Avril Lavigne News Central New Avril Lavigne Album Due In April Avril Lavigne's third studio album has been christened "The Best Dam Thing" and will be released in April via RCA. First single "Girlfriend" hit U.S. radio outlets in February. "I promise you guys will LOVE this record -- it is my favorite one," she writes on her MySpace.com site. "And I can't wait! It is really fast, fun, young, bratty, aggressive, confident [and] cocky in a playful way ... all the good stuff." Lavigne says she was inspired to make a more up-tempo album after spending "so much of my time playing live shows. I wanted to make sure the songs were fun -- fun for the fans and myself. I will only have like three slow songs on the record." "The Best Dam Thing" will be the follow-up to 2004's "Under My Skin," which debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 and launched the Hot 100 hits "My Happy Ending" (No. 9) and "Don't Tell Me" (No. 22). The album has sold 2.93 million  copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Live Review: Avril Lavigne in Toronto TORONTO - So Avril Lavigne's a blonde again. With curls, even. This makes her grown-up, glamourous, some would say. The Canadian pop star was indeed looking great at Air Canada Centre for the Toronto stop of her "Bonez" tour. Gone were the skinny ties, heavy eyeliner and baggy pants  that once defined her, and mall rats everywhere. Not to say that look isn't attractive, too. But for a cover girl, it's just sooo 2002-2004. Yet softer make-up and a flowy skirt doesn't essentially mean Avril Lavigne has matured. Avril is still sporting sneakers, after all. And judging by the hit-and-miss performance, the 20-year-old from Canada, is still trying to figure out how to evolve from young pop princess to, well, something else. Avril's audience remains teenage and pre-teen kids, which she plays to like a chipper Mouseketeer. Avril Lavigne is not sophisticated. Her laissez-faire stage moves consisted of prancing, stomping and the occasional twirl. "Are you ready to rock out tonight?" Avril shouted early on, but there was little real rocking to be had. Yes, she played electric guitar, but it was more a prop than a real presence in the sound mix. Sure, I Always Get What I Want was bratty pop punk, but Disneyfied. Even her signature single Sk8ter Boi didn't pack a punch. Whenever the high-energy numbers kicked in, she lacked the vocal attitude to make them work the way a real rocker would, although she did deliver the occasional bad word in her lyrics. Where the singer did shine was on the simple ballads. On I'm With You and Tomorrow, she was comfortable and composed, slipping into the slight countrified tone that really suits her and sets her apart. This is where she could find her forever voice. Once she has something worth saying to grown-ups, that is. Even Avril's newer material, songs like My Happy Ending, Don't Tell Me and Forgotten are still just entries in her "Princess Diaries: Adolescent Confessionals" about boys and independence, mostly. Maybe the forthcoming marriage to Sum 41's Deryck Whibley will provide some new adult themes. But this is one young talent that will never described as wise beyond her years. Avril Lavigne Engaged To Sum 41's Frontman Deryck Whibley US Weekly reports. Early punks had Sid and Nancy. Kurt and Courtney belonged to Generation X. And now, today's youth will soon have their own punk — poppy, but still punk — rock couple to warmly embrace: Avril Lavigne and Deryck Whibley. Over the weekend, Sum 41 singer Deryck Whibley asked for tie- and tank-top-sporting Canadian rock chick Avril Lavigne's hand in marriage, and the 20-year-old Avril accepted, according to Us Weekly. Avril Lavigne and Deryck Whibley started dating. Both musicians call the same Canadian province, but reportedly moved into a Los Angeles house they'd purchased. The magazine said Deryck Whibley proposed in Europe, where Avril is touring. Reports of the couple's engagement had surfaced — and were subsequently denied — last year, but this time publicists for both stars have verified the engagement.