Avril lavigne head above water review năm 2024

Sixteen years after the Canadian pop-punk princess first catapulted to fame, Lavigne’s back with her first new music in five years—music deeply shaped by Lavigne’s nearly fatal struggle with Lyme disease.

“Head Above Water” is not like anything we’ve ever heard from the 34-year-old Lavigne before. Talking about the grim-but-hopeful inspiration for her new single “Head Above Water,” Lavigne said on her website, “One night, I thought I was dying, and I had accepted that I was going to die. My mom laid with me in bed and held me. I felt like I was drowning. Under my breath, I prayed ‘God, please help to keep my head above the water.’ In that moment, the song writing of this album began. It was like I tapped into something. It was a very spiritual experience. Lyrics flooded through me from that point on.”

In a letter to fans, she said of her multi-year struggle with the debilitating disease, “Those were the worst years of my life as I went through both physical and emotional battles. I was able to turn that fight into music I’m really proud of. I wrote songs in my bed and on the couch and recorded there mostly as well. Words and lyrics that were so true to my experience came pouring out of me effortlessly.”

A Desperate, Beautiful Prayer

The lyrics to this emotional piano ballad do indeed mirror Lavigne’s desperate cry to God to rescue her from slipping under the waves of her struggle.

“I’ve gotta keep the calm before the storm,” she begins, “Must bar the windows and the doors.” Soon, however, the scene changes, and Lavigne writes from the perspective of someone nearly lost at sea: “Yeah my life is what I’m fighting for/Can’t part the sea, can’t reach the shore/And my voice becomes the driving force/I won’t let this pull me overboard.”

When it seems as though she might be overwhelmed by the waves, she calls plaintively to God: “God, keep my head above water/Don’t let me drown, it gets harder.” She then tells Him, “I’ll meet you at the altar/As I fall down to me knees,” before repeating her request: “Don’t let me drown, drown, drown.”

At one point, the current threatens to take her: “So pull me up from down below/’Cause I’m caught in the undertow.” That leads to another petition: “Come dry me off and hold me close/I need You now, I need You most.”

“Head Above Water” testifies that God answered Avril Lavigne’s prayers.

Carrying Her Cross

Lavigne’s song sounds like something you’d hear in church. And perhaps it will be heard there, if its No. 2 spot on Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart is any indication.

The stylized video finds Avril walking on an island wearing a beautiful white dress, carrying a lamp and wearing a large cross (which the camera frequently focuses upon). Eventually, she plunges into the water.

But even as the video vividly depicts—in a very literal way—the possibility of going under, Lavigne’s hopeful, fierce voice suggests that the wind and waves won’t have the last word.

“Head Above Water” delivers a triumphant, soaring anthem of hope, prayer and restoration. And it comes not from a familiar voice from within the Christian music world, but from a unlikely star who seems to have found God just when she needed Him most.

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Avril Lavigne has suffered from a few identity crises over the years. There was the literal one, of course – a semi-serious internet conspiracy insisting that she had died and been secretly replaced by a body double. And then there was the musical one. For Lavigne, the struggle to evolve beyond her early Noughties pop-punk era – when tween girls across the world played the boisterous, angst-ridden Let Go (2002) on repeat, and wore poorly fastened ties in her honour – was the real test.

She stumbled several times. There was the playful but ill-fitting 2007 single “Girlfriend”, 2011 album Goodbye Lullaby – which couldn’t decide whether to be glossy or gutsy – and who could forget the heinous, vaguely appropriative 2013 single “Hello Kitty”? Try as she might, Lavigne has never surpassed, nor shaken off, the legacy of Let Go. “You know you’re not fooling anyone when you become somebody else,” she sang on that album’s magnum opus “Complicated”. She should have listened to her own advice.

But her sixth album, Head Above Water, arrives promising authenticity – with a somewhat concerning insistence. “This is me and my fight,” said Lavigne ahead of its release. “This album tells my story.” A press release announced: “You’re hearing the songstress as she was always meant to sound,” before detailing the 34-year-old’s life-threatening battle with Lyme disease. A near-death experience led to the album’s title track, a rocky, orchestral number that wouldn’t be out of place on The Greatest Showman soundtrack (which I mean as a compliment). “It was a very spiritual experience,” recalled Lavigne of the song’s traumatic origins. “Lyrics flooded through me from that point on.”

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The album is certainly more elegant than the offerings of the past decade, and Lavigne’s voice reaches new heights too – particularly on “I Fell in Love With the Devil”, an ominous, tightly crafted rumination on toxic relationships. “It Was In Me” is an earnestly delivered self-empowerment anthem, and “Birdie” has a potent beat and appealing melody, even if its lyrics are a little insipid: “Birdie fly away, I ain’t your prisoner, you can’t chain me down no more.”

There are missteps. “Dumb Blonde”, with its military drum rolls and bold, atonal bridge, is Little Mix-lite, while “Love Me Insane” and “A Bigger Wow” are as forgettable as their titles are grammatically infuriating

Lavigne might not have found a musical identity that truly becomes her, but Head Above Water is an effective, and occasionally affecting, album. Besides, “everyone’s got an opinion, but I don’t care,” she sings on “It Was In Me” ­– so what does it matter what I think?

Why did Avril Lavigne make the song Head Above Water?

The song was written by Lavigne, Stephan Moccio, and Travis Clark, and it was inspired by Lavigne's battle with Lyme disease. In the lyrics, Lavigne sings about struggling to keep her head above water during a difficult time in her life.

Why does Avril sound nasally?

The nasal sound has more to do with the resonance of the air in the head cavities than the vocal cords. It is pausible that an inflammation and collapse of the nasal mucosa produced by allergies results in the nasal sound we hear in Avril's voice.

What happened to Avril and Tyga?

“Avril and Tyga broke up a while ago,” a source exclusively tells Us. “There was nothing specific that happened, their relationship had simply run its course.”

Where was Avril Lavigne Head Above Water filmed?

Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water (2018) The major part of the video was shot in Iceland, Reynisfjörður, on a stunning black sand beach, and in Vík í Mýrdal. The video's release date was on the same day as Lavigne's 34th birthday—September 27.