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(Part one: Hello...)
Unable to control his urges, Lionel again recorded his stalking for posterity in 2000's 'Angel'. Obviously emboldened by his activities in the intervening years, Lionel has now taken to riding round and round on public transport until he picks his next victim. In keeping with the blandness of the song, the video for 'Angel' does not have a plot beyond Lionel chasing yet another woman half his age.
Fig. 1: Lionel spots his prey
Fig. 2: Lionel's prey
Fig. 3: poor Escher imitation
Seeking to ignore his advances, the woman concentrates on drawing an Escher-style picture.
The video cuts from this to a Lionel chasing the woman around the scene she was drawing. I take this to signify that not even in the darkest recesses of her mind is she safe from Lionel.
Creeping up on her from behind, Lionel now appears to have lost his clothes.
The scene is now full of women, who Lionel watches from the shadows. Given Lionel stated that the woman from the bus is his "angel / miracle / all I need tonight" these women must be his previous victims. They all look vaguely similar, which should help the police profilers.
On her new album, Avril Lavigne is seeking to appear more mature and more musically sophisticated. Lionel is the obvious role model. She makes a valiant effort, but her work is possibly too derivative of that of her mentor. In an attempt to rectify this, Avril makes the song about a boy she used to know. As this is what all her songs are about, doing so made it truly her own.
Our heroine follows the boy she used to know outside. She hangs back slightly, giving the impression that her action is surreptitious. However, as this is a music video, she blows her cover by singing spiritedly.
Avril briefly deviates from the theme to demonstrate the hardc0re ethic that one chain = good, two chains = better, which she also has a whole song about. ("Punk rocker princess? / I'd do all I can for you! / If only I could wear your chain! / Oooh that would be wicked awesome!")
To make sure this interlude does not cause the story to lose impetus, the viewer is treated to a first person perspective of the boy Avril used to know and is still following. Share her pain.
Listening to the lyrics, I learn that this horrible boy made Avril feel guilty for wrecking punk for a whole generation. She is so intent on making him feel guilty by following him that she walks infront of a car. It's only a ton of metal travelling at 30mph; it can't hurt her because she's Avril Lavigne. Don't you try it though.
