Love Sux (album)

Love SuxStudio album by Avril Lavigne
General information
Release date	February 25, 2022 November 25, 2022 (Deluxe)
Recorded	2020 - 2021 2021 - 2022 (Deluxe)
Genre(s)	Pop Punk • Alternative Rock • Pop Rock • Emo Pop
Length	33:38 49:20 (Deluxe)
Label	Elektra, DTA
Producer(s)	John Feldmann Derek Smith Travis Barker
Albums chronology
Previous	Head Above Water
Current	Love Sux
Singles
1. "Bite Me" November 10, 2021 2. "Love It When You Hate Me" January 14, 2022 3. "Bois Lie" August 26, 2022 4. "I'm A Mess" November 3, 2022

Love Sux is Avril Lavigne's seventh studio album, released on February 25, 2022. The album marks Avril's return to her Pop Punk routes and is her most critically acclaimed album.

Background

Following the release of Lavigne's previous studio album Head Above Water (2019) Lavigne mentioned in a May 2020 interview with American Songwriter magazine that she would "like to release some music in 2021 and that she's started working on new material, which could be the basis of her next album". In December 2020, Lavigne confirmed she was recording new music with producers John Feldmann, Mod Sun, Travis Barker and Machine Gun Kelly. "Flames", a collaboration between Mod Sun and Lavigne, was eventually released on January 8, 2021. In the same month, Lavigne confirmed through social media further new music for the first half of 2021, later confirming recording for the album had been completed. On July 16, 2021, Willow Smith released her fourth studio album, titled Lately I Feel Everything, with one of the tracks, "Grow", featuring Avril Lavigne and Travis Barker. A music video for the song was released in October of the same year.

In September 2021, Lavigne attended the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards and confirmed in an interview that new music was to be released in October. On October 28, 2021, Lavigne performed on Travis Barker's livestream show, Travis Barker's House of Horrors. On November 3, Lavigne announced she had signed with Barker's label, DTA Records. On November 5, Lavigne announced her new single titled "Bite Me", which was released on November 10. On January 13, 2022, Lavigne announced the second single from the album titled "Love It When You Hate Me" (featuring Blackbear) for the next day, along with the title of Love Sux and the release date of February 25, 2022. She confirmed via her Instagram stories that Love Sux will have a deluxe version. Just days before the albums release, on February 22, 2022, the whole album leaked online.

On November 15, Lavigne officially announced the deluxe edition of the album.

Composition and themes

Love Sux was described by Lavigne in an interview with Entertainment Weekly as her "most alternative record I've made from front to back", further explaining "most of my albums have like pop songs, ballads, and it's quite diverse. The people I worked with really understood me and come from that genre of music". She described the recording of the album as feeling as though she was "back in high school hanging out with the type of people [she] grew up with, and it was just effortless."

Singles

• The album's lead single, "Bite Me", was released on November 10, 2021.
• The album's second single, "Love It When You Hate Me" (featuring blackbear), was released on January 14, 2022.
• The album's third single, "Bois Lie" (featuring Machine Gun Kelly), was released August 26, 2022.
• The album's fourth single, "I'm A Mess", was released on November 3, 2022.

Track listing

#	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Cannonball"	Avril Lavigne, John Feldmann, Mod Sun	Mod Sun, Feldmann, Travis Barker	2:18
2.	"Bois Lie" (feat. Machine Gun Kelly)	Lavigne, Feldmann, Mod Sun, Colson Baker	Mod Son, Feldmann, Barker	2:43
3.	"Bite Me"	Lavigne, Feldmann, Mod Sun, Omer Fedi, Marshmellow	Mod Sun, Feldmann, Barker	2:39
4.	"Love It When You Hate Me" (feat. Blackbear)	Lavigne, Feldmann, Mod Sun, Matthew Musto	Mod Sun, Feldmann, Barker	2:25
5.	"Love Sux"	Lavigne, Feldmann, Mod Sun	Mod Sun, Feldmann, Barker	2:48
6.	"Kiss Me like the World Is Ending"	Lavigne, Feldmann, Mod Sun	Mod Sun, Feldmann, Barker	2:50
7.	"Avalanche"	Lavigne, Feldmann, Mod Sun	Mod Sun, Feldmann	3:39
8.	"Déjà Vu"	Lavigne, Feldmann, Mod Sun	Mod Sun, Feldmann	3:23
9.	"F.U."	Lavigne, Barker, Nick Long	Barker	2:47
10.	"All I Wanted" (feat. Mark Hoppus)	Lavigne, Feldmann, Mod Sun, Mark Hoppus	Mod Sun, Feldmann, Barker	2:32
11.	"Dare to Love Me"	Lavigne	Mod Sun, Feldmann	3:34
12.	"Break of a Heartache"	Lavigne	Mod Sun, Feldmann	1:51

Japanese edition bonus track
#	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
13.	"Bite Me" (accoustic)	Lavigne, Feldmann, Mod Sun, Omer Fedi, Marshmellow	Mod Sun, Feldmann, Barker	3:09

Deluxe edition bonus tracks

#	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
13.	"I'm A Mess" (with YUNGBLUD)	Avril Lavigne, Dominic Harrison, John Feldmann, Travis Barker	John Feldmann, Travis Barker	3:07
14.	"Mercury In Retrogade"	Avril Lavigne, John Feldmann, Mod Sun	Mod Sun, John Feldmann	2:09
15.	"Bite Me" (Acoustic)	Avril Lavigne, John Feldmann, Mod Sun, Omer Fedi, Marshmellow	Mod Sun, John Feldmann, Travis Barker	3:09
16.	"Love It When You Hate Me" (feat. Blackbear)(Acoustic)	Avril Lavigne, John Feldmann, Mod Sun, Matthew Musto	Mod Sun, John Feldmann, Travis Barker	2:33
17.	"Bois Lie" (feat. Machine Gun Kelly)(Acoustic)	Avril Lavigne, John Feldmann, Mod Sun	Mod Sun, John Feldmann, Travis Barker	2:50
18.	"Pity Party"	Avril Lavigne, John Feldmann, Mod Sun	John Feldmann, Travis Barker	1:54

Scrapped tracks

• Burn Out
• Californyeah! (feat. MOD SUN)
• Dancing With a Hurricane
• Eternally
• Hallelujah
• Joker
• Me, Myself & I
• Take My Breath
• Shut Up
• Too Fast To Live
• Rock Boyfriend
• Teenage Nightmare

Trivia

• Lavigne recorded over 30 songs for this album.
• It was supposed to be a double album.
• Lavigne likes a bunch of the unreleased songs better.
• The song "Pity Party", featured as a bonus track on the deluxe edition, interpolates "Bite Me".
• Her favorite bonus track on the deluxe album is "I'm A Mess".