Avril Lavigne Picks Her Favorite Track From Her Iconic 2002 Debut: “I Can’t Write This Song Again”

It’s common for an artist to have a favorite song off their album. An artist rarely loves a song for the hardships they were going through while writing it. But that is precisely why Avril Lavigne’s favorite song off her 2004 debut album Let Go is “Losing Grip.”

Avril Lavigne’s Emotional Support Song Is “Losing Grip”

Lavigne released “Losing Grip” as the fourth single and the first track off Let Go. Arista Records intended for “Anything but Ordinary” to serve as the fourth single from Let Go, but Lavigne pushed for “Losing Grip” to have that spot.

The song won the Canadian Radio Music Award in 2003 in the Best New Rock/Alternative Solo category. It was also nominated for a Grammy in 2004 for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance but lost to Pink’s “Trouble.”

The music video also gained a lot of traction and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.

For Lavigne, this song is about much more than awards. What she gained from writing it proved to be much more valuable. “I was just going nuts when I wrote that song,” Lavigne said in an interview. “I got a lot out of me, and it made me feel a lot better.”

The song is all about Lavigne feeling invisible and ignored by her ex-boyfriend, with the lyrics reading “Right now, I feel invisible to you, like I’m not real.” That feeling of invisibility ultimately caused Lavigne to lose her grip on reality: “I’m startin’ to trip, I’m losing my grip.”

Writing this song was so therapeutic that Lavigne wishes she could write it again. “Sometimes I still go through that, those feelings, and I want to rewrite the song. But I’m like, I can’t write this again.”

Singing and performing the song live is what continues to give Lavigne the outlet to express the feelings she put into the song when writing it. Lavigne has continued to perform this song throughout her career, starting in 2002 after the album’s release, up until 2024. She has performed “Losing Grip” at multiple award shows, including the Juno Awards in 2003.