12. What the Hell - Avril Lavigne
276. Sk8er Boi - Avril Lavigne
306. My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne
311. Alice - Avril Lavigne
351. When You're Gone - Avril Lavigne
381. Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne
403. I'm With You - Avril Lavigne
452. Keep Holding On - Avril Lavigne
799. Hot - Avril Lavigne
874. Nobody's Home - Avril Lavigne
12. What the Hell - Avril Lavigne
276. Sk8er Boi - Avril Lavigne
306. My Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne
311. Alice - Avril Lavigne
351. When You're Gone - Avril Lavigne
381. Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne
403. I'm With You - Avril Lavigne
452. Keep Holding On - Avril Lavigne
799. Hot - Avril Lavigne
874. Nobody's Home - Avril Lavigne
I hope so but it won't happen, honey. Even TBDT opened around 220K in Japan. The market has been going down since then so 200K must be very huge at this time. 150K is my predict
Britney is moving onto her next single next week, Avril won't be far behind her. Avril CANNOT release 'Push' as the next single! :/ WTH hasn't done THAT well that she can just release ANYTHING
WTH still has life in it though! Album release, and Promo coming next week We might have a huge rebound, but definitly a slight one.
Avril Lavigne blasts back into music after a four year absence with her latest album "Goodbye Lullaby". Read the latest review here.
When Avril Lavigne came out of nowhere in 2002, she carved out a niche as pop music's underdog, rejecting the excesses of pop celebrity and earning the nickname 'anti-Britney'. With her last album, 2007's "The Best Damn Thing", she seemed to do a U-turn, embracing the popstar attitude she once scorned, changing her style, and hawking her own fashion and fragrance lines.
Ever since, fans have endlessly speculated whether her next effort would represent the 'Old Avril' or the 'New Avril'. But with her fourth studio album "Goodbye Lullaby", due in stores March 8th, Lavigne has delivered a challenging and intensely personal album that, true to form, seems designed to defy the expectations of her label, her critics and her fans alike.
This is Avril as we've never seen her before. Of the angsty, coltish teen, or the bratty pop princess, there is hardly a trace. Taking her marriage to, and later divorce from, fellow rocker Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 as her inspiration, "Lullaby" finds Lavigne firmly in introspective mode, exploring all her contradictory emotions with surprising candor and sensitivity. She takes us from the giddy early days of new love to the final realization that the relationship was over. Throughout, she remains tender to her subject matter, often struggling with the difficult truth that sometimes being in love just isn't enough. Sometimes relationships fail and it isn't anybody's fault, or because of something they did, or didn't do. "It's not enough," she sings, "to give me everything I need. I wish it were."
Not every song stands equally well on its own merits. "Push" and "Smile" in particular seem to have been cobbled together out of spare parts from previous albums. And "Darlin" was written by Lavigne when she was 15 years old, and sounds like it. As the second song she ever wrote, it's an interesting piece of juvenilia, and well worth a listen, but may have been more appropriate as a B-side.
But that's the nature of "Goodbye Lullaby." It's an album in the fullest sense of the word -- not just a collection of songs -- and for the listener willing to follow Lavigne where she leads, it's an album that generously rewards multiple listens.
Which is not to say that Avril has lost her knack for commercial songs. "Stop Standing There" and "Everybody Hurts" are as radio-friendly as anything she's ever done; the latter song demonstrating once again what may be Lavigne's most bizarre talent: the ability to be simultaneously cynical and uplifting. "Everybody hurts, everybody screams, everybody feels this way, but it's OK." It's a song destined to become a bad-day classic.
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Goodbye Lullaby, in stores March 8 - avrillavigne.com
And if you're thinking that the lyrics aren't exactly Bob Dylan, you're missing the point. Lyrics have never been Avril Lavigne's strong suit. But music is a language that can cut deeply into places words can't reach, and Lavigne here proves her fluency beyond all doubt. As she patiently, methodically lays her heart bare, it's the music that finds its way in and lingers. And when she struggles to reach closure with the elegiac "Goodbye", the emotional potency is undeniable.
The end result is both powerful and satisfying. A lot has changed in the music world since 2002. Ironic that now in 2011, Avril is still the underdog and she's still going against the grain. "Goodbye Lullaby" doesn't sound quite like anything else out there.
Small wonder that her label didn't know quite what to make of it. It may not be the record they were expecting. It may not even be commercial. But "Goodbye Lullaby" marks a new stage in Avril Lavigne's development as an artist, raising her to a new mastery. She has undergone a sea change, and produced an album both rich and strange.
