Let Go

by Avril Lavigne

Overview

Talk about pressure -- being under 21 and having a record deal no longer qualifies as extraordinary. And as mass-produced teen pop makes its exit and a glut of young singer/songwriters enter, child prodigies no longer have built-in marketing appeal. So if 17-year-old newcomer Avril Lavigne truly wants to be "Anything But Ordinary," as she sings on her debut album, Let Go, she'll have to dig deeper. Luckily for Lavigne, aside from youth, she does have talent. Her debut runs the gamut from driving rock numbers like "Losing Grip" -- where she shows off her vocal range, powering into the anger-fueled, explosive rock chorus -- to singer/songwriter pop tunes like "My World," where Lavigne fills listeners in on the past 17 years of her life. She handles a variety of styles deftly: "Sk8er Boi" has a terrific power pop bounce; "Complicated" is a gem of a pop/rock tune with a killer chorus, making the song a knockout radio hit. Lavigne, a self-professed skater punk and labelmate of Pink, shares her "Take Me as I Am" credo as well. Lavigne is a capable songwriter with vocal chops, and at her age, one imagines, she is still finding her feet, borrowing from the music she's grown up listening to. Lavigne is still so young she's listening to the radio hits of the '90s and early 2000s: she's Pink when she's bucking authority, Alanis Morissette when she's angry, and Jewel when she's sensitive. Let Go shows promise, but the question is whether Lavigne and only Lavigne will shine through on her next effort. ~ Christina Saraceno

Product Details

Release Date:	06/04/2002
Label:	Arista / Bmg / Sony Music Entertainment
UPC:	0886919932225

Tracks

1. Losing Grip
2. Complicated
3. Sk8er Boi
4. I'm With You
5. Mobile
6. Unwanted
7. Tomorrow
8. Anything But Ordinary
9. Things I'll Never Say
10. My World
11. Nobody's Fool
12. Too Much To Ask
13. Naked
14. [CD-ROM Track]

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Avril Lavigne   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar,Vocals (Background)
Corky James   Guitar (Electric),Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar
Clif Magness   Drums,Guitar,Drum Loop,Keyboards,Sequencing,Guitar (Electric),Bass
Victor Indrizzo   Drums
Peter Zizzo   Guitar
Josh Freese   Drums
Dennis Johnson   Scratching,Scratching
Suzie Katayama   Cello
Joe Bonadio   Drums
Gerry Leonard   Guitar
Mark Spicoluk   Bass
The Matrix   Vocals
Matthew Brann   Drums
Jeff Allen   Bass,Bass
Evan Taubenfeld   Guitar
Curt Frasca   Guitar,Multi Instruments
Alex Elena   Drums
Matrix   Vocals

Technical Credits

Clif Magness   Composer,Engineer,Producer,Programming
Graham Edwards   Composer
Leon Zervos   Mastering
David Leonard   Mixing
Mark Howard   Drum Engineering
Peter Zizzo   Arranger,Composer,Engineer,Producer,Pro-Tools,Programming,Digital Editing
Scott Spock   Composer
Rick Kerr   Engineer
Sabelle Breer   Composer,Vocal Producer,Vocal Arrangement
Femio Hernandez   Assistant,Mixing Assistant,Assistant Engineer
German Villacorta   Assistant,Mixing Assistant
Avril Lavigne   Composer,Art Direction
Jon Berman   Engineer
Jen Scaturro   Editing,Pro-Tools,Programming,Digital Editing
David Shackney   Engineer
Dennis Johnson   Beats,Beats
John Arsenault   Photography
Robert Mainwaring   A&R
Theresa Wilson   A&R
Cline   Photography
Jeffrey Schulz   Design,Layout Design
Jeffrey Shulz   Design,Layout Design
Joshua Sarubin   A&R
Sang Park   Assistant,Mixing Assistant
Steve Gryphon   Drum Recordings,Drum Engineering
Mike Howard   Drum Engineering
The Matrix   Arranger,Composer,Engineer,Producer
Sonya Farrell   Photography
Monique Perrault   Photography
Ashley Reid   Photography
L.A. Reid   Executive Producer
Curt Frasca   Composer,Engineer,Producer,Programming,Instrumentation
Lauren Christy   Composer
Randy Staub   Mixing
Matrix   Arranger,Composer,Engineer,Producer
Tom Hardisty   Assistant,Assistant Engineer
Tom Lord-Alge   Mixing