S8R BOY!!!!
Avril Lavigne: My World is a combination DVD/CD set based around Lavigne's 2003 Try To Shut Me Up tour, in particular the Buffalo, NY concert. Given that Lavigne has released only one album so far, it's no surprise that all but three of the songs come from Let's Go. Here, as well as in the album, her work is solid if a bit uneven. Her best pieces are the punchy ones like "Sk8er Boi" and "Complicated"; some of the others (like "Knocking on Heaven's Door") slide off into more generic-sounding territory, but on the whole it's a reasonably satisfying collection of songs. Her live performance does offer a different experience than just listening to the songs on her studio album. Certainly one of the draws for getting the DVD is getting to see the concert experience, for those viewers who like that sort of thing. Personally, I'm mainly interested in the music, and Lavigne satisfies on that count. She moves from one song to the next with minimal fuss, focusing her concert performance on her music rather than putting on an "act" in general. Lavigne's main distinction, this early in her music career, is her youth: she signed her record deal at the tender age of 16, debuting with the 2002 album Let's Go. What's really fascinating about the Try To Shut Me Up concert is how it demonstrates how Lavigne has grown... and I don't mean in an artistic sense. Her voice is distinctly different in concert than it is in her Let's Go recordings, which is hardly surprising given the fact that at her age, her voice is still maturing along with the rest of her body. Lavigne's voice here is significantly deeper and huskier than in her studio recordings of the same songs; to a certain extent this can be attributed to the fact that the Buffalo performance was the final stop on the tour, but I doubt that tiredness alone is responsible for the different sound. (And she did seem energetic enough out on stage.) The CD offers six more songs, all live performances (though it's not indicated from what concert). Four of these are the same songs as are performed in the concert ("Basketcase," "Unwanted," "Sk8er Boi," and "Knocking on Heaven's Door") and two are new ("Fuel" and "Why," which is listed as a UK B-side). The concert covers the following songs: Sk8er Boi Nobody's Fool Mobile Anything but Ordinary Losing Grip Naked Too Much to Ask I Don't Give Basket Case My World I'm with You Complicated Unwanted Tomorrow Knocking on Heaven's Door Things I'll Never Say
My World", Avril's first live concert DVD, was filmed in Buffalo, NY on May 18, 2003 - the final night of her five-week North American "Try To Shut Me Up Tour." "My World" reprises all of Avril's hits from her album, Let Go, plus new tunes and other surprises in front of a crowd of 18,000 fans. The 68-minute concert is supplemented with 40-minutes of behind-the-scenes candid documentary footage filmed along the tour in North America and Europe.