Lazy albeit familiar-sounding singing greets my ear on this one. Thinking how to describe it for this review, I abruptly wondered, is that Avril Lavigne?
Lo and behold, it is she who sings this song. Thankfully, it's not so horrid as "Keep Holding On" on the singing, but she sounds like she doesn't care about what she sings, that she's just singing for the heck of it. She tries to hide it by sounding appealing, but I get a languid sense of the singer herself.
The stock upbeat pop rock doesn't help that, I guess. It's not bad, but it's definitely not anything notable. The music aspect's a fun listen when I need something upbeat to help me wake up. It's nothing special, though.
"Contagious" starts out with the okay story of how people tend to long to be around someone they're interested in but have no idea what to say when they are near to that person. But it, like "Girlfriend" of the same album whose name I've edited, this song devolves into a "give me a chance" to be your girlfriend, and "I can prove I'm right."
As the (edited) title of this album and its released single "Girlfriend" have demonstrated, the singer has no qualms about cursing and misuses damn twice in the lyrics. The statement that the boy makes her "feel so high" might also be seen as a drug reference.
Ulgh, good-bye Avril Lavigne. If I ever review you again, it'll be even more of an accident than this one was. In short, I'd advise she—or at least this last CD—be avoided.
Music: 3/5
Vocal(s): 2/5
Overall: *4/10
*The song curses.
