Hey, I'm Avril Lavigne, and
I'm on set for my cover shoot with Nylon.
Here are my eight wildest moments in chronological order.
1998.
Sharing the stage with Shania Twain, I was 14 years old
and I won a radio contest to go sing with her on stage.
So I sang one of her older country songs called
"What Made You Say That?"
And I got to walk out on stage in front of 20,000 people
at an arena show in Ottawa, Ontario, and sing.
And then, like two years later, I performed on that stage
with my own
songs and my own concert, and that was like gnarly.
Two, winning my very first award.
It was a VMA
for Best New Artist, and that's when I received the Moon Man,
and that's really when it felt real to me.
In 2004, I got to go up onstage and sing "Iris"
with Johnny Resnick, the lead singer of the Goo Goo Dolls.
This was one of my favorite bands
growing up and definitely one of my favorite songs.
back then and still today.
2006, I went to the Cannes Film Festival,
and that's a really incredible memory of mine
because it wasn't for music.
It was because I was acting and doing voiceover
work in a film called Over the Hedge.
That was pretty baller.
In 2009, I met Tim Burton
and I wrote a song for his film Alice in Wonderland.
I wrote a song called "Alice", and I got to work with him,
which was like a dream come true because he's insane.
And I'm a huge fan,
and I got to go
to the premiere of the film and I met Johnny Depp,
and that was a huge honor
to work with such incredible talent.
In 2019, performing at the opening ceremony
for the Special Olympics in Abu Dhabi.
Number seven going viral
with TikTok, Tony Hawk, 2021.
And number eight, right now this year 2021
signing with DTA records with Travis Barker,
and we're ready to kick some ass with this new music.