Lavigne began recording her third album, The Best Damn Thing, in August 2006. Along with Kreviazuk, Lavigne wrote three songs with her former guitarist, Evan Taubenfeld, and one with Ben Moody. Lavigne also worked with two other producers: Don Gilmore, who worked on two tracks, and Butch Walker, who worked on three. Because Lavigne had no experience in production, Maida produced five of the album's songs. The two spent nearly three weeks writing in the warehouse of Kreviazuk's husband, Raine Maida, the lead vocalist and songwriter for Our Lady Peace. Instead, she wrote most of the album's songs with Canadian singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk, with whom she had become friends the previous summer. She also worked with several other songwriters and producers, including Clif Magness.įor her second album, Under My Skin, released in 2004, Lavigne made no plans to work with professional writers. Overall, Lavigne produced six songs with The Matrix, five of which were included on the final album. Together, the four produced ' Complicated', which would become Lavigne's first single and gain her international recognition, as well as two of the album's other singles, ' Sk8er Boi' and ' I'm with You'. Unhappy with the direction the album was taking, Lavigne moved to Los Angeles in May 2001 and made a major breakthrough when she began working with American pop music writing and record producer trio The Matrix. Since her professional music career began in 2002, Lavigne has worked with a number of songwriters and producers.Īfter signing a record contract with Arista in November 2000 at age 16, Lavigne spent several months in New York working on songs for her debut album, Let Go, with several songwriters, including Sabelle Breer, Curt Frasca and Peter Zizzo. The list of songs written and performed by Avril Lavigne comprises original songs recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne for her studio albums, cover versions of songs by other artists performed by Lavigne, and original songs written by Lavigne that were recorded and released by other artists. Avril Lavigne performs in Jakarta, Indonesia on the Black Star Tour on May 11, 2011.

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