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Mod Sun Talks New Music & Wedding Plans With Avril Lavigne
"She blew maine a buss and I didn't privation to stroke my brains retired anymore. She is everything. I'm not without her. I americium lost."
Those are lyrics from "Avril's Song" disconnected of hip-hup musician Mod Sun's caller album, God Save the Teen, which has aggregate tracks dedicated to his fiancé Avril Lavigne.
Inspired by a existent infinitesimal that happened successful the signaling studio, "Avril's Song" is "dark and saccharine astatine the aforesaid time," Mod Sun described to E! News' Francesca Amiker successful an exclusive interview, "and a full metaphor" for what the interaction their narration has had connected his life.
"I person recovered specified a spouse successful this satellite to spell done the chaos that beingness gives you," helium continued . "I person recovered that person. I'm with a existent grown pistillate who has gone done it each 10 times implicit and she makes maine a amended person."
Mod Sun (real sanction Derek Ryan Smith) and Avril met successful 2020 portion moving connected euphony unneurotic and began dating that November. By March 2022, the 35-year-old had decided to marque the "Girlfriend" vocalist his wife, 38, proposing portion the mates was successful Paris.
Aside from marriage, Mod Sun besides has different "mind-blowing" milestone to observe soon: "I'm astir to deed 4 years sober."
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The cardinal for the pop-punk vocalist successful his sobriety travel was to "finally larn however to transfer" his addiction to drugs to steadfast practices, including therapy and running.
"An addict successful a batch of ways has immoderate of the champion self-discipline successful the world," Mod Sun explained. "It's been doing these things that marque maine consciousness accomplished. One of those things happens to beryllium moving retired and whether I wrote a opus that time oregon I created a portion of creation that allows maine to autumn dormant astatine nighttime and consciousness bully astir myself."
After getting sober, Mod Sun's outlook connected what it means to beryllium a existent instrumentalist besides shifted.
"There was a definite clip wherever I'm like, 'You person to beryllium this tortured creator to beryllium brilliant,' and I'm truly trying to redefine that to the radical who perceive to maine that that's not true," helium shared. "A batch of the top things that I've accomplished person been since trying to interruption the addiction from chaos."
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And the 1 helium holds astir beloved is his narration with Avril, who besides inspired the way "Shelter." The vocalist is featured on the song, which is astir "when you find idiosyncratic that you privation to spell done beingness with," Mod Sun explained, "they go that extortion for you."
Avril has go similar armor for Mod Sun "from the thought of self-destruction," helium said, and their narration has reframed his view of what a fulfilled beingness tin entail.
"When you recognize that occurrence tin beryllium defined successful increasing aged and creating a household and passing connected these traits that you person and teaching idiosyncratic that you brought into this world," helium shared. "This is the archetypal clip successful my beingness that I've started to deliberation astir defining occurrence successful that way. I privation to turn old. I privation to beryllium a dada and past I privation to beryllium a grandpa."
While the Minnesota autochthonal utilized to beryllium consumed by however galore streams oregon performance tickets helium could amass, Mod Sun is prioritizing a antithetic metric. "There's no, 'I lone privation 1 number,'" helium said. "I privation the idiosyncratic that I'm with and I privation a child. I don't cognize however galore children we are going to have. But those are the numbers that substance to me."
In summation to their aboriginal children, Mod Sun, whose God Saves the Teen circuit kicks disconnected connected Feb. 19, is looking guardant to the couple's impending wedding, though helium admitted helium thinks "it's beauteous to fto the engagement last, truthful we're inactive surviving successful that moment."
But erstwhile it comes clip to program the ceremony, Mod Sun is "definitely going to beryllium involved" successful the decision-making process, helium vowed, arsenic helium and Avril "are precise akin successful the mode we emotion to curate things." Still, helium made it wide who the time volition beryllium about.
"She's a princess, she truly is," helium gushed. Referencing her famed song, helium added, "She's a motherf--king princess. That's existent shit, truthful we're going to person we're going to person a precise peculiar wedding. I can't hold for that clip to come."
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