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Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2021 0:50:33 GMT
There’s nothing “complicated” about Avril Lavigne and her boyfriend Mod Sun’s budding new romance. The couple cemented their relationship status with some PDA on a playful beach date in Monica, Calif., on Wednesday to mark the occasion of Mod Sun’s 34th birthday. The pair opted for casual attire, with Lavigne, 36, wearing an oversize black sweatshirt with matching red plaid pants and sunglasses. Meanwhile, Mod Sun — whose real name is Derek Smith — wore a backwards trucker hat, his own drastically oversize sweater and combat boots.
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Post by Admin on Apr 28, 2021 6:03:18 GMT
Avril Lavigne and Mod Sun are on fire. On Friday, the couple dropped a visual for the stripped-down, acoustic version of their duet "Flames," which will be released off of Mod Sun's upcoming Internet Killed the Rockstar Deluxe album (out May 7). In the video, Lavigne, 36, and Mod Sun, 34, can be seen performing the duet in an intimate, dimly lit room. They are joined by a glockenspiel player and two string players, with Lavigne on guitar. "Flames is a very special song," Lavigne says in a statement. "I love how the acoustic version turned out. It really brings another layer of emotion to the song." Mod Sun, whose stage moniker stands for "Movement On Dreams Stand Under None," adds that he "wanted to offer a bright side to the story" with the acoustic version of "Flames." "I felt like sonically I could paint that landscape through acoustic guitar and a string section," he says. "I wanted to make something that felt like we were performing in your living room." Lavigne and Mod Sun released the original version of "Flames" in January, and the "Sk8er Boi" singer says they "had an immediate connection from the first day in the studio." "He's an incredible artist and producer," she says. "This is the first of many. Proud of what we made with 'Flames.'" The pair first sparked dating rumors in February, after they were photographed going to dinner together at the BOA Steakhouse in Los Angeles. At the time, a source told PEOPLE that they had been working in the studio "nearly every day for over two months" on Lavigne's new album that's set to come out later this year.
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Post by Admin on May 9, 2021 5:25:35 GMT
It’s hard to imagine Mod Sun, with lime green hair and explosive amounts of energy, growing up in quiet Minnesota. It’s why, he says, “I was the total outcast.” The artist born Derek Smith recalls how being from the Midwest, particularly a town where few people shared similar interests, established a “me-against-the-world aesthetic and attitude” from a young age -- and taught him an important lesson. “If I wanted to find people that liked what I liked, I needed to go out and find them," he says. "They're not coming to me.”
Avril Lavigne Hits the Studio With Machine Gun Kelly and Mod Sun He did just that, eventually drumming in a band formed with his first group of friends. “We didn't have laptops and Pro Tools or our own microphone and studio setup, we had none of that,” the pop-punk singer recalls. “That was not even possible 20 years ago.” Still, the experience proved pivotal as he learned the importance of collaboration: “It went from being me-against-the-world to understanding us-against-the-world.”
It’s a sentiment Mod Sun -- who entered the industry as a rapper, releasing his first EP in 2010 and debut full-length in 2015 -- has only recently realized the full power of. He counts chart-topping artists like Machine Gun Kelly and blackbear as lifelong best friends, and recently collaborated on hits with both. Meanwhile, he formed a friendship with the pop-punk princess herself, Avril Lavigne, who later became the only featured artist on Mod Sun’s February release, Internet Killed the Rockstar, his fourth album and first on Big Noise.
“I just signed a record deal, but prior to that I was competing with every major label artist as an independent and, that being said, I also didn't have a team around me telling me good or bad,” says Mod Sun. “I've been able to sustain all the time because I have all of these people who are great artists that support me and without them, I don't know if the world would have ever taken me seriously. It’s crazy because I grew up in what I call the scene, and then it died. And now it's like me and my best friends taking over the damn world.”
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Post by Admin on May 9, 2021 19:05:34 GMT
MOD SUN - “Amnesia" (OFFICIAL AUDIO) MOD SUN “Amnesia” & “Internet Killed The Rockstar Deluxe” available on all platforms now. Listen here! modsun.ffm.to/iktrdeluxe
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Post by Admin on May 13, 2021 22:18:51 GMT
A full lifetime ago, Avril Lavigne’s career went into orbit with "Sk8ter Boy".
Skateboards are so 2002. Right now, Lavigne is all about basketball… with skateboards.
On Wednesday night (May 12), the Canadian pop icon teamed up with U.S. pop-punk artist Mod Sun (real name Derek Smith) for a performance of “Flames” on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
The musicians got to work on a half-court, with skater boys showing their stuff around the key, and Lavigne providing vocals and guitars.
How Mod Sun Became Pop-Punk's Go-To Songwriter, From Machine Gun Kelly to Avril Lavigne “Flames” is lifted from Mod Sun’s February album release Internet Killed the Rockstar, on which Lavigne is the only featured artist.
“The song changed my life, but further than that it opened this whole space of us working together on music for her,” he recently told Billboard. “We’ve made a ton of songs together now. It's literally the dream scenario to work with her as a songwriter because I actually get to hear my ideas come out in full form, in the best possible way.”
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