Review: Avril Lavigne – The Best Damn Thing
If you don’t know, today is New Music Tuesday! I hope to review a new album every Tuesday, so first up is Avril Lavigne’s new one.
So this is the old married Avril. “Don’t pretend, I think you know, I’m damn precious, and hell yeah, I’m the mother f—ing princess!” Avril Lavigne’s The Best Damn Thing, her third album,is one that just frustrates you. Scattered among some great tracks are these inferior ones that make you scream out WTF! It makes you wonder what happened to Lavigne after moving to Lalaland.
The Best Damn Thing re embraces the power puff, pom pom pumping, punk kid within, with gutsy guitar riffs to Toni Basil inspired hand claps and cheers. This sk8r outcast turned pop princess does have a few tracks to save this album from being a total ear sore. This album is a marked departure from the Napanee punk kid of Under My Skin with catchy sing-along choruses in “Girlfriend” to emotional ballads like “Keep Holding On”, which she wrote for the film Eragon.
Almost 23, Avril Lavigne still has a lot of growing up to do, and this album shows it. The Best Damn Thing often sounds like she’s still a bratty teenager, but who do you think this album is for? Her next album should be interesting, and hopefully brings more production from Butch Walker.
Top Tracks on The Best Damn Thing
- Keep Holding On
- The Best Damn Thing
- When You’re Gone
- Everything Back But You
- Innocence
Genre:
Pop
Release:
April 17th, 2007
GREAT ARTICLE !