Avril Lavigne and Kelly Clarkson.Photo: Michael Kovac/Getty; JC Olivera/Getty
Avril Lavigneis spreading her wings and learning how to fly!
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of her debut albumLet Go, Lavigne released a remastered version of the album on Friday complete with a cover ofKelly Clarkson’s “Breakaway” — which Lavigne, 37, co-wrote — and several other songs previously not included on its original track listing.
Lavigne’sLet Go (20th Anniversary Edition)take on the song sounds relatively similar to Clarkson’s 2004 version, though the “Complicated” singer adds a heavier guitar pattern and slightly alters a lyric in the first verse from “Grew up in a small town / And when the rain would fall down” to “Grew up in a small town / And when the snow would fall down.”
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Other tracks on Lavigne’sLet Gore-release that weren’t featured on the original U.S. version of the album include former Asian tour edition exclusives “Why” and “Get Over It,“Sweet Home Alabamasoundtrack cut “Falling Down,“American Weddingsoundtrack cut “I Don’t Give,” and the previously-unreleased “Make Up.”
In a video posted toThe Kelly Clarkson Show’s Instagram account in March,Lavigne spoke about writing “Breakaway"and how it ended up in Clarkson’s hands. “OK so I wrote this song, recorded it for my first album,” she said. “I did not use it, it went to Kelly, and she slayed. She did an incredible job with it.”
“I wrote this song at a very young age, I was leaving my small town, went to the city and took a chance, I took a leap of faith on my career — it was like, a very scary thing,” Lavigne explained, adding, “Leaving my world behind and taking a chance, was what this song was written about.”
Avril Lavigne.Robert Mora/Getty
Speaking toThe Guardianearlier this week for an interview about the 20th anniversary ofLet Go, Lavigne opened up about entering the music industry as a teenager.
“I was getting out of high school and I just wanted to rock out,” she told the outlet. “I didn’t even know what Hollywood was or what record deals were.”
“I was very clear on what I wanted to do and what I didn’t want to do. I wanted to be angsty and to sound more like a band,” Lavigne — whose seventh albumLove Suxdropped earlier this year — said of her artistry at the time. “I didn’t want to be all bubblegum pop. I wanted to turn my emotions into lyrics. I was honestly just very, very pure.”
source: people.com
