Avril Lavigne, 26, is accusing record company executives at RCA of holding up the release of an album she completed a year ago, reports Teen Music.
A follow up to 2007’s The Best Damn Thing, the Complicated singer is anxious and excited to get the untitled album out to her fans.
In a post on her official blog, Lavigne wrote, "I’m done with my 4th record!!! Well, actually I have been done for a year… and now my record company have finally decided to release it. Omg (oh my God). How nice! Thanks guys.
"This has been a really difficult record for me to create and to release. Not only is this the most meaningful and special record I have written, it is sincere, honest and close to my heart. But for the first time I experienced a bunch of bureaucratic Bs (bulls**t). People do their best work when they are doing what they want, love and is natural for them, not when you are forcing them to be something that they are not.”
Lavigne has described the first single off the album, What the Hell, as "a broad message about personal freedom", calling it her "most pop track on the record.” The video for the single will be shot this month and will be released in January 2011.