Avril Lavigne

Teen queen Avril Lavigne has had quite a ride since releasing her debut album last June. Let Go shares the same high-gloss production as discs by her modern Teen Beat contemporaries, but her spiky, self-penned pop tunes ("Complicated" and "Sk8er Boi") overflow with a forceful personality her competitors lack.

For anyone who's already screaming "Enough!" whenever Avril Lavigne's supernaturally
catchy single "Complicated" comes on the radio, the news is all bad. Let Go, the debut
album from Ontario's tiny terror, comes fully loaded with another dozen infectious hymns
of Total Request angst. Although it's the only track with a definable style other than "pop
rock," "Sk8er Boi" is seventeen-year-old Lavigne's signature moment. Over a rus... More >