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Celeb News: Critics STAN For 'Here's to Never Growing Up'
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Critics STAN For 'Here's to Never Growing Up'
Entertainment Weekly
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When Avril Lavigne got her start in 2002 (that’s over 10 years of Avril, people!), she was a child playing with grown-up feelings. Now that she’s an adult, she’s got no interest in maturity.
Lavigne’s new single “Here’s to Never Growing Up” is a classic drinking tune, an anthemic shout-along about railing against the onset of maturity in favor of telling people “Yeah, whatever” and screaming Radiohead tunes. (As an aside: She means something like “Creep,” right? Because it’s extremely difficult to blow your lungs out pumping your fist to “Codex”.)
Pop music has always been obsessed with youth, but does it seem like there have been an awful lot of top-tier radio singles singularly fixated on the idea of beating back aging? Are songs like Ke$ha’s “Die Young” a statement on arrested development or just a part of the continued YOLOing of all culture? Or does Avril Lavigne just really want a drinking song of her own, since Pink had already released “Raise Your Glass”?
What’s your take on “Here’s to Never Growing Up”? The last few official “Songs of Summer” came out right around this time, so is it possible Lavigne’s new tune could make a play for airwave dominance? It does seem to be the ideal soundtrack to cruising to the beach with the windows down (with “Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors” next on the playlist, of course). Give us your thoughts on “Here’s to Never Growing Up” in the comments below.
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If you thought an engagement to Nickleback's Chad Kroeger would finally mellow out Avril Lavigine, think again! The punk-pop princess is back and sassier than ever on her new single "Here's to Never Growing Up." The track leads off her as-yet-untitled fifth album, her first since 2011's Goodbye Lullaby.
"This is who we are / I don't think we'll ever change / They say 'Just grow up,' but they don't know us / We don't give a f-ck!" the Canadian singer declares. The song's anthemic, pop-rock sound reminds us of fun.'s "We Are Young." And like that ubiquitous No. 1 song, we can imagine the track (and especially the "woahs" in the hook) being shouted by the youth and adults who can't deny its catchiness.
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Avril Lavigne is a funny artist, isn’t she? It’s tough to think of anyone in the pop game who’s changed her image less over the course of her career: While her solo pop-rock contemporaries (Kelly Clarkson, P!nk, Ashlee Simpson) switched their sound up — shifting into dance-pop, putting ’80s synths to work, attempting sonic departures both big and small — Lavigne’s staunch refusal to be anything other than the moody, scrawny girl with eyes smudged in kohl, making the same infectious punk-lite radio pop in the same likably ridiculous Hot Topic ensembles, has been one of mainstream radio’s most comforting reliabilities.
Now, having been releasing albums for over a decade (!) and rapidly approaching the age of 30 (!), it seems like time to quit with the adolescent posturing, even just a little bit — which is part of what makes the stubborn nostalgia of her new single, “Here’s To Never Growing Up”, one of our favorite pop songs in a long time.
The name of the song itself says much of what you need to know — it’s the brattiest pop title since Kelly Clarkson’s “My Life Would Suck Without You” — but that titular puerility notwithstanding, “Here’s To Never Growing Up” is pretty clever. It’s masterfully derivative, like a career retrospective rolled up into one song: That shouty opening refrain is all “What the Hell”; the twangy guitar riff that drops on the verses feels borrowed directly from “Complicated”; and funnily enough, the layers of “Oh-whoa-oh” and the big gang vocals in the chorus evoke nothing more than Rihanna‘s “Cheers (Drink to That),” which featured a prominent sample of Lavigne’s “I’m With You.”
So sure, “Here’s To Never Growing Up” is childish and annoying and as bratty as a pack of kids trashing a mall food court, and it’s also totally brilliant, wistful and euphoric and wonderful, like the best moments in Avril’s catalogue. She’s the perpetual teenager, and that ethos is captured perfectly in “Here’s To Never Growing Up.” Now, especially, we hope she doesn’t.
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Everyone has a little bit of a Peter Pan complex, and Avril Lavigne makes that very clear with her new record.
The Canadian pop-rocker drops the first single "Here's To Never Growing Up" off her forthcoming fifth album, which boasts about the euphoria that comes with being young and enjoying life.
"Singing Radiohead at the top of our lungs/ With the boom box blaring as we're falling in love/ I got a bottle of whatever, but it’s getting us drunk/ Singing here's to never growing up," Avril sings.
"Here's To Never Growing Up" will definitely be one of those awesome anthems of the summer!
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Who would have guessed that Avril Lavigne would deliver one of the 2013′s most incredible choruses?
Yet here we are, with ‘Here’s To Never Growing Up’, which has just appeared in full.
We were big fans of the songtitle as soon as we first saw the single artwork. Artists like Avril Lavigne are often stuck in pop’s perpetual teenager role and ‘Here’s To Never Growing Up’ felt like a slightly meta joke regarding Lavigne, as a singer, giving up on any attempt to mature as an artist.
We love it even more now we’ve heard the song, which is not exactly light on the tune front.
And then, of course, there’s the Radiohead lyric.
“Singing Radiohead at the top of our lungs, with the boombox blaring as we’re falling in love.”
What a line.
Actually do you know what, who cares, we’re here to talk about AVRIL LAVIGNE’S AMAZING NEW SINGLE not Laughing Boy Yorke. It’s a song about staying young forever, which isn’t the sort of thing you really think about when you’re actually young. It’s the sort of thing you only really think about once it’s too late; when you are, in fact, getting quite old.
So really it’s a song that’s more about growing up than it would like to admit. As the title and artwork initially suggested, it’s a song about being trapped in body and psyche of a teenager long after your friends and peers grew up and moved on. Some listeners will probably misinterpret ‘Here’s To Never Growing Up’ as a teenager’s song but ‘Here’s To Never Growing’ up is so brilliantly tragic because it is sung by someone who missed their opportunity to grow up, or wasn’t allowed to. Worst of all, they know it, and really they hate the life they still lead. “We’ll be running down the street yelling ‘kiss my ass’, I’m like ‘yeah, whatever, we’re still living like that’.” Still living like that? Fantastically dismal.
Here’s the song in question. What a cracker.
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Pop rocker Avril Lavigne is known for her catchy and rebellious songs. The young girl that burst onto the music scene back in 2002 with hit releases 'Sk8r Boi' and 'Complicated' has spent the past 11 years growing in fame and living out her dream of performing. One thing Avril's not too keen on doing is growing up in general, the fun loving canadian's latest single is a complete echo of that titled 'Here's to Never Growing Up'.
Opening with just a quiet drum beat and Avril singing the words "Singing Radiohead at the top of our lungs, with the boombox blaring as we're falling in love... Singing Here's to never growing up" sets the song up to be a perfect summer anthem to all follow in march and surrender to never growing up, with the rest of her band chanting "singing here's to never growing up" alongside.
Although the song does come across as slightly less punchier in comparison to the first single from Avril's previous 2011 release Goodbye Lullabye with 'What The Hell' it still carries her rebellious attitude "we'll be running down the street yelling kiss my...we live like rockstars, dancing on every bar". The guitar remains fairly soft throughout the song giving an overall relaxed feeling, whilst it still remains a song that you blast in your car with the windows down in the sunshine.
The song was co-written by Avril's fiance (and Nickleback frontman) Chad Kroger so those romantic elements can't be missed "stay if you stay forever hey, we can stay forever young" which allow Avril to show off the beauty and innocence in her voice. The general message of the song is not just about never growing up, but staying young and feeling young through making the most of your time with friends and loved ones and having fun.
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She deserves it, the sound was surprising good. The chorus is amazing !!!!!!! 
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The anthemic summery chorus is really the saving grace for the song, because the verses' beat has been so overdone already I.e) Pink's DLMGM, Cher Lloyd's Oath
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As they should, it's pop perfection.
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Critical slaying. I hope RS will give her 4/5 points.
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The song sounds nice and all, but lyrically, it's embarrassing and just about the worst song Avril's written. You'd think she'd get called out for that.
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Welcome back QUEEN.
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Originally posted by mannybillionz
Somebody needs to.
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Great!
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Great!
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And they should.
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Not surprising for the song of the year
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What do you expect from a safe, predictable song?
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Of course they are. It's an anthem!
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I hate the "Whoas."
I love the chorus.
I hope that this gives some much needed life support to Avril's career. I've always enjoyed her, never stanned though. I really loved a few of her eras.
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