[RESULTS]The Ultimate Avril Lavigne Song Rating 2018

Wow, I could hardly disagree more.

I've never been able to really get into "Don't Tell Me". It just kind of sounds too much the same throughout until the bridge finally kicks in, but everything else is more or less a straight, horizontal line to me. I probably would've put it somewhere around top 50 or top 60. I do like the message, though.

"Keep Holding On" is imo the best ballad off TBDT, but definitely not as good as some of Avril's other ballads. It's just... idk. I've just never really felt it. Also, somehow it feels a lot like a wedding song to me.

"Complicated" is a great song, but currently not one of my favourites. I guess I just overplayed it. There are other songs by Avril that I probably listened to even more often in my life, yet I still love them. So yeah, great song, but I wouldn't have put it that high in the rating.

WYWH is totally overrated imo. The emotion is great and those high backing vocals in the last chorus are damn amazing, wow! But the rest is just so meh. I used to dislike the lyrics, now I find them okay, but not more. The melody is too repetitive. And the drums, I really hate those drums. They sound so fake. I definitely prefer the acoustic or any live version of WYWH, but I still wouldn't have put it neary that high in the rating.

"Innocence" and "When You're Gone" are also both totally overrated. They're both really cheesy, especially WYG, the entire sound is - as on nearly all TBDT songs - too high-pitched, and the lyrics just don't really do anything for me. I get what WYG is about, of course. But even though I've recently lost my dog, as I stated before, I just can't really connect to WYG. I never really understood what "Innocence" was supposed to be about. I would've put both songs somewhere around top 70, I guess. Surely my least favourite ballads.

The only song I am really happy and surprised about it "Head Above Water". I know a lot of fans really love this song, but somehow I hadn't dared hope for it to get such a good rating. I myself absolutely love this song. I can really relate to it, despite hardly being religious. Avril's vocals are really great, as are the backing vocals in the last chorus. I also really love this little string/guitar (?) part at the end of each chorus (sounds a bit like a pick slide). It's just one or two seconds, but damn, it's so good. The only thing that still annoys me a little bit are the acoustic guitars in the first verse, they just sound way to "clear", like a photo that's been sharpened to the point where all you see is white noise. But everything else about this songs totally makes up for it. And how can I possibly give a song that always makes me cry like a waterfall less than 10/10? 💙

Btw, does that leave IWY, MHE, and NH once again??