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Watch: WILLOW and Avril Lavigne team up for official G R O W video

WILLOW and Avril Lavigne join forces in their new video for G R O W – which also features a surprise guest appearance from KennyHoopla…

Watch: WILLOW and Avril Lavigne team up for official G R O W video
Words:
Emily Carter

Following its release in July, WILLOW and Avril Lavigne have just shared a video for their awesome pop-punk collab, G R O W.

The official video – which also features a surprise appearance from another 2021 pop-punk titan, KennyHoopla – was directed by Dana Trippe, and arrives as WILLOW wraps up her sold-out U.S. headline tour this week.

Read this: WILLOW’s pop-punk revolution: "I’m in love with the weirdos and the people who don’t conform to conventional societal norms"

Speaking to Kerrang! about working with Avril and her motivations for the song, WILLOW revealed: "If I was going to do pop-punk I had to go far and beyond. I had to go the full mile. The fact that Avril has been doing pop-punk music for so long gives her the power of just killing it. Like, there is no world where this is not going to be fire. So that was super-inspiring…”

Watch G R O W below:

In other news, in February this year, 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." She had previously been in the studio with MOD SUN, John Feldmann and Machine Gun Kelly.

Read this: Meet KennyHoopla, the leader of pop-punk’s new generation

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