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Listen to Avril Lavigne's new single, "Here's To Never Growing Up," co-written by Chad Kroeger

by Aaron Zorgel

CHAVRIL HAS LANDED.

It’s not uncommon for a pop star to get stuck in a state of stagnation, cranking out the same album over and over, never daring to experiment outside of the tried-and-true pop formula that brought them success previously. No one exemplifies this stale cycle better than the perpetual pop adolescent, the Queen of Napanee, Mrs. Avril Lavigne-Kroeger.

Has Avril’s image changed at all over the past eleven years? I guess she’s added that pretty little hair bow, so that’s something. With all of this in mind, the song title for Avril Lavigne’s new single is somewhat appropriate, whether you read it as a sly reference to Avril’s uncompromising ability to plant or not.

“Here’s To Never Growing Up” was co-written by Avril and a team of four other songwriters, including her fiancee Chad Kroeger, and kind of comes off as a hybrid of Nickelback’s “Photograph” and one of the Max Martin-produced tracks from Taylor Swift’s Red. Here’s the best part about this song: Avril wrote a song about her refusal to grow up, meanwhile she’s engaged to a 38-year-old man who refuses to stop screaming. Brilliant.

Also, what’s with the recent trend of pop stars referencing radiohead? Katy Perry romanticizes listening to Radiohead on “The One That Got Away,” Willow Smith sampled Radiohead’s “Codex” on a recent single, and now Avril’s making Thom Yorke and the rest of the drab five the focus of the chorus to her first single in two years. If there’s anything I associate with not growing up, it’s listening to Radiohead. Listening to Kid A totally makes me think of cutting class, and raiding my parents’ liquor cabinet.

Listen to “Here’s To Never Growing Up” below. What do you think of the very first Chavril collab?