Avril Lavigne cries and burns stuff in new video

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This article was published 10/09/2011 (5509 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

Since releasing Goodbye Lullaby at the beginning of the year, Avril Lavigne’s music videos have featured her shoplifting and stealing taxis (and that’s just in the clip for What the Hell). Where exactly would such an overgrown juvenile delinquent rest her Manic Panicked head at night?

We seem to get the answer in Lavigne’s just released video for Wish You Were Here, in which we catch up with the pop singer, feeling a bit more mall-emo than mall-punk.

“Damn, damn, damn, what I’d do to have you here,” Lavigne wails on the pop-rock ballad’s chorus, as the camera closes in on her sitting in a crusty old warehouse, crying about 20 layers of mascara off.

(She plays pyromaniac in the opening scenes, torching a gerbera daisy while wanly singing of lost love. What’s an Avril video without at least one act of age-inappropriate mischief, anyway?)

We’re happy to report the place at least comes equipped with a bathroom. There are a few shots of Lavigne (still crying) in the bathtub.

In August, Lavigne tweeted that she was teaming with (500) Days of Summer and Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb for the video, also sharing a few images from the set.

More recently, she teased the arrival of the clip, tweeting about her performance. “The tears are real . . . no onions!!” she wrote.

Lavigne, who’s currently playing throughout Europe, arrives in Canada in October for an extensive national tour. She plays the MTS Centre on Oct. 14.

You can watch the video for Wish You Were Here at winnipegfreepress.com.

 

— Postmedia News