Avril Lavigne – New Album for 2011
Avril Lavigne started the recording process for the new album in a home based studio in November 2008 with “Black Star” merely a fortnight after completing The Best Damn Tour. The ditty was finally expanded into a whole song, which Rolling Stone later characterized as “an ethereal lullaby that turns epic with tinkling Coldplay-like pianos and soaring strings.”
Recording began with very little instruments, usually beginning with Lavigne singing simply with acoustic guitar, adding more instruments later. Lavigne characterized the method: “It’s stripped down. I love performing that way, so I really felt like it was time to make a record like that. To just make it all about the vocal and the performance, and the vibe, and the emotion.”
The entire song list for the cd was reported on December 21st although a few track names were already known. It was also announced that two records on the cd, “4 Real” and “Goodbye”, were both created and produced only by Lavigne herself. The spare tracks were either authored by Lavigne or recorded with established song-writers Evan Taubenfeld, Butch Walker and Max Martin.
The album is estimated to be a flashback to Lavigne’s original sound trend and should be mostly recorded on acoustic guitar. With the exception of the cd’s first song, Lavigne says the singles on the album as completely different from her earlier catalog, “I’m older now, so I think that comes across in my music, it’s not as pop-rock and it’s a little more mellow and it’s deep”.
Lavigne characterized the 1st song off the CD, “What the Hell”, as “a broad message about personal freedom”,saying it is her “most pop track on the record”, the least private record from the CD and the song that fans will recognize most as like her previous releases. The track called, “Stop Standing There”, is described as having an “early- ’50s girl-group feel” and “Smile” is about Lavigne’s gratitude for extra special people in her life. “Push” is about connections and “Wish You Were Here” demonstrates Lavigne’s accessible aspect. Lavigne depicted the ditty “Everybody Hurts” as “different…but not different to stray away from who I am and what I am.” “Goodbye”, one of the two songs Lavigne wrote and produced without assistance, is about not holding back. Lavigne declared that “Goodbye” is the most intimate song on the album and was the motivation for the album’s title.
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January 24, 2011 | Posted by Sarah Heist
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