The Matrix Claims Complicate Avril Lavigne’s Cred

Scott Spock, one of The Matrix’s three producers, chatted with MTV News about how they first met with Avril Lavigne and came up with ‘Complicated’. “[Arista Records] had an artist who had been signed for a year and nothing was working. She was on the verge of getting dropped,” Spock recalled. “She came over and we played her some stuff in the Faith Hill vein and she said, ‘I don’t wanna do that, I wanna rock!’ She played us a CD of this screaming punk rock, ‘I hate you’-type stuff. We said, ‘Come back tomorrow and we’ll go over some stuff.’ She left and the three of us knew exactly what she wanted, a pop song with a rock edge. We wrote ‘Complicated’ that day.” That claim seems to be a blow to Avril’s credibility, who Rolling Stone, “When I wrote ['Complicated'], I was feeling what the song talks about — that there are tons of people in the world who are fake, who are two-faced.” And when I ask her how long it took her to write that song, she says simply, “Maybe two hours,” without equivocation. “Songwriting is like that for me,” she adds, with a snap of her fingers. “Someone can say, ‘Go write a song,’ and I can do it. I can write a song a day.” Read more.