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News 7/30

Pop-punker Avril Lavigne has already loaded a career's worth of experience into her youthful 23 years. In addition to her three hit records, including last year's The Best Damn Thing, she's done her fair of acting in films like Fast Food Nation and the animated smash Over the Hedge.

And now she's set to take her unique look and attitude to the kids’ department, as she joins forces with Kohl’s department store to launch her new clothing line Abbey Dawn.



The superstar singer recently sat down with OK! at the Abbey Dawn launch in Alhambra, Calif., to discuss her sense of style, her love life, and those pesky Internet rumors.

There are hordes of fans lined up around the building today to meet you and see your new clothing line. That has to feel nice.
It kind of feels like my birthday or something. It’s a whole new experience for me — to have a crowd of people and it not really having anything to do with my music.

How involved with the design were you?
I am the designer and the concept obviously came from me. As far as designing goes, I just sat down and told everyone what I love and what I don’t like, and basically the clothes are everything that I would wear.

Was it important for you to keep prices down on the items in your line?
It’s definitely important. The clothes that I wear are affordable. I don’t really wear that many high-end stuff, so pretty much everything is from $24-$48 so it’s really affordable for young people.

Where did the name Abbey Dawn come from?
That was nickname from my dad when I was a little girl. It was my alias name when I first started my musical career. I used to think maybe I’ll have a girl and call her Abbey one day, but I had a clothing line first.


Speaking of which: Are you planning on having children someday?
Oh God! I don’t want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don’t even know if I could handle a dog right now. I’m so not ready. Someday I’ll be a mom but not until I’m in my 30s.

It was your second wedding anniversary on July 15. How did you and Deryck celebrate?
We went away for the night and went to our favorite restaurant and just had a very romantic day and evening. If I wasn’t on tour right now, I would like to have gone on vacation to Hawaii or something but I’m only home for the week.

How are you able to keep the relationship strong when you are touring for so long?
We e-mail and talk on the phone. I’m always on my Blackberry. He comes out and visits. I was just in Europe and he came out for two weeks at the beginning of the tour and two weeks at the end of the tour.

It’s really great having Deryck around because he’s really talented and he can help out and give me notes on the show. After I took my voice lessons he was like ‘whoa, you’re voice is the best I’ve ever heard it.’ He has a really good ear.

So when Deryck isn’t around, do you hang out mostly with your dancers on tour?
I’m really close with a few of the band guys and a few of the dancers. We get together and we hang out and we have dance parties. I always end up being friends with random dancers because they’re with you for so long and there’s no one else around.

One dancer commented that you made everyone dye their hair brown so you could be the only blonde on stage. Is that true?
Everyone was brown except one of my favorite girls was blonde so we were like ‘you have to have brown hair.’ It wouldn’t look right.

I wanted my girls to look really punk rock with like black hair and that’s pretty standard for everyone, like Madonna and Mariah Carey. If they’re blonde you’re not going to see another blonde on stage.



How does it make you feel when you hear rumors about you going around the Internet?
You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it’s completely false.

Does it really bother you?
Yeah of course, as a human it can be hurtful, but at the same time I don’t let it affect me because there are more positives going on than negatives. I’m just some chick from Napanee, Ontario and I can’t believe where I am today.

Is the criticism harder to take as a musician, who has to pour her heart into her music?
When you’re a rock star or a person who puts your music out there, it’s more personal. But I absolutely have nothing to complain about.

You took a lot of heat for canceling some tour dates in the US.
I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career.

I don’t think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice. So now I’m working with a coach and my voice is back in shape.

Some reports had you going out and partying during some of the canceled shows, though.
I didn’t go partying the entire time. When I got home, I sat at home. I was on antibiotics – for the first time in six years because I’m kind of anti that – and I stayed at home.

By Jon Warech

source from okmagazine.com
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i have already posted the translation on the "Avril Videos" Panel.. If you guys are interested. go there and check it out.. correct me if im wrong on anything

seems like no one has read it yet..
poor......

翻译了一点:
朋克小魔女Avril Lavigne在23岁的时候就已经有了一个成功且丰富的职业生涯，除了她三张非常热卖的专辑，包括去年的TBDT，她还还出演了电影Fast Food Nation和Over The Hedge。
而现在，她和柯尔联合推出了她属于她自己的时装品牌Abbey Dawn.
最近她在加州的Alhambra举行的Abbey Dawn的发布会，在此期间接受了OK的采访，在采访中谈极了她的对时尚的看法，感情生活以及她讨厌的网络流言。
OK:今天有成群的fans聚集在这儿，就是为了见到你以及你最新的服装设计，这样的感觉一定很好吧？
AL：这感觉就想过生日一样。这我来说是一个全新的体验——很多人并不是因为我的音乐来看我，而只是因为我的Abbey Dawn。。
OK:在整个的设计中你亲身参与了许多吗
AL:我是服装的设计者，所以几乎所有的设计理念都来自于我，在设计的整个过程中，我就是在那儿让整个设计团队理解我想要的和不想要的，基本这些设计出来的衣服我都很想穿。
OK:你认为把衣服的价位压低重要吗？
AL:这当然很重要。我的衣服都价格是很合理的。我不穿太高档的东西，我的衣服基本都是在24-48美元之间，这个价钱对年轻人来说是非常易于接受的

又翻了一段

OK：Where did the name Abbey Dawn come from?(这已经说了N次了，不翻这了。)
OK：谈及一个问题，你准备要一个孩子吗？
AL：OH。。我的天啊。10年之内我都不想要一个孩子。我现在仍然有很多东西要做。我甚至不知道我现在能不能照顾好一只狗。对此我还没有准备好，以后我会做一个妈妈，但至少在我30岁之前不会。
OK７.15，就是你和Deryck的第二个结婚纪念日了。你们准备怎么庆祝？
AL: 我们会外出度过最美妙的夜晚，去我们对喜欢的餐厅吃饭，有个很浪漫的纪念日。如果我现在没有处在巡演当中，我会去夏威夷或琪地方度假，但现在我只能回家一个礼拜的时间。
OK：你巡演进行这么长时间了，你们之间是怎样保持稳定的关系的呢？
AL：我们互相发email和打电话联系。或者有时候他来看望我，就像我在欧洲巡演的时候，他开始的时候来过两个礼拜，欧洲巡演准备结束的时候也来过两个礼拜。我非常庆幸能有Deryck在我身边，因为他是个天才，他能给我许多有关巡演的意见。在我结束练声的时候他总说“whoa，你的声音是我听过的声音里最棒的。”他有一个非常厉害的耳朵。

OK：当Deryck不在你身边的时候，你大多时候是和你的乐队或者dancers混在一起咯？
AL：我和几个乐队的小伙和dancers关系非常密切，我们在一起玩，dance party什么的。我非常愿意和我几个随性的dancers在一起，因为他们和你相处了比别人更多的时间。
OK：有一个dancer抱怨说你让每一个人把他们的头发染成其他颜色，以使你成为舞台上唯一的一个金发碧眼的女孩。这是真的么？
AL：每一个人都棕色头发除了一个和我关系非常密切的女孩之外。所以我们看起来就像强迫每个人都要有棕色头发一样，但并不是这样的。
OK：当你听到网络上的不实谣言时你会怎么看？
AL：当你有一个成功的事业的时候，就会有些人想把你拉下来。这很多时候对你是造成损害的。一些人希望让我看起来很糟糕或是没有那么的光彩照人，但那是很虚伪的。
OK：这些实际上会困扰到你吗？
AL：当然是这样的。人总会或多或少地受到伤害，但我不希望因为这些不实的谣言而影响我的生活。因为总会有正义的一方站在你身边支持你。我只是一个来自Napanee, Ontario的小女孩，有时候我甚至不相信自己现在的生活。
OK：对于一个把全部心血倾注到音乐上的音乐人是不是很难接受这样的流言呢？
AL：当你是一个全身心做你音乐的摇滚明星时，那是很个人的。但对此我没什么好抱怨的。
ＯＫ：你取消了在US的很多场的演出，你有什么要解释的吗？
AL：当时是我的嗓子出现了严重的问题，对此我非常沮丧。但我想几乎每个歌手都会在他的生涯中遇到类似的问题。
AL：我不认为每个人都能对此表示理解，但我每天晚上都演出，有时候我们会在一个地方做好几场的演出，这的确对我的嗓子造成了很大的伤害。现在我在配合我的医生做专门的治疗，所以现在我的声音能恢复。
OK：有些报道说你在巡演取消的时候却去了party，是这样吗？
AL：在整个巡演取消的时间里我都没有去过party。当我回到家我接受了抗生素的治疗––这是我六年来第一次接受抗生素治疗，因为我对这有些排斥反映。所以我会呆在家里。

帮你翻译完毕

(didnt u see 2L? i sadi 我早就番了... 在另个版块..)
not asking for ppl to translate it..


it's here -- http://www.avrilchina.com.cn/thread-22374-1-1.html for those of you who want to know more about what on the Abbey Dawn Meet and Greet at the Kohl's store (in Alhambra, CA).
thx

[ 本帖最后由 vivyenne 于 2008-7-31 14:58 编辑 ]

WOW...終于看完了...

Is English area.
How looks is likely the Chinese-English union area.

看來vv是個做很多份工作的人

speak english here,ok?

up~up~

oops.. misspelled .. it should be "said" not sadi.. haha.. i was typing too fast that i made a mistake