| Sk8er Boi is the second single from pop-rock star Avril | | | | The video starts with a man in an alley with a mound |
| Lavigne's debut album Let Go. Written by Lavigne and | | | | of spray paint on the ground. He is advertising for a |
| The Matrix and released in 2002, Sk8er Boi reached | | | | concert that Lavigne is hosting. The video continues |
| number ten on the United States Billboard Hot 100. The | | | | with advertising seen everywhere from computers |
| song reached number eight in the U.K., thirteen in | | | | and 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. It | | | | In the middle of the music video it shows Lavigne and |
| has been heard in the television show Cold Case. It | | | | her band setting up for a concert on top of cars. The |
| also appears in the video games Elite Beat Agents | | | | concert begins and people start filling in around the |
| and SingStar Pop. In 2003, the song was optioned for | | | | cars. Eventually the police try to stop the concert. |
| a movie by Paramount Pictures but has either been | | | | They 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 skater | | | | into a windshield. The last shot of the video is of a |
| boy. The boy openly likes the girl but she refuses to tell | | | | helicopter flying over Lavigne and Lavigne looking up at |
| him her true feelings, that she likes him back, because | | | | it. FYI If you watch the music video closely you'll see |
| of peer pressure from her friends. Eventually he | | | | that 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 had | | | | In 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 Marc | | | | She picked the shirt up at a thrift store in New York. |
| Gould who Lavigne was dating at the time. Other | | | | Orders 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 a | | | | of 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. |