nimbuspixie
Member
Are we in space or just feeling weightless?
Join Date: Feb 23, 2019 17:02:39 GMT
Posts: 62
Likes: 140
Location: London, UK
Last Online: May 2, 2024 23:02:57 GMT
|
Post by nimbuspixie on May 11, 2019 13:39:22 GMT
With head held high after life-altering illness, the pop-punk queen is still “complicated.” May 11, 2019
Photography: Justin Campbell
Styling: Amarsana Gendunova
Text: SAMUEL ANDERSON
After 17 years in a strict religious household outside Toronto, Avril Lavigne had enough pent-up angst to effectively launch a new pop-punk paradigm. “I wasn’t really allowed to really go anywhere or do anything,” says Lavigne. “I was definitely a good girl with strong morals, [but] my parents watched me like a fucking hawk.”
Despite her hyper-orthodox upbringing, Lavigne’s early smashes, from “Complicated” to “Sk8er Boi,” centered on high-school averageness—endorsing reckless use of eyeliner rather than actual lawlessness. Rivaling the scale of bubblegum opposites like Britney and Christina, Lavigne’s 2002 debut record Let Go would sell 20 million copies worldwide, thrusting her into adulthood and global fame simultaneously. “The first 10 years after leaving home, it was like, ‘woo!’ I went wild,” says Lavigne. She adds, “No sleep, Jack Daniels and beer. I would say that continued until the third album, when I was married,” referring to her first marriage at 21 to Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley.
But after a decade of manic quasi-maturity, Lavigne’s energy drink-chugging pace would slow to deathlike stillness. In 2014, during her second marriage to Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger, she came down with Lyme Disease. “I was like, oh my God, am I done? I couldn’t think about anything other than breathing and eating,” she says of her now-public battle with the disorder, the inspiration for her sixth album and its titular first single, “Head Above Water.”
While her stamina isn’t quite what it was, today Lavigne has regained her freedoms and is planning a fall tour. Nor has she lost all that early-aughts angst. (Asked if recent single “Dumb Blonde” represented a reversal of her anti-Britney persona, Lavigne says “No.”) But she is a true believer in the power of positive thinking. “I do the whole gratitude list thing,” she says. “I can’t do [it all] the way I used to, but I look at how far I’ve come and I just thank God.”
|
|
UnderAlexSkin
Member
MOTM Nov '18
Glory to Ukraine! Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
Join Date: Jun 23, 2018 10:19:54 GMT
Posts: 6,039
Likes: 5,424
Location: Ukraine
Last Online: Apr 1, 2024 12:07:59 GMT
|
Post by UnderAlexSkin on May 11, 2019 16:18:59 GMT
nimbuspixie thank you for posting this article. Such a great photo on the cover btw uhhh. I love so much Avril's black/white photos.
|
|
StrongSweet
Member
Join Date: Mar 14, 2015 14:45:26 GMT
Posts: 3,326
Likes: 2,094
Last Online: Feb 16, 2024 13:22:47 GMT
|
Post by StrongSweet on May 11, 2019 17:22:17 GMT
Nothing's new except her addiction to alcohol. It's a good sign she left Deryck too
|
|
Jimmyzz
Member
How many times does Avril say 'da' in 'Things I'll Never Say?'
Join Date: Sept 17, 2015 7:05:57 GMT
Posts: 6,319
Likes: 8,148
Location: US
Last Online: May 2, 2024 22:17:16 GMT
|
Post by Jimmyzz on May 12, 2019 1:54:23 GMT
^ Come on, saying her "addiction to alcohol" might be a bit of a stretch don't you think? Many people can drink alcohol regularly and never ever have an addiction to it, but I will agree some people definitely cannot.
|
|
elina
Member
Join Date: Apr 2, 2015 6:14:02 GMT
Posts: 417
Likes: 747
Last Online: May 2, 2024 8:50:48 GMT
|
Post by elina on May 12, 2019 7:57:38 GMT
Yeah, if she had been an alcoholic, she wouldn't have been able to let go of alcohol so easily.
|
|
Jinkxx
Member
20 June 2008 & 04 May 2023 - The days I met Avril <3
Join Date: Mar 13, 2015 20:51:25 GMT
Posts: 6,030
Likes: 9,862
Location: The Netherlands
Last Online: Apr 30, 2024 16:32:24 GMT
|
Post by Jinkxx on May 14, 2019 11:22:51 GMT
She liked to drink and had a wild time! Didn't knew that time took till her third album and marriage with Deryck tho! I love the photo... so stunning I can't with it! <3
|
|
darkopwr
New Member
Join Date: Apr 3, 2019 0:39:47 GMT
Posts: 5
Likes: 2
Last Online: Apr 30, 2024 10:53:36 GMT
|
Post by darkopwr on May 25, 2019 13:23:30 GMT
17 years later and journalists are trying to make her "field" with xtina and britney a thing again (thought i think it never REALLY was). i think that's just lazy journalism.
|
|