AL6 - Avril: "I can’t wait for September 🌈💖🎼✨⭐️🌟💫"

I dont care really, just give me a new song LOL

I'm not sure if Avril is the one who came out with the concepts in all her songs. We don't know the story of each one of them. Maybe, for example, what if Max Martin and Shellback wrote Smile and Avril just added some lyrics? or another song in her albums? IT'S JUST AN EXAMPLE. Just like Breakaway where Avril didn't wrote a letter but she was the inspiration of the song.

But now we know that In Touch wasn't originally written by her. But maybe we have plenty of songs in her older albums with the same history but we don't know them.

IMO, for a record where she’s claiming it’s her most personal yet, it would be disheartening for her NOT to have her hand in writing the songs. To be fair, she DID write on In Touch after it was given to her.

I know you guys are desperate for new music, but come on... taking pre-made songs and only writing over parts of it? that’s not who Avril is at all.

That's the difference. That's a cover of a song.
Sometimes people write completed songs and send them out to different artists. If the artist likes it, they record it and claim it as theirs, and sometimes even take credit. 

I just can't wrap my mind around people being okay with Avril doing that just because they want new music.

She possibly got a pre-written song and changed a few things here and there, I don't think it's the end of the world, to be honest. If all songs were like that and/or she wasn't credited as writer at all, then I would be more concerned. Avril has written quite a few songs by herself at this point (mostly good, by the way), so it's not really fair to say she doesn't write her own songs. And she started her career by not having that big of an involvement on songwriting, despite what she and/or her label tried to say.

If I remember correctly, Lauren Christy was credited on In Touch as well, so she was likely the connection between Bebe and the original song and Avril; also, the credits may include lyrics AND music, we don't really know how the original song was about and what Avril changed. And for those worrying about the song not being "genuinely Avril", I think some of those "hitmaker" songs made with Max Martin, Shellback, Martin Johnson, J-Kash and others may not be that much "genuine" either, if not less.

We don't know if In Touch will be even released, in the past she's been included as performer in songs that weren't released at all, so this may very well be the case. We'll just have to wait and see, and then judge. But I'm not too concerned, so far...

You can still have a personal album if you're the concept of the songs. It's not a must that she has to be the song creator. Just like Revival by Selena Gomez, she didn't write all her songs and it's still personal. Sometimes when a song it's a hit you heard the songwriters talk about who came out with the idea, just like Wrecking Ball that was originally intended for Beyonce, it makes you think who really started the concept in some songs.

And I agreed with Jack, I think the "hit songs" weren't her ideas, I can't really see Avril saying yeah let's write a song about partyig in the beach, probably the writers when they thought in Avril and how a song should be for her they probably think in TBDT era and her bratty and young image and that's why her "hit songs" always have the same concept.

But it's not a big deal, I don't care if she didn't come with the concept or the first lyrics. As long as she makes the song sound like her stuff I'm ok.

For anyone curious as to how hit songs are typically made with hit makers, watch this.
+ yes. J Kash worked with Avril on her songs on AL5