Avril Lavigne on American Idol (2010): American Idol Entrance

Avril Lavigne is a girl who knows what she wants. And when it came to writing her eagerly awaited third album, The Best Damn Thing, she had one very clear goal in mind: To make it fun. While touring in 2004 for her last album, Under My Skin, which sold مزید than 8 million copies worldwide, the Canadian-born punk-pop dynamo found that her پسندیدہ songs to play were the faster, مزید up-tempo songs—so she resolved to make a record that captured the kind of high-spirited, full-throttle energy that she loved to unleash on-stage.

The Best Damn Thing is brimming with gutsy گٹار riffs, instantaneously...