User:Mathiiuz/Wish You Were Here (Avril Lavigne song)

"Wish You Were Here" is a song by Avril Lavigne from Goodbye Lullaby written by Lavigne, Max Martin and Shellback, and produced by the latter two. The song peaked at #99 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at #64 on the Canadian Hot 100. In a telephone interview with The Caprice, Lavigne confirmed the song would serve as the third and last single from "Goodbye Lullaby". Some rumors say that the song will be sent to some radios on August 18. The music video for the song was filmed on August 10th where Avril posted photos from the set to her Facebook page. Wish You Were Here was released in New Zealand on July 28th.

Jody Rosen, writing for Rolling Stone magazine, described it is a "jangling power ballad". Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic marked "Wish You Were Here" as one highlight of the album. According to Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine, this song, along with "Push" and "Smile", "mistake having a potty mouth for having an actual personality", and "Wish You Were Here" "fails to pass off [the lyrics] 'Damn, damn, damn / What I'd do to have you here, here, here' as a hook". Al Fox, an editor of BBC Music, said that the song is one of the tracks where "Lavigne actually manages to communicate some real sentiment". He also commented that it is "an unassuming strum-along". Mikael Wood wrote that, in songs like this and "Everybody Hurts", the "former brat-punk princess in dreary woe-is-me mode" can be found.

All the songs reached a position in record chart of South Korea, Gaon Chart. "Push" reached number 8, "Black Star" reached number 17, "4 Real" reached number 18, "Everybody Hurts" reached number 20, "I Love You" reached number 21, "Not Enough" reached number 29, "Stop Standing There" reached number 30, "Remember When" reached number 31, "Goodbye" reached number 32 and "Darlin" reached number 33.