Album ranking: 1. Goodbye Lullaby 2. Under My Skin 3. Let Go 4. Avril Lavigne 5. The Best Damn Thing (honestly don't like this album) Favorite Songs: 1. Everybody Hurts 2. Nobody's Home 3. Smile 4. Wish You Were Here 5. Falling Fast
Everybody Hurts and Nobody's Home are very good and Smile is on my top favourites as well, even though beating Wish You Were Here is almost impossible (I had listened to Sk8er Boi, Keep Holding On and I'm With You before, but this was the one that got me into her and brings back so many good memories), but I just can't stand songs like Girlfriend (big hit, but too Disney-ish song), The Best Damn Thing, He Wasn´t (that one reminds of Paramore style, a band which came one year after Under My Skin, but it´s Paramore done wrong) or Hello Kitty (why J-Pop for Avril? she already sells a lot in Japan, no need for that music), I feel like some of her songs I can't stand are just too silly and she lost the meaning she put into Let Go, Under My Skin and Goodbye Lullaby (she was more mature lyrically and musically at that time, even though she did an amazing job with Chad Kroger in 2013, but screwed it with a song like Hello Kitty on the same record). Her fanbase is much like LP in the sense that they hate her unfairly because of all the conspiracy theories of her having died in 2003 after having finished recording Under My Skin and having been replaced by a look-alike named Melissa Vandella that sounded a bit different and looked a bit different and all that shit about the signs hidden in Under My Skin album booklet and in songs like Nobody's Home and My Happy Ending, some of her best to date as well, very deep meaning and lyrical content. her saying "It's not like we're dead" or "Held up so high on such a breakable thread" on My Happy Ending proves nothing, she was just having a bad time dealing with the instant fame she got at such a young age of 17 and she just emphasizes that very well on that second album. Still, those theories are something good to laugh about, but they kind of undermined Avrill as an artist and her album sales after the big debut with Let Go, one of best albums the 2000s.
I'm posting my top 20 of hers in the top 20 songs of an artist thread. Stay tuned I'll tag you in the post as well. I also repsponded to your Avril post in the last album you bought thread. We basically share EXACT opinions on her. And Japan asked her to make the song Hello Kitty
I know, I just felt like she didn't have to because that song went a bit wrong, even though it has some sing-along potential and the video is actually funny to watch, but I also know she didn't mean to disrespect japanese culture with the dancers looking like robots and she being very excited about the sushi dish, she just wanted to show her appreciation for it and got backlashed by the critics saying she was racist. I don't think she should have replied to the critics the way she did on Instagram, she could have been more serious about that and just say she wanted to show her love for Japanese culture.
I never understood how AC/DC got so popular with not one, but two absolute shitty vocalists. Nothing from the 60s, 70s, 80s has aged well, and yet it gets held to such a high standard just because it was done first. Generally speaking, music today is just better. The ONLY thing that's still fresh from back then is Michael Jackson. His discography can still get it.
Yo, don't get me wrong, I like older music, I just think it's overrated. Maybe it's because there's this dude at my job who puts his brain in a funnel and thinks anything new is garbage. It's like the elderly trying to use the internet with some people. There's no getting through to them that just because it isn't what you grew up on makes it shit. I still stand by that AC/DC sucks, though.
AMEN 90s and newer>>>>>>>>>>>>>> However, there are some exceptions: -Michael Jackson -The Who -The Police -The Beatles -The Beach Boys
I would add Pink Floyd, I still like them. I was influenced to like them by my father, who had almost all their records and I'm still nostalgic about The Wall Live In Berlin Concert, still one of the best concerts ever. If you tak to people about Pink Floyd they will probably still speak favorably about them. On the other hand, mid-90s artists like Alanis Morisette faded too early, but I still hold some of her best songs in high regard, her record The Collection was one of the first I bought in 2003 or 2004. Nelly Furtado was also held in high consideration for me and generally all Portuguese people because she's Canadian-Portuguese, having portuguese parents and she wrote a song for Euro2004 in Portugal, an event we still have in our memory for sad reasons when we lost the final to Greece, but everyone was buying the record which had that song and singing it every time our team played a game that year. Nelly also faded too early.
I already cited one ot two, although the two Candian singers I mentioned have faded a lot in the past few years.
I'll be honest, I struggle to get into any music pre-2000s. Even really early 2000s music isn't my favorite.
Pre 2000s I pretty much only like The Cranberries and Alanis Morisette, early 2000s (till 2005) that's some of the best with LP, Nickelback, Evanescence, Avril Lavigne, Hobastank, Seether ft Amy Lee, The Verve, The Calling, so many great songs, a time when I enjoyed spending my day listening to the radio, after 2010 it faded and from those bands/artists until 2010 I only listen to LP, Nickelback, Evanescence, Avril Lavigne and Skillet, even Paramore lost that punk-rock I used to a lot. After 2010 I have no artist I can remember to have liked, just some music that I was forced to listen because it was playing everywhere. It's true that most of the names I cited were playing everywhere at that time, but it was different because I related to those songs and the lyrics made sense, nowadays I think the lyrics are just made to be nothing but catchy and that has deterred me from almost every artist of the 2010s and that's why I hope music will take a turn from away from pop in the 2020s since every decade seems to have a different signature sound.