Just when I thought this album couldn't get any better, "Nobody's Fool" came on. Avril faux-raps! It's like The Streets, only vomituous! And from Napanee.
I am very disappointed at how much this Avril Lavigne record is not-good. "Sk8er Boi" and "Complicated" are great deals of fun - those are the tracks I had heard before pursuing the album proper - but nothing so far is anywhere near as yayitssummerdoodoodoodoo. The fatal flaw is probably how severely Let Go suffers from "Marketing". The songs shift from style to style, as if ensuring that there's something here for each demographic ("Losing Grip" is angry Alanis chickrock, "Sk8er Boi" is pop-punk, "Unwanted" is enormous, bombastic 'modern rock', "Tomorrow" is the pretty ["pretty sucky!"] ballad, "I'm With You" is American Idol-worthy...). I'd much rather she focused, Smash Mouth style, on her one killer genre.
Also: the muttered sexual stuff on "Things I'll Never Say" is very punk.