Avril Outgrows Abstinence Phase Portrayed In ‘Don’t Tell Me’

Rebecca Winters of Time magazine caught up with Avril Lavigne for a Q&A and asked the singer about her latest single ‘Don’t Tell Me’, and if the sexual abstinence message it conveys is something she believes in. “I wrote that when I was 17, and I was going through the phase in high school where every guy has ulterior motives,” she said. “I don’t think I would have written it now. I thought it was a good message, for girls to be strong.”