The official stance of this website with regards to Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger’s song “Let Me Go” has already been declared. That doesn’t mean, however, that we weren’t open to whatever moving tribute to love they were planning to display in its music video. Well, it’s here now and if “Let Me Go” is to be taken at face value, Avril’s worried that Chad’s music career won’t pan out and he’ll become a gardener. Uh oh. Trouble in paradise.
The story is brief but very complex. There is a distinguished old man. He finds a magic cabinet. The cabinet holds his trusty guitar and a beautiful suit. He puts on the suit (no, there’s no nudity; unfortunately, this whole vid is totally SFW if SFW = your office won’t judge you for watching a Chavril video). He performs a song while sitting in front of a magic Harry Potter-esque Mirror of Erised that reflects a younger version of himself to Avril…which she watches on an iPad? Anyway, old man has no iPad because he is but a lowly groundsman but he is privy to a vision of a young version of Avril playing the piano part of the song. (Avril actually stays young during the whole video, proof that she truly is a witch.)