While TikTok is more commonly associated with Generation Z, Avril Lavigne is making a major comeback to help the millennials reclaim the app by taking them back to their misspent youth. This will brings all the millennials to walk down memory lane as soon as they see the particular TikTok video. Avril Lavigne is already off to a great start in joining the TikTok social media platform.
According to the posted video, she revives her red and blue tie from the 2002 music video for ‘Sk8er Boi’, the now 36-year-old pop-punk princess lip-syncs along to the classic track in what appears to be the backyard of her Malibu ocean-view home, which she purchased in 2020.
@avrillavigneHe was a… @tonyhawk ##GoSkateboarding ##sk8rboi♬ Sk8er Boi – Avril Lavigne
Amazingly, she has even roped in the OG skater boy and that is none other than the one and only Mr. Tony Hawk, who is known as much for his professional skating as his hugely popular video game series ‘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater’, which launched in the year of 1999. Avril Lavigne’s TikTok video was timed to coincide with Go Skateboarding Day, an annual celebration of the sport that first began in California in 2004.
In the video, it could be seen that Avril Lavigne lip-syncing to the song in her trademark punk-rock get-up with stripy tie and all, sitting at the top of a skate ramp. The camera then cuts to Hawk who smiles to viewers as he poses at the top of the ramp with now wearing Lavigne’s tie, before smoothly dropping down to bust out a few tricks.
Avril Lavigne’s old and new fans were very into the crossover. “This is absolutely iconic. I can feel my childhood self freaking out and searching for her eyeliner”, one person wrote on TikTok. Another called the video “the collab we all wanted in middle school”. As TikTok’s official account wrote, “name a more iconic duo…. I’ll skate”.
Sources: TikTok Avril Lavigne.