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Avril Lavigne – Don't Tell Me (3:22)

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“Don’t Tell Me” is the first single of Avril Lavigne’s second studio album, Under My Skin, in 2004. The song was written by Avril Lavigne with instruments by Evan Taubenfeld, who featured in the music video for this song, and was produced by Butch Walker. The b-side, “Take Me Away”, also made it onto the album as the opener. The song starts with an acoustic pop rock intro, and then gets an alternative rock sound in the chorus.

The music video portrays Lavigne’s character’s telling her boyfriend to leave after he tried to pressure her into going farther sexually than she wanted to. She kicks him out of her apartment, and after he leaves, she throws and breaks a glass cup full of water against the wall and punches a mirror. She then continues to follow him as she sings lines such as “Did you think that I was gonna give it up to you, this time?” and “Don’t try to tell me what to do.” She follows him down the hall, out the apartment, and onto the streets. During the bridge, she appears in many places at once, and so it is obvious she is on her boyfriend’s mind.

The video was nominated at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards in the category of Best Pop Video.

The song appears on Totally Hits 2004 Vol.2.

It is also the first music video where Lavigne exposes excessive amount of skin, making it her first contradiction (she had said that she will not wear ‘skanky’ clothes that seems like selling out, whereas she wants to ‘sell music.’)
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  • Under My Skin
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  • Under My Skin/Let Go
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  • RTL Sommerhits 2004
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  • Live Acoustic EP
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  • buBBlegumbotTom

    I really really love the guys voice behind Avril's think it was a really really good touch!!

    last week

  • A-thousandyears

    Clássico.

    22 days ago

  • MiftisMatt

    Nostalgia.<3

    23 days ago

  • Luuucas_ms

    HIT de 2004. Apenas diva!

    24 days ago

  • matttijou

    totally underrated [2]

    last month

  • AnnaKorzhova

    The song of my adolescence. Reminds the best of it ♥

    March 2012

  • Araknusfm

    ♥

    March 2012

  • lostineternity9

    Very nice song. :)

    March 2012

  • BlinkSUM

    under-my-skin times..... :))

    March 2012

  • soel-q

    <3

    February 2012

  • Ivyxxo

    I've recently came to love this song.

    February 2012

  • lucascu

    this reminds me of... my puberty lol

    December 2011

  • reynan_mtv

    HIT

    December 2011

  • alveseduardo

    ♥

    November 2011

  • Violet-Heart

    Don't try to tell me what to do! Don't try to tell me what to say!

    November 2011

  • vickles_

    <3

    November 2011

  • nastyboy1009

    totally underrated

    November 2011

  • EC_lover56

    GET OUTTA MY HEAD, GET OFF OF MY BED, YEAH THATS WHAT I SAID!

    November 2011

  • funperson13

    he was a punk she did ballet... *does insane little dance*

    October 2011

  • AvrilkaSkate

    to jest Sk8er Boi z Let Go, a nie Don't Tell Me z UMs. ;)

    October 2011
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