Sk8r Boi: The Movie

Lavigne started her career at the peak of the CD era, but she’s successfully transitioned to streaming, with 16 million monthly listeners on Spotify alone.

Promoting her new record, however, meant she had to create an account on TikTok – where practically all modern hits are born.

« Everyone was harassing me to join and, honestly, I wasn’t super-amped on it, » she admits.

When she finally relented, she insisted on ground rules: « I’m not going to post three times a week [but] whenever something makes sense and it’s fun and I’ve thought of it, then we’ll post something. »

Her first idea was to make a video for Sk8r Boi, featuring a mini half-pipe she’d recently installed in her Malibu home.

The clip starts off simply enough with Lavigne lip-syncing the lyrics, before the camera transitions to reveal skateboard legend Tony Hawk pulling tricks in her back garden.

It instantly went viral, with more 35 million plays and almost six million likes. Amazingly, Lavigne had never met Hawk before they filmed it, simply sliding into his DMs to ask if he’d be up for making a video together. When he walked up her driveway holding his board, « I had to pinch myself, » she says.

« He is the coolest, the nicest skater dad. He came over to my house, we had a barbecue and… no big deal… we skated in my back yard. It was pretty epic. »

Meanwhile, Lavigne is adapting Sk8r Boi’s lyrics into a movie. The script is « being written currently » and she’s hired a director, with the story looking at high school cliques, and « missed opportunities at love ».

The production will have to fit around her world tour, which starts in Canada this May and wraps up a year later with three nights at London’s Brixton Academy.

« This album, it’s going to be perfect live, » she says. And with Blink-182’s Travis Barker joining her for live shows, she’s finally got the band she always craved.

« It’s cool. I get to hang out with my friends and do all this. It’s way more fun. »