Avril Lavigne

Avril Lavigne’s new album Goodbye Lullaby leads off with “What The Hell” which harkens to her past and is the kind of song which she says her label wanted, but by the second half of the record Lavigne has taken over the reins completely, writing most of the album’s back half solo and even self-producing some of the tracks. Avril told Beatweek that it’s something she’s wanted to do for years. “I’ve always written songs on my own, and I’ve just never recorded them,” she said of the use of co-writers on much of her previously released material over the years. “It was time. I was like, you know what? I’ve got to put my songs on this record.”
“It’s more of my singer songwriter record,” she says of the vision she had for Goodbye Lullaby going back to before she began work on it. “I didn’t want to think about the pop world so much and I didn’t want to analyze what was happening on the radio. I just wanted to be true to the emotion of the song and the instruments, and make everything in its most natural form.”
The twenty-six year old Lavigne also revealed that she had wanted to take this direction in the past but had been discouraged. “I actually tried to record a couple of mine one time, and I wouldn’t name names, but there were a couple of producers who just kind of, like, pushed it aside, obviously because they just wanted to put their songs on the record.” She adds: “I mean I always could do what I wanted to, but I went there, I went for it” this time around.