Avril Lavigne on Thursday revealed a stunning video for her new song, “Head Above Water.”
Directed by Elliott Lester in Iceland, the visual comes a little more than a week after the 34-year-old Canadian singer surfaced with the single.
"It makes my heart so unbelievably full to premiere the #HeadAboveWater music video for you all today, on my birthday," Lavigne tweeted. "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."
The song, which she co-wrote with Travis Clark and Canada’s Stephan Moccio, was inspired by her battle with Lyme Disease.
“One night, I thought I was dying, and I had accepted that I was going to die. My mom laid with me in bed and held me. I felt like I was drowning,” Lavigne wrote in an open letter to fans recently.
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“Under my breath, I prayed, ‘God, please help to keep my head above the water.’ In that moment, the song writing of this album began. It was like I tapped into something. It was a very spiritual experience. Lyrics flooded through me from that point on.”
Lavigne hasn’t yet shared the release date for the album – her first since her self-titled fifth studio album in 2013.
“Head Above Water” is her first new single since the 2015 charity release “Fly.”
Watch the video below:
Lavigne was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday to perform "Head Above Water" live for the first time.