Avril Lavigne Releases Pop-Punk Anthem ‘Love It When You Hate Me’

Avril Lavigne has released the second track from her new album, ‘Love It When You Hate Me.’ The song has a cameo appearance from emo rapper Blackbear and is taken from Lavigne’s seventh album, ‘Love Sux.’ It’s the follow-up to ‘Bite Me,’ which was released in November last year.

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‘Love Sux’ will be released on February 25th via Travis Barker’s DTA Records, and it’s now available for pre-order. Machine Gun Kelly and Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus will both appear on the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Head Above Water.’

Speaking about the Green Day-inspired record, Lavigne said: “It’s fast. It’s fun. It’s just pure rock & roll from front to back. There’s a lot of reflecting upon different relationships that I have gone through and where I’m at, and even though there’s songs about past love experiences that didn’t work out, I’m in such a good place in my life that it’s still just fun and feisty and light. I’m kind of poking fun at myself that I’ve gone through a lot in love.”

“My message is know who you are and trust who you are,” she continued. “A lot of these songs are about having the strength to walk away if someone doesn’t see that. I wanted to make sure I wrote music that people could relate to. It’s about valuing yourself and knowing you’re enough. It’s really a love letter to women.”

During a recent NME Big Read, Willow, who collaborated with Lavigne and Barker on ‘Grow’ from her fourth album ‘Lately I Feel Everything’, called Avril “pop-punk royalty. The proficiency and efficiency that they both have with their art and the execution of their vision is extremely inspiring.”

Returning the compliment, Lavigne said: “It’s great to see somebody like her, another female, in this genre at the moment killing it.”

Lavigne was also all praise for Olivia Rodrigo for helping to revive “rock-and-roll in the charts”.