Canadian punk princess Avril Lavigne is ready to embark on a new musical era! The multi-platinum singer, songwriter, designer, and philanthropist made her comeback with ‘Bite Me’ after signing to Travis Scott’s DTA Records and now, she’s announced her seventh studio album ‘Love Sux’ drops 25 February.
The follow-up to 2019’s ‘Head Above Water’ – which will see her return to her pop-punk roots – sees features from Machine Gun Kelly, Blink-182‘s Mark Hoppus, and blackbear, who features on the star’s new single ‘Love It When You Hate Me’.
Speaking on the album last month, Lavigne said it was inspired by Green Day and that “it’s a love letter to women”.
“I really went back to what sounds I originally was influenced by at the beginning of my career [for this album],” she told Entertainment Weekly. “To the core, I’m a kid from a small town who listened to bands like Blink-182 and Green Day and NOFX in high school, and I tapped into that.”
She continued: “It’s fast. It’s fun. It’s just pure rock & roll from front to back. There’s a lot of reflecting upon different relationships that I have gone through and where I’m at, and even though there’s songs about past love experiences that didn’t work out, I’m in such a good place in my life that it’s still just fun and feisty and light. I’m kind of poking fun at myself that I’ve gone through a lot in love.”
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