| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/avrllvgn.jpg]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:The eternal angsty teen of pop rock.]] |
| 3 | ->''Tell me, why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?\ |
| 4 | I see the way you're\ |
| 5 | Acting like you're somebody else, gets me frustrated\ |
| 6 | And life's like this, you\ |
| 7 | You fall and you crawl and you break and you take what you get and you turn it into\ |
| 8 | Honesty, you promised me I'm never gonna find you fake it\ |
| 9 | No, no, no.'' |
| 10 | -->-- "Complicated" |
| 11 | |
| 12 | [floatboxright:Influences: |
| 13 | + Music/GarthBrooks, Music/AlanisMorissette, Music/Blink182, Music/ShaniaTwain, Music/TheOffspring, Music/DashboardConfessional, Music/GreenDay, Music/{{Hole}}, Music/TheRamones, Music/MarilynManson, Music/TheUsed, Music/TheCranberries, Music/SystemOfADown, Music/JanisJoplin |
| 14 | Influenced: |
| 15 | + Music/BillieEilish, Music/OliviaRodrigo, Music/LilUziVert, Music/FiveSecondsOfSummer, Music/PhoebeBridgers, Music/CharliXCX, Music/PaleWaves |
| 16 | ] |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Avril Ramona Lavigne (born 27 September 1984) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, fashion designer, and actress credited as one of the most influential artists in the popular rock music of [[TurnOfTheMillennium the 2000s]], namely through the genres of {{pop punk}} and {{alternative rock}}. |
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| 20 | Lavigne signed a two-album recording contract at 16 years old, and released her debut album ''Let Go'' at 17. The album went on to sell over 16 million copies worldwide, becoming the highest-selling album by a Canadian artist of the 21st century. The album's hit singles "[=Sk8er=] Boi" and "Complicated" are hailed as some of the most iconic rock songs of their time, and the album as a whole is retrospectively considered a large step in the popularization of the pop punk scene, as well as a great contributor to the rise of female-fronted pop punk. |
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| 22 | Lavigne's second album, ''Under My Skin'', was her first to top the ''Billboard'' 200 chart; her third album, ''The Best Damn Thing'', produced her first #1 hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 with the single "Girlfriend". Her next albums [[NewSoundAlbum ventured into considerably different genres than her mainstay of pop punk]] -- ''Goodbye Lullaby'' pursued a subdued and stripped-back pop rock sound, her SelfTitledAlbum featured more uptempo pop, and ''Head Above Water'' leaned into adult contemporary styles. The albums' new directions did not go without divisive reception, as well as diminishing sales. However, her 2022 album ''Love Sux'' saw a return to her pop punk sound, with greatly increased critical and commercial success in tow. |
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| 24 | As an actress, Lavigne made cameo appearances in ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' and the film ''Going The Distance'', also playing Beatrice Bell in ''The Flock'' and Alice in ''FastFoodNation'' as well as voicing Heather in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge''. |
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| 26 | She also designs the fashion line Abbey Dawn for Kohl's and has one fragrance out (''Black Star'') out and another on the way (''Forbidden Rose''). |
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| 28 | Lavigne was in relationships with Deryck Whibley of Music/Sum41 from 2004 to 2010 (marrying in 2006), Chad Kroeger of Music/{{Nickelback}} from 2012 to 2015 (marrying in 2013), and Music/ModSun from 2021 to 2023 (with the couple getting engaged in 2022 before breaking things off a year later). |
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| 30 | !!Discography: |
| 31 | [[AC:Albums]] |
| 32 | * ''Let Go'' (2002) |
| 33 | * ''Under My Skin'' (2004) |
| 34 | * ''The Best Damn Thing'' (2007) |
| 35 | * ''Goodbye Lullaby'' (2011) |
| 36 | * ''Avril Lavigne'' (2013) |
| 37 | * ''Head Above Water'' (2019) |
| 38 | * ''Love Sux'' (2022) |
| 39 | |
| 40 | [[AC:Visual releases]] |
| 41 | * ''My World'' (2003) |
| 42 | * ''The Best Damn Tour'' (2008) |
| 43 | |
| 44 | ---- |
| 45 | !!"Hey, hey, you, you! I don't like your trope page! No way! No way! I think you need a new one!" |
| 46 | |
| 47 | * AintTooProudToBeg: She proudly mocks the love interest in "What the Hell" by boasting that he is ''begging'' her to stay with him. |
| 48 | * AlbumClosure: The final song on ''Goodbye Lullaby'' (before the HiddenTrack) is a BreakUpSong called "Goodbye." |
| 49 | * AliceAllusion: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Alice"]], which is part of the soundtrack for ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010''. |
| 50 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: "I Fell in Love with the Devil" seems to be a rather self-conscious take on this trope: "And now I'm in trouble". |
| 51 | * AllWomenAreLustful: Subverted in "Hot". She at first sings about how the thought of the guy gets her so hot and all the sexual things she wants to do to him. Then she quietly reveals how she just wants him to kiss her and hold her as well. |
| 52 | ** "What the Hell" Has the main character singing about how she wants to fulfill her desires with other men than her partner. |
| 53 | * AloneInACrowd: The cover of her album "Let Go". |
| 54 | * ArtifactTitle: Her debut album "Let Go" was named after a song that ended up not making it to the album. |
| 55 | * AlphaBitch: In the "Girlfriend" video, she plays one, [[MirrorMatch as well as the frumpy victim of her bitchiness]]. |
| 56 | * AttemptedHomewrecker: "Girlfriend", in which the singer insults her crush's girlfriend and implores him to date her instead, could count as this depending on whether you believe the singer's assertions that the crush likes her back, or whether she's just deluding herself |
| 57 | * AttendingYourOwnFuneral: The video for "I Fell in Love with the Devil" features a LonelyFuneral attended only by the hearse driver, who then proceeded to smash the casket. The dead and the driver are both played by Avril. |
| 58 | * BadGirlSong: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Bad Girl"]] featuring Music/MarilynManson. |
| 59 | * TheBadGuysWin: The "Girlfriend" music video ends with the VillainProtagonist successfully stealing the title character's boyfriend. |
| 60 | * BadassBoast: |
| 61 | ** "The Best Damn Thing" has it right in the title. |
| 62 | --->I'm a lot to handle\ |
| 63 | You don't know trouble, I'm a hell of a scandal\ |
| 64 | Me, I'm a scene, I'm a drama queen\ |
| 65 | I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen |
| 66 | ** "Girlfriend": |
| 67 | --->I think you know I'm damn precious\ |
| 68 | I'm the motherfucking princess\ |
| 69 | In a second you'll be wrapped around my finger |
| 70 | ** "I Don't Have To Try": |
| 71 | --->I'm the one, I'm the one who knows the dance\ |
| 72 | I'm the one, I'm the one who's got the prance\ |
| 73 | I'm the one, I'm the one who wears the pants |
| 74 | ** "Dumb Blonde" almost entirely consists of this, a fair amount of it being indisputably accurate (she most definitely was making a lot of money). |
| 75 | ** “Déjà Vu”: |
| 76 | -->I’ll buy a Range Rover just to run you over |
| 77 | * BeYourself: "Complicated", "Freak Out", "Who Knows", "My World", "Anything But Ordinary", "Mobile". |
| 78 | * BeachEpisode: The "Head Above Water" music video was filmed on a beach in UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}}. Yes, it's SceneryGorn at its finest. |
| 79 | * BetterPartnerAssertion: "Girlfriend" is about a girl asserting that she would be a superior girlfriend to the one the guy she likes is currently seeing. |
| 80 | * BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The three girls she plays in the "Girlfriend" video. The bitchy girl is brunette, the nerdy girl is redhead and Avril is blonde as herself. |
| 81 | * BloodlessCarnage: The music video for the acoustic version of "Bite Me" sees Avril pluck her ex-lover's teeth with a giant plier. He is seen motionless for the duration of the music video, [[UncertainDoom implying he died from the procedure]], but no blood is visible despite the brutal method. |
| 82 | * {{Bowdlerize}}: The Radio/RadioDisney edit of "Here's to Never Growing Up" is ''very'' heavily edited for content, often just removing certain lines outright. |
| 83 | * BreakupSong: ''Under My Skin'' as an album, particularly "My Happy Ending" and "He Wasn't". Many songs on ''Goodbye Lullaby'' are about her divorce. |
| 84 | * BrokenBird: Multiple examples depicted in Avril's music videos, most notably "Nobody's Home", wherein Lavigne plays a homeless teenage girl trying to make money and find shelter, and "Goodbye", with Avril dressed up in all her finery enjoying decadent things such as her nice clothes, makeup, and champagne, despite being on her own and being TheStoic. She then breaks down in tears at the end, sinking to the floor and removing her wig as her makeup runs down her face. The former song is a very good example of the trope as well. |
| 85 | * CagedBirdMetaphor: "Birdie": |
| 86 | -->Like a bird locked up in a cage called love\ |
| 87 | He clipped her wings when she was born to fly\ |
| 88 | He said, "pretty bird, you can't sing\ |
| 89 | But I'll buy you diamonds and ruby rings"\ |
| 90 | Like a bird locked up in a cage |
| 91 | * CallBack: |
| 92 | ** "Rock N Roll" calls back to "[=Sk8er=] Boi"[[labelnote:*]]In the talky opening of the music video, she fields a call from a confused listener[[/labelnote]] and "Girlfriend"[[labelnote:*]]with the lyric "the motherfucking princess"[[/labelnote]] |
| 93 | ** Avril has a habit of doing this. Among others, "Everybody Hurts" calls back to "When You're Gone"[[labelnote:*]]"When you're gone, I can't breathe"[[/labelnote]] and "Take Me Away"[[labelnote:*]]"Won't somebody take me away to a better place"[[/labelnote]], "I Love You" to "Complicated"[[labelnote:*]]"And how you keep your cool when I am complicated"[[/labelnote]], and "Smile" to "One Of Those Girls"[[labelnote:*]]"You're the one to blame"[[/labelnote]]. ("Girlfriend" and "Hot" both use the lyrical snippet "again and again", but they were on the same album.) |
| 94 | ** The music video of "Here's to Never Growing Up" is a {{homage}} to her debut album ''Let Go''. Particularly, she's wearing her IconicOutfit from the "Complicated" music video and is seen using a skateboard ("[=Sk8r=] Boi"). |
| 95 | * CannotSpitItOut: "Things I'll Never Say". She wants to tell her LoveInterest that she cares and wants a RelationshipUpgrade, but she's {{insecure|LoveInterest}}. |
| 96 | * CaptainObvious: "[=Sk8er=] Boi". "He was a boy, she was a girl,/[[LampshadeHanging can I make it any more obvious?]]" |
| 97 | * TheCasanova: "One of Those Girls" is about a female variation on this trope, aimed at a crush. |
| 98 | * ChildProdigy: She's been singing since the age of 2. |
| 99 | * ChildhoodFriendRomance: The first girl has the Unlucky type in "[=Sk8er=] Boi." |
| 100 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: "My World". |
| 101 | -->Can't help if I space in a daze\ |
| 102 | My eyes tune out the other way\ |
| 103 | I may switch off and go in a daydream |
| 104 | * CoveredInGunge: Happens to her and her band in the music video for "He Wasn't". |
| 105 | * CoverVersion: "[[Music/BobDylan Knocking On Heaven's Door]]", "Mickey", "[[Music/Blink182 All The Small Things]]", "[[Music/GreenDay Basket Case]]", "[[Music/JoanJett Bad Reputation]]", "[[Music/{{Kesha}} Tik Tok]]", "[[Music/{{Nickelback}} How You Remind Me]]" and "[[{{Music/Adele}} Hello]]". Technically subverted with "Breakaway" since she wrote it and it was supposed to be a single on her debut album before she gave it to Music/KellyClarkson. Her version of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' theme for TheMovie's soundtrack counts, technically. |
| 106 | * CreepySouvenir: The music video for the acoustic version of "Bite Me" sees Avril plucking her ex-lover's teeth with a giant plier and then wearing them as a necklace. Her former lover [[UncertainDoom seemingly died from the procedure]]. |
| 107 | * CrowdSurfing: Done towards the end of the "Losing Grip" music video. |
| 108 | ** Also done in the video for "What the Hell". |
| 109 | * CuteLittleFangs: Her famous "vampire teeth", which reportedly made her so self-conscious, she allegedly had them shaved at some point circa-2008. |
| 110 | * CurseCutShort: A few exist in "Here's to Never Growing Up". |
| 111 | * DaddysGirl: Her father got special mention in her liner notes for ''Under My Skin'' because he brought her some gear when she was young, encouraging her music lessons and allowing her to get as noisy as she wanted growing up. |
| 112 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Downplayed but present in ''Under My Skin''. Mostly full of more angsty break-up songs. She went LighterAndSofter for ''The Best Damn Thing''. |
| 113 | * DeadToBeginWith: The "I Fell in Love with the Devil" music video opens with Avril's burial service. |
| 114 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: |
| 115 | ** The album covers of both ''Under My Skin'' and ''Head Above Water'' are in Sepia. |
| 116 | ** "Nobody's Home" music video is intercut with colored scenes of Avril as a HomelessHero and scenes in pink sepia with Avril in a PimpedOutDress. |
| 117 | * DespairEventHorizon: |
| 118 | ** The entire ''Under My Skin'' album is about depression and loss of a loved one (from either death or {{Breakup|Song}}s). |
| 119 | ** "Head Above Water" is about Avril's recent battle with her Chronic Lyme Disease that nearly killed her. |
| 120 | * {{Determinator}}: "Keep Holding On" encourages listeners to be optimistic. |
| 121 | -->Keep holding on\ |
| 122 | 'Cause I know you'll make it through, you'll make it through |
| 123 | * DoubleDoubleTitle: "Hush Hush." |
| 124 | * DidYouThinkICantFeel: There's a song aptly titled "How Does It Feel" on ''Under My Skin''. |
| 125 | * DramaQueen: Mentioned in "The Best Damn Thing". |
| 126 | --> Me, I'm a scene, I'm a drama queen |
| 127 | * DumbBlonde: Referenced in a song of the same name. |
| 128 | -->I ain't no dumb blonde\ |
| 129 | I ain't no stupid Barbie doll\ |
| 130 | I got my game on |
| 131 | * EmoTeen: ''Under My Skin'', anyone? |
| 132 | * EvilBrunetteTwin: In relation to BlondeBrunetteRedhead above, the brunette Avril is the VillainProtagonist of the "Girlfriend" music video. |
| 133 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Her hair turning blonde marked her music becoming more upbeat too. |
| 134 | * FanservicePack: Started in ''Under My Skin'' with the "He Wasn't" video but really escalated with her third album. |
| 135 | * FieryRedhead: The titular "Girlfriend" in the music video will not go down to the VillainProtagonist without a fight. |
| 136 | * FlashMob: The "[=Sk8er=] Boi" video is about Avril taking over an intersection in Los Angeles and holding a flash concert. A street team of skaters and [=BMXers=] spread the word the morning of the concert through graffiti, posters, text messages, coffee cups, and anything else they can get their hands on. The resulting concert gets so massive that the LAPD shows up and starts arresting people. |
| 137 | * FollowYourHeart: "Freak Out", "Who Knows", "My World", "Anything But Ordinary", "Mobile", "Keep Holdin' On". |
| 138 | * GenkiGirl: Her behind the scenes of the ''Under My Skin'' album making of and promo tour indicate this. |
| 139 | * TheGhost: The FirstLove of the titular "[=Sk8er=] Boi" doesn't appear in the music video despite being the {{Deuteragonist}}. |
| 140 | * GirlinessUpgrade: Starting with ''The Best Damn Thing'', although she claims she was faking the look of her previous albums. |
| 141 | * GirlNextDoorTurnedSuperstar: "[=Sk8er Boi=]" tells the story of a woman who had a crush on a guy since high school, but wouldn't admit to it because he was unpopular. Now, he's a celebrity, and she's still pining for him, but he's out of her reach. |
| 142 | * GirlOnGirlIsHot: The music video for "Rock n Roll" features Lavigne kissing a female cohort played by Creator/DanicaMcKellar. Unlike most instances of lesbian action in pop videos, however, this kiss is PlayedForLaughs. |
| 143 | * GodivaHair: The ''Head Above Water'' album has a naked Avril placing her hair in her front to cover her breasts while also [[HandOrObjectUnderwear holding a guitar to cover her lower body]]. |
| 144 | * GoodGirlGoneBad: Pretty much said verbatim in "What the Hell" |
| 145 | -->'''All my life I've been good, but now, I'm thinking what the hell!''' |
| 146 | * GratuitousJapanese: In the beginning of "Hello Kitty". |
| 147 | -->"Min'na saikō arigatō! K-K-K-KAWAII!!!!" |
| 148 | * GreenEyedMonster |
| 149 | -->''Hey hey, you you, I don't like your girlfriend! No way, no way, I think you need a new one...'' |
| 150 | * GreenEyedEpiphany: "[=Sk8er=] Boi" is a song about a girl who is in denial about her love for a boy she knows until he's already been claimed by another. |
| 151 | * GriefSong: "I'm with You", virtually every song in the ''Under My Skin'' album, "When You're Gone", "Let Me Go", "Head Above Water". |
| 152 | * GrowingUpSucks: "Here's to Never Growing Up" is all about gleefully [[DefiedTrope defying this trope]] and having your youthful energy and love of fun as long as you want to. |
| 153 | * HandOrObjectUnderwear: The ''Head Above Water'' album has a naked Avril holding a guitar in front of her, in addition of GodivaHair, for modesty. |
| 154 | * HomelessHero: Avril in the "Nobody's Home" music video. |
| 155 | * HongKongDub: Among the other issues people have had with the "Hello Kitty" video, when she says "Someone chuck a cupcake at me", her lips don't seem to be saying that at all. |
| 156 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: "Anything But Ordinary". |
| 157 | * ImStandingRightHere: The "Girlfriend" music video has the VillainProtagonist singing while the titular girl is in earshot. |
| 158 | * IconicOutfit: In her early years, it was a {{tank top|Tomboy}} paired with a necktie and cargo pants. When she moved away from this look later on, she said that she felt it had become more like wearing a costume than anything. |
| 159 | * ImaginaryFriend: The music video for the regular version of "Bite Me" sees Avril with them, one played by [[Music/Blink182 Travis Barker]] and the rest by men in tutus. |
| 160 | * ImportantHaircut: Went blonde at the end of ''Under My Skin'' and just in time for her new positive outlook. |
| 161 | * InsecureLoveInterest: Shows up in her gentler songs such as "[[CannotSpitItOut Things I'll Never Say]]." |
| 162 | -->(Cause) I’m feeling nervous\ |
| 163 | Trying to be so perfect\ |
| 164 | Cause I know you’re worth it |
| 165 | * IntercourseWithYou: "Give You What You Like". |
| 166 | -->Please wrap your drunken arms around me\ |
| 167 | And I'll let you call me yours tonight\ |
| 168 | 'Cause slightly broken's just what I need\ |
| 169 | And if you give me what I want\ |
| 170 | Then I'll give you what you like |
| 171 | |
| 172 | ** "Hot" from ''The Best Damn Thing'' is all about the main character's sexual desires. |
| 173 | * IronicEpisodeTitle: |
| 174 | ** "My Happy Ending" is a sad BreakupSong. |
| 175 | --->You were everything, everything that I wanted\ |
| 176 | We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it\ |
| 177 | All of the memories, so close to me, just fade away\ |
| 178 | All this time you were pretending\ |
| 179 | So much for [[TitleDrop my happy ending]] |
| 180 | ** "Girlfriend" is about wanting someone's boyfriend. |
| 181 | * ItMeantSomethingToMe: "Losing Grip" is this trope in song. |
| 182 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Stated word for word in "I Don't Have to Try". |
| 183 | -->''Don't you disagree\ |
| 184 | Cause you know it's all about me'' |
| 185 | * TheLadette: As any good Anti-Music/BritneySpears would be. "My World" is all the proof you need. |
| 186 | * LadyInRed: Avril is wearing four [[PimpedOutDress pimped-out dresses]] in the "I Fell in Love with the Devil" music video and the red one is one of the most sensual, and she is wearing them in scenes where she's being intimate with a man (who may or may not be the titular Devil). |
| 187 | * LastDisrespects: The "I Fell in Love with the Devil" music video has Avril smashing the casket of other Avril with a sledgehammer. |
| 188 | * LighterAndSofter: Her ''Lullaby'' and ''Best Damn'' albums have almost bordered on romantic and loving and just based upon fun, instead of heartbreak as its bitter center and sadness. She actually spoke about this when she was recording ''The Best Damn Thing'' saying she just wanted to have fun in music again. |
| 189 | ** "Who Knows" is this for her ''Under My Skin'' album. |
| 190 | * LittleBlackDress: Avril is wearing them in the "Hot" and "I Fell in Love with the Devil" music videos. |
| 191 | * LonelyFuneral: "I Fell in Love with the Devil" features a funeral march attended only by the hearse driver, who proceeded to smash the casket. Since Avril is playing both the deceased and the driver, this also counts as AttendingYourOwnFuneral. |
| 192 | * LoveNostalgiaSong: |
| 193 | ** "My Happy Ending" is a bitter BreakupSong but during the bridge, she reminisces about the good times she had with her ex: |
| 194 | --->It's nice to know that you were there\ |
| 195 | Thanks for acting like you cared\ |
| 196 | And making me feel like I was the only one\ |
| 197 | It's nice to know we had it all |
| 198 | ** "I Love You" sounds like a wholesome ode to a significant other, until [[WhamLine it's revealed in the bridge]] that their relationship didn't make it through, so it turns into this. |
| 199 | * LoveTriangle: |
| 200 | ** "[=Sk8r=] Boi" combines this with UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo (detailed in the entry below). |
| 201 | ** The entire premise of "Girlfriend" is wanting to steal someone's boyfriend. |
| 202 | * LyricalDissonance: Listen to "He Wasn't" or "Anything But Ordinary". |
| 203 | ** "What the Hell" is an upbeat pop song about the main character's marriage falling apart and she serial cheats to deal with it. |
| 204 | * LyricsVideoMismatch: "Complicated" is a rather sad song about the relationship being, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin complicated]]. The video is about Avril and her band having fun in a mall. |
| 205 | * MaleGaze: |
| 206 | ** The "Girlfriend" music video has lingering shots of Avril's legs. |
| 207 | ** One of Avril's dresses in the "I Fell in Love with the Devil" music video has a prominent cleavage which the camera never fails to notice. |
| 208 | * TheMall: The video for "Complicated" features Avril and her band wreaking havoc in one. |
| 209 | * ManChild: Lampshaded in "Here's to Never Growing Up", which is all about defying GrowingUpSucks. |
| 210 | * TheMasochismTango: "Together". |
| 211 | -->''Together doesn't feel right at all\ |
| 212 | Together, together we build a wall\ |
| 213 | Together, holding hands will fall\ |
| 214 | Hands will fall'' |
| 215 | * MirrorMatch: The "Girlfriend" music video has Avril as both the VillainProtagonist and the SecondaryCharacterTitle. |
| 216 | * MurderTheHypotenuse: Downplayed and PlayedForLaughs in the "Girlfriend" music video. It shows the narrator repeatedly harming the titular girl so she could steal her boyfriend. Specifically; the VillainProtagonist intentionally made repeated attempts at bumping her rival's go kart until she crashes then later deliberately hitting a golf ball towards her head. |
| 217 | * MyBelovedSmother: The "When You're Gone" music video has teenage StarCrossedLovers being separated by the girl's ControlFreak mother. |
| 218 | * NarratorAllAlong: "[=Sk8er=] Boi" seemingly starts off as a third-person story about a girl who is pressured into rejecting a punk boy's advances, then later finds out he's become a rock star. After the second verse, the song suddenly switches to a first-person perspective, with Avril taunting the girl, saying she missed her chance and he's with her now. |
| 219 | * NeverMyFault: "I Don't Have to Try" features the following lines: |
| 220 | -->''I'm a know-it-all\ |
| 221 | And it's all your fault'' |
| 222 | * NewSoundAlbum: ''Let Go'' is very upbeat compared to its follow-up, ''Under My Skin'', which has more rock elements. |
| 223 | ** ''Goodbye Lullaby'' has less rock/punk elements than her 3 previous albums. The songs are mainly ballads. |
| 224 | ** ''Head Above Water'' leans even further into the ballad direction. And then ''Love Sux'' takes a hard left turn back into pop punk, and is arguably her most upbeat album. |
| 225 | * NonIndicativeName: "Hello Kitty" is not about the popular Creator/{{Sanrio}} [[Franchise/HelloKitty character]]. |
| 226 | * NotLikeOtherGirls: "Anything but Ordinary" and "My World" from ''Let Go''. |
| 227 | * ObsessionSong: "Hot", "Girlfriend", "Things I'll Never Say", "Contagious", "Fall to Pieces". |
| 228 | * OccidentalOtaku: The entire premise of the "Hello Kitty" music video. Avril Lavigne herself is also a fan of Manga/OnePiece |
| 229 | * OlderThanTheyLook: She looks the same...or younger...than she did when her first album came out. The general conclusion is that she acts, looks, and behaves like a teenager, but she'll be ''40'' in a few years. |
| 230 | ** Lampshaded in "Here's to Never Growing Up". |
| 231 | ** Not so true following her battle with Lyme disease. |
| 232 | * OnceMoreWithClarity: The music video for the regular version of "Bite Me" sees Avril along with [[Music/Blink182 Travis Barker]] and some men in tutus harass her ex-lover. TheStinger then shows they're just {{imaginary|Friends}}. |
| 233 | * OneOfTheBoys: Mentions this in "My World"; her earlier performances had her dressed in very tomboyish attire too. Reportedly, the first time she met Music/{{Sum 41}}'s Deryck Whibley (her then-future husband) and Steve Jocz, she was trying to pants him, before being stopped by Steve giving her a wedgie. That should tell you all you need to know. |
| 234 | * ParentalNeglect: The "Nobody's Home" music video has Avril as a Homelesshero while her mother is busy getting herself wasted than looking for her daughter. |
| 235 | * PerkyGoth: During her ''Under My Skin'' era she tread this line very closely, and her ''Love Sux'' era is right on the line as well. Most of the time she's a perky punk. |
| 236 | * PimpedOutDress: She's wearing one in the album cover for ''Goodbye Lullaby''. She's also wearing them in both the "Nobody's Home" and "Head Above Water" music videos. She wears four different ones in "I Fell in Love with the Devil". |
| 237 | * PintSizedPowerHouse: She's only 5'1", and has a powerful set of pipes. |
| 238 | * PissTakeRap: "Nobody's Fool" |
| 239 | * PleaseDontLeaveMe: Said mockingly to the love interest in "What the Hell" |
| 240 | --> ''You're on your knees, begging "please stay with me"'' |
| 241 | * PleaseWakeUp: "Slipped Away" |
| 242 | * PortmanteauCoupleName: [[invoked]] Chavril with her at the time fiance Chad Croger. |
| 243 | * PostGrunge: Dabbled in the genre early on, especially on ''Under My Skin''. |
| 244 | * ThePowerOfLust: "Girlfriend", "Hot", and "Give You What You Like". |
| 245 | * PrecisionFStrike: Though the effect was somewhat diminished in the album ''[[ClusterFBomb The Best Damn Thing]]'' |
| 246 | ** Most prominent in "Girlfriend". |
| 247 | -->'''Oh yeah, I'm the [[BadassBoast mother fucking princess]]!''' |
| 248 | ** ''Love Sux'' is certainly her most F-bomb laden album since then, but still manages to sneak a couple of good strikes in, such as the “Motherfuckers let’s go!” in “Cannonball.” |
| 249 | * PresentAbsence: The entire premise of "When You're Gone". |
| 250 | -->When you're gone. The pieces of my heart are missin' you. When you're gone. The face I came to know is missin', too. When you're gone. The words I need to hear. To always get me through the day. And make it okay. I miss you |
| 251 | * ProductPlacement: |
| 252 | ** The "What the Hell" video was released by Sony, filmed in 3D and also made available as online 3D content for Sony [=TVs=] and Blu-ray players. Prominently displayed in the video are a Sony Bravia TV with 3D glasses, a Sony Vaio computer, a Sony Ericsson cellphone, ''and'' Avril's own perfume and clothing lines. |
| 253 | ** And again in the video for "Rock N Roll", when Avril ''explicitly'' mentions her "new Sony phone" in the most forced way possible. |
| 254 | ** [[RuleOfThree Yet again]] in the "Let Me Go" music video, which prominently features a Sony tablet. |
| 255 | ** All the way back in the "Complicated" video, Avril crashes into a pile of Reebok shoeboxes. |
| 256 | ** The music video for the regular version of "Bite Me" sees Avril riding a Jeep Wrangler. |
| 257 | * ProgressivelyPrettier: She had a very tomboyish image in her first album, and the image of Avril wearing a t-shirt, baggy jeans, a TomboyishBaseballCap and a tie was iconic. Starting with the second album, she would occasionally be in skirts. For the third album, she got a full GirlinessUpgrade to blonde hair and more attractive clothes. |
| 258 | * RageAgainstTheReflection: In the video for "Don't Tell Me". |
| 259 | * RealMenWearPink: The music video for the regular version of "Bite Me" sees Avril teaming up with [[Music/Blink182 Travis Barker]] and some [[TheBigGuy burly men]] in tutus. |
| 260 | * ReallyGetsAround: The main premise of "What the Hell". |
| 261 | * RecordProducer: |
| 262 | ** ''Let Go'' was mostly produced by Clif Magness and production team The Matrix (not [[Film/TheMatrix that one]]) |
| 263 | ** ''Under My Skin'' was produced by the trio of Butch Walker, Don Gilmore and Raine Maida. |
| 264 | ** ''The Best Damn Thing'' was produced by Walker, Dr Luke, Rob Cavallo and [[CreatorCouple her then-husband]] [[Music/Sum41 Deryck Whibley]]. |
| 265 | ** ''Goodbye Lullaby'' was produced by Walker, Dr Luke, Music/MaxMartin, Shellback and Avril herself. |
| 266 | ** ''Avril Lavigne'' has an assortment of producers including L.A. Reid, [[Music/TheCardigans Peter Svensson]], [[{{Music/Evanescence}} David Hodges]], and [[CreatorCouple her then-husband]] [[{{Music/Nickelback}} Chad Kroeger]]. |
| 267 | ** ''Head Above Water'''s producers include Avril herself, Kroeger, J.R. Rotem and Lauren Christy (formerly 1/3 of The Matrix). |
| 268 | ** ''Love Sux'' was produced collaboratively by the three-person team of Music/TravisBarker, John Feldmann and [[CreatorCouple her then-boyfriend]] Music/ModSun. |
| 269 | * RelationshipRevolvingDoor: "Complicated". |
| 270 | * {{Rockumentary}}: Avril Lavigne has three video albums. |
| 271 | * RockStarSong: "How Does It Feel". |
| 272 | * RockersSmashGuitars: |
| 273 | ** The "Complicated" music video has her doing this towards the end. |
| 274 | ** At the end of the "[=Sk8er=] Boi" video, Avril uses her guitar to smash in a car's front window, but only gets partway through before a helicopter starts hovering over her. |
| 275 | * RuleOfSymbolism: Avril smashing a casket containing herself in the "I Fell in Love with the Devil" music video is a two-fold; first is that the song is part of her ''Head Above Water'' album which was her comeback album after her near fatal bout with Chronic Lyme Disease, second is a TakeThat on the infamous ConspiracyTheory that she actually died early in her career and was supposedly replaced by a BodyDouble since. |
| 276 | * SanitySlippageSong: ''Under My Skin'' is a sanity slippage ''album'' (minus "Who Knows"), "Runaway", "Goodbye", "Anything But Ordinary", "My World", "Mobile" and "I'm with You". |
| 277 | * SceneryGorn: The "Head Above Water" music video shows breathtaking shots of an Icelandic beach. |
| 278 | * SecondLove: "[=Sk8r=] Boi" is sang from the point of view of one, culminating with the first girl the titular boy loved receiving TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for not giving him a chance. |
| 279 | * SecondaryCharacterTitle: "Girlfriend" is sang from the VillainProtagonist's point of view. |
| 280 | * SelfTitledAlbum: Her ''fifth'' album. |
| 281 | * SexForSolace: "Give You What You Like". |
| 282 | -->''I've got a brand new cure for lonely'' |
| 283 | * SheCleansUpNicely: Any of her music videos with her in a PimpedOutDress. |
| 284 | * SillyLoveSongs: "Things I'll Never Say", "Fall to Pieces", "Naked", "Contagious". |
| 285 | * SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: Implied in "What the Hell" |
| 286 | -->''So what, if I go out on a million dates? You never call or listen to me anyway''' |
| 287 | * SongOfManyEmotions: "My Happy Ending" is a sad and angry BreakupSong with a bit of {{love nostalgia|Song}} thrown in. |
| 288 | * SpellingSong: The bridge to "The Best Damn Thing" spells out Avril's name like a cheerleader chant: |
| 289 | -->Give me an A (always give me what I want) |
| 290 | -->Give me a V (be very, very good to me) |
| 291 | -->R (are you gonna treat me right?) |
| 292 | --> I (I can put up a fight) |
| 293 | -->Give me an L (let me hear you scream loud) |
| 294 | * SpiritualAntithesis: She was branded the "Anti-Music/BritneySpears" due to her rejection of the heavy sexualization and "manufactured" pop Britney was known for. |
| 295 | * SupportingProtagonist: "[=Sk8r=] Boi" is sang from the point of view of the eponymous character's SecondLove, with his FirstLove being the {{Deuteragonist}}. |
| 296 | * TankTopTomboy: Back in the day. She dresses entirely in midriff-exposing tanktops and excessive baggy pants that sagged enough to show off her underwear. |
| 297 | * ThrivingExCrush: "SK8er Boi" tells the story of a girl who, in high school, rejected the eponymous boy because he was unpopular, only to learn that he has become a popular musician, and is currently in a relationship with the narrator of the song. |
| 298 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Avril loves showing this contrast in her music songs and videos. Notable examples are; "[=Sk8er=] Boi" (snobby ballerina vs. punk rock chic), "Nobody's Home" (a HomelessHero dressed in a hoodie intercut with a woman in a PimpedOutDress) and "Girlfriend" (suburban BespectacledCutie vs. punk chic). |
| 299 | * TomboyishBaseballCap: Wears a sideways one in the first part of the "[=Sk8er=] Boi" video. |
| 300 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: During her transition from skater-inspired Pop Punk to more mainstream pop, she briefly fell as this. Nowadays she seems to be a tomboy with a ''heavy'' girly streak. |
| 301 | * TooYoungToDieLamentation: In "Head Above Water", she says, "I'm too young to fall asleep." She started writing this song while bedridden with Lyme Disease and thought she was going to die. |
| 302 | * TrashTheSet: The music video for the regular version of "Bite Me" sees Avril as a WomanScorned breaking into her ex-lover's house and destroying everything inside. |
| 303 | * {{Tsundere}}: In some songs, she is independent and playful ("The Best Damn Thing", "What the Hell", "Smile") or even jerkish ("Girlfriend"), in other songs, she is tender and vulnerable ("Naked", "Wish You Were Here", "Things I'll Never Say", "Fall to Pieces"), so she comes off as this. |
| 304 | * TurnOfTheMillennium: She's heavily identified with this era, debuting in 2002 and having her heyday until roughly 2008. |
| 305 | * UncertainDoom: The music video for the acoustic version of "Bite Me" sees Avril pluck her ex-lover's teeth with a giant plier. He is then seen motionless for the duration of the music video. |
| 306 | * UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Alluded in "[=Sk8er=] Boi". |
| 307 | -->''Sorry girl but you missed out. Well tough luck that boy's mine now'' |
| 308 | * UptownGirl: Heavily implied in "[=Sk8er=] Boi". |
| 309 | -->''He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say? He wanted her, she'd never tell. Secretly, she wanted him as well. And all of her friends stuck up their nose. They got a problem with his baggy clothes.'' |
| 310 | * VillainProtagonist: |
| 311 | ** "Girlfriend" is about wanting to steal someone's boyfriend for themselves. The music video shows the singer (along with her GirlPosse) being blatantly juvenile to the titular character ([[MirrorMatch both played by Avril]]). |
| 312 | ** The music video for both versions of of "Bite Me" sees Avril as a WomanScorned harassing her former lover through extreme methods. The regular version has her breaking and entering in his home, detaining him, then destroying his possessions. The acoustic version has her sneaking in the hospital where he's having his teeth fixed and Avril plucks all of them when the dentist leaves to tend to something, [[UncertainDoom seemingly killing the ex]], then proceeds to wear the teeth as a necklace. |
| 313 | * VisualPun: |
| 314 | ** The "Nobody's Home" music video has Avril as a HomelessHero |
| 315 | ** The "Head Above Water" music video is a BeachEpisode. |
| 316 | ** The music video for the acoustic version of "Bite Me" sees Avril plucking her ex-lover's teeth and wearing them as a necklace. |
| 317 | * {{Wedgie}}: An amusing interview with Sum 41 (her ex-husband Deryck Whibley's band) claims this was how they met; Avril tried to pants Deryck, only for the drummer Steveo to give her a wedgie to 'save' him. Apparently it was still a point of embarrassment for her as she claimed later [[BadLiar that it was her who gave the wedgie to him]]. |
| 318 | * WhamLine: |
| 319 | ** "[=Sk8er=] Boi" seems to be telling the story of two people in 3rd person until it reaches the bridge |
| 320 | ---> "Sorry, girl, but you missed out, |
| 321 | ---> Well, tough luck, that boy's mine now, |
| 322 | ---> We are more than just good friends, |
| 323 | ---> And this is how the story ends." |
| 324 | ** "I Love You" sounds like a wholesome ode to a significant other, until it's revealed in the bridge that [[LoveNostalgiaSong their relationship didn't make it through]]. |
| 325 | ---> "Even though we didn't make it through,\ |
| 326 | I am always here for you\ |
| 327 | Yeah, yeah, oh" |
| 328 | * WhatDidIDoLastNight: Mentioned In "Smile". |
| 329 | * WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: "Give You What You Like" uses several examples in the verse and chorus. |
| 330 | -->''Emotions aren't that hard to borrow, when love's a word you've never learned'' |
| 331 | -->''When you turn off the lights I get stars in my eyes Is this love?'' |
| 332 | * WhiteMaleLead: The infamous "Hello Kitty" music video is a GenderInvertedTrope, showing Avril's adventures in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}. |
| 333 | * WithOrWithoutYou: In "Nobody's Fool": |
| 334 | -->''If it's with or without you, I don't need you doubtin' me.'' |
| 335 | * WomanScorned: Avril in the "Bite Me" music videos, [[VillainProtagonist to criminal levels]]. The regular version sees her breaking and entering his home, detaining him, and destroying nearly all his possessions. The acoustic version sees her [[UncertainDoom seemingly killing him]] and then wearing his teeth as a necklace. |
| 336 | * WorkingWithTheEx: Her divorce from Deryck Whibley in 2009 didn't stop his major contributions to her fourth album. |
| 337 | * XtremeKoolLetterz: ''Love Sux'', it's title track and "Bois Lie". |
| 338 | * YouAreNotAlone: ''I'm With You'', ''Keep Holding On'' and ''Listen'', the song she did with One Ok Rock. |
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