WHO? Lukas Gottwald? he’s the only other co-writer on the track girlfriend maybe you should ask him,that is IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH .

Anita | 2/6/2008, 7:29 pm EST

Avril, grow up, be honest with your self and stop being a hypocrite it’s beyond irritating. You’re more precocious than any other celebrity I”m ever heard of – and you play it off like you’re bad-ass and uh haha “punk”. Nice try , at least Hilary and Hannah are honest about their bubblegum cheese – and you know what they come off as more mature and they are a great deal younger than you.

Brandon | 2/6/2008, 10:22 pm EST

hey DALE, look up the production team The Matrix. as an avril advocate i’m suprised you’ve never heard of them.

sum1notsum41 | 2/7/2008, 4:06 am EST

Im not a fan of avril, but when shes been interviewed infront of the camera she seems softly spoken & humble, just a sweet girl next-door type. Then every few months a magazine interview comes out & she sounds spoilt, immature & arrogant. Can’t decide which one she really is, probably both or maybe shes just dumb.

emaline | 2/7/2008, 11:03 am EST

dude…….she is way better than hilary! fat stupid poser!!!!!
hil is the next nicole richie!!!

vee | 2/7/2008, 11:29 am EST

avril is one of the nastiest, selfish and over rated ’singer’s in history
lol

dmax | 2/7/2008, 12:05 pm EST

Ignoring her re-framing, she’s merely a younger, whiter, less-talented Diana Ross. Diva and egotist and ultimately forgettable.

Joan Jett | 2/7/2008, 1:02 pm EST

Dale, admit it…Pat Benatar could kick your ass.

TheReez | 2/7/2008, 1:58 pm EST

Avril is a waste of space. I hope that record companies keep pumping this useless, fake shit out until it buries them.

“I wish I could vote here,” she says. “I think Hillary might get it. It’d be fucking awesome if a chick won!”
Wrong again, Avril. Hillary was a “chick” twenty years before you were born. Kill me now.

Punk Skunk | 2/7/2008, 3:45 pm EST

If she’s so PUNK & BAD ASS, why do her studio albums need Pro Tools’ Auto-Tune effects on the vocals??!! She’s as big of a POSER as the pop princesses she calls out!

Maria | 2/7/2008, 5:54 pm EST

It’s funny that there’s always a couple of people reading stuff about Avril when they hate her so much. Because all of us have different taste, it’s fine if you don’t like Avril’s music, there’s a couple of artist’s music I can really live without, but I don’t go on the net and read everything about them just to leave a few nasty comments. You all are pathetic. Read stuff about people you like.

jelena | 2/8/2008, 6:52 am EST

omosh pe0pLe..!shut up ur m0uth if u just gonna say those stupid comments about avril..!

dcox143 | 2/8/2008, 10:30 am EST

I am old enough to be her father…responsible adult…..I LOVE HER MUSIC !!!! Why?…because there is so much good poetry in her slow ballads. not too interested in her fast bop punk songs but she has to appeal to a large range of fans. Producers have alot to do with creating and keeping her image up to the point of being a little pop, punk, and mature. I’m sure she will prove to be a very influential writer and performer as she transforms into a lady before our eyes …and ears. I will be at her Atlanta concert. Imagine that….an old guy (do not read into this as anything but musically entranced )going to a pop concert. “When You’re Gone” is a pure, beautiful ballad that will shine for many other artists to cover. Watch her abilities grow as she does…

theo | 2/8/2008, 11:04 pm EST

How blasphemous that this poser puke is covering Joan Jett’s classic “Bad Reputation”!!

Jacqui | 2/9/2008, 9:59 am EST

how do you expect a positive comment
re the headline
avril giving everybody the bird
this is tasteless trashy crap

and so immature
avril behaves like a spoiled brat with little brains

chad. | 2/9/2008, 11:52 am EST

she’s cool. the black eyeliner is a bit much, though.

Amber | 2/9/2008, 12:54 pm EST

Ever notice that when the magazine comes out with and interview, that she’s supposedly cussing and talking bad all the time and then when a live interview is on t.v or something she’s always polite? Do any of you ever think it could be the writers in the magazine portraying her that way? If you ever listen to anyone in the spotlight like Avril you’d know that the writers do that. Plus, I think Avril’s great and her music and style is one of a kind. Avril is still around for a reason. For all of you who supposedly don’t like her and come to this site to read stuff about her just to leave nasty comments, you know you still sing along to “Girlfriend” when your alone in your car. Why bother reading stuff about her if you don’t like her? That just makes you look like an idiot.

Mark | 2/9/2008, 1:44 pm EST

I’m 39…my daughter & niece love Avril…I own all 3 of her cds and have seen her live twice. She is talented and makes good music..I like her cds and she is very entertaining in concert. To the clown who thinks she uses pro tools auto-tune – explain why she sounds great live and acoustically? Has everyone who is slamming her actually LISTENED to one of her cds? She plays guitar,piano,drums..sings & writes music….and she’s great looking. I think she is a great role model unlike the pop tarts who lip sync and dance.

Uncle Bob | 2/9/2008, 7:50 pm EST

I couldn’t be bothered to comment on music I didn’t like. There’s just so much of it, I wouldn’t know where to begin. I can’t believe all the people willing to waste their time bitchin’ about her. What is it about her that inspires such negativity? I’m 55, own all her CDs and I think she is just great. Kiss my ass.

KIRK | 2/10/2008, 9:44 am EST

THE POINT IS
WHY TELL THE WORLD T0
SHE WILL BE TELLING US ALL TO

F&&^^ OFF

WHO APPRECIATES THIS?
HER ‘MUSIC’ IS A MATTER OF OPINION
SHE TAKES CREDIT FOR EVERYTHING
AND ALLOWS NO ONE ELSE ANY GLORY
lots of dirty ole men like her and tots

Hannah/Tony Montana | 2/10/2008, 2:39 pm EST

I wouldn’t go to see her in concert if she performed naked. She’s even more annoying than Britney and has a WAY inflated view of herself and her lousy music.

moo | 2/10/2008, 9:55 pm EST

I think Avril is the best singer in the world! Stop hating her!

Crowley | 2/11/2008, 5:57 am EST

She Avril is the hate filled one

You love her or hate her | 2/11/2008, 7:39 am EST

There’s no middle ground really. She’s brilliant, my favourite girl in the world.
Can’t wait to see the show, sounds fantastic.

Love you, Avie.

Ambeera | 2/11/2008, 9:00 pm EST

avril is nearly 24 but she still comes across like an idiot 16 yr old. she’s covering ‘bad reputation’ to a montage of her smoking and giving the finger and she’s doing it seriously? way to stick with your target market, you tween marketers wet dream.

what a deluded moron.

it’s really too bad for her that she’s successful since all that money, legions of tween fans and yes-men, and even the hate she gets in the media probably all reinforce her delusions about herself.

geki | 2/14/2008, 10:17 am EST

millions of kids love her
she is ok

Former Fan | 2/15/2008, 12:12 pm EST

Avril owes her success to The Matrix songwriting team and her original production team. Like millions of others, I was awed by her vocal talent on her first album. But once she got a taste of success, she drank her own kool-aid and decided she could do it all herself. Unfortunately, God-given talent does not automatically equal maturity. Her subsequent records are vapid and annoying and do not showcase her true ability in any way. I hope she grows up soon while anybody still cares, or she will be a pop footnote as opposed to a true star.

Lord Alf | 2/17/2008, 5:15 pm EST

We’ll be seeing Avril ~ again ~ on her UK and we (me, my wife and my son aged 13) are lookin forward to the gig..it will be the 4th time we’ve seen her. If you want a vacuous “singer” to worship, what about the talentless Ms Spears ?

Sally B-Gud | 2/17/2008, 5:21 pm EST

Avril’s great ! Laeve her alone, beetches xx

James Vaughn | 2/17/2008, 6:52 pm EST

I think Avril is sexy as hell and much savvier than people think. She is consciously playing teenagers and their parents like a guitar for millions of dollars. Making money is not evil, neither is becoming a persona to do it. I wish she was single and I bumped into her because I think she would like the way I taste.

J_Brisby | 3/12/2008, 2:21 am EST

I think Avril tries too hard to fit into a persona that doesn’t really suit her. I see where the people who think she’s spoiled and shallow are coming from, because that’s the attitude displayed in songs like ‘Girlfriend’ and ‘I Don’t Have To Try.’ Why she wants to depict herself in that way, I don’t understand. She should stop trying for sophistication, because it’s just not her…her biggest appeal is the small-town naivete with a tough-girl front.

She should consider doing a country album. ‘Best Damn Thing’s biggest flaw was that it didn’t showcase her voice very well.

Mojo | 3/13/2008, 12:05 pm EST

Savy or not, there’s not a lot that she does that has any artistic integrity. It’s in her attitude. She does play teenagers and parents who do not know any better…but it’s not her punk demeanor that is so stupid, it’s the fact that she likes to brag about her punk demeanor. She’s conscious of it and while it was once a genuine attitude that flew in the face of adversity, to Avril it’s a fashion statement that comes to fast, too easy. If she ever matures enough to understand things like integrity she will be served best by feeling embarrassed and humiliated at how cheesy and insincere she comes across now. It’s funny to watch thow…lol

Voice of Truth | 3/13/2008, 12:40 pm EST

FYI, those of you who admit to being an adult who listens to this stuff, it is sad for the industry to hear that your appreciation for music never developed beyond your teenage years. So the more of you that exist, the smaller the chance that great musicians can hold any footing among these so-called musicians who need backup dancers. Not to mention their only chance at success is lowering their standards and subject matter to a 1 deminsional understanding of boy/girl relationships.LOL That’s just pitiful…Feed your brain! It’s fun, and you get to learn new things…you get to develop beyond simple bubble-gum and finding music that…grab onto something here…actually doesn’t get old and repetative! At the very least you could be proud of your CD collection and not hide it from people, but most importantly, you could appreciate music on a level that you deserve to. You work hard for your money, let the music industry know that the psychic toll this garbage exacts on the collective consciousness of our culture might someday grow so large that no surplus can repay it. We are indeed, in a new sort of dark age.

krissty c | 3/29/2008, 6:55 pm EST

avril lavingne rocx !!!!!!!!!

Sleepy Person | 4/22/2008, 1:01 pm EST

I think Avril does work hard on her promotional tours and live sets, but I have been dissapointed with the artistic direction she has taken. Her Vocal ability has improved but her writing lately, (or at least who she collaborates with) it gives me the sense she’s going more towards a Gwen Stefani style…. Perhaps trying to increase her market in Asia?

avril is awesome! | 6/9/2008, 7:29 pm EST

You guys all suck, Avril rocks! So what if she wants to act how she acts, her big point is that she doesn’t care at all what people think, so she does what she wants. And I respect her for that. Just leave her alone, ok!

loubyloub | 6/23/2008, 10:25 am EST

Get honestly ppl,if she smokes she smokes we’re not gonna change that by commenting/she dosn’t read them so what she’s immature she probaly misses her childhood!~`So just leave her alone!’

Francesca | 7/28/2008, 9:48 pm EST

She’s doing a concert photo montage of herself dressed “bad ass” and flipping everyone off. Wow, she has gone to the point where she is unspoofable. I don’t know what to say.

bizzy bam | 3/5/2009, 11:32 am EST

hey u guys all need 2 shut up!! Avril is osm no matter what. so what if ppl thinks shes immature. she can act anyway she wants. shes 24 since september 2008 so shut up fake avril fans. avril rocks!!!

bizzy bam | 3/5/2009, 11:33 am EST

hey u guys all need 2 shut up!! Avril is osm no matter what. so what if ppl thinks shes immature. she can act anyway she wants. shes 24 since september 2008 so shut up fake avril fans. avril rocks!!!

bizzy bam | 3/5/2009, 11:35 am EST

i seriously dont get why everyone hates avril now i hate it so much. avril will always the person she wants 2 b no matter what. so ppl need 2 shove their stupid ass coments up their asses. ok

aljae1927 | 3/22/2009, 11:57 pm EST

there’s a lot of people say that AVRIL LAVIGNE is already dead! its not true then say that avril its so drunk so the cos why she die ist.because of car accident? its not true its not true i dont believing that!!!fucking people!!!!AVRIL ROCKS!

hellgirl! | 4/3/2009, 6:54 am EST

well,avril is awesome!!!for u guys who hates avril you suck!!!avril is just true to herself!!she rocks!!damn you all!!go to hell for those who hate here!!

jhas | 4/20/2009, 3:41 am EST

hey! ppol stop argue! bCoz avriL dont know you, and she didnt care abOut you! hahahahaha ur ol wasting ur time! SHUT UR BIG ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSS

stanley jackman | 4/28/2009, 2:24 pm EST

i love her…she is shit hot man…cant find a voice like her in many female artists…also the beauty part of her’s…she is sweet and sexy..cheers

Xabcvyam | 7/14/2009, 4:11 am EST

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Bob | 8/15/2009, 5:48 pm EST

Avril is a very talented and beautiful woman. She is the best Solo-Artist of the 21 st Century. And for people who say, adult people sould not listen to her, are wrong. No one is to old for good music.

Bob | 8/15/2009, 5:54 pm EST

Sorry my mistake. I mean: And people who say, adult people sould not listen to her, are wrong.

AVRILS #1 FAN | 10/9/2009, 8:29 am EST

how could not like Avril ur all dips Avril is the most prettiest most talented most best pop rock singer in all earth even when she dies she will be a Lengend she even out rules Micheal Jackson Elvis Presly and they where the 2 est ever but she is im only 10 years old so cut her some slack se rocks im her #1 fan so even if u dont ike her why are u on her website Avril if u read this will u please prefrom in Ireland becasuse my prents said i was aloud to get tickets to ur concret and back stage passes and im ur ~ 1 fan so pease preform nortern ireland peac out rock on

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