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اصيل و پرغرور و روراست! "Let Go" ، اولين كار اَوريل لوین، به دختراي جوون جسارت خاصي رو بخشيد.بعد از چهارده ميليون فروش و هشت كانديد grammy سر و كله ي اين خواننده ي كانادايي بالاخره پيدا شد اما اين بار با "Under My Skin" كه کاملا متفاوت با كار دو سال پيششه. نه، اين دختر اصلا از اونايي نيست كه مشوقش افتخارات قبليش باشن.Under My Skin به قطعات پرجوش و خروشي مثل"Take Me Away" و "Together" شروع ميشه كه صحنه رو براي گيتاركاري هاي بي نظير آماده مي كنن و نغمه هاي "Don’t Tell Me" كه هر لحظه از راديو شنيده ميشه در حقيقت سرود اختيارات مشتاقانه يك زنه كه بعد از "Complicated" اعتراض آميز، اين طوري سربلند و آرزومند خودش رو نشون مي ده. بعد از اون "HeWasn’t" كه ريتمش تيكه هاي دو ضربي از كوردهاي سه شماره اي گيتاره و بعد هم خوشبيني پراطمينان تو ريتم "Who Knows" در كنار ملودي سرخوش "Freak Out" و همچنين ترش قطعاتي مثل "Forgotten" و "Nobody’s Home" كه نشون دهنده ي افكار و روحيه ي تاريك اَوريل اند.

 اين دختر اهل Nappanee-Ontario (آنتریو -نپنی) ميگه من توي اين دوسال خيلي بزرگتر شدم. من با خيلي چيزا برخوردم و خيلي چيزا يادگرفتم و تجربه كردم، هم خوب هم بد و اين اشعار همه از اونا سرچشمه مي گيرن و همگي براي من کاملا شخصي و تجربي اند.

در حين كار با توليد كننده هايي مثل Butch Walker از "Raine Maida ،"The Marvelous3  از "Our Lady Peace"و Don Gilmore از "Linkin Park" و "Pearl Jam" اَوريل به همراه 2-3 تا از دوستاش، دوازده ترانه واقعگرايانه Under My Skin رو مي نويسه.«من تازه تور جهاني مو تموم كرده بودم و به تورِنتو برگشته بودم كه سریعا شروع كردم به نوشتن» اينارو اَوريل نوزده ساله مي گه «اصلا راجع به كار آينده ام برنامه مشخصي نداشتم، يعني در حقيقت هنوز كسي طرح خاصي نريخته بود. مردم همه فكر مي كردن كه من ديگه چيزي ندارم كه دربارش آهنگ بنويسم اما دقيقاٌ برعكس بود» بعد، اَوريل و شريكش يعني همون خواننده و ترانه نويس كانادايي Chantal Kreviazuk با هم يه قرار نهار مي ذارن كه اون قرار تبديل ميشه به يه جلسه ي كاري اونا يه معامله كوچيك باهم مي كنن و بعد هم ميشينن و شروع مي كنن به نوشتن. آوريل ميگه ما يه شب دوتايي نشستيم و يهويي ديديم كه يه ترانه ساختيم! البته هيچكس نمي دونست كه من مي خواستم چي كار كنم، حتي مدير برنامه هام و حتي خودم. تا شب بعد، آوريل و Chantal دوتا ترانه نوشتن و تا دوهفته بعد، 12تا! يعني طي دو هفته كار تموم شده بود و تابستون بود كه آوريل به خونه ي Chantal و شوهرش Raine نقل مكان كرد كه كار ضبط رو شروع كنن! آوريل تعريف مي كنه كه: «من تازه از كنسرت و تور برگشته بودم اما ما كار آلبوم جديد رو هم تموم كرديم و در حقيقت فقط چند هفته گذشته بود در حاليكه من آماده ي ضبط هم شده بودم».

زندگي در كاليفورنيا در همون چند وقت به آوريل كمك كرد كه مدتي از فشارهاي عصبي دور بمونه. اون مي گه:«اونجا خيلي بهم خوش گذشت، موندن در اونجا عالي بود به خصوص اينكه مي تونستم يه مدت راحت و بدور از چشم مردم استراحت كنم و زندگي مستقلي داشته باشم و مهمتر از همه دوستيم با Chantal بود كه يكي از بهترين روابطي بود كه تا حالا داشتم» Chantal و آوريل ساعت ها در شب در استوديو مي نشستن و ترانه هايي رو كه ساخته بودن تكميل و بازنويسي مي كردن و در طول روز، آوريل براي رفت و آمد از ماشينش استفاده مي كرد كه با راه هاي شهر آشنا بشه. اين طوري خيلي راحت تر بود ، دور از عكاسها و مصاحبه و سختي هاي ديگه.

بالاخره آوريل موفق شد كه بيشتر آهنگ هاش رو به كمك Chantal و در استوديوي Raine ضبط كنه و همونها هم الان بدون تغيير توي آلبوم Under My Skin اند. بقيه آهنگ هاي مونده رو آوريل با گيتاريستش Even Taubenfeld (اِوِن تابنفلد) نوشت و يكيشون رو هم با مؤسس گروه آلترنيتيو "Evanescence" يعني Ben Moody. آوريل ميگه«من توي همه ي قسمت هاي اين آلبوم نقش و فعاليت داشتم و دقیقا مي دونستم كه دوست دارم drum كاري ها و ريتمهاي گيتار و زمينه ها براي اين ترانه ها چطور باشن. من دوست داشتم هموني بشن كه مي خوام و شدن.راستش اين دفعه چون خودم در جريان كار بودم، خيلي بهتر زحمات ساخت و ضبط يه آلبوم رو درك مي كنم و مي تونم بگم وقتي صداي خودم رو توي اون آهنگ ها مي شنوم به خودم افتخار مي كنم».

  حالا مي خوايم آهنگ هاي مورد علاقه ي آوريل رو از بين12 آهنگ دست ساخته ي خودش جدا كنيم.آوريل دربارش مي گه:«همشون واسم معني دارن و تك تكشون حس خاصي رو در من تداعي مي كنن، ولي خب من Together رو خيلي دوست دارم، هموني كه راجع به يه رابطه ي دوستي ميگه كه ادامه اش ميدي درحاليكه مي دوني داري اشتباه مي كني. اون آهنگ درحقيقت مي خواد بگه روابطي كه اساس و پايه ندارن و فقط واسه تفريح و مسخره بازي اند، به هيچ وجه به درد نمي خورن و فايده اي به دوطرف نمي رسونن» چندتا از آهنگ ها در آلبوم Under My Skin راجع به اين جور روابط اند و يه حس عذاب دهنده رو راجع به اين مسأله  ايجاد مي كنن،درست مثل Complicated. بعضي هاشونم شرح داستان هايي هستن كه واقعا در زندگي وجود دارن، همونطور كه Sk8er Boi مي گفت. اما بعضي از آهنگ هاي اين آلبوم نشونگر بلوغ و پختگي آوريل اند و به مثبت انديشي و واقعگرايي اشاره مي كنن مثل Who Knows يا Take Me Away كه بنا به اونچه كه آوريل ميگه، اونا همه بيانگر احساسات و زندگي كنوني اون اند، آهنگ هايي مانند Together و Forgotten كه درشون ريزه كاري هاي پيانو به عنوان زمينه به كار رفته احساس عميق تري رو ايجاد مي كنن كه در حقيقت همگي بازتاب اين هستن كه آوريل كاملاٌ رشد كرده و از Let Go تا حالا خيلي عوض شده، تجربه هاي بيشتري نسبت به قبل داره و كامل تر شده. اون مي گه:«من خيلي از كارام راضي ام و مطمئنم كه همه چيز داره به خوبي پيش ميره». آوريل همچنين يه توجيه خانومانه براي كنارگذاشتن ياغي بازي هاي معروفش در گذشته به كار مي بره:«من مثل يه جوجه مي مونم! من خيلي به خيالاتم اهميت مي دم گرچه بعضي وقتها نااميدانه خيال پردازي مي كنم و مي دونم كه ظاهرم خيلي با خواننده هاي ديگه فرق داره يعني يه جورايي شايد من يه  كم قديمي باشم(مي خنده) واسه همينه كه يه آهنگ نوشتم راجع به اين كه خودتو تسليم هر پسري نكن منظورم Don’t Tell Me هست».

 آوريل هميشه براي خوندن مشتاقه:«خوندن خيلي لذت بخشه، مخصوصا اگه آهنگ جديدي باشه. خوندن آهنگ هاي جدید بهم انرژي ميده و من هميشه مشتاقانه منتظرم كه آهنگ بعدي رو بخونم».

 در طي اين دو سالي كه آوريل پرخروشانه وارد دنياي Rock-Star ها شد، نگرش هاش شكل گرفت و اينكه  چطور قدم به يه جور ميزان بندي و تعادل بذاره رو آموخت:«آهنگ هاي Under My Skin قطعا پرمعناتر و عميق تر از آهنگ هاي Let Go هستن، ولي خب راستش من هنوز هم از يه آهنگ پاپ باحال لذت مي برم! من اساسا دختري ام كه ترانه نوشتن رو خيلي دوست داره و همچنين عاشق شلوغ بازي درآوردنه ... من مي خوام موسيقي واسه هميشه قسمتي از زندگيم بشه».

علاوه بر اينها آوريل يه صداي زنگي و بي خش داره و از همه مهمتر استعداد و توانايي كافي براي درآميختن شادي هاي جواني و دلتنگي ها و غصه هاي بچگي و سپس تبديلشون به نغمه هاي منظم و مؤثر و دوست داشتني. Under My Skin مجموعه اي از روحيات و افكار پنهان آوريله كه مطمئنا همه ما باهاش همخوانيم.

Her Beginnings-2002 Biography-2004 Biography

Her Beginnings
This young Canadian was born on September 27, 1984 in a 5,000 population town called Napanee, which is located in Ontario, Canada. Avril Lavigne (Av-reel Lah-veen) was an aspiring young seventeen-year-old who knew from day one that she would be famous. As the middle child, she always tried to grab the attention when it wasn't on her. She was in many talent shows as a child. She even sang on-stage She got her first guitar at a young age. She broke out of Napanee, Ontario when she was 16. She had been writing her own songs ever since she got her first guitar and has been skateboarding ever since she was 14. While she was in New York, she got signed to Arista Records by L.A Reid.
She Discovered Herself
"I don't like it when people say that Antonio "L.A" Reid discovered me. I discovered myself." Avril says. It pisses her off if anyone says something about L.A discovering her. This eighteen year old is very unique. She wrote every single one of her songs. "Everytime I got home, I went to my guitar and wrote a song about what happened to me that day. I don't care if nobody cares because it's the way I'm feeling and that's what I'm going to write about." Avril says, about the inspiration for her songs. That's what makes Avril so unique. She writes her own songs and she refuses to do something that she doesn't want to do. For instance, take a photo shoot. "At one photo shoot, they tried to glam me all up and I didn't like it. They just wouldn't listen to me." she says.

Miss Popular
She always writes about how she feels. Various critics have praised her for her songs, saying that they sounded "mature". Her video, "Complicated" won her a MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in a Video in 2002. Her popularity has quickly spread from Canada to the US and even all the way to Australia. She tries to stay true to herself. Being surrounded by adults all the time will definitely change you, but even in a business where you're only 18, she's managed to do that. "If anybody tries to kiss my butt," she says sweetly, "I'll just tell them, 'Shut the hell up.'"

Riiiight, Avril. You do that.

2002 Biography
Anything but ordinary. That's putting it mildly when describing Avril Lavigne. A skater-punk, a dynamic spirit, a true wild child. One of those rare creatures who started wowing people with her voice and character at around age 2. A small-town kid who couldn't sit still in class but had the confidence and determination to take off, virtually on her own, to hone her songwriting skills in New York City and Los Angeles. A startlingly up-front and outrageous 17-year-old with everything it takes to reach stardom-completely on her own terms. "I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself-I write what I feel, I never worry what others think, " Avril avows. "I'm gonna dress what's me, I'm gonna act what's me and I'm gonna sing what's me."

Avril does exactly that on her debut CD, Let Go, flaunting sassy vocals, a crystal clear voice with real-girl lyrical style. "Anything But Ordinary" is a rockin' ode to individuality, while guitar-driven first single, "Complicated," is a simple song that kicks pretenders to the curb. The string-inflected "I'm With You" reaches out for connection to reflect Avril's more mellower side, but tracks like "Losing Grip" and "Unwanted" courageously confront rejection and betrayal with all the heaviness such subjects demand. Then there's "My World" and the metaphoric "Mobile," which perfectly articulate the Avril experience. "I have this awesome opportunity to fulfill my dream. I am all over the place, flying here and there, going through different stuff every day," she explains. "This is my lifestyle, but I wouldn't want a normal life or I'd get bored."

Apparently, Avril was born for such insanity. A middle child who "always wanted to be the center of attention," she was bound to bust out of Napanee, Ontario, population 5,000. "I always knew this was what I had to do," she says. "I remember when I was really young, standing on my bed like it was a stage, singing at the top of my lungs and visualizing thousands of people surrounding me." She segued from her bedroom to singing, well, whenever and wherever she could-starting in church singing gospel music, and on to festivals, then singing country music at fairs and talent contests-until she was discovered by Arista Records.

On a writing trip to NYC, Avril caught the attention of Antonio "LA" Reid, who snapped her up and signed her to Arista. At 16, she moved to Manhattan and began work on her debut CD. Avril plunged into the creative process. "I love writing," she explains. "When I get upset and really need to get it out of me I go to my guitar. Sometimes I feel like my guitar is my therapist."

Although Avril virtually lived in the studio during that New York stint, her efforts didn't pay off at first. "I started working with these really talented people, but I just wasn't feeling it; the songs weren't representative of me," she admits. "Then they started talking about having people write for me, but I had to write myself. I had to do my music. It was a really stressful time, but I never considered giving up." Instead, she flipped coasts. Los Angeles gave Avril the fresh start she needed.

It was there that she hooked up with producer/songwriter Clif Magness, and "I was like, 'Yeah! I've found my guy!'" she enthuses. "We totally clicked, because he just let me guide; he really understood me and let me do my thing." The songs for Let Go began pouring out, with Magness at the helm as well as up-and-coming production team the Matrix. Soon after Avril hooked up with Nettwerk Management who've steered the careers of Sarah McLachlan, Dido, Coldplay, Barenaked Ladies and Sum 41.

Avril couldn't be happier with the way the album turned out. "In this past year I've really grown as a writer. 'Complicated' wasn't written about anyone in particular. It is basically about life, people being fake and relationships." As to one of her favorite tracks, "Losing Grip," she says, "That is definitely one of my ex-boys-he didn't give me what I needed emotionally." Avril laughs, "It doesn't matter now, and plus I got a good song out of it."

Now that her album is done, Avril can't wait to get out and play. She jokes, pointing out that touring with her own sk8er punk band of rocker boys probably won't be all that different from her childhood, "I was always a tomboy and I guess I still am. I played hockey during the fall /winter and baseball in the summer. I loved playing with the boys.

But Avril's music is capable of reaching the girls and the guys, and more than a few adventurous adults too-and she's chomping at the bit to bring it to 'em. "I can't wait to be out there; I want to rock the world! I want people to know that my music is real and honest -it came from my heart. I was just being true to myself."

Avril's real, all right. And ordinary? Anything but.

2004 Biography
Unapologetically original. Unabashedly in your face. Avril Lavigne's 2002 debut Let Go gave young women a defiant voice and set it to music they could rock out to. Fourteen million albums and eight Grammy nominations later, the Canadian chanteuse returns with Under My Skin but if you're expecting a whole lot of the same, you've got another thing coming. This is not a girl who rests on her laurels.
Under My Skin opens with the dramatic tracks "Take Me Away" and "Together," which set the scene for the kick-ass guitars and radio-ready chorus of "Don't Tell Me," a song of willful female empowerment that picks up where "Complicated" left off. From there it's a one-two punch of three-chord guitar licks ("He Wasn't") and head-bopping optimism ("Who Knows") alongside swirling, brooding melodies ("Freak Out") and moody tracks ("Forgotten," "Nobody's Home") that reveal a darker side of Avril Lavigne.

"I grew up so much in the past two years," admits the Napanee, Ontario, native. "I've been through a lot, I've learned a lot, and experienced a lot both good and bad. These songs are about all of that, and each is very personal to me." Working with producers, Butch Walker (of the Marvelous 3), Raine Maida (of Our Lady Peace), Don Gilmore (Linkin Park, Pearl Jam), Avril co-wrote the dozen introspective songs on Under My Skin in near secrecy. "I'd just come off my world tour and got back to Toronto and was writing right away," the 19-year-old says. "I had no idea what I was going to do. No one did. People wondered if I'd run out of things to write about, but it was the opposite."

After a lunch date with fellow Canadian singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk turned into a major chick-bonding session, Avril and Chantal sat down to write. The chemistry was ineffable. "We got together one night and all of a sudden we had a song," she says. "No one knew what I was up to, not my management, not my label." The duo got together the next night and wrote another song. "We did that for two weeks and wrote 12 songs." Momentum took over and by summer Avril was moving into Chantal and her husband Raine Maida's Malibu house to record. "I was only off my tour for a couple of weeks, and I was ready to record," Avril recalls.

The California air provided a needed escape from Avril's frantic life. "It was a great time for me, living out there, being out of the public eye, and having my independence. And my friendship with Chantal evolved into one of the best I've ever had." Chantal and Avril would spend all night in the studio perfecting the songs. During the day, Avril learned the city by driving to and from the studio and where ever she needed to be. No photos, no interviews, no pressure. Eventually they recorded most of the songs in Raine's studio, and those songs appear unaltered on Under My Skin. The rest of the tracks, co-written with her guitarist Evan Taubenfeld (and one track with former Evanescence guitarist Ben Moody), were cut just up the road. "I was involved in every aspect of making this record. I'm very hands-on," she says. "I knew how I wanted the drums, the guitar tones, and the structures to be. I understand the whole process so much better this time because I've been through it. I'm really picky with my sound."

Picking favorites out of her 12 hand-made babies is another matter. "They all mean so much to me, but I love 'Together,' which is all about being in a relationship and knowing it's not right. It's a song that basically says, it's not working out honey." A couple of other tracks mine dysfunctional relationships and have hooks as catchy as those on "Complicated" and real-life narratives (like "Sk8er Boi"), but what truly underscores Avril's growth are the more positive tracks, such as "Who Knows" and "Take Me Away." "I guess that's just the way that I am now," admits the former supposed attitude junkie. Deep, piano-driven tracks like "Together" and "Forgotten" reflect Avril's growth, maturity, and change since the release of Let Go. "I'm happy with what I'm doing and have faith that everything is going to work out for the best." She's also found a feminine side to offset her well-publicized tomboyishness. "I'm such a chick. I'm a hopeless romantic, and surprisingly old-fashioned," Avril laughs. "That's why I wrote a song about not giving it up to just any guy ["Don't Tell Me"]." Girly quirks aside, Avril is anxious to get the show on the road. "It feels so good to be singing new songs," she says. "I feel refreshed and I'm looking forward to the next thing."

Optimistic or melancholic, Avril's two year wild-ride on the rock-star express has shaped her world view and taught her a whole lot about balance. "The songs on Under My Skin are definitely deeper than those on Let Go," she says, "But I still love a good pop song. I'm basically just a girl who likes to write, who likes to rock out, and who wants music to be a part of my life forever."

She's also just a girl with a bell-clear voice and the ability to bottle youthful anguish and enthusiasm into tidy, infectious songs. Avril Lavigne's Under My Skin is sure to get under yours.