Two years later, when she was sixteen, Fabri arranged for Lavigne to
audition for L.A. Reid, head of Arista Records in New York City. After a
fifteen-minute tryout Reid signed Lavigne to an amazing two-record, $1.25
million contract. The sixteen year old immediately dropped out of high
school to devote herselfto working on her first album. At first producers
offered Lavigne new country tunes to sing, but after six months the team
was unable to write any actual songs, and it became apparent that things
were not clicking. Reid then sent the singer to Los Angeles to work with a
team of producers and writers known as The Matrix. When Lavigne arrived in
L.A. Matrix producer Lauren Christy asked Lavigne what style she had in
mind. As Christy relayed to Chris Willman, Lavigne had responded,
"I'm 16. I want to rock out." That same day Lavigne
and Matrix writers penned the first song for her album,
"Complicated."
Lavigne's debut album,
Let Go,
was released on June 4, 2002, and within six weeks it had gone platinum,
meaning over a million copies were sold. The single
"Complicated," which received a great deal of radio airplay,
reached number one on the adult Billboard charts; "I'm With
You" also reached number one on the adult charts; and the catchy
pop tune "Sk8er Boi" was
With edgy lyrics and a strong voice, Avril Lavigne has become one
of America's top-selling entertainers.
AP/ Wide World Photos.
a top-requested video on MTV and made it in the top ten of the Billboard
Hot 100.
To promote the album Lavigne set out on a whirlwind publicity tour, making
appearances on talk shows such as
Late Night with David Letterman,
and giving a series of concerts in Europe with her newly formed band,
which was put together by her new management firm, Nettwerk. Most
inexperienced singers are backed by seasoned musicians, but Nettwerk chose
to go with young performers who were up and coming in the Canadian
punk-rock scene. As Nettwerk manager Shauna Gold told
Shanda Deziel of
Maclean's,
"[Lavigne] is young, her music's young, we needed a band
that would fit well with who she is as a person."
And, after being away from her small-town home in Canada, Lavignewas
beginning to form her own personal style. Initially publicists tried to
market her like other teen pop stars, but Lavigne rebelled. "IfI
was made up by the record label," she remarked to Lorraine Ali of
Newsweek,
"I'd have bleached-blonde hair and I'd probably be
wearing a bra for a shirt." Instead, the singer-songwriter opted
for a skater-punk look, which consisted of cut-off plaid pants, steel-toed
Doc Martens, and tank tops worn with neckties. According to Ali, the
five-foot-one tomboy "spawned a prepubescent army of
Lavignettes" who snatched up her records and faithfully copied her
outfits.
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