2002 met 2021 the other week when Avril Lavigne made her TikTok debut with an incredible video featuring Tony Hawk skating to her hit single “Sk8er Boi.” How’d she pull it off? Well, sometimes you just have to ask.
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Avril and her beau Mod Sun joined Audacy’s Kevan Kenney to share the story on how she took over TikTok with her debut. “I knew I had to join and then was like, what am I going to do? Play ‘Sk8er Boi?’ Skateboard?” Lavigne says. “I don’t know, I’ll just call Tony Hawk.”
After the group shared a laugh at the prospect of just ringing up Tony Hawk, Avril said she “DM’d him.” “And I never do that!”
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“I was like ‘hey I’m going to film my first TikTok, would you mind coming over to my house and skate my mini-ramp?’”
Mod Sun said “he just like, appeared with a skateboard. Literally, just in the driveway.”
If you’re sitting there with an amazed look on your face, don’t worry, Avril and Mod were too when Tony Hawk showed up. “He walked in the front gate holding a skateboard and I had to pinch myself. Is this even real?” Avril said.
Catch their full conversation with Kevan Kenney above, including the moment where Mod Sun was convinced Avril wrote “Sk8er Boi” for him.
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