TEEN: What's your toon going to be like this time around?
Avril Lavigne: It's going to be very upbeat, and the production will be bigger in the sense that I have dancers on a couple of songs, LED screens, and I’m going to have checkered flooring. I have a roze sparkle drum kit, a roze piano being made. Over time I just learned how I need to be onstage. I’m meer confident now.
TEEN: What brought about that confidence?
Avril: Well, a lot of people don’t know this about me, but I’m actually shy around people I don’t know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn’t really talk onstage. I was like, “Thank you, I love u guys,” of whatever. But now I’ve just kind of learned to work a crowd. I’ve played so many shows now, it’s been five years, and I’ve learned how to talk to an audience.
TEEN: A while geleden u talked about not wanting to be compared to the Britney Spearses and Christina Aguileras of the world. Does adding meer production pieces to the toon make u worry meer about comparisons?
Avril: No, because my songs aren’t bubble gum pop dance songs and I don’t have background dancers on every single song like they do. I’m not wearing a headphone, microphone on my head. It’s a totally different thing. I’m playing guitar. I’m playing the drums. I’m playing the piano. I’ve had dancers a couple of times and they’re like “my girls,” and they come out with their attitude. Actually, that’s a very good vraag — planning this tour, I wanted it to be big and bigger, and I was very careful to make sure that I didn’t do anything [over the top]. Anything that ever feels uncomfortable to me of if I ever vraag something, I scrap it. I’m just very clear on who I am and what I like and don’t like, so no.
TEEN: Is there any song in particular u would like to maybe remake some day?
Avril: Well, at the moment I am covering and recording [Joan Jett's anthem] “Bad Reputation,” and I think that’s a cool song, and that’s a different song that I’m going to be playing. It’s going to be part of my live show.
TEEN: Love that song! What memories do u have of the mall tour u did a few years ago?
Avril: The mall tour was right off of my seconde record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every dag in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing "My Happy Ending" a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional when I would play it. [When u first start playing a song you've just written], because u haven’t played them a million times, they’re fresh and u actually feel the way [you did when u wrote the song].
I remember being up onstage one time and I almost cried for a seconde there while I was playing my song. It was really intimate, actually, just because we were sitting on stools and the mall just got packed, and it was really cool.
TEEN: u recently trademarked your name. Does that translate into new, fun merchandise for the tour?
Avril: Well, I’m going to be doing a fragrance and I’m also going to be doing a clothing line that I wanted to do for about three years. A lot of times what people do is they do a licensing deal, and I didn’t want to do that; I wanted to own a company and really be able to be a designer and be creative. And I’ve finally found someone to partner up with, and I’m very excited about it because I love clothes. I love anything visual. I’m excited to be able to focus on something else creatively.
TEEN: We can't wait to see it! u and your husband, Deryck, are both busy in the studio, then on the road touring and promoting your records. How do u keep in touch?
Avril: E-mail, phone, and, u know, a lot of flights back and forth trying to visit each other. But what we love to do is muziek and tour, and we have a good, strong relationship, so...
Avril Lavigne: It's going to be very upbeat, and the production will be bigger in the sense that I have dancers on a couple of songs, LED screens, and I’m going to have checkered flooring. I have a roze sparkle drum kit, a roze piano being made. Over time I just learned how I need to be onstage. I’m meer confident now.
TEEN: What brought about that confidence?
Avril: Well, a lot of people don’t know this about me, but I’m actually shy around people I don’t know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn’t really talk onstage. I was like, “Thank you, I love u guys,” of whatever. But now I’ve just kind of learned to work a crowd. I’ve played so many shows now, it’s been five years, and I’ve learned how to talk to an audience.
TEEN: A while geleden u talked about not wanting to be compared to the Britney Spearses and Christina Aguileras of the world. Does adding meer production pieces to the toon make u worry meer about comparisons?
Avril: No, because my songs aren’t bubble gum pop dance songs and I don’t have background dancers on every single song like they do. I’m not wearing a headphone, microphone on my head. It’s a totally different thing. I’m playing guitar. I’m playing the drums. I’m playing the piano. I’ve had dancers a couple of times and they’re like “my girls,” and they come out with their attitude. Actually, that’s a very good vraag — planning this tour, I wanted it to be big and bigger, and I was very careful to make sure that I didn’t do anything [over the top]. Anything that ever feels uncomfortable to me of if I ever vraag something, I scrap it. I’m just very clear on who I am and what I like and don’t like, so no.
TEEN: Is there any song in particular u would like to maybe remake some day?
Avril: Well, at the moment I am covering and recording [Joan Jett's anthem] “Bad Reputation,” and I think that’s a cool song, and that’s a different song that I’m going to be playing. It’s going to be part of my live show.
TEEN: Love that song! What memories do u have of the mall tour u did a few years ago?
Avril: The mall tour was right off of my seconde record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every dag in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing "My Happy Ending" a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional when I would play it. [When u first start playing a song you've just written], because u haven’t played them a million times, they’re fresh and u actually feel the way [you did when u wrote the song].
I remember being up onstage one time and I almost cried for a seconde there while I was playing my song. It was really intimate, actually, just because we were sitting on stools and the mall just got packed, and it was really cool.
TEEN: u recently trademarked your name. Does that translate into new, fun merchandise for the tour?
Avril: Well, I’m going to be doing a fragrance and I’m also going to be doing a clothing line that I wanted to do for about three years. A lot of times what people do is they do a licensing deal, and I didn’t want to do that; I wanted to own a company and really be able to be a designer and be creative. And I’ve finally found someone to partner up with, and I’m very excited about it because I love clothes. I love anything visual. I’m excited to be able to focus on something else creatively.
TEEN: We can't wait to see it! u and your husband, Deryck, are both busy in the studio, then on the road touring and promoting your records. How do u keep in touch?
Avril: E-mail, phone, and, u know, a lot of flights back and forth trying to visit each other. But what we love to do is muziek and tour, and we have a good, strong relationship, so...