Avril Lavigne Releases Music Video on Her Birthday

Avril Lavigne has celebrated her birthday by releasing her first music video in over five years titled “Head Above Water”

The singer, who just turned 34, released the emotional music video for the song on September 27th, 2018. The clip shows Lavigne visualizing her fight against Lyme disease. Vulnerable, yet indestructible.  The “hardest battle I’ve ever fought.”

Following the song’s release, the “Complicated” singer told PEOPLE that while she was sick, “I felt like I was drowning.”

“[‘Head Above Water’] is the first song I wrote from my bed during one of the scariest moments of my life. I had accepted death and could feel my body shutting down,” the “My Happy Ending” songstress wrote in the letter. “I felt like I was drowning. Like I was going under water and I just needed to come up for air. Like I was in a river being pulled in a current. Unable to breathe.”

“It makes my heart so unbelievably full to premiere the #HeadAboveWater music video for you all today, on my birthday,” she wrote on Twitter. “From the very first day I started writing this song, I have been inspired and gathering visuals and imagining what the music video could look like.”

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