Avril Lavigne - Love Sux - Album Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.พ. 2022
- For this new album, Avril Lavigne teams up with Travis Barker to deliver a furious return to her pop punk roots.
Best Songs: ‘Bite Me’, ‘All I Wanted’ ft. Mark Hoppus, ‘Dare To Love Me’, ‘Bois Lie’ ft. Machine Gun Kelly, ‘Love Sux’, ‘Break Of A Heartache’
Worst Song: ‘Cannonball’
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Avril Lavigne - Love Sux - Album Review (pop punk)
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I wasn't expecting a full length review for this, but I hope this album can at least land Bite Me on the charts.
I just enjoy the pop punk revival. I may agree on some arguments, but I am just happy for new sh*t coming up. I am a relatively young person, but not the youngest anymore haha I still love this kind of music and I am so happy that I get the opportunity to listen to new pop punk music, that I really enjoy and like. It doesn't need to be totally innovative, nor sound exactly like the old songs, ot be so deep when it comes to the lyrics. For me it just has to be good. I love that album and I am thankful that I am going to have good music in my good years, just like the people had when I was still a kid. The era just started 😎🤘🏻
Thank you Mark for this review and actually understanding what this album was trying to do!
Avril is her own brand. She doesn't have to conform. When she made mature stuff, people wanted pop-punk and now when she's made that, they want mature stuff , cant make everyone happy. The album title is "love sux" what more do people expect!!
Thank you I agree and yeah so avril can write really well and when she did that and made mature albums people wanted her back to pop punk she comes back and people criticize it
This was such a nice review! I was at first very disappointed with the writing on this album but I do agree with you, it's not like these songs were meant to be particulary deep in the first place, but just more fun and relatable. Yet, I still think she could have done something better....
This is the only review of this album I come close to agreeing with. The amount of pop-punk fans that openly shit on this album, mainly because of her age and the lyrics, and yet worship Tom Delonge like a god despite him writing high-school lyrics way past that age is ridiculous. Just look up Rebel Girl from the recent Angels and Airwaves album, I found that WAY cringier than anything on Avril's album.
People just can't accept an album being fun.
People hate on Grown women having fun
@Call Me, BLEGH Me, If You Wanna Reach Me I think the same thing. Their production sounds very repetitive and prevents a genuinely good album like Love Sux from being a great one.
Agism and Sexism at play here.
A lot of punk music has ALWAYS been super dumb, so I agree that makes no sense to critique her lyrics on that basis now, jut because she is older (and female.) However, Let Go has the punk atmosphere nailed, and still delivered moments of real maturity which are largely absent from Love Sux, which shows she IS capable of better writing, in a way that could be better received. Still, this a brisk and fast-paced listen, that is thematically consistent. And at least it's not boring, or outright painful in spots, like her last two records were. It's near-relentless dumb fun-that's good enough for me.
Such a fun listen! I really enjoyed it,
Completely agree, Mark. I think this is a super sweet record and just what I needed from her. My favourite had always been Best Damn Thing for that bratty, catchy sound and, while this is somewhat watered down, it's right up my alley.
This album was really fun!
Finally! Something who likes this album almost as much as I do!
Avril Lavigne is incredibly talented and inspired Porter Robinson, and I will forever appreciate her for that
As somebody who is still a fan of Avril's and still loves "Let Go" ("Complicated" is one of my favourite hit songs of 2002) and "Under My Skin", this album was the Avril Lavigne I've missed since 2005 (I've liked select songs from albums since but not liked those albums as a whole eg: "Here's To Never Growing Up" etc). "Bite Me" gets better every damn time I've heard it, for me, "Love Sux" was an escape/nostalgia trip I needed. Now can we get an Avril and Olivia collab?
I would rather see a long awaited collaboration between Avril Lavigne and Hayley Williams, the two best female icons of pop-punk than with someone who has only released one album so far.
Avril Lavigne rocks I really enjoyed this album 🎸🤘
Keep up the great work love the reviews 👍
Great review and while I wasn’t expecting another Let Go or Under My Skin. This was a fun listen compared to Head Above Water. (I only about half of the songs on that album)
This reminds of Best Damn Thing Ever almost but less ballad heavy. Which is fine because we had plenty of ballads from HAW.
Great review Mark and nice haircut.
Great review!
Love the reviews
Fun album, good and insightful review, I dig it
You hit the nail on the head with this review.Its a very good,bratty,in-your-face album and does exactly what it sets out to do - to have fun.
Avril Lavigne is so underrated as an artist and always has been.
She killed it vocally as well.
7/10 from me.
Great album.
Keep it up.
Great analysis as always, Mark. Fun record too.
Thank you for this review Mark, I am a huge Avril fan and I love your reviews ☺️. I love that you always focus and know so much about production which is something I know nothing about. But yeah this album was her best in comparison to the last two lol.
Coming from someone who's been subscribed to you since probably around 2015, at first I didn't really agree with your dislike for number ratings, but now I'm fully for getting rid of them. It makes it more about the journey, not just the destination if that makes sense. Keep up the great work man!
Great review - I loved it! Also, tickets to my downfall slaps....
I’m glad someone agrees that this album is a really good pop punk album that’s slot of fun to listen to!
I agree so much with how people hate people making music for teens that now people just criticize for being a “sellout” when it’s ultimately what genres that the young generation enjoys and nobody should feel bad for liking that. Great review Mark! 😎
This record is fun, and I love so much about Avril Lavigne in Pop Punk. Despite never really captured that youth she did in her first three record (tho close like Avalanche and Dare to Love Me) she still has that voice since under 20s and kicka** delivery on the mic to being in Travis Barker production on this record
It's a return to formed sound I think she ever had since The Best Damn Thing. Over the course of Pop music, I'm glad we got this Pop Punk album. Just amazing, great to see you enjoy this record Mark :)
Loving your reviews, I'd love to see some Cunninlynguists reviews, they're easily the most underrated and underappreciated groups in hip hop. Kno is an all time great producer.
I have listened to this and really enjoyed the album for what it is actually - coming off Head Above Water this is definitely a nice return to form for Avril!
My gripe with this album is the lyrics... Example: "you're an asshole living in a castle", "I wish my life would've come with instructions", "you think I'm stupid I keep killing cupid". She's done how many albums & her lyrics sound childish compared to early in her career when they sounded mature.
I think that was the point
Favourites tracks - Bois Lie, Avalanche, Dare To Love Me, Kiss Me Like The World Is Ending.
Least Favourite - F.U., Deja Vu, Bite Me, Love Sux
Overall - a pretty average pop punk album I liked Tickets To My Downfall more then this. Not bad but apart a few tracks I will forget about it.
I can sum up my thoughts in a sentence, Good Production but bad lyrics that don't separate it from other pop punk albums in this lane.
6/10
What's wrong with Bite Me?
@@jeremyusreevu237 the vocals on the chorus. Everything else is fine.
I love how it's literally the opposite for me ahahaha
@@jadedheartsz I'll actually defend Tickets I liked that album more then I should. But everything after that yeah it sucks.
My fav songs are bite me, Deja vu, and avalanche.
On first listen, I thought this album was pretty decent.
Yeah, the overcompression from Travis is still there but I never minded it, plus Avril absolutely OWNS it with the vocals. My biggest criticism is with the lyrics and not that they're immature, but like you said, how anonymous they feel; like most anyone could've written them. There's little-to-no flair that I *know* Avril could bring. So for me, the album lives or dies by its grooves and how much it slaps. And a good chunk of it does indeed slap pretty hard, enough that I can say it leans into quality.
I am open to this album growing on me, though.
Not her best work, but her best since 04.
That's an easy layup.
Hello Kitty would beg to differ.
Finally someone who doesnt trash everything just because the lyrics arent deep
Forget this pop punk revival! Where's my Garage Rock Revival Revival?
Overall I agree with this review. My annoyance with the lyrics was in their dated nature and lack of lyrical detail or memorable word play. I’m fine with juvenile, but I want it modernized and catchy to appeal to new listeners. Avalanche was my favorite song, I liken it to secular Head Above Water lol.
@@jadedheartsz I meant the content modernized, not the sound. Make it things I want to yell at karaoke.
Honestly I really enjoyed this album in general, the sound especially grew on me cause I felt like it reminded me of Avril in the 2000s but still had a bit more modern sound and it’s not like she was intentionally trying to sound the exact same like she did 20 years ago plus one of the things I love about pop punk in general is the fact that it’s supposed to be fun and immature at times, and this album really showed that with some fun and catchy songs
See butch walker produced under my skin best damn thing and goodbye lullaby so if she would've worked with him maybe we would've had the best damn thing
She should work again with butch and maybe co write with Billie joe(Green Day), Stacy jones(American hi-fi) and other people who are around the sound that Avril fits in, the scene pop punk is not Avril Lavigne
Very simple why the male acts don’t get the criticism. Misogyny is rampant in music.
Because men - myself not included - love picking on women.
Misogynistic men can piss off for all I care.
Yeah it’s a good album
Are you going to review Mary J Blige?
Avril is *BRILLIANT* at both serious, mature ballads and fun, silly pop songs. Good variety and balance. 👌
Favorite songs: Bose Lie, All I wanted Featuring Mark hoppus,Bite Me, Deja Vu. Least favorite Cannonball, Love it when u hate me.
While I’d appreciate Avril Lavigne is going back towards her roots; her vocal performance is still is as surreal as before. The problem mostly which I’d encounter is basically the writing sounds as if she doesn’t elevate the songs content wise it’s comes off a bit pretentious, immature. You would believe artists are in there most mature slate as they get older. I like Avril music she given pop punk especially in the mainstream a very wholesome name it’s a slight improvement over Head above water. Gotta find some inspiration just wasn’t here.
IMO this album was really bad- I couldn't get over the blackbear feature having a pop punk song turn into trap halfway through, and I really disliked how it didn't really feel pop punk? Like I was sold a pop punk album, but it just. wasn't imo
You've really got a special axe to grind with Gen X huh? I've seen it come up again and again across ten years of content.
I have a “special axe to grind with Gen X” too. Adults who shame younger people like myself for liking things that they don’t are douchebags who I have 0 respect for as people.
I’m currently 21 and I’ll probably still be listening to this kind of stuff in my 40’s/50’s, etc. Hell, even if I won’t be, I won’t be shaming younger people for liking it.
I’m gonna leave it there cuz I could honestly go on an explicit rant about those types of people.
@@englandsbiggestmusicnerd7866 I get it. I'm almost 40 (so technically an old Millennial) and I remember how snobby and dismissive of stuff like Let Go (and really almost anything mainstream) music fans a little older than me tended to be.
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Hey Mark, what are your thoughts on the conspiracy theory that Avril Lavigne died in 2003 and that all of her music post-Under My Skin is done by an Avril Lavigne lookalike?
Probably bogus, but it would explain Hello Kitty.
No, thats bs and the guy who made that theory admitted it was fake. But dumb people will keep believing it, keep being dumb people 🙂👏
I thought this album was just whatever. I don’t think it’s terrible by any means in the same way that I think Tickets To My Downfall is terrible and it’s most definitely a step up from her last one, plus the instrumentation and Avril’s delivery both kick a ton of ass, but unfortunately the writing and the production kill it for me. I’m just generally not into this snotty, bratty, teenage poetry esq. writing style and I always found this writing style worse than self-indulgent nihilism, which at least can offer something to say if done right. As for the production, it’s just kind of all over the place and it makes for an album that’s just way too loud at times. Again I don’t hate this album and it definitely has its moments, but I can’t say that it was better than just average at best.
Isn't being "immature" kinda like her schtick? I mean she basically tackled it in her 2013 self titled album. You'd think people would get over it by now.
The songs on the back half were better than the first half but this isn't more than a "meh" for me. I loved "Goodbye Lullaby" (the call and answer record to Sum 41's "Screaming Bloody Murder" about her breakup and divorce with Derek) and "Here's to Never Growing Up
and "Head Above Water" but I feel the lyrics and songwriting really hold this back. As someone who enjoyed "Tickets to My Downfall" I felt that project worked (probably as a one-time, one-off; the successive singles like "Emo Girl" less so) because it played on the "30's the new 20; adolescence stretches into one's 20s of the millennial, boomerang, post-2008 GFC generation; MGK references being "29 and society eating [him] alive"). MGK used the music of melodrama, high school emo boys to tell of his own anxiety-riddled, drug-fuelled 20s while dating the popular girl (Meghan Fox) so he utilized the same genre of early 2000s pop punk to tell that story. In other words, the music/story he was trying to tell fit perfectly with the genre instead of coming off as (with his post TtMD-tracks and "Love Sux") fitting the songs/storyline into the genre.
I'll listen to these songs on shuffle, but I wish she could've at least used the punk pop genre to do something that the genre was also used for; political commentary. I feel if she'd gone the "American Idiot" or even Sum 41 "Underclass Hero" or even the recent "Order in Decline" and talked about real political issues through pop punk it might've landed better and the age criticisms would've been muted.
If Travis is the only producer that will make these pop punk revival albums, can we please have someone go in there and smack him around until he learns how produce an audible bass, maybe even get him to give the songs he produces a good bassline?
A good, catchy, audible bassline is crucial to a lot of the best punk, pop or otherwise, especially if the guitars don't do much throughout the song, and I'm sick of people not utilizing the bass to it's full potential.
I'm not even asking for Todd Kowalski or Karl Alvarez, just SOMETHING to help elevate the songs and make em even better. =n=
Big agree. I think it is best if you take this album as just a light-hearted daft bit of fun. It is just a shame it has come out in the middle of a global crisis. Say if it hit last summer for example, it may not have been reviewed as poorly.
Reportedly recording for this album was finished in February of 2021 - which doesn't mean anything, per se, because mixing/mastering/promo take time, especially as it took a while for Lavigne to get properly signed to DTA - but I do agree that the release of this had remarkably poor timing.
Folks will complain about immature pop punk lyrics and then go listen to Drake's "I'm a lesbian too".
But yeah, I don't think the album is great, I'm not a big fan of Barker/Feldmann production but had a fun time listening to it.
Her voice sound like Taylor swift with miranda cosgrove
Interesting how you bring up the subject of immaturity and its double standard. I'd counter this by saying that I HAVE seen this happen to a male musician in a review of 'With Teeth' by Nine Inch Nails, where the most common complaint about it was that it seemed immature for a man in his forties to still be writing angsty lyrics. Of course, this is just one example, but I have witnessed it before.
It's worth noting that despite its overly slick production, though, Avril is back to taking creative risks, and that alone is something worth appreciating!
Idk I love Travis Barker
Yeah no I don’t like mgk’s voice. I think he was blown away by halsey on his best song.
his best song doesn't have halsey on it so that makes no sense lmfao
South Park was right about Canada.
First.
It's funny how this woman started out wanting to be a country singer
not really, she wanted to rock out in let go because most of it was country and chill
@@fovos7359 well she got her start when she sang with Shania Twain in toronto in 1999-ish
This album gives me a headache. I cant listen to it on one sit. Too much distortion and noise. I preferred Head Above Water, more styles and better vocals.
Algorithm food
Gotta try to be touuuugh
I legitimately thought Avril Lavigne was dead
Lol she had Lyme for a while
She has been releasing music consistently since 2002.She had Lyme Disease in 2014 and had to pause her music career but returned in 2018-19 with an new music and an album.
This Album "Sux"
This is one of the worst albums in 2022 so far
No it isn't. It's good.
@@jeremyusreevu237 well i didn't like it
@@DashieNegan41 Well I did. It's not an AOTY contender, but Love Sux is pretty fun.
Its alright, only song I can say I find genuinely great is bite me, but the only song I can call bad is bois lie