Avril Lavigne Revisits Her Skater Roots In New ‘I’m A Mess’ Video With YUNGBLUD

In a not-so-subtle nod to her “Sk8er Boi” past, Avril Lavigne opens up her caller video peering retired astatine the Pacific Ocean with a skateboard by her feet. From there, Avril, 38, rides on the beachside path, singing, “Staring astatine the pavement unsocial / Wishing that I was connected my mode location to you.” Meanwhile, disconnected successful a dreary London, the shops are closed, and YUNGBLUD is walking the streets, feeling the aforesaid loneliness gripping Avril connected the different broadside of the world. With the assistance of a achromatic balloon floating overhead successful England and confederate California, the 2 reconnect successful an abandoned flat.

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“I cognize that I person my issues,” they sing connected the bridge. Suddenly, Avril ditched her oversized sweatshirt for a glam achromatic outfit with reddish bondage-inspired embellishments, portion YUNGBLUD is dressed successful a semi-androgynous concern outfit. “The little we talk, the much I miss you,” they sing. “I dice conscionable a little, dice conscionable a small / I’m slipping person to the edge, I perceive your voice, it’s successful my caput / But you’re gone again, gone again.”

The opus closes retired with the singing of the chorus. “I’m A Mess, I’m A Mess / When we’re not unneurotic / Such a wreck, specified a wreck / I anticipation it’s not everlastingly / Will I spot you again? / I privation it was maine and you ’til the extremity / ’cause I cognize I’m a Mess, I’m A Mess / I cognize I’m a mess, I’m a Mess.”

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“I’m A Mess” was written by Avril Lavigne, Travis Barker, Goldfinger’s John Feldmann, and Dominic Harrison (aka YUNGBLUD). Feldmann and Barker produced the song, the second of which produced Avril’s 2022 album, Love Sux (released connected Barker’s DTA Records.)

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Avril is coming disconnected performing astatine the inaugural When We Were Young festival. Her show received praise for teaming up with All Time Low to screen blink-182’s “All The Small Things” towards the extremity of her Oct. 23 performance. Sadly, she had to propulsion retired of the Oct. 29 show owed to an unforeseen condition (she was replaced by Death Cab For Cutie). Thankfully, the contented has been resolved ,and she heads to Japan adjacent week for a fistful of dates. After then, she’ll instrumentality the wintertime disconnected – possibly to bask more of her engaged life with fiancé Mod Sun — earlier hitting Europe successful Spring 2023. Click present for circuit dates.

John Feldmann shared what it was similar to enactment with Avril connected re-recording “Here successful Your Bedroom,” 1 of Goldfinger’s biggest hits, for the deluxe variation of the band’s 2020 album, Never Look Back. “It came to be, really, successful a earthy way,” helium said in an EXCLUSIVE interview with HollywoodLife. “Avril was astatine my house, making Love Sux. And I’m like, ‘I had the re-records,’ and you know, she told me, she goes, ‘When I was 15…’ I deliberation she was dating Deryck [Whibley] from Sum 41. I deliberation we were playing a amusement with them. And she said her archetypal signifier dive was astatine a Goldfinger amusement erstwhile she was 15. And truthful it’s travel afloat ellipse that present she’s singing connected our archetypal deed connected a Goldfinger record, which, making it a duet, is besides specified a chill twist connected the full thing, you know?”