Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi

Sk8er Boi is the second single from pop-rock star AvrilThe video starts with a man in an alley with a mound
Lavigne's debut album Let Go. Written by Lavigne andof spray paint on the ground. He is advertising for a
The Matrix and released in 2002, Sk8er Boi reachedconcert that Lavigne is hosting. The video continues
number ten on the United States Billboard Hot 100. Thewith advertising seen everywhere from computers
song reached number eight in the U.K., thirteen inand cell phones to coffee cups. There is even a star,
Canada, three in Australia, and number one in Spain.the symbol of her concert, spray painted on the road.
Sk8er Boi was used in many different media outlets. ItIn the middle of the music video it shows Lavigne and
has been heard in the television show Cold Case. Ither band setting up for a concert on top of cars. The
also appears in the video games Elite Beat Agentsconcert begins and people start filling in around the
and SingStar Pop. In 2003, the song was optioned forcars. Eventually the police try to stop the concert.
a movie by Paramount Pictures but has either beenThey start putting people into the police car and
abandoned or is in development hell.Lavigne finishes her concert by smashing her guitar
The song Sk8er Boi is about a preppy girl and a skaterinto a windshield. The last shot of the video is of a
boy. The boy openly likes the girl but she refuses to tellhelicopter flying over Lavigne and Lavigne looking up at
him her true feelings, that she likes him back, becauseit. FYI If you watch the music video closely you'll see
of peer pressure from her friends. Eventually hethat Lavigne switches from blue to black pants with
becomes a rock star and she sees him on television.her green shirt halfway through the music video.
She regrets not telling him her feelings while she hadIn the music video Lavigne is wearing a green and gold
the chance. He is now dating someone else.shirt from Wilkesboro Elementary in North Carolina.
Some people trace the inspiration of the song to MarcShe picked the shirt up at a thrift store in New York.
Gould who Lavigne was dating at the time. OtherOrders poured in from all over the world for the T-shirt
people say that Sk8er Boi is Lavigne's autobiography,Lavigne had worn in the video. The shirts had been out
with one small exception, she is the skater that liked aof circulation for four years but were reprinted. The
preppy boy.school earned enough money from the t-shirt sales to
The music video was directed by Francis Lawrence.buy new computers.