Nick Reynolds of BBC Music called it "brilliant", considering the song "a classic high energy pop song with crunchy guitars and a great hook. It bowls you over with its energy and sticks in your mind. Pat Blashill of Rolling Stone agreed, calling it "seventeen-year-old Lavigne's signature moment," further adding: "Over a rush of nouveau-punk guitar chords, she narrates a funny story line, but none of it would matter if Lavigne didn't have a voice, equal parts baby girl and husky siren, that seems capable of setting off car alarms several city blocks away.
Bill Lamb of About. However, with the benefit of hindsight, it seems perfectly pitched to her audience and the point in her career. The power pop hook of the song sticks strongly in your head. Later perky pop excursions still pale next to this one. In Australia, "Sk8er Boi" debuted at its peak position, number three, and remained a further week there. In New Zealand, the song managed to spend 9 weeks until it reached the peak position, number two, on 8 December In Brazil, the song managed to reach the top position, becoming her second consecutive number-one single.
She turns on the TV and sees the skater boy who is now a superstar. She calls her friends who already know and bought tickets to see his show.
She goes to the show and tries to get him back. But the boy is "I"'s boyfriend or husband. The video shot to number-one on TRL on its second day of the countdown. The video centers around an impromptu concert held by Avril in a Los Angeles street intersection.
It begins by showing multiple people of Avril's band promoting the concert in advance via graffiti, flyers, email and posters. Avril and her band arrive at the location and begin performing on the roof of their cars; a crowd quickly gathers. Towards the end of the song, police cars and a helicopter arrive to disperse the crowd, while Lavigne uses her guitar to break the car windscreen.
Avril then throws the guitar onto the road and looks up at the helicopter, where a shot was taken for the single's artwork. Sk8er Boi was nominated and won many awards. In de Nederlandse Top 40 werd een 6e positie gehaald, terwijl het in de Vlaamse Ultratop 50 een plekje lager kwam.
Het muzikale genre is: Poppunk, skatepunk en powerpop. The song is a punk rock, pop-punk, alt-pop, skate punk, and power pop track, which lyrically tells a story told from the singer's viewpoint about her rocker boyfriend and a girl he knew in high school who rejected him because he was a skateboarder and she was a snob. The song was well-received by critics, with most commending its hook, calling the song "funny" and "clever". Commercially, "Sk8er Boi" was a success, reaching the top-ten in more than ten countries, such as Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States becoming Lavigne's second top ten single on the Billboard Hot chart and sold over 1.
According to Spin, "Sk8er Boi" has the 5th best pop-punk chorus of the 21st century. The music video for the song, directed by Francis Lawrence, features a concert on a city street with Lavigne singing on the hood of a car with a crowd rocking out around her.
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