Single// Avril Lavigne, Wish You Were Here.

Taken from her fourth album “Goodbye Lullaby” subsequent to a drastic makeover from her 2002 debut “Let Go,” “Wish You Were Here” will be released on 17^th October.

Starting strong with a protest style acoustic guitar arrangement under folksy sounding vocals, an apparent shift back to her original sound, disregarding the pop-punk hooks of her number one smash hit; “Girlfriend.” But instead reverting back to the moody teenage pop of say; “Complicated,” yet equipped with a breakdown that could somewhat be categorised under the stigmatic genre of late 1990’s/ Early 2000’s girl group pop.

Let’s face it there’s never going to be another 'Sk8r Boi' but at least an evident maturation is purveyed through her latest single, if you look past the disposable pop breakdown.

Jonathan Hatchman.