angelicpnay
07-20-2002, 01:38 AM
Hype: Avril Lavigne
- Date: July 2002
- Source: Pulse! Magazine
She's got the skate shoes, all right. Several cushiony new pairs ready to be street-trick tested. But she's got no board, sighs serious 17-year-old skater Avril Lavigne. "It's back in New York at my label and it stays there every time I leave because it's annoying to drag around."
Instead, she'll shuffle her shoes into a carpeted record-retailer meet 'n' greet an hour later, touting her debut Let Go (Arista), a remarkably assured perk-pop confection. Outwardly, she might be sporting the baggy skate togs of the X-game generation, but inwardly, judging by serpentine sing-alongs like "Complicated," the kid's pure Tin Pan Alley. "People say that I'm an old soul," Lavigne giggles. "And I totally feel that in all my lives before this, songwriting is what I was trying to do. If reincarnation is true, then that's definitely what was happening."
Growing up in tiny Napanee, Ontario, Lavigne recalls "constantly singing, in the shower, when I went to bed, everywhere--my mom called me her little songbird." By age 10, she was soloing in church. At 15, she was crooning country at professional adult competitions, and winning big bucks doing it. "And people were really happy for me in town," she adds. "They were always asking me, 'Hey, how's the singing going?' But I was very sheltered there--I didn't know too much about the world." Discovered by Arista honcho Antonio "L.A." Reid, she inked a deal and, at 16, moved to more cosmopolitan New York to write and record. The label had material in mind for her, but Lavigne demurred. "I told 'em 'No, no, no! I am not gonna sing other people's songs! Just gimme the chance--let me show you that I can write.'" She grew up real fast. As echoed in her prime credo: "You can't trust anybody--always go with your gut."
- Date: July 2002
- Source: Pulse! Magazine
She's got the skate shoes, all right. Several cushiony new pairs ready to be street-trick tested. But she's got no board, sighs serious 17-year-old skater Avril Lavigne. "It's back in New York at my label and it stays there every time I leave because it's annoying to drag around."
Instead, she'll shuffle her shoes into a carpeted record-retailer meet 'n' greet an hour later, touting her debut Let Go (Arista), a remarkably assured perk-pop confection. Outwardly, she might be sporting the baggy skate togs of the X-game generation, but inwardly, judging by serpentine sing-alongs like "Complicated," the kid's pure Tin Pan Alley. "People say that I'm an old soul," Lavigne giggles. "And I totally feel that in all my lives before this, songwriting is what I was trying to do. If reincarnation is true, then that's definitely what was happening."
Growing up in tiny Napanee, Ontario, Lavigne recalls "constantly singing, in the shower, when I went to bed, everywhere--my mom called me her little songbird." By age 10, she was soloing in church. At 15, she was crooning country at professional adult competitions, and winning big bucks doing it. "And people were really happy for me in town," she adds. "They were always asking me, 'Hey, how's the singing going?' But I was very sheltered there--I didn't know too much about the world." Discovered by Arista honcho Antonio "L.A." Reid, she inked a deal and, at 16, moved to more cosmopolitan New York to write and record. The label had material in mind for her, but Lavigne demurred. "I told 'em 'No, no, no! I am not gonna sing other people's songs! Just gimme the chance--let me show you that I can write.'" She grew up real fast. As echoed in her prime credo: "You can't trust anybody--always go with your gut."