Avril Lavigne also told how, early in her career, the ‘heads of the music industry’ didn’t care about her work.
Avril Lavigne reflected and recalled the beginning of his career in an interview with The Guardian. The lady of “complicated” also spoke about the challenges of going against the norms of pop of the time. To the newspaper, the singer explained how she didn’t want her works to sound like ” bubblegum pop”, very dominant in the industry.
“Back then, I was just out of high school and I just wanted to rock it,” he said. Lavigne to publication. “I want loud guitars, I want live drums… I want to write about crazy things, insane emotions, good and bad things.”
“I was pretty sure about what I wanted and didn’t want to do. I wanted to be angsty and sound more like a band; I didn’t want to be all bubblegum pop,” the artist continued in the conversation. “I wanted to turn my emotions into lyrics. Honestly, I was really, really pure.”
Avril Lavigne also spoke about the challenges of doing so at the time, and said how it wasn’t easy to speak up as a young girl in the music industry: “[Os chefes da indústria] they didn’t care what I had to say. They had their own style and didn’t mind looking at me and trying to let me lead.”
Avril Lavigne in Brazil: What to expect from the shows in São Paulo and Rock in Rio?
After eight years of the last show in Brazil, Avril Lavigne will return to the country for two performances in September this year. The singer is one of the attractions on the Sunset Stage of Rock in Rio 2022 on September 9th and has just announced a date in São Paulo, at Espaço das Américas, for September 7th.
Lavigne launched Love Sux (2022), the seventh album of his career, earlier this year and is returning to the stage to present the new tracks with the tour that bears the same name as the album. This is a busy year for the singer, who has dates scheduled at different festivals around the world.
At the moment, Lavigne is performing in Canada with the tour bite me and will probably bring the same elements of this show to Brazil, both in Rock in Rio as well as in the Space of the Americas. In addition to the tracks on the new album, the singer does not leave aside the setlist hits that marked her discography, such as “Complicated,” “Girlfriend” and “Sk8er Boy.”
Among the tracks on the seventh album that Lavigne presents live are “Cannonball,” “Bite Me,” “Love It When You Hate Me,” partnership with blackbear, “Love Sux” and “Boys Lie,”feat with Machine Gun Kelly. The album is the singer’s debut on the DTA RECORDS label, from Travis Barker.
Love Sux brings 12 tracks with the characteristic pop-punk of Lavignewhich became the singer’s trademark and inspired younger generations, such as Olivia Rodrigowho performs covers of “Complicated” at Sour Tour and even hosted the Canadian singer for a duet at one of the shows.
Despite new music, stage choreography, sets and costumes, there’s no denying that Lavigne continues to bring its own aesthetic to the shows. With games of lights, a powerful band and costumes that show the “rebel” side of the singer, the shows of Love Sux Tour promise to shake up Brazilian soil.
The tickets for Rock in Rio on the 9th of September, when Lavigne appears, are sold out. However, sales for the tour’s São Paulo show Love Sux open May 13 for C6 Bank customers and May 16 for the general public. Values were not disclosed.
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