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Avril Lavigne, first 2 albums, Let Go and Under My Skin |
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Avril Lavigne, first 2 albums, Let Go and Under My Skin
Anyone else still love these, good memories, shame she went too pop
Let Go 1. Losing Grip 2. Complicated 3. Sk8er Boi 4. I'm With You 5. Mobile 6. Unwanted 7. Tomorrow 8. Anything But Ordinary 9. Things I'll Never Say 10. My World 11. Nobody's Fool 12. Too Much to Ask 13. Naked Under My Skin 1. Take Me Away 2. Together 3. Don't Tell Me 4. He Wasn't 5. How Does It Feel 6. My Happy Ending 7. Nobody's Home 8. Forgotten 9. Who Knows 10. Fall to Pieces 11. Freak Out 12. Slipped Away 13. I Always Get What I Want |
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Loved the 2nd album when it came out and I still listen to it from time to time now. It's a much more consistent album than the first. She's shite now mind you.
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The second album was by far her best. Shame she changed sound. The singles, bar He Wasn't, were her best.
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The first album reminds me of being 10 years old.
I liked the second as well. Not so keen on recent output.
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Those two albums slayed but Goodbye Lullaby wasn't that bad either. I hope she makes a comeback. I'm ignoring her last album campaign.
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I LOVED and still love her second album…it is very good and showed a really nice progression from the first album. It took what worked from 'Let Go' and moved it to the next level. As someone mentioned earlier, it easily has her best singles in 'My Happy Ending', 'Nobody's Home' and 'Fall To Pieces', which was a US radio single.
Sadly, this is where the wheels started to come off the kart and since then she has become a laughable teeny brat, pop rock caricature. 'The Best Damn Thing' was atrocious (bar the ballads), 'Goodbye Lullaby' had some moments but was a snoozefest as a whole with cringeworthy lyrics and 'Avril Lavigne' was so geared towards commercial pop that you actually wondered if it was the same artist who released 'Under My Skin'. I think her biggest problem has been a lack of focus with her music style and image. She started off as a skater chick. While I think this was a manufactured image, it worked for the time. She progressed nicely into the image used for 'Under My Skin' but then did a full 180 and purveyed this pop-rock cheerleader-esque image for 'The Best Damn Thing' that seemed to go against everything she supposedly hated during the first album campaign. She had a cutesy image and backup singers who danced, coupled with awful music. Next, she decided she was going to be all serious and acoustic on 'Goodbye Lullaby' but released two singles (What The Hell and Smile) that were the complete opposite of what she claimed the album was. 'Smile' has possibly her best ever chorus but the verse lyrics are embarassing. No doubt these singles came more from the record label needing a hit (the album had none in my opinion) but it just gave the wrong image. For the recent album, everything was just a mess. I like the first single (Here's To Never Growing Up) but 'Rock N Roll' was awful. 'Let It Go' again changed the image and style, while 'Hello Kitty' is best never spoken about. Sadly, I think her ship has sailed as people have completely lost interest and she has little credibility left among the general public. This is sad as I do believe she is talented and could still be as successful as she was early in her career if the had been a bit more cohesive from album to album and single to single. Remember, cohesive doesn't have to mean boring or the same!!! |
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Both great albums.
How Does It Feel is my favourite song |
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Those two albums slayed but Goodbye Lullaby wasn't that bad either. I hope she makes a comeback. I'm ignoring her last album campaign.
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Never really been a big fan of Avril's, only like a handful of her songs. She hasn't moved with the times and hasn't tried particularly hard to change her sound.
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Never really been a big fan of Avril's, only like a handful of her songs. She hasn't moved with the times and hasn't tried particularly hard to change her sound.
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It's probably uncool to admit but I had her 2nd album - I liked it when I was a teenager and I still like it now
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It's probably uncool to admit but I had her 2nd album - I liked it when I was a teenager and I still like it now
It was probably helped by collaborating with Chantal Kreviazuk, Ben Moody (former Evanescence) and Butch Walker. |
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I liked the second as well. Not so keen on recent output.