Avril Lavigne - Best Damn Thing (W/Dvd) (Dlx)
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Track List: Best Damn Thing (W/Dvd) (Dlx)
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- Girlfriend
- I Can Do Better
- Runaway
- The Best Damn Thing
- When You're Gone
- Everything Back But You
- Hot
- Innocence
- I Don't Have To Try
- One Of Those Girls
- Contagious
- Keep Holding On
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Album Details: Best Damn Thing (W/Dvd) (Dlx)
- Release Date:
- 04/17/2007
- Label:
- Arista
- UPC:
- 886970910323
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| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Well, that awkward goth phase didn't last long With all the impatience of an ADDriddled teen rebel, Avril Lavigne ditches the gloomy façade of her sophomore Under My Skin and dives back into the wellscrubbed mosh pit for her third album, The Best Damn Thing. Frankly, the change in pace comes as a bit of a relief. The serious Avril on Under My Skin never felt genuine the shift from the exuberance of S8er Boi to the meandering ruminations of Don't Tell Me and My Happy Ending seemed sudden and forced, a misguided attempt to prove that Lavigne was a serious songwriter so as soon as The Best Damn Thing opens with the bright bubblegum blast of Girlfriend and its cheerleader chant, everything within Avril's world seems right again. If anything, this third album feels even more adolescent than her aggressively catchynshallow debut Let Go, perhaps because this is an album where Avril is allowed to run wild. She can curse, spit and strut to her heart's content, she can taunt her rivals and steal their boyfriends, then bitch out the boy for not understanding her once he belongs to her. She impatiently rushes through the power ballads there are only three of them, all impeccable melodic anthems designed to keep the crossover adult audience Let Go won, all better than their equivalents on Under My Skin because she can't wait to get back and raise hell like the spoiled brat that she's thrilled to be. Avril swears like she's just discovered profanity, cheerfully spitting out fourletter words (and their compounds) with glee, but she everything she does here she does with unrestrained glee. She truly believes she's the best damn thing you've ever seen, she knows it's all about her or, as she shouts on I Don't Have to Try, I wear the pants and if you don't agree, she knows you're wrong and you can go to hell (actually, she'd probably say something a lot stronger). This sense of entitlement will surely rankle anybody that's just a little bit older than Avril's 22 years, who will also find that the perennial Lavigne complaint holds: she ain't no punk, she's a brat that any grizzled old punk will want to beat with a baseball bat (how do you know if you're one of the old guys? If you recognize the chorus of Girlfriend as a total lift from the Rubinoos' I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend you're an old guy, even if you're 20.) But The Best Damn Thing wasn't made for them, nor was it made with any sense (or even regard) for the past: it was made to exist totally in the moment, in a time when a moment speeds by faster than light. And, frankly, that's what good about The Best Damn Thing: it's as exuberant, irreverent and exciting as any other bubblegum pop, defiantly silly and shallow, but also deliriously hooky. If Lavigne didn't have the hooks if neither Girlfriend or the title track weren't driven by cheerleader chants, if Everything Back But You didn't snarl like prime Green Day, if I Can Do Better didn't soar on its chorus her snotty attitude would be unbearable, but these are terrific, addictive pop songs that are harder and tougher yet feel fresher and lighter than her big hits from Let Go. True, this is far from deep but Under the Skin proved that a deep Avril is a dull Avril. The Best Damn Thing, in contrast, builds on every one of her bratty strengths which makes for ridiculously catchy pop the kind of music that provides a soundtrack for teens and guilty pleasures for everyone else. [The Best Damn Thing is also available in a deluxe edition containing a bonus CD. It is also available in a clean version that removes the numerous profanities.] - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide |
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Wild child Avril Lavigne hit big in summer 2002 with her spikyfun debut song, "Complicated," shifting pop music into a different direction. Lavigne, who was 17 at the time, didn't seem concerned with the glamour of the TRLdominated pop world and such...Full Avril Lavigne Biography
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