Avril Lavigne - Love Sux (February 25, 2022) Album • Page 4

expected a Feldmann-sounding pop punk record, got it -- but I do enjoy this a hell of a lot more than I expected, given the inevitable Feldmann-ness

 

This is so good.

 

Break of a Heartache goes hard.

 

I can't stop hearing Avrilanche during Avalanche

 

I’m loving this.

On first listen, I’d say the Cannonball chorus sounds the most like a Blink outtake.

Mark: Ticking time bomb, I come on strong
I'll come in hot

Skiba distorted scream: Like a cannonball, like a cannonball

Mark:
Take your best shot, give me all that you've got
I'll come in hot

Skiba: like a cannonball, like a cannonball
Like a cannonball

 

Kiss Me Like The World Is Ending verses sound exactly like Blame It On My Youth to me.

 

On first listen now, but Kiss Me Like The World Is Ending slaps.

 

I was actually thinking of another female voice I seem to hear during the Déjà Vu bridge, like there could be a vocal interplay between Avril and an uncredited singer. One of the lines has a filter on it, but it doesn't sound like Avril to me.

Or maybe it's all her? It's been confusing me ever since.

 

I wasn’t expecting anything, but I really enjoy this, it’s A LOT better than most of the others “mainstream” pop punk revival stuff I have heard recently

 

It’s because Avril can actually write hooks.

 

Bois Lie could've been great with a good singer.

 

Yeah and her vocals are good

 

Even with a passable singer. MGK is not a passable singer.

 

Seriously, how is this dude popular?

 

No joke, she said that part of the song right when I was reading "sorry" so it totally threw me off for a second just now.

 

It’s funny that I come at this from a bit of a different angle than most of this site, as someone with heavy teenage nostalgia for Avril but not for most pop punk. Like, I remember stumbling on the “Complicated” music video the way some people talk about finding Blink. The Best Damn Thing came out my senior year of high school.

From that particular angle, this scratches a certain itch that feels good to be scratched right now. I think the sweet spot for modern Avril for me would have a little self-titled mixed in with this sound, but it’s great to hear her on an album with this type of energy again.

Is it the best thing I’m gonna hear this year? Of course not, but it’s her overall best thing since The Best Damn Thing, and it’s the right type of thing for me at the moment.

 

Jenna Maroney vibes

 

See I got Moira Rose vibes.

 

Looking forward to finally having some of those Let Go demos in higher quality.

 

I refuse to listen to any record that features mgk

 

Is anyone else having quality issues on Apple Music? I’m on 3rd gen AirPods but volume is going up and down. Quality goes in and out…no way it’s production.

 

The only things that keeps me from enjoying, besides the MGK feature, is the production. It's so compressed and metallic that it's grating to my ears. And I used to enjoy Feldmann production back in the day.

 

Honestly, I think this is the first time I've ever heard him.

 

I beg all artists to stop perpetuating mgk