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Avril Lavigne and Tony Hawk team up for Sk8er Boi video on TikTok

Avril Lavigne has made her TikTok debut with real-life Sk8er Boi Tony Hawk, and it is absolutely perfect.

Avril Lavigne and Tony Hawk team up for Sk8er Boi video on TikTok
Words:
Emily Carter

Avril Lavigne has just joined TikTok and sent the internet absolutely wild with the perfect nostalgic pop-punk video.

The 36-year-old threw things back to 2002 with her classic Let Go mega-hit Sk8er Boi, joining forces with real-life skater boy (or skater man, as he calls himself) Tony Hawk to lip sync to the pop-rock banger, before filming Tony performing some tricks on a ramp overlooking the ocean. The joyous video was done for National Skateboarding Day (June 21), with Avril also plugging Tony's The Skatepark Project on her Instagram stories.

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As well as the proper TikTok video, Tony also shared an amusing behind-the-scenes clip of Avril skating (and falling) on the ramp, writing: "Breaking news: Sk8er Boi singer learns skating move from old Sk8ter Man."

Check it out below:

In February, Avril confirmed that her upcoming pop-punk album was finished – and there's new music on the way.

​“It’s done!" she wrote to a fan. "Music coming soon. For sure summer."

The musician had previously been in the studio with MOD SUN, producing titan John Feldmann and the pop-punk prince of 2020, Machine Gun Kelly.

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