Despite being a successful musician for over two decades, Avril Lavigne has revealed that she has to constantly fight her music labels in order to go in her desired music direction.
“I’m stubborn and strong-willed and strong-minded, and if I feel a certain way, I stick to it. I’m constantly fighting. I’ve been fighting since day one to write my own songs. I had to fight my whole career to write the type of music I wanted to write,” Lavigne told Alternative Press.
“Sometimes labels would give me pushback and didn’t understand my vision. I had to always fight, and fight on each album to keep going in the musical direction I wanted to go, even if they’re trying to sway me another way.”
Lavigne dropped her latest album Love Sux on February 25, 2022. The ‘Sk8er Boi’ singer has revealed that she and her boyfriend Mod Sun wrote a lot of the album together.
“I mean, he’s [Mod Sun] a really incredible songwriter and like when we met, I loved his song Karma. I was like, ‘Who did you write this with and who produced it?’” She told US Weekly.
Lavigne added: “And he was like, ‘John Feldmann.’ And so we got together to work because I was a fan of his music and he introduced me to John Feldmann and then the three of us just wrote so many songs and had so much fun together.”
“He really complimented, like, a lot of my ideas and really understood [my vision]. They all really understood me as an artist.”
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The album features guest appearances from blink-182’s Mark Hoppus on ‘All I Wanted’, Machine Gun Kelly on ‘Bois Lie’ and blackbear on ‘Love It When You Hate Me’.
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