optimistic about a new love". Eighth track "Crush" is "retro-leaning" and "a warm ode to the more fluid moments of early love". Ninth track "Goddess" "comes on with a playful note, wishing for a simpler time with breezy sonic flair", while tenth track "Bigger Wow" was said by NME to "sound like a cross between Shania Twain and Sheryl Crow". Eleventh track "Love Me Insane" was described by Rolling Stone as containing a "half-yodel" which "is a hook in itself". Twelfth and final track "Warrior" is a ballad described by Lavigne as "one of the first songs I wrote for the album" and according to her, is "about the health battle I continue to fight every day". Singles The song "Head Above Water" serves as the album's lead single. It was released on September 19, 2018, and impacted hot adult contemporary radio and Christian radio on October 8, 2018. The song was described as "a powerful, spiritual epiphany detailing the Canadian singer's journey through her battle with Lyme disease." The single was certified 2× Platinum in Canada and Platinum in Brazil and US. "Tell Me It's Over" was announced as the second single from the album on December 5, 2018, and was released the following December 12, with the album's pre-order. The album's third single, "Dumb Blonde", was released on February 12, 2019, featuring rapper Nicki Minaj, it debuted at number ninety-two on the Canadian Singles chart. "I Fell in Love with the Devil" was announced as the fourth single from the album on June 7, 2019, and was released on June 28. "We Are Warriors" was released as a new version of her song "Warrior", and was released as a charity single on April 24, 2020, for the COVID-19 pandemic. Critical reception Head Above Water received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 55 based on 12 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Lavigne's vocals were complimented by critics; Arielle Gordon, writing for Pitchfork, commented that Head Above Water "is an album about resilience, one that explores the range of her vocal chords, with little time for the scream-singing that once defined her sound"; and David Needleman of Rolling Stone writing that Lavigne has "never sounded stronger or more vocally confident". The album was also noted to show maturity