CD Review: Avril Lavigne's The Best Damn Thing

I agree with a lot of this. I like Avril, I just feel like she's trying way too hard to live up to an image that isn't even her in the first place. The album's a step backwards.

i disagree with him!...avril rocks

I actually also disagree, i think she is actually finally being who she really is, i think the first and secnd cd were great! But i think this is actually her!! And maybe some people just dont really like the real her now but this is it!!! Thats why its The Best Damn Thing!

i like her other albums, but this is just so annoying

avril rocks...you know it get a life stop dissin hers

I can't believe people actually like this crap!! this album is NOT who she really is - its who the record company WANTS her to be! Her songs have practically no meaning (i doubt that she writes her own) and it is sad that this can be labeled "punk".

PS her old songs aren't near as bad as this.

the tune is rocky, so not my fav, but its tolerable. but the lyrics...so amateur. 'she's like so whatever', and 'mother-####ing princess' were so lame, like is that the best she can come up with? her old songs all got soul and real feeling, like unwanted and losing grip. not this. & the video, she's tellign us to be a goth *itchy girl, dress up like the guy u like, and if the girlfriend is a nerd with glasses, ure sure to get the guy. so stupid. i like under my skin songs better. this is so fake, she's like tryign to act like britney spears, wearing fishnets, pink highlights. i hope she don't end up like her, hair bald and wearing no underwear and divorcing.

Her worst album!
Her songs were all bubblegums and totally incomparable to her last debut album
Exception for 'Innocence' - this song really indicate her maturity towards music, but how bout other song?

I loved avrils other 2 cds (she\'s my guilty pop pleasure)... but this cd is sooooo shitty and annoying as hell. Track 3 - runaway is the only good song other than girlfriend, but it\'s already been so overplayed that I was sick of it by the time I bought the cd. The cd sucks and I wish I could get my money back. Its the shittiest damn thing...ever. I gave it to my 9 year old little sister. But she hates it too. Damn.

Dissapointing really,hoped to hear some material similar to 'let go' and 'im with you'.
Its like a time warp occured, instead of developing a more mature sound shes morphed into a..... what's the word?....Tit.

What happened to her? She went against anything that was socially expected of teen pop stars and now shes just another one of 'them' chicks.

I like Avril. But this album is disapointing. I do like a few of her new songs. But If i was 15 this cd would be good. But seen as im in my 20's this cd sounds really immature. I really like her last album and i thought this one would be better. But I guess not.

I agree with the review. This album is SO immature it could only be aimed towards ten year olds. And all the swearing? Doubt they'll be allowed to buy it!

Come on, Avril spells her own name in a song! Whines about PMSing in another. Chants like a cheerleader in the others. Says "I hate you now so go away" in another's chorus. Very mature.

Avril is just a Britney ripoff doing "punk". Blahh.

Let Go-Good. Under My Skin-Bland. Best Thing-Junk.

I do agree with what some of you guys are saying about the album being immature, and yes it's not as good as Let Go and Under My Skin. But every artist has a change at some point, I personally love Avril to bits and think she's just changing her style a little I'm sure she'll come back to us lol.

I was a big fan of Avril, and hoped her music would mature...as i was also getting older. But unfortuately it hasn't. I just think she should stick with ballads and rock. Don't know if anyone remember the song "Fuel" from Metallica she did. And even Forgotten from her 2nd album. That was cool. If only her whole album could be like that. Only "Innocence" and "When you're gone" was cool on this album. And "I don't have to try" the chorus bit!

If she could do unplugged songs of her more "slower" songs it would be great!!! I think they should do a Unplugged DVD for that!

Anyway, that's just me!

well, avrils new cd suck.... it ALWAYS WILL, I MEAN WHAT KIND OF CRAP IS THIS, LIKE THE SONG I DONT HAVE TO TRY, THE WORDS ARE HILLARIOUS, DITSY, AND FOREVER CRAPPY now i used to lo love avrils songs but this new cd has really changed what i see in her songs, and this cd is not and never will be PUNK, DO PEOPLE EVEN KNOW WHAT PUNK IS THESE DAYS, quote quote \"im the one im the one who wears the pants, im the one im the one whos got the prance\" IN WHAT WAY IS THAT PUNK???!!! I MEAN REALLY ALL THAT IS IS, IS POP CRAP AND IT SUCKS.

Am I the only one who thinks she's being totally sarcastic with this album? Okay, I'll admit that I didn't think much of her before, and I still don't. But come on:

The Best Damn Thing.

That HAS to be sarcastic. It looks to me like she's poking fun at the pop genre itself, judging by the titles/lyrics of most of the songs. If memory serves me right, there are only two songs on her album that could actually be considered "real."

i love avril shes so cute 2!!!

What being who she is?? If this new album is a indication of who she is, then I am sadly disappointed!!!!She went from mature lyrics on her second album Under My Skin...to very immature lyrics....have you people even listened to the lyrics, any 5 year old could make them up!! If this is who she is then I guess she was a poser from the beginning!!
I'm a pissed off fan, I loved her...now i'm very disappointed

i think avril cd is who she is now. i think her other cds was great too.i mean of course she has songs that i don\'t like but i thing each song that she sings as been a situation in her life. She makes you believe what ever she sayin. With complicated every one been in that situation and when you hear when your gone it makes you miss someone are at least want to. I respect her, her music is a different but i think so is she now. Her life as changed she is married and more grown up and i think people hear that in her songs and voice

I mean... I'm 16 (15 when I first heard the whole album) and gosh, it's... so... inmature... (Except for Innocence wich is a very deep a little too poppy balad song, Runaway and WYAG).

I think we'll have to see what's next, how is going to be her fourth album; but if this is her new "her", I'M VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY [...] VERY VERY VERY DISSAPOINTED, I mean, it's sad. Gosh, my #1 Album is Under My Skin I mean, I love every second of it. I think Let Go is pretty good too. But THIS? I mean come on. Thank god Tegan and Sara Exist (Homophobic people be aware).

I remember when I was waiting for her new song... and i was like oh gosh tell me her new looks don't have anything to do with her music, PLEASE PLEASE, and then i got girlfriend, i heard it fist time... i was frozen, i couldn't believe, it was like, no way... it was like wow wow wow wow wow... what? then i heard it one more time, and... nope it didn't change my opinion, it's BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD, it's freaking empty...

I know how she feels about her new "her" and stuff, but come on... i'm gonna cry...

by the way if you wanna share your dissapointment with me... here is my msn address gerj91[at]hotmail[dot]com

i tHink AvriL R0CK!!! and the beSt daMn tHinG is soooooo gReat!!!

Avril has never been much of a sensation in my opinion. While I do listen to her music its not a real reflection, I listen to all sorts of stuff.

I understand that her fans want to support her but it doesn't mean you have to "love" everything she does. This album is just as bad lyrically as her last two. Lets face it she doesn't have the ability to write her own songs (and no she doesn't write them) and so other people do it for her. Sadly this leaves us with Avril attempting to understand what she's singing when clearly she does not. Its obvious she's a product and the sooner people realise that the less dissapointed they will be. I did buy this CD and thought it was ok, certainly nothing I'd listen to when I wanted to relate with any kind of emotion.

I think the problem is Avril's 'image' has been tampered with and twisted far to often. People are getting confused and/or annoyed that she's never commited to a personality type. Fans want to relate to her but she offers little in the way of actual communication. Either way this CD is very standard and while it's selling well it may come back to bite her when she realises her next album.

Avril is really annoyin and her music is good wen u first hear it

whoever said she sucks you guys all suck! she rocks!

How is her SONG bubblegum. CAN WE EAT IT??? i\'m gona eat it. BUY

I think her new album was fun! That was her main goal to make it FUN!! Her 1st and 2nd album were a little more serious, but she just wanted it to be fun! is it so wrong to have fun?? Plus, she has grown up from tom-boy teen, to a punk-girly adult. We all change, we can't just stay the same FOREVER, you know!!!!!!! ROCK ON AVRIL, GREEN DAY, MCR and ALL MY OTHER FAV'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

she said "i matured"&"im a women now" but i dont see any maturity on the best damn thing. shes how old now? 23? and shes writing crap like hey hey you you i dont like your girlfriend. sure she wants to make something fun, but her songs could've been better lyrically. i liked her because she was against the chrisina/britney/jessica/pop society & now shes like the rest of them. hopefully she'll start acting like a real women on her 4th album. ditch the dancers, they dont match your bubblegum pop melodies & start being real&raw like you use to.

I have to agree with bubbowrap. I'm laboring under the belief that this album is nothing but one BIG joke. The whole album sounds like pop radio singles with exceptionally bad lyrics.

I never liked the 'old' Avril, with the exception of "I\m With You." I felt like she was giving herself too much credit, taking herself too seriously. She's NOT a songwriter; she's NOT a trendsetter; she's NOT an artist.

And then I heard 'Girlfriend' on her Myspace, and I thought, "She finally 'gets' it!" And it was good. Way too good. It's much easier for me to support Avril the fluffy pop singer than it is for me to get behind Avril the 'Deep' Tie-Wearer. (And for all those who say that there was depth on her other two albums, could ya point it out to me? Because I sure as hell can't find it.)

Avril finally realized that she likes pop music and pop music likes her, and she embraced it. Honestly, I think *she's* being honest for the first time since she broke out.

i disagree, she used to put so much heart into her songs, they really ment something to her, but comon, basicly shouting out, go girls, it dosnt matter if a boy is with someone else, if u think ur prettier and better than her just make him a cheating b****** =)
i love her, but comon

ok im the biggest avril lavigne fan in the world and i can prove it so of course im going to back up her music. now the best damn thing wasnt my favorite cd but its a cd that i felt showed her mature side. A cd that reveals her finding of happiness. so all of you bitches who disagree with me can go fuck yourself till u finally see.

AvRiL Ramona lavigne is the greates singer/songwriter there ever will be so the faster everyone realizes it the faster they will get a life!!

Avril i cant stop lavigne you

ok.... so u guys think this young gals shit.........well i got this to say, avril hit stardom an aint gone back incase nomne of u guys realsised this album went triple platinum. give her a break shes experimenting with new sounds and fairplay to her. shes reliving the 80's through her music. i personally think this is her best album so far. its cheesy, fun and pure bubblegum pop at its best. let her do wat she has to do to find her own sound!!!!!

I completely agree with this review. As a rule, I'm not much of one for pop music, but Avril Lavigne had a rare talent of actually singing songs that needed to be sung while hiding behind catchy pop tunes. While "Let Go" did have some more teeny bopper parts (i.e., "Sk8er Boi," "Complicated") but for the most part the songs were quite good and actually had something to say. "Under My Skin" took a step closer to rock while still maintaining a distinctly Avril sound, and again had some great tracks. I was looking forward to "The Best Damn Thing" for months. And then...and then I heard "Girlfriend" on the radio. I thought, there's no WAY this is Avril Lavigne. But it was. And the horror continued with "Hot" and "Keep Holding On." And then I saw the cover of her newest album, and I knew that she was gone forever. She has completely transformed from her own musician to a bubble gum pop whining wannabe worthy of Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears combined. She suddenly has pink hair and wears horribly preppy clothes, and sings songs that only a thirteen year old cheerleader could truly like. No matter how catchy "Girlfriend" may be, I and many other Lavigne fans will truly be in mourning for her sound. I have not seen a worse sell out since Liz Phair, and THAT is saying something awful.

i totally disagree with the thing that it says there because i trust her and i now she is like that