It's been a long time since we've seen much of Avril Lavinge, but we're going to be seeing a lot more of her soon . She plans to doff her duds in an upcoming magazine lay out. Apart from doing lay outs Avril has a new single coming out soon. SO she needs to draw attention to her image without drawing too much attention to her *ahem* talent. You see Avril has some trouble coming up with her own material.
Back in the olden days Avril's songs used to be done by Matrix. Then she had a falling out with them and branched out on her own. By 'on her own' I mean that she started writing songs with Chantal Kreviazuk and Rayne Maida. That didn't work out well partly because Chantal has more ambition than she can manage. So she went from song writer to career coach. She convinced Lavinge to ditch the punk princess image and go for something more mature. SO Avril signed on with Ford models and started wearing pretty pretty dresses. She even gave an interview telling readers that she can do the girl thing. Naturally her punker fans freaked and decided that she was a poser. Another reason it didn't work out is because Kreviazuk doesn't write hits - her only hit songs were covers of other's work.
Kreviazul & Lavinge had a bitter noisy bust up in which Chantal accused Lavinge of being a little thief. CK said in an interview that no one provides boundaries for Lavinge, so that when she feels like plagiarizing stuff no one stops her. Coincidentally Lavinge was sued for plagiarism shortly after, by the Rondells. They claim that Lavinge had lifted their main chord sequence for her song "Boyfriend", unless it was called "Girlfriend".
Lavinge made a public statement denying that she had stolen the song from the Rondells or even knew about the creepy old guy band. However by that time Kreviazuk was getting more involved in the growing ruckus. She pointed out that she'd written a song called Contagious for Lavinge and that a song called Contagious which sounded nothing like Kreviazuk's song was featured on the album. That's when Kreviazuk had become too much trouble and Lavinge's attorney's slapped a legal gag on Kreviazuk. The now gagged and humbled Kreviazuk issued a formal apology/retraction stating that she'd never said the stuff she'd said and that Lavinge is an amazing you g woman.So that left Lavinge without writing partners, friends, or even a fan base. IN an attempt to revive her faltering career she toured Australia. She managed to piss everyone off with her drunken antics. She wrote some songs with her husband. That didn't work out so she divorced him. She started slutting around a bit, go some tattoos, and not hat the water's under the bridge is makings another stab at recording. Will it work out - probably not, but I doubt that we've heard the last of her.
