

It’s like how a lot of people feel,” she says. But she never considered changing the name of the release.
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She also recognizes the irony of falling in love with Mod Sun, her producer on “Love Sux,” during the recording of the album. From the arm-swaying “Complicated” to the caffeinated “Sk8er Boi” to the hand-clapping cheerleader stomp of “Girlfriend,” the youthful singer – now a still-eternally-youthful-looking 37 – maintained an aura of optimism and relatability as she sang about the peaks and pitfalls of love.įestivals and COVID: Coachella and Stagecoach drop vaccine requirementsīut in 2019 she delved into more personal terrain, detailing her struggles with Lyme disease – which she was diagnosed with in 2014 – on the title track of “Head Above Water” and examining a toxic relationship on “I Fell in Love with the Devil.”ĭespite her past romantic crashes – she married Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley in 2006, Nickelback singer Chad Kroeger in 2013 and dated Pete Jonas in 2020 – and the resigned sigh of her new album title, Lavigne is still hopeful about relationships. “He came in the studio with his guitar and started playing his concept for the song and I was like, ‘This guy writes his (stuff) and he’s really focused and serious.’”īetween 20, Lavigne stormed radio with a steady procession of immaculately produced hits. “He’s one of the hardest workers I know,” Lavigne says of MGK. Pop/hip-hop singer and producer Blackbear joins her on the current power-pop single, “Love it When You Hate Me,” while Machine Gun Kelly drapes surfer-dude vocals over the buoyant “Bois Lie.” Lavigne, calling from her home in Malibu, California – a typically sunnier lifestyle than her family in Canada experiences, she jokes – says she stocked “Love Sux” with collaborations, an uncharacteristic move that brought her a new level of happiness in the studio. I have so much respect for him that I just keep gushing about him.”

He can engineer and he’s obviously an awesome songwriter and I got to see that firsthand. “He was writing in front of me, recording his vocals, playing his bass. “I don’t think I had ever met Mark (before this), but he blew me away,” Lavigne says. Record Store Day 2022: What Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj plan to release
