The lead single, “Don’t Tell Me,” might be her most Avril-ish song yet, a petulant kiss-off to a horny boy.
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Lavigne doesn’t incorporate any new ideas on Skin instead, she shines up her old ones, often multitracking her voice to make sure you don’t miss the mile-wide choruses. Working with an unlikely crew of songwriters - her guitarist Evan Taubenfeld and the Canadian singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk - she put together an album that’s both more satisfying and more formulaic.
Her music is maddeningly (and admirably) difficult to categorize: The hit “I’m With You” had an almost imperceptible country twang, a vaguely new-metal melody and a chorus that wouldn’t be out of place on American Idol, though none of the contestants would have had the good sense to sing it so plainly.įor her new album, Under My Skin, Lavigne split with Matrix, the team that wrote much of Let Go. Whether it’s a fit of faux punk or a maudlin ballad, she sings it all absolutely straight: You can hear whatever you want to hear. That blankness is what makes her best songs so irresistible. Even now, after the years-long media blitz that followed the extravagant success of her debut, Let Go, Lavigne still seems somehow unsullied by it all: a nineteen-year-old blank slate. For the past couple of years, her army of Avrilites has been staring at her, eagerly and hungrily, and she has stared right back, betraying nothing. She was both more defiant and more clean-cut than her peers: Her just-say-no message intrigued millions of kids while reassuring their parents.īut Avril Lavigne might also be the most inscrutable teen-pop star of all time. No skimpy clothes, no suggestive dancing, no tabloid adventures, no hip-hop collaborations, no provocative lyrics. Avril Lavigne conquered the pop charts by refusing to get dirty.
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