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''Let Go'' is the debut album by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, released on 4 June 2002. For a year after signing a record deal with Arista, Lavigne struggled due to conflicts in musical direction. Lavigne relocated to Los Angeles, California, and recorded there, her earlier materials for the album; the kind of sound to which the label was not amenable. She was paired to the production team The Matrix, who understood her vision for the album. The album was credited as the biggest pop debut of 2002, and was 6x platinum in the United States. It was released to generally positive critical reviews, although Lavigne's songwriting received some criticism. It also did extremely well in Canada, receiving a diamond certification from the Canadian Recording Industry Association, as well as reaching multi-platinum in many countries around the world, including the UK in which she became the youngest female solo artist to have a number-one album in the region. , ''Let Go'' had sold over 20 million copies worldwide, becoming Lavigne's highest-selling album to date. According to ''Billboard'' magazine, the album was the number 21 top-selling album of the decade. A ''Rolling Stone'' readers poll named ''Let Go'' as the fourth best album of the 2000s. On 18 March 2013, ''Let Go'' was re-released as a double disc-set paired with her second studio album, ''Under My Skin'', which is released under RCA Records.〔http://www.allmusic.com/album/let-go-under-my-skin-mw0002491013/releases〕 ==Background== After being signed to Arista Records in November 2000 upon the authorization of the label's CEO, Antonio "L.A." Reid, Lavigne moved to New York with the assistance of Reid. There, she began working on her debut album, ''Let Go'', collaborating with a host of prime songwriters and producers. For six months, the label set up Lavigne with two co-writers, who worked with her upon Arista's instructions. Reid expected Lavigne to record folk songs because she auditioned to them in a "balladic, 'new country'" type. However, the collective failed to click "with a girl who'd just discovered guitar-based rock". For a year, nothing was working for Lavigne and was on the verge of getting dropped off Arista. The management pitched her songs written by other songwriters, but she declined, insisting she wanted to write songs herself. Lavigne relocated to Los Angeles, where she collaborated with songwriter-producer Clif Magness, who gave her ample creative control in the writing process. Lavigne and Magness wrote "Losing Grip" and "Unwanted", songs that she deemed reflective of her vision for the entire album. However, Arista was not thrilled with the heavy-guitar laden songs that Lavigne was writing, prompting the label to look for other producers to match their demands. Now two years since she signed the deal, Lavigne, who was then unknown, came to the attention of the three-piece production team The Matrix. Arista could not find the right direction for Lavigne, so the team's manager, Sandy Roberton, suggested that they work together: "Why don't you put her together with The Matrix for a couple of days?" According to member Lauren Christy, they had been listening to Lavigne's early songs and felt they contained "a Faith Hill kind of vibe". As soon as they saw Lavigne coming into their studio, The Matrix felt that her musical direction was incongruous to her image and attitude. After talking to Lavigne for an hour, "we cottoned on that she wasn't happy but couldn't quite figure out where to go". The Matrix played her songs with Faith Hill influences, because it was those kind of songs the label wanted Lavigne to sing. But Lavigne dismissed it, saying she wanted songs with punk rock inclinations. Lavigne played The Matrix a song that she had recorded and really loved, a track with sounds in the likes of the rock band System of a Down. Fortunately, prior to forming The Matrix, its members' early projects were in the pop-rock type, so they readily figured out what Lavigne wanted to record and knew exactly what to do with her. They told her to come back the following day, and in the afternoon during that day, they wrote a song that evolved into "Complicated" and another song called "Falling Down" (Falling Down appears on the ''Sweet Home Alabama'' Soundtrack). They played it to Lavigne when she came back the following day, inspiring her what path she should take. When Josh Sarubin, the A&R executive who signed Lavigne to the imprint, heard the song, he knew it was right for her. Lavigne presented the song to Reid, who agreed the musical direction Lavigne and The Matrix were taking, and set "Complicated" as the album's lead single. Reid sent Lavigne back to The Matrix to work with them, initially for a month. Arista gave the team ''carte blanche'' to write and produce 10 songs, which took them two months. The album was originally entitled ''Anything But Ordinary'', after the track of the same name that The Matrix produced, but Lavigne asked Reid for the album to be called ''Let Go'' instead. Critics described ''Let Go'' as an alternative rock〔http://www.boston-theater.com/theaters/xfinity-center/backstreet-boys-avril-lavigne.php Let Go was the alt. rock, grungy soundtrack to many childhoods of the naughties〕〔http://www.kilroy-records.be/details/110758.html〕 album with pop rock〔(Let Go-Music Review ). Common Sense Media〕 influences and post-grunge-oriented sound.〔http://www.boston-theater.com/theaters/xfinity-center/backstreet-boys-avril-lavigne.php Let Go was the alt. rock, grungy soundtrack to many childhoods of the naughties〕〔http://news.modernrock.com/1466 Some of the songs are hard, with grungy metal undertones〕〔http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/avril-ramona-lavigne-780.php Avril Lavigne came to limelight at a very young age and was signed by Arista records when she turned 16. Her grungy pop-rock sound appealed to teens worldwide. 〕〔http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/story.cfm?content=132568 She’s a sweet pop songstress with a proclivity for punk and big, slightly grungy guitars.〕〔http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/avril-and-the-selling-of-punk-lite/article4142979/ Sure, the guitars are loud and a bit grungy〕〔http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-09-08/news/0909080037_1_sk8er-boi-kim-kardashian-avril-lavigne Lavigne's grungy angst rock〕〔http://gcmag.org/album-review-avril-lavignes-self-titled-album-combines-old-and-new/ She came on the scene in 2002. Her music was grungy and real〕〔http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/features/avril-lavigne-returns-to-jakarta-for-another-concert/ The pop-punk princess burst into the mainstream in 2002 with her album “Let Go.” Her grungy sound appealed to teens worldwide and brought her an array of awards.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Let Go (Avril Lavigne album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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