GL.......Wow.

I agree with you. With some of the messy production on AL, Goodbye is amazing. Not that I thought the production was bad before. I've also seen myself gravitating towards listening to a lot of GL tracks lately. Like I Love You recently popped into my head, What The Hell and Smile is basically two of my favorite pump up jams, and Darlin has been one of my very favorite tracks from Avril because of the vocals and the very acoustic driven instrumental. (Side note, I'm still really bummed that when the instrumentals leaked, Darlin and Everybody Hurts had messed up audio. Everybody Hurts I think might have a fixed one or a fanmade recreation that sounds very close, but I don't have a good copy of Darlin.) I feel like this is definitely one of my more listened to albums of hers. This may be due to the fact that I became a huge Avril fan like a year or so after TBDT came out so I missed out on the hype and ability to hear everything new, fresh, and also the ability to see her on tour. I still think it had great production quality, and I would sure hope so if the album delayed and compromises made. While AL had some well produced tracks, there were definitely some that had some questionable production. Bitchin' Summer almost immediately comes to mind, the vereses of Sippin on Sunshine and Here's to Never Growing Up. Next time I ever go on a longish trip by myself, I definitely need to listen to album the albums from start to finish. Since I was late to the game, Let Go is definitely the album with tracks I skip the most. Sorry for this post being all of the place haha. So many thoughts came to me while writing this.

It's still probably my favorite album... I feel like it's genuinely emotional and showed a bit of growth. Avril isn't the best lyricist, not even in my top to be honest, but GL, I felt like she truly let it all out and wasn't trying to go with an image .... I liked that for a change, being commercially mainstream didn't seem that important to her during that cycle, despite what the label was trying to do. I wish we could have heard all those tracks she was working on before her label sent her off to max Martin but what's done was done... AL wasn't as good a follow up to me. Some good ballads but a lot of it just didn't sound like her....

GL is one of my favourite albums for me. I'm obsessed with the song Smile and Push.Also What the hell is a big favourite. And yeah, Everybody hurts is perfect!

I agree with your points. "Goodbye Lullaby"is a really beautiful and mature album, diffirent to the others she had released before that one. The lyrics are heartfelt, honest and emotional. Her voice being the main instrument in most of the songs, expresses the emotions the lyrics try to convey in a way that touches one's heart and soul. The production, even though quite simplistic and basic as well as "outdated" somehow, allows the emotions expressed by her voice to reach out to the listener and let him/her to actually feel the emotions that she is trying to convey. Whenever I listen to the entire album, I feel like my heart and soul have been touched in a way, like I can feel everything these songs try to express. And that's why I love this album so much, why it's my favorite album of hers. Because it makes me "feel" and a lot of the time when I'm sad for whatever reason, it makes me feel "better" in a way.

It is a special flavor in music to me, to her career. It's my second most fav album of her

Imo she needs her own record label.. ^

When I first bought the album, I didn't appreciate it that much... I loved Remember When and WYWH, but apart from them, I was pretty disappointment, I don't know why.

I've always used to listen to UMS or TBDT mostly, some of Let Go or AL, but never GL. A couple of weeks ago though, I listened to the entire album again, and I loved it!! I could understand its meaning, maybe because I'm not a teen anymore, I've experience life a little more.  It is my favorite album now