Avril en Night & Day Magazine

[Avril_sk8er_girl]

que linda!!!! no sale en poka ropa y lleva su guitarra me fasinan las fotos!!!!

[Keid]

Espero que la guitarra aparte de para posar en las revistas la use en los conciertos.

[sanroque]

Wuaoooooo osea que bella Avril, (bueno eso es siempre jijiji) Me encanto la poooooooortadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa osea lo maximooo jijiji y  tambien la sucesion de las fotos jijiji nah nah nah que buenas fotos (otra vez xD) ahh y es verdad esperemos que use mas la guitarra jijiji

[*RuBeN*aVrIl*]

k wapa joder...m encanta la portada y la de los tacones

[sally]

me gusta mucho sale en plan a lo loco rockera con la tratocaster ademas sale muy guapa

[sniv]

ACÁ LES DEJO LA NOTA

Avril Lavigne’s face is arranged into an irresistible picture of studied fifth-former boredom.

Slumped across a leather chair in a North London photographic studio, one heavily kohled eye is shut tight, the other obscured by wreaths of red-streaked blonde hair that she twists vacantly through black nail-polished fingers.

Her tiny feet – clad in skull-and-crossbone black high-heeled sandals over checked short socks – rest languorously on the coffee table.

In between yawns, she sighs heavily. When she drags herself to her feet, she is just over five foot tall.

She weighs less than seven stone and looks pushed to bear the weight of the guitar slung around her neck.

In short, she positively crackles with attitude; everything you expect from a girl who has turned teen angst into a profitable signature tune.

With hits such as Complicated and Sk8er Boi, her first two albums went to the top of the charts in the US, selling 22 million copies before she’d turned 20. Now 22, her new album, The Best Damn Thing, will surely do the same.

But the Avril Lavigne show hasn’t even started yet. Underneath the carefully constructed image of a teen punk-pop icon is a sharp brain that never stops ticking.

‘Everyone writes me off as this angst-ridden teen,’ she says.

‘But that’s so not the whole picture. I’m in this business for the long haul.

'I’m not going to get boxed in a corner. If anyone tried to do it, they’d find out just what they were up against. I’m as tough as you can get.’

In the music business, your survival as an artist is the only measure of your strength as an individual.

Five years ago, Lavigne was painted as the sulky, black-clad alternative to the pop princess that was Britney Spears.

In image terms, it was an act of genius. The girls who liked pink, pom-poms and candyfloss pop went for Spears, and the misunderstood, rebellious girls opted for Lavigne.

While Spears offered slick videos, fabulous haircuts and clever producers, Lavigne gave them guitars, lyrics and attitude.

The irony is, of course, that when the cute Britney image imploded recently, as Spears crashed and burned into a black hole of wild parties and dodgy marriages – Little Miss Imperfect – Lavigne evolved into a credible musician with a film career up and running (she featured in Over The Hedge and Fast Food Nation with Bruce Willis, and appears in Richard Gere’s new film The Flock, out later this year).

She’s also happily married, to musician Deryck Whibley from the US band Sum 41.

‘What has happened to Britney is all down to who she is as a person,’ says Lavigne bluntly.

‘If you want a piece of this business you have to be able to deal with it.

'You can’t complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I’ve always understood that that’s the deal.’

Lavigne shakes her head.

‘It all comes down to your motives for what you do. I love music. It’s that simple. I love guitars.

'Just looking at a guitar makes me happy, makes me want to pick it up. I love writing lyrics. I love performing. I love people listening to what I do.

‘It all goes wrong when you don’t have that passion, if you just want the fame. That’s the empty side. I work hard and I play hard.

'I live in Los Angeles and I love to go out to clubs, get drunk and party.

'I drink dirty martinis [a martini with a teaspoon of olive brine], red wine, limoncellos and go to places like Hyde, get up on the tables and totally let loose.

‘But no one really gets to know about it. It’s just me and my friends and whoever is in the clubs.

'My friends and I all drink like crazy but none of us do drugs because you just get into trouble.

‘If you get drunk you have a hangover and you deal with it. If you do drugs it messes with your head.’

She shakes her own again.

‘It’s those stupid girls that do all those things just for the sake of them and then complain about what happens.

'It is possible to have some control over your life. You just have to use your brain.

'My favourite restaurant is surrounded 24/7 by photographers. I call the owner and go in a side door. All the stupid ones turn up at the front.’

Warming to her theme, Lavigne starts to talk about her new album. ‘OK,’ she says.

‘Before I even started work on this album I sat down with my manager and my record company and spelled out exactly what was going to happen.

'I told them that no one would hear any tracks, see any lyrics, know anything about my direction until the album was completed. I didn’t want any interference.

'I didn’t want people sitting in meetings working out if these were commercial songs or if the direction was right.

‘I presented it as a whole from the songs to the song list to the pictures to the colours on the album [neon pink and black], right down to the typeface.’

She grins.

‘My husband always says the best thing about me is that I know exactly what I want. Well, maybe the best thing is I know what I want and I know how to get it.’

It has to be said that, with her new long blonde mane and tight-fitting clothes, Lavigne has also decided on a sexier image.

‘Well, I’m showing off my body a bit more,’ she says. ‘I guess I just feel more comfortable now. I’m 22, so I’m all grown-up.

'It feels natural for me to be like this now. I’m very comfortable with how I look. I always have been.

'I was never bothered about whether men found me attractive. Now I think it’s OK. I think I look pretty good. There’s nothing I want to change. I’m pretty happy with what I’ve got.’

Lavigne grew up in tiny Napanee, Ontario (population 5,000), the middle child of devout Catholics John and Judy.

Her mum was so strict that she wouldn’t let Lavigne sing the country song Strawberry Wine because it has the word ‘wine’ in the title.

At the age of 14, she won a competition to perform a Shania Twain song in front of 20,000 people at one of Twain’s concerts in Ottawa, and two years later she went to New York to sign her first record deal.

Her background is middle-class Canadian. She talks of being a tearaway at school but in fact all she did was rollerskate in the corridor.

More to the point, she was a straight-‘A’ student.

In her early years, the main subject of her songs was being spurned by boys or dumped for one of the prettier girls.

Now older, married and with £9 million in her pocket, she has clearly worked through her angst very successfully.

You have to wonder if being happy will affect her music. ‘I write it and sing it like it is,’ she says.

‘This album reflects who I am now. It’s more playful, definitely poppy and there’s still a bit of boy-bashing, just because we all need to do that every now and again.’

There are still plenty of issues she likes to keep as grist to the mill. She appeared in the controversial Fast Food Nation because the subjects – a corrupt food industry and animal cruelty – are close to her heart.

In the film, she plays a student activist who cuts through fences to try to free cattle that are due to be turned into hamburgers by a meat-packing company.

‘I have every sympathy with people who do that sort of thing,’ she says.

‘I think the way the food industry treats animals is disgusting and we just have to raise awareness about what is going on.

'A few years ago, I started to read up about what exactly gets put into our food. So much of the meat we eat is unclean because of the process it goes through before it is packaged.

'The animals are treated horribly. They are overfed so that their legs break and they are stuffed full of chemicals. Fast food is disgusting because it is just full of c**p and you have to be an idiot to eat it.

‘People ought to be responsible about what they put into their bodies. We don’t need to eat meat and we certainly shouldn’t eat meat when animals have been tortured.’ She pauses:

‘I’ve read up a lot on the subject so I know what I’m talking about. I’ve seen videos of what goes on in slaughterhouses and they just make you feel sick.

'I got sent a lot of information by [anti-animal-cruelty charity] Peta and other organisations.

‘I’d read the book Fast Food Nation, and when I heard it was being made into a film I knew I had to be in it – whatever size my part was. I didn’t need to do any research because I knew all about the subject anyway.’

It goes without saying that Lavigne is a vegetarian. ‘I’m pretty hardcore,’ she says.

‘I avoid using leather and I’ll have months where I stick rigidly to a macrobiotic diet. I love to eat like that because it makes me feel completely healthy.

'When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that. I used to be a lot more slack.

'But growing up, you live and learn and you change your ways.

'I’m not totally healthy because, on top of my good food, I still like to go out and drink way too much, but you have to have some vices or else you are really boring.’

Like Madonna – her role model – Lavigne speaks her mind, presenting herself as completely fearless in the process. She does, however, have one secret terror.

She might not fear the sharks in the music industry, but in the water she is a nervous wreck.

‘I’m scared of water. I don’t even like looking at the ocean,’ she says. ‘If I do go in it’ll just be for a few minutes because I’m convinced I’ll get bitten by a shark.

'I know it’s irrational but I have this thing that there are always sharks in water. I’m totally in control everywhere but in the ocean.’

The theme of control comes up time and again. ‘People talk about how hard it is to be a woman in this business but I don’t see why. I think you’ve just got to have the right attitude.

'You can’t get lost in the whole fame thing. I hate all these female celebrities who look the same on every red carpet. I’d rather sit at home with my guitar and write music than dress up just to have my photo taken somewhere.

‘And,’ she adds with a smile, ‘I know for a fact that none of what’s happened to Britney will ever happen to me.’

Avril Lavigne’s new single ‘Girlfriend’ is out tomorrow. The album ‘The Best Damn Thing’ is out on April 16.

Originally posted by revenant_gurl@Apr 1 2007, 09:44 PM
¿Es una rubia sucia?

A mi entender se refiere a su color de pelo [Dirty blond, en español sería castaño].

[Cami03]

Gracias sniv

[Miley]

woww me encantó la entrevista!! gracias!!
me encanta lo que dice avril, me hace sentir orgullosa de ser su fan =D

[KAKUandJOEY]

Al final he optado por los links que ha dejado Cami03 puesto que son de mejor calidad, de todos modos, gracias a las dos chicas.
Me gustan mucho las fotos, sinceramente.
La prefiero así, rockera pero más femenina y como dice mi aita, creo que de rubia se la ve ahora mucho mejor.
Ah sí, y que si alguien sabe dónde pillar esos panties que lleva pero algo más baratos (supongo que valdrán lo suyo), que me informe por favoor!

[noe_avrilera_ense]

Graciass,, tan hermosass,, gracias tmb por la notaa  

[JbPetite]

mu xulas las fotografias   . la entrevista esta interesante, ya iba siendo hora de alguna normalita

[Maclynd]

'I live in Los Angeles and I love to go out to clubs, get drunk and party.

hace pco dijo qe no era una "party person" xD

[aNa_aVriLiTiKa]

Creo que cuando dijo eso se referia a que si, sale de vez en cuando y eso pero no es como Paris por ejemplo que sale cada vez que puede xD
Gracias sniv!

[Ili_el_regreso]

Originally posted by revenant_gurl@Apr 1 2007, 09:44 PM
¿Es una rubia sucia?

¿Porque?

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Que es eso de "rubia sucia"?...No le encuentro significado

Me gustan las fotos aunque la ultima es simplita o de casi siempre

[marulavignera]

Gracias por la nota Kritoo!