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Avril Lavigne is a girl who knows what she wants. And when it came to writing her eagerly awaited third album, The Best Damn Thing, she had one very clear goal in mind: To make it fun. While touring in 2004 for her last album, Under My Skin, which sold more than 8 million copies worldwide, the Canadian-born punk-pop dynamo found that her favourite songs to play were the faster, more up-tempo song, so she resolved to make a record that captured the kind of high-spirited, full-throttle energy that she loved to unleash on-stage.
The Best Damn Thing is brimming with gutsy guitar riffs, instantaneously catchy sing-along party-starting choruses, power pop punk, and rebellious rock n roll attitude. It's a marked departure from the darker, more introspective tone of Under My Skin and on tracks such as the defiant, riotous, kiss-off-to-a-cheating-boyfriend Everything Back But You, Avril took pleasure in creating scenarios for her lyrics that weren't, as she says, "straight out of my diary". The result is a collection of songs that reveal just how far she's evolved as a songwriter and singer, from the sassy, empowering I Can Do Better (one of Avril's personal favourites) to the irrepressible first single Girlfriend which unexpectedly combines a hip-hop beat with beefy power chords, hand-claps, and a chanted girl-group-style chorus with a punk rock twist - to the emotional ballad Keep Holding On, which she wrote at the request of 20th Century Fox for the studios fantasy/adventure
Avril Lavigne (22) is back again. After her marriage with partner Deryck Whibley and taking some time off and numerous pregnancy rumours, her new album “The Best Damn Thing” will come out on April 13, 2007.
For her cover-shooting, she climbed on the roof of the popular night club Viper Room in West Hollywood. A few months ago she was saying in an interview that she changed her style to a more mature look. Do people like her more now?
Avril Lavignes’ new album seems like a big flop. The Florida “Sun-Sentinel” compared her songs to Kelly Clarkson (“Since U Been Gone”) and claims that they are not original anymore. Others compared her songs to Shania Twain and would rename the title of her new CD with “The Worst Damn Thing” instead of “The Best Damn Thing”. Well, there are always people who either love or hate her! Here are pictures from the CD release party in New York.
