Under My Skin (Avril Lavigne album)

Under My Skin
Under My Skin
Studio album by Avril Lavigne
Released	May 21, 2004
Recorded	June 23, 2003 – January 10, 2004
Studio	NRG Recording Services (North Hollywood, CA); Ocean Way Studios (Hollywood, CA); Ruby Red Productions (Atlanta, GA); Satellite Park (Malibu, CA); Skyline Studios (New York, NY); The Boat (Los Angeles, CA); Whitecoat Sound (Malibu, CA); Ocean Studios (Burbank, CA);
Genre	Post-grunge; alternative rock; nu metal;
Length	40:47
Label	Arista
Producer	Don Gilmore; Raine Maida; Butch Walker;
Avril Lavigne chronology
Singles from Under My Skin
	"Don't Tell Me"; Released: March 15, 2004; "My Happy Ending"; Released: June 14, 2004; "Nobody's Home"; Released: October 25, 2004; "He Wasn't"; Released: March 28, 2005; "Fall to Pieces"; Released: April 18, 2005;

Under My Skin is the second studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, released in Europe on May 21, 2004 and the rest of the world on May 25, 2004 by Arista Records. Lavigne wrote most of the album with singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk, who invited her to a Malibu in-house recording studio she shared with her husband Raine Maida, where Lavigne recorded many of the songs. The album was produced by Maida, Don Gilmore, and Butch Walker. It was Lavigne's second and final studio album to be released by Arista, following Let Go (2002).

Under My Skin debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart and on the US Billboard 200. It sold three million copies in the United States, ranking the album number 149 on the Billboard 200 decade-end chart.^[1] Because of the album's darker, heavier and more aggressive post-grunge sound, it received mixed to positive reviews, with critics now seeing the album as a classic that defined pop-punk in the early 2000s (despite it not being usually classified as such),^[2] and as anticipating the emotional intensity and theatrical aesthetics of emo pop later in the decade.^[3]^[4] On March 18, 2013, Under My Skin was re-released as a double-disc set paired with her debut studio album, Let Go, and released under Arista Records.

To promote the album, Lavigne went on a promotional tour for malls in the United States and Canada. Furthermore, Lavigne embarked on a concert tour, entitled the Bonez Tour, starting on September 26, 2004, and ending one year later on September 26, 2005. The concert at the Budokan arena in Japan was filmed and released on a DVD only available in Japan, entitled Bonez Tour 2005: Live at Budokan. Under My Skin has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and is the fifth best selling album of the 21st century by a Canadian artist.^[5]

^ "Billboard.BIZ". February 4, 2011. Archived from the original on February 4, 2011. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
^ Mandel, Leah (October 8, 2019). "Everything old is new: Unpacking the pop punk revival". Mic. Retrieved October 10, 2019. It was at its commercial height in the early aughts; Simple Plan's Still Not Getting Any..., Avril Lavigne's Under My Skin, Paramore's Riot, My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade, and many other classics defined the era.
^ Bradley, Jonathan (2018). "'It's Not Like We're Dead': The Fascinating Evolution & Non-Linear Maturation of Avril Lavigne, Motherf--king Princess". Billboard. Retrieved December 1, 2019. While emo crossover acts such as Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance would remain an underground concern for at least another six months, Under My Skin anticipated that scene's emotional intensity and theatrical aesthetics in the mainstream.
^ Phillips, Marian (May 14, 2020). "20 ESSENTIAL 2004 ALBUMS THAT PROVED THE SCENE WAS HERE TO STAY". Altpress. Retrieved June 12, 2020. In her second album, Under My Skin, Avril Lavigne showed an all new side to her music. Much more complex than her first album, it featured darker concepts of feeling lost and alone, such as "Nobody's Home." With deeper emotional lyrics and a punk-rock sound, Lavigne moved beyond her teenage pop-punk persona and matured into a fully fledged alternative music icon.
^ Fulton, Rick (January 10, 2011). "Avril Lavigne: Madonna is my idol". Daily Record. Retrieved January 9, 2022.

[1] "Billboard.BIZ". February 4, 2011. Archived from the original on February 4, 2011. Retrieved March 11, 2021.

[:1-2] Mandel, Leah (October 8, 2019). "Everything old is new: Unpacking the pop punk revival". Mic. Retrieved October 10, 2019. It was at its commercial height in the early aughts; Simple Plan's Still Not Getting Any..., Avril Lavigne's Under My Skin, Paramore's Riot, My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade, and many other classics defined the era.

[:2-3] Bradley, Jonathan (2018). "'It's Not Like We're Dead': The Fascinating Evolution & Non-Linear Maturation of Avril Lavigne, Motherf--king Princess". Billboard. Retrieved December 1, 2019. While emo crossover acts such as Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance would remain an underground concern for at least another six months, Under My Skin anticipated that scene's emotional intensity and theatrical aesthetics in the mainstream.

[:3-4] Phillips, Marian (May 14, 2020). "20 ESSENTIAL 2004 ALBUMS THAT PROVED THE SCENE WAS HERE TO STAY". Altpress. Retrieved June 12, 2020. In her second album, Under My Skin, Avril Lavigne showed an all new side to her music. Much more complex than her first album, it featured darker concepts of feeling lost and alone, such as "Nobody's Home." With deeper emotional lyrics and a punk-rock sound, Lavigne moved beyond her teenage pop-punk persona and matured into a fully fledged alternative music icon.

[dailyr-5] Fulton, Rick (January 10, 2011). "Avril Lavigne: Madonna is my idol". Daily Record. Retrieved January 9, 2022.

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