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Post by biggerwow on Sept 4, 2019 5:35:20 GMT
My early memory of Avril mostly revolves around MHE. I remember watching her perform MHE on a TV special. But even then I did not know her. I just felt good whenever MHE, SKB, or Complicated would come on the radio over the years.
GF was the song that really made me a fan during 8th grade. I asked my cousin to download it for me and she judged me for it. Then I finally got internet and I was finally able to dig deep into who Avril Lavigne was. I heard every song and saw every video. There was no one like her. The boy bashing songs, her acoustic sets, her documentaries and her style in the TBDT era was everything to me.
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Post by Duwod on Sept 5, 2019 1:05:42 GMT
I don‘t exactly remember everything anymore but I think Girlfriend was the beginning of my Avril Lavigne journey. I was a little kid back then trying to figure out what the Internet is and how Youtube works. It‘s possible that I was around 11 years old when I started listening to Avril Lavigne but without even knowing that it was Avril. As a kid I used to go in my room and dance to my favorite songs and pretend like I was giving a concert. xD Girlfriend was one of those songs and I remember dancing around with flowers in my hand. And for the following years I always listened to girlfriend and her Let Go and UMS songs and I loved them. For all those years I didn’t even realize that it was Avril Lavigne. GL came out and I remember listening to WTH and Smile and loving it. And all of a sudden I started realizing that I was listening to Avril Lavigne. It was my first experience of being a fan. I never was a fan of anyone before that. Well I loved Zack & Cody though.. lol And now I‘m here, 23 years old, loving music and looking for music. A lot of time has passed now and Avril Lavigne is really a special one for me. Her voice, her music, everything touches me in a different way. She has been a big part of my life for so long now.
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Post by katy on Sept 16, 2019 18:48:49 GMT
I was 10. My brother saw the Complicated video on the music channel “The Box” and told me he thought I’d like her. In true younger sister style I disagreed and told him it was rubbish. 17 years later here I am!
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Post by Crush on Sept 23, 2019 0:18:18 GMT
I was a little kid and would always hear Nobody's Home on the radio, and liked its sound, but was too young to understand what she was exactly saying lol. Years later as a teen, I finally found it online and the rest is history
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Post by chiaralavigne93 on Sept 25, 2019 19:20:14 GMT
2004, Don't tell me has been just released. I was 11 and i saw her for the first time singing it in a tv program. I saw that blonde girl singing that amazing song and i immediately fell in love with her! I started to search and buy magazines to find photos and to know more about Avril, so she became my world! A couple of weeks later my aunt gave me Under My skin. I passed all my teenage with Avril in everything i did. When i was 14, i fell in the clutches of anorexia. Avril was the only thing that made me feel alive. I was at the bottom, but i had a surprise: she would come to Milan on 13/06/2008. And i would have gone. My dream. So, i found strenght and reason and i was born again. Avril is not only my favourite singer, my icon, my idol. Avril is the reason why i've been able to save my life. And i'm proud to tell that.
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Post by RockBitch on Sept 28, 2019 9:06:35 GMT
Oke, I'm gonna try to explain, my english is not that good.. But I remember it so wel.. I saw complicated on TMF (dutch MTV) and I tought: who is that girl!! I looked here up, and at one point I became a fan! And then a couple of years later she came to Amsterdam for the Bonez Tour! I totally had to go there!! So I did!! I was so exited!! And from that moment on I was hooked!!! Even more than before that! My room was full of posters, I made scrapbooks with every picture I couldt find, And I bought stuff on ebay.. So I have a pretty huge collection..(still) When It was halloween or something like that I dressed up like her.. And yeah, It's not a really long story.. But I can really say that I feel much love for here.. Here music totally helped me in my darker day's.. It made me happy again! So I still have al the stuff, and all the srcapbooks, posters, t-shirts and so on! And I'm still collecting stuff to this day And I also love the Abbey Dawn clothing line off course! I saw here 2 times, in 2004 and 2008! So I will alway's support here.. I'm 33 years old right now., and still a huge fan.. So here are some pictures of me: Hope they work.. The Bonez tour 2004 2008, Here you see me behind Avril! haha.. We were so close!! And off course I bought the Meet and Greet tickets! #avatar She is so cute and shy, but on stage she is totally rocking out!! So this is my Avril Lavigne journey.. Hope you all like it
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Post by mike17 on Sept 29, 2019 7:44:29 GMT
So I still have al the stuff, and all the srcapbooks, posters, t-shirts and so on! And I'm still collecting stuff to this day What are You Collecting these days?
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Post by Jinkxx on Oct 2, 2019 8:27:34 GMT
I saw Complicated and found it a cool video, then Sk8er Boi came out and I was starting buying magazines where she would have an interview and such so I started collecting that when I was 12-13 years old. There wasn't much internet back then in the days so I went to the music store and listened to her album on a friday night and ended up buying the album! I took it with me when we would go on holiday and non stop listened to it, I was hooked!! Then UMS came and I don't know if I bought it right away, I guess not, it were my own savings so I didnt had money haha! Internet became active and I started looking up things about her, found Bandaids in 2005! So I'm here since then and hyped a lot before TBDT came out but I was dissapointed at first but listened to it sooooo much I ended up liking it. GL I remember! The day of the release I had to work at the vet and I HATED that! The album would drop on my doormat while I was at work and I remember when I got home (I lived with my mom and stepdad) I got up to my room and that MAGICAL moment of putting a cd in the cd player and voila I LOVED IT from first song till the end! It became my favorite album then. AL I also remember since I lived by my self then and remember I started listening to all albums prior to the release and when I got home from work the album was there on my doormat again haha!! I listened to the album the whole evening and loved it haha! I always collected different versions of her albums, cards, books, etc etc etc. Some Abbey Dawn pieces but they don't fit that good and lets be honest, quality isn't that good so they look old but I still have them haha! So she is always the artist I look p to the most and I love her! Nothing can replace her as my number 1 even when I have times I listen to other artists way more, she always has that special place in my heart and im 31 now. Have the Let Go star tattood on my wrist since 2009. 10 years now, so I was 21 back then (first tattoo, she was and still is SO important to me) I can critisize her and not like everything but I always love her and still go to concerts even if the setlist would suck haha, I mean, It's Avril!! I've seen her in 2008 for the first time, meet and greet TBDT tour. It was SO expensive but I had to do it! and in 2011 Black Star Tour. And now with HAW..... LOVE THAT ALBUM SO MUCH!!! My fave after all these years. UMS was my fave, then GL became my all time favorite, and now HAW!
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Post by mike17 on Oct 9, 2019 2:58:49 GMT
I'm pretty sure I'm one of oldest members here. Don't get creeped out. I am probably older than You First time I saw Avril was Stockholm, Sweden on September 10, 2002 as Mike and I were working on the Bruce Springsteen Tour Mike was running the Console/Soundboard and I was a Labourer moving stuff around during load-in and load-out UMS was released and then I became a Fan and went to Gigs.
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Post by skittler on Oct 12, 2019 13:55:04 GMT
I was in a level 3 children's group home at the time (because I was a difficult kid) when I discovered Avril. That was summer/fall of 2002. 'Sk8er Boi' was the first video I watched on MTV and I have been a fan ever since.
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Post by RockBitch on Oct 16, 2019 8:27:00 GMT
So I still have al the stuff, and all the srcapbooks, posters, t-shirts and so on! And I'm still collecting stuff to this day What are You Collecting these days? Everyting, If I have the money for it offcourse.. i'm always looking on ebay or other site's like that, I just purchased a while agow a single, a tourbook and a special edition CD, so that kind of stuff.. Here's avril's signature, and the other is my first scrapbook with my first concert ticket.. just wanted to show it!
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Post by mike17 on Oct 19, 2019 22:20:14 GMT
What are You Collecting these days? Everyting, If I have the money for it offcourse.. i'm always looking on ebay or other site's like that, I just purchased a while agow a single, a tourbook and a special edition CD, so that kind of stuff.. Here's avril's signature, and the other is my first scrapbook with my first concert ticket.. just wanted to show it! Are You a UMS Album Release Junkie like Me?
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Post by RockBitch on Oct 22, 2019 14:01:27 GMT
Everyting, If I have the money for it offcourse.. i'm always looking on ebay or other site's like that, I just purchased a while agow a single, a tourbook and a special edition CD, so that kind of stuff.. Here's avril's signature, and the other is my first scrapbook with my first concert ticket.. just wanted to show it! Are You a UMS Album Release Junkie like Me? Offtopic: I have too say, UMS is my fav!! But I collect almost everyting Do you still collect stuff?!
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Post by mike17 on Oct 23, 2019 23:11:13 GMT
Are You a UMS Album Release Junkie like Me? Offtopic: I have too say, UMS is my fav!! But I collect almost everyting Do you still collect stuff?! I am a UMS Album release junkie LOL , this can't be normal All Japan releases including all singles and promos. 2 dualdiscs one sealed. Special Edition Europe 2004 3 Cassettes 2 sealed and one wore out TV Tracks Promo Instrumental Promo China missing DTM because censored by China Government for lyrics and also not for sale outside of China, Selling in Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan is also unauthorized. GL, AL Release Junkie also No Avril Autographs not into that and I don't keep my concert Tickets
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Post by BogoGog24 on Oct 24, 2019 11:09:37 GMT
I wonder why China would censor the lyrics of DTM but not MHE, also I don’t see why they couldn’t use the radio edits where the words are just eliminated.
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