Why Is Everyone Worked Up About Avril Lavigne?
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I woke up Tuesday morning and greeted Jessica with, “This pairing of Avril Lavigne and Tyga feels cursed,” and she replied, “WHAT???” It was one of those rare, gleeful moments where you tell your friend something juicy before they see it on the Internet, and accordingly the ensuing message string was full of exclamation marks. Avril, the grunge-pop songbird of my twenties who knew her way around a hook, has turned out to have a real zig-zig of a personal life. It feels like only yesterday that we were all cracking wise about Avril and Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger being the First Couple of Canadian Music1, and now here she is in a pairing that reads like two unrelated names you pulled from a hat for a game of Celebrity. So: How did we get here?
Avril’s first documented relationship was with Derryck Whibley, frontman of Sum 41, when she was 19 and he was about 23 (and fresh off dating none other than Paris Hilton). They got their first tat together in 2004, married in 2006, and got another m…