Canadian pop-rock star Avril Lavigne just announced the release date for her upcoming fifth studio album, a self-titled project featuring 13 new tracks, including duets with shock rocker Marilyn Manson and her Nickelback singer husband, Chad Kroeger, MTV News reports.
Lavigne and Kroeger's duet is called "Let Me Go," likely a gritty rock ballad, which they sang together on their wedding day. "Avril Lavigne" is a follow-up to Lavigne's 2011 release, "Goodbye Lullaby," a project co-produced by Lavigne, Kroeger, Martin Johnson and David Hodges, and Lavigne has revealed in previous interviews that she was involved in most of the writing for the new songs.
Manson and Lavinge's duet is titled "Bad Girl," which certainly promises to be intriguing, as Lavigne told 4music that it will be a "heavier tune" that she thought Manson's voice would be perfect for, and as it turns out, he was a "pro" in the studio and really liked the track.
"We go way back," Lavigne said of her rocker friend. "I met him when I was 18, went to his show and hung out backstage, and he's just really smart and he's very artistic, and he really likes music, and he's a great performer, and he has his own style that I think is dope and...he rocks!"
But we'll have to wait until the release date of Nov. 5 to hear it, along with the rest of the new tracks.
The album will feature Lavigne's hit single "Here's to Never Growing Up" and her latest, "Rock N'Roll," which she recently released a very tongue-in-cheek, post-Apocalyptic themed video for. Recording sessions for the new album began in 2011 and took place over a period of nearly two years, eventually concluding in July 2013.
Lavigne wrote most of the songs with Kroeger and David Hodges, who is a featured producer on the album, including new song "17" which she gave a surprise performance of for fans at the Viper Room in Los Angeles, and the self-described "glitchy, electronic" aggressive track "Hello Kitty," according to 4music. "It's really different and a lot of my friends I've played it for really like it. I'm having a lot of fun with that one," Lavigne said of her new song based on the popular Japanese character.
"I'm happy that I can still make a full CD," Lavigne, whose debut album "Let Go" came out in 2002, told 4music. "I'm still doing that and I love the fact that I put can put out a CD with 12, 13 songs and I can still have my album art and kind of throw that stuff together. It's not completely gone.
"Avril Lavigne" Official Tracklisting
1. Rock N Roll
2. Here’s To Never Growing Up
3. 17
4. Bitchin’ Summer
5. Let Me Go (Feat. Chad Kroeger)
6. Give You What You Like
7. Bad Girl’ (Feat. Marilyn Manson)
8. Hello Kitty
9. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
10. Sippin’ On Sunshine
11. Hello Heartache
12. Falling Fast
13. Hush Hush
