Avril Lavigne (album)
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Avril Lavigne (album)
Avril Lavigne is the eponymous fifth studio album by Canadian singer Avril Lavigne. It was released on November 1, 2013 through Epic Records in North America and Sony Music Entertainment worldwide. Developed shortly after Goodbye Lullaby (2011), Avril Lavigne is primarily a pop record with rock influences. Lavigne collaborated with numerous producers including Martin Johnson, Peter Svensson, David Hodges, Matt Squire, and Chad Kroeger. In both musical and lyrical aspects, the album represents a departure from the acoustic-oriented production of Goodbye Lullaby, featuring a more uptempo pop sound juxtaposed with power and piano ballads.-Wikipedia
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Slant Magazine
November 5, 2013. Lavigne explores a variety of musical styles throughout the album, from country to EDM to her usual brand of pop-punk, and while that kind of diversity can produce intriguing juxtapositions . . . Avril Lavigne is ultimately just a handful of watered-down genre tropes trotted out seemingly because they’re on trend.
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Plugged In
Avril's edging inexorably toward 30 and has lived enough life to know better, but her fifth album is nevertheless a disappointing case study in juvenile rock 'n' roll clichés and profanity-laced arrested development as she repeatedly toasts her stubbornly proud refusal to grow up.
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Billboard
November 4, 2013. For someone who often focuses on the irresponsibilities of youth, Lavigne has proven herself as one of mainstream music's most reliable personalities; her commitment to bestowing us with impudent anthems is almost workmanlike.
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MUUMuse
November 5, 2013. Avril Lavigne isn’t particularly innovative, but it is an immediately more enjoyable listen than most of the underwhelming offerings by pop’s more buzzed-about princesses.
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Album of the Year
September 2, 2014. I'd say that this album has the right direction, it just wonder off the path back to familiar soil too much...Which isn't really a bad thing if familiar soil was good. I just feel that fans are giving this too much credit for being experimental when yeah it might be her most expermental album yet, but it's not revolutionary ground breaking new music, she just copy pastas other genres and makes it hers. but to be fair I do like what she did to adapt those genres into her own style...
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MusicOMH
November 4, 2013. Just as The Best Damn Thing came as a balm to wash away the emo-wracked songs of ‘difficult second album’ Under My Skin, as a collection of songs, this eponymous effort goes a long way to restore the singer to her rightful place as purveyor of some of the most carefree, feelgood pop around.
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The Ithacan
November 21, 2013. Pop-punk singer recreates status-quoe in new album.
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Entertainment
October 29, 2013. Avril’s no longer bemoaning complications, she’s sticking her nose right in them—and very much revealing her grown-woman wisdom.
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Digital Spy
October 29, 2013. Singer remains hell-bent on clinging on to her youth with her fifth studio album.
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Pop Goes The Charts
October 26, 3013. Here comes a delayed fifth full-length effort from her, self-titled, which accurately maintains her teen queen image (strengths and the weaknesses) but also shows some needed growth and variety in musical tastes. This one will fly under the radar, but it could be the best music she’s put out in years.
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ZEAL nyc
June 21, 2015. It’s too bad that Avril and her crew decided to market this album as just another immature piece of disposable pop by a woman, who at the time, pushing 30, in reality it does show a musically mature artist who should be enjoying a well-deserved comeback because of a fantastic album overall.
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Pop Crush
November 5, 2013. She may have ditched her ties and Converse Chuck Taylors for heels and dressier attire at times, but she still has the same aesthetic: Slightly bratty, always sassy, semi-adenoidal, a bit Valley Girl and full of life.
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GoldenPLec
December 10, 2013. 'Avril Lavigne’ is what it is – it was never going to be life changing or win countless awards; if you like Avril Lavigne you will like the album, if you don’t like her well you’re unlikely to listen anyway. It’s a bit of fun by someone who should know better, not the best release of the year but definitely not the worst thing either.
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Montreal Gazette
November 4, 2013. It bears restating: if RnR is comatose, let it be so. Because however much we need it, we need it to be real, and not a series of by-committee catchphrases and Idolized song structures.
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Denver Post
November 4, 2013. She’s been around for a while now, but this time out Lavigne sounds like she can still roll alongside the Sk8er Bois and girls.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
January 16, 2014. At 29, Avril Lavigne is the girl who is refusing to grow up. First single Here's to Never Growing Up, released in April, set the mood for the rest of the album.
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Mind Equals Blown
November 15, 2013. After a long wait, the anticipation has finally come to an end and let’s just say Ms. Avril is back!
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Soundscape
November 1, 2013. Overall the album has a pop feel, especially the drums and synth which sound a bit like bubble gum pop in some songs like Hello Kitty but it manages to maintain Avril’s punk edge with her sarcastic lyrics and arrogant vocal style.
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Brent Music Reviews
November 5, 2013. Avril Lavigne redeems herself on self-titled fourth album.
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ThomasBleach
November 1, 2013. Where has the real Avril Lavigne gone? That’s what I find myself asking while listening to her brand new self titled album. . . . Sadly the fifth studio album doesn’t do any justice for her as the album is quite messy and see’s the singer experimenting with too many different genres.
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The Star
November 5, 2013. . . . would-be renegade Lavigne — who’s got a good record in her but still seems hopelessly in thrall to the marketplace — retreats robotically once again to the bad-girl posturing that first got her noticed at 17 but is starting to seem a touch sad at 29.
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Riffyou
November 7, 2013. With her fifth, Self-Titled studio album released on Tuesday, Lavigne delivers yet another strong and powerful record sure to keep her fan base impressed.
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JamSpreader
November 13, 2013. Overall, this album is not as bad as I thought it would be…I guess. I would advise Avril to go in a softer direction, but she won’t ever listen to me because she’s so ~badass~ . . . .
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abc News
November 9, 2013. The album on a whole fails because the bubblegum attempts lack any sort of grounding. They are all attitude without any sort of real grit. Listening to the ballads, this could've been a very different record. Maturity isn't all bad, and Avril needs to grow up.
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