17 is a big old bop obviously, but the chorus is a touch overproduced for my liking. but yeah, could/should have been a single. it's very much like a mash-up between a Goodbye Lullaby and a Best Damn Thing track. sounds Dr Luke-esque even though it's not his grubby fingers on it.
09 Rock N Roll
10 Here's to Never Growing Up
09 17
Bitchin' Summer is quite a FAVE of mine! love her rogue dialect going random California. it's gonna BAY BAY a BETCHIN' SUMMERRRR. don't even get me started on that "po-lice" line.
09 Rock N Roll
10 Here's to Never Growing Up
09 17
09 Bitchin' Summer
I always assumed "Let Me Go" was shit because it's with Chad Kroeger but it actually kind of slaps. I could do without his vocals though. It takes me back to when "Rockstar" and "Photograph" were all over the radio in 2007.
Let Me Go was certainly an interesting choice for third single. it basically flopped, but did make the Hot 100 (#78). it's not a bad song at all, the piano is actually extremely gorge. could've done without Chad's crow vox though.
09 Rock N Roll
10 Here's to Never Growing Up
09 17
09 Bitchin' Summer
08 Let Me Go
Give You What You Like is so chilly and haunting. so many great lyrical moments throughout.
I'll give you one last chance to hold me
if you give me one last cigarette
by now it's early in the morning
now that I gave you what you want
all I want is to forget...
probably for the best if we gloss over you-know-who being featured on this track. I just choose to pretend the guest vocalist is actually Marilyn Monroe.
what an absolute SLAPPER of a song?! she came for wigs with this one. the repeated riff is fucking brilliant. the energy is relentless. it reminds me of an even screamier take on Kelly's Whyuwannabringmedown
09 Rock N Roll
10 Here's to Never Growing Up
09 17
09 Bitchin' Summer
08 Let Me Go
10 Give You What You Like
09 Bad Girl
I'm not emotionally ready for the traumas of Hello Kitty.
I was cherry picking this album last week and this came on by accident. I almost fell off my bike.
the first minute is actually fine (ish?!) but before the halfway point the song TOTALLY runs out of ideas. it's the longest fucking 3:16 of ANYONE'S LIFE.