‘Don’t Tell Me’ Shows Avril Lavigne Is A Writer

In an interview with Craig McLean of The Independent, Avril Lavigne was notably chuffed that the album’s first single, ‘Don’t Tell Me’, is largely one of her compositions, written when she was 17, after the recording of, but before the release of, ‘Let Go’. “Well! It obviously shows there that I’m a writer,” she bristled, in a rare burst of animation. “I mean, that song’s being played on the radio. And I only wrote it with Evan, and Evan just wrote the guitar, and I wrote everything else. So that’s proof that I am a writer to people who thought that maybe I didn’t write.”