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Avril Lavigne – Sk8er Boi (3:24)

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“Sk8er Boi” is a song by Avril Lavigne, and was the second single from her debut album, Let Go (2002). It was written by Avril Lavigne and The Matrix (Scott Spock, Lauren Christy, and Graham Edwards), and produced by The Matrix. Released in 2002, the single reached number ten on the United States Billboard Hot 100 (becoming Lavigne’s second top ten single there), number eight in the United Kingdom, number three in Australia, number thirteen in Canada and number one in Spain, becoming her second successful song to date after Girlfriend and Complicated.

During a 2008 interview Lavigne confirmed the song was about the award-winning performance poet Gerard McKeown, who she had not met, but had seen him performing in Belfast, Northern Ireland while on tour there.

The music video, directed by Francis Lawrence, begins with a man in the alley of a city with a pile of spray paint on the ground. The video continues with posters that have a star on them advertising a concert Lavigne hosts, where people use their cars and amps to have the concert on the streets. The police arrive and attempt to stop it. At the end of the video, Lavigne crashes her guitar into the car windscreen and a helicopter appears overhead.

While singing, Lavigne wears a t-shirt with the logo for Wilkesboro Elementary School, a North Carolina elementary school. After the video was released, the school was flooded with so many requests for the t-shirts that they were able to buy computers with the extra revenue from t-shirt sales.
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  • Let Go
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  • Under My Skin/Let Go
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  • My World
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  • BrandiC123

    Memories Of Childhood in this song. :) Good times.

    last week

  • Packersfan5

    I ADORE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    18 days ago

  • hi_its_kyle

    I still know all the lyrics.

    last month

  • Mauricio180

    <3

    last month

  • Packersfan5

    LOVE THIS!!!!Mine is a sk8er boi

    last month

  • satisfcktion

    My childhood. [3]

    last month

  • MyBelchonok

    My childhood. [2]

    last month

  • escape_my_fate

    backk in the dayyy i lovedd herrr

    last month

  • Heester

    My childhood.

    March 2012

  • lostineternity9

    Awesome...

    March 2012

  • Mexlit

    I luv this song so much.

    March 2012

  • cabron_

    "Too bad that you couldnt see, I see the man that boy could be. Theres more than meets the eye. I see the soul that hes inside" - cool message.

    March 2012

  • jonnammoi

    I love this song :p <3

    March 2012

  • vickles_

    he was a punk, she did ballet. what more can I say? <3

    March 2012

  • oreocookieo

    nostalgia to the max</3

    March 2012

  • ChestersBest12

    kool

    March 2012

  • winterisbroken

    I love Let Go but I am not a fan of this song.

    March 2012

  • netta0587

    i used to love this song....still want my skater boy

    February 2012

  • Gould-Digger

    This chick was my idol 10 years ago...

    February 2012

  • meteorologas

    awesome!

    February 2012
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