Adding that Sk8er Boi is still one of her favourite songs to play live “to this day,” Lavigne went on to explain the origins of the song.

“You know what it was like in high school, you have all the different groups and cliques, and there’s like skaters, preps and jocks,” she said. “It’s kind of like a missed opportunity at love. And it’s like the skater boy is in love with the preppy girl and she’s like too cool for him but then five years from now she’s feeding the baby and she’s all alone and she wishes she would have followed her heart and not tried to live up to society’s expectations.”

According to Metro, this isn’t the first time Sk8er Boi has been tipped for a feature film adaptation – in 2003, it was reported that Paramount Pictures had hired writer David Zabel to adapt the song’s storyline for the big screen.

Sk8er Boi: Avril Lavigne is adapting one of her most iconic songs into a movie