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Let Go
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Album Reviews: 10
Album: Let Go
Artist: Avril Lavigne
Release Date: 6/4/2002
Genre: Rock/Pop
Tags: pop rock, awesome!! really rox!! av, punky!!
Talk about pressure -- being under 21 and having a record deal no longer qualifies as extraordinary. And as mass-produced {\teen pop} makes its exit and a glut of young {\singer/songwriters} enter, child prodigies no longer have built-in marketing appeal. So if newcomer, 17-year-old {$Avril Lavigne} truly wants to be {&"Anything but Ordinary,"} as she sings on her debut album, {^Let Go}, she'll have to dig deeper. Luckily for {$Lavigne}, aside from youth, she does have talent. Her debut runs the gamut from driving {\rock} numbers like {&"Losing Grip"} -- where {$Lavigne} shows off her vocal range, powering into the anger-fueled, explosive {\rock} chorus -- to {\singer/songwriter} {\pop} tunes like {&"My World,"} where {$Lavigne} fills listeners in on the past 17 years of her life. {$Lavigne} handles a variety of styles deftly, but she still has some growing up to do lyrically. {&"Sk8er Boi"} has a terrific {\power pop} bounce, but shows her lyrical shortcomings: "He was a punk/She did ballet/What more can I say" -- a lot. The phrasing is awkward and sometimes silly: "It's funny when you think it's gonna work out/Till you chose weed over me you're so lame," she sings on {&"Too Much to Ask."} Not surprisingly, the standout track is the first single, {&"Complicated,"} a gem of a {\pop/rock} tune with a killer chorus. But listen carefully and you'll realize that {&"Complicated"}'s sing-song melody borrows just enough from {$Pink}'s {&"Don't Let Me Get Me"} to make it familiar and likeable. Nonetheless, the song is a knockout radio hit. {$Lavigne}, a self-professed skater punk and labelmate of {$Pink}, shares her "Take Me As I Am" credo as well. And that said, it's hard not to look at this record, executive produced by {@Arista} label head {$Antonio "L.A." Reid}, who is thanked by {$Lavigne} for allowing "me to be myself," and feel cynical about the music industry's willingness to reproduce a hit over and over. {$Lavigne}, however, is a capable songwriter with vocal chops, and at her age, one imagines, she is still finding her feet, borrowing from the music she's grown up listening to. The problem is {$Lavigne} is still so young she's listening to the radio hits of the '90s and early 2000s: she's {$Pink} when she's bucking authority, {$Alanis Morissette} when she's angry, and {$Jewel} when she's sensitive. {^Let Go} shows promise, but the question is whether {$Lavigne} and only {$Lavigne} will shine through on her next effort. ~ Christina Saraceno, All Music Guide

Track Name plays | downloads
Losing Grip 0 0    
Complicated 0 0    
Sk8er Boi 0 0    
I'm With You 0 0    
Mobile 0 0    
Unwanted 0 0    
Tomorrow 0 0    
Anything but Ordinary 0 0    
Things I'll Never Say 0 0    
My World 0 0    
Nobody's Fool 0 0    
Too Much to Ask 0 0    
Naked 0 0    

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Let Go - JAPANESE BONUS TRACK  |  2002
Let Go - FRANCE BONUS AVCD  |  2003
Let Go - BONUS DISC  |  0
Let Go - IMPORT BONUS CD  |  2003
Let Go - BONUS TRACK  |  2006
Alternative releases are different issues or variant issues of the same album.

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