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Post by paperbackwriter on Sept 19, 2018 9:15:06 GMT
I cried. I couldn't help it. It feels so relevant to my life right now. I hope this song does so well for Avril it is so good!
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Post by paperbackwriter on Sept 13, 2018 21:44:38 GMT
Damnit I need to finish my dissertation before this drops. I won't be able to concentrate .
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Post by paperbackwriter on Sept 13, 2018 21:29:14 GMT
OMG I love it..... I'm trying not to cry sitting here next to my hubby. I don't think he'd understand lol.
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Post by paperbackwriter on Aug 15, 2018 19:20:05 GMT
She said "oh yeah I know eh.". Eh pronounce "a" is a stereotype thing Canadians say.
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Post by paperbackwriter on Jul 28, 2018 16:06:08 GMT
Unfortunately some people are more predisposed to addiction than others. Your brain starts to tell you hey I can have one drink or one snort of coke it doesn't mean anything. I can control it...and then before you know it your spiralling back towards full blown addiction, lying your way to get drugs, and doing things you wouldn't do in your right mind. Your body becomes so dependent on it you feel you need it to survive. Rehabbing after hardcore drug use is painful and difficult. You can't afford to get complacent when you get clean because that's how people fools themselves into thinking they can handle drinking or drugging a little bit again without becoming full blown addicted. That never works for a recovering addict.
I consider myself very lucky in that I have no interest in drugs or alcohol. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person whose never tried drugs or smoked one cigarette. I just have zero interest, but I know people who are the exact opposite and have been suffering from addiction for years, yo-yoing back and forth between being sober and not being sober. It's a long hard road and it takes a toll on everyone.
I hope this moment will make Demi realise the importance of staying fully clean for a recovering addict. It's going to be a long hard road for her, but she has a lot of love around her if she can only see it. I guess it really depends on her mindset. If she's going through a down period in her bi-polar she might not realise how loved she is and she might be pushing away the ones who truly care about her health. Mental health issues are hell. I know that from personal experience. I hope she gets clean and gets help. Forget touring and selling music right now. Her fans will still be there to support her. In fact her fans will support her more if she takes the time to get better and doesn't just blow this off. We don't need another young person dying because of addiction.
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Post by paperbackwriter on Jun 28, 2018 18:16:04 GMT
I can't believe some of you guys actually think she is purposefully "lying" to us to make us mad lol. It's an album. Shit happens, things get delayed, things go slower than anticipated and I can see how Avril, who was sick for years and couldn't physically do what she loves for any length of time, would enjoy the time creating so much that she doesn't stop. Someone on her team needs to tell her ok time to put the album out now. No one seems to be doing that.
And finishing touches could just be tweaking a song or two. It doesn't have to mean she's back to recording and even if she was if BMG wanted to release music right now they could give us a single. The digital music age has cut the time it takes to release music. BMG is just as much to blame for this stuff not being released yet even if they never told Avril to go back a record some singles. .
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Post by paperbackwriter on Jun 17, 2018 9:25:21 GMT
The X factor UK is supposed to be having a shake up of it's judges and I've heard that Simon Cowell is a fan of Avril, but honestly I'd be surprised if she was asked to do it. I'll be pleasantly surprised though if she is on it. It seems to have gaps in filming up until the live show so if she announced she was joining X Factor and then announced her album she'd still have some time to promote until the live shows at the end of the year. It would be really good promo for her as well. People would remember her as a nostalgia artist and want to check out her new stuff.
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Post by paperbackwriter on Jun 15, 2018 20:27:53 GMT
I was typing won't let you go into my iTunes and accidentally put won't let you ho. It made me laugh .
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Post by paperbackwriter on Jun 10, 2018 16:40:14 GMT
It still seems like the album is done. Avril had stopped going to the studio and by now it should be mixed and mastered. It's all up to BMG when to release it. If Avril expresses any frustrations publicly against BMG or her management she's biting the hand that feeds her and we all saw how well that worked out for GL. RCA basically gave up on it after WTH was released. Frankly I don't think she's had a decent managing team since she left Nettwerk. They promoted her so well and ever since she left it's like her teams just don't give a crap about her career.
As far as her not posting snippets well at this point her recorded music is owned by the publishing company so it's not up to her to just post a snippet. She may have been able to during the studio recording sessions but now she needs permission. Even if she leaked her own music she could get heavily fined. That's the price artists pay for having someone else manage their royalties.
Avril just doesn't seem to understand the importance of social media. It's not enough to post a mic picture and no caption. Say something to your fans. That's what everyone expects because every other artist is doing it. It's like she feels she has nothing new to add since the Race to Erase MS interviews and thinks that's just enough for now. Even a short hey I know you guys are waiting it's coming or something like it would go a long way. Someone on her team should be telling her this! They want her to sell don't they? How else are they going to make money off of her! It's like maybe someone told her to post more on twitter and so she's posting but it's nothing music related so fans are annoyed and feel like they're being jerked around. I expect her to say something about the long process when she finally starts to promote this album.
And I totally understand if Avril wants to just enjoy her life right now and not be stressed by work commitments. She thought she was going to die and that changes a person's perspective. It's not all about making records and touring any more. There is more to life, but can't someone, either Avril or her team, say something to her fans?
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Post by paperbackwriter on Mar 14, 2018 23:56:35 GMT
I'm sure many if not even most people wouldn't mind having the privilege/honour of being creative, freely, while being noticed. Shame that the song has been abandoned (and so soon). It has a very nice little naive vibe. Speaking of which, are there any other notable songs which were sung only a couple of times? Mobile, maybe? @blackstars Couldn't find anything about it on the web. Besides "My World" she only sang "Too Much to Ask" and her b-side "I Don't Give" on her first tour. She did sing everything else from her first album at different points during her second tour. She now dumps almost all of her non-singles from previous albums when on tour. I think it would be fun to see her play something random like "Take me Away" again or "Everything Back But You." Just something to surprise us.
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Post by paperbackwriter on Mar 5, 2018 15:47:52 GMT
It looks like she's trolling the camera. Look they'll think I have a new boyfriend hahaha.... She may have seen the paps and thought it'd be funny to screw with them. There's nothing particularly romantic in the handhold or anything so I kinda doubt they are dating. Maybe she's been working with him and they hang out sometimes. I also doubt Avril is reworking her album because she broke up with Rotem. She's worked with exes in the past and kept those songs. My guess is they are trying to get her pictured more and get her out in the public before the new single comes out. She wouldn't have gone to the radio station and showed them the new single if it wasn't near to being released. As to why she hasn't told us yet well she probably can't. People usually know a while in advance something is happening and can't say anything til a specific time. People get mad seeing her say soon but she might not be able to be more specific until her record company gives the ok. There is so much behind the scenes that goes into releasing an album it's not all up to Avril.
And to the people saying she looks fatter...how can you tell? That hoodie is massively oversized! It's all about clothes and angles.
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Post by paperbackwriter on Jan 26, 2018 23:05:34 GMT
Feeling stressed. Latin is kicking my ass. Seriously how does one word have so many different endings!?!
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Post by paperbackwriter on Jan 26, 2018 23:01:53 GMT
My depression has been awful lately. I self harmed yesterday. Really seeing no point in continuing on with anything. Just one setback after the next. I didn't get into the school I was hoping on for my masters, haven't been able to find a job, my friends are turning out to once again not be my real friends, family won't let me just be myself and never has been and that makes it even more difficult because of who I have feelings for. Of course, it's a person who doesn't feel the same way. It's been years of this, and honestly the one and only thing that is keeping me going is waiting for AL6. Avril has always been the one thing to keep me going and this time is no different. I just hope we get something concrete soon but I want to thank all of you on here because you give me a place to go when I have no where else. I'm so sorry for what you're going through! Don't give up it does get better even though it might not seem that way now. I've been dealing with depression and anxiety for years. I don't really know how to socialise either so friendships are pretty non-existent except for a couple of people online and my hubby. Two years ago I didn't get into any of the schools I applied for masters. I was devastated and ready to give up. Then last year I applied to a school in London and got in. It was something I always wanted but didn't think I could achieve because the demons in my head told me so. Don't listen to yours they re lying to you. Sometimes shitty things happen and we don't know the reasons why until later, but you'll get wherever you're meant to be and it will be something great. I'm sorry to talk about myself but I've been through shit and I just want you to know you're not alone. *hugs*
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Post by paperbackwriter on Jan 19, 2018 23:10:53 GMT
If BMG felt the album and the singles were finished they would have put it out regardless of whether Avril wanted to record or not. Obviously they haven't felt like she recorded the right stuff yet. They want her to be successful to make them more money and if that means staying in the studio longer then so be it. I doubt Avril could come out and say hey my record label doesn't think my album is ready yet while she's recording. And she really shouldn't do that again after she blasted RCA for holding back GL and they barely promoted Smile. She really bit the hand that fed her there. She has always had trouble writing singles (at least according to her record companies). This isn't some new thing from her last two or three albums but all of her albums. That's why she was sent to LA and put with the matrix for Let Go, that's why MHE and DTM were the last songs to be recorded for UMS because she gave her record company a record with no singles, that's why Dr. Luke was brought in for TBDT, why GL took so long to come out because she didn't want to compromise until summer 2010 when she went to Sweden to work with Max Martin, and why she went back to write with Martin Johnson and J Kash for her 5th album. This has happened since the beginning! It's all about business. Avril wants to write songs that mean something to her and her record company wants to make money. Sometimes the compromises work ala LG, UMS, TBDT, and sometimes they don't ala GL and her self titled album. There is so much business stuff going on behind the scenes that she probably can't or shouldn't talk about. She needs to focus of coming up with the best possible record she can, which means tuning out what the fans want. Her first 3 records didn't turn out as good as they did because she was concerned about her fans. She did what she wanted to do and was able to make compromises with the record company that fit her mould.
Social media has made everyone greedy. Back in the day you could only get news about an album from interviews the artist did in the studio. I honestly think she's telling us all she can at the moment. And she's obviously compromising somewhat trying to please fans by posting pics but not wanting to say she's still working because she knows people will freak out. So she posts a pic with no real caption. People complain when she doesn't post and then complain when she does. She honestly can't win. And making 5 trends on twitter is not going to make her give out information she doesn't have. You want her to stop saying soon, so she stopped as far as I can tell. When was the last time she said that in a social media post? The only reason she said that was for her fans. If she really didn't give a shit about us she wouldn't have bothered. She probably believed it at the time too. Anyway plenty of other acts have had their albums postponed and they couldn't say why. Avril is not the only one and I don't think she's totally to blame here. And you can't really get mad at her record companies for wanting her to stay in the studio until they have singles to work with. If her albums fails that means no tour, no chance to see Avril on tv, nothing.
And another thing I'm almost positive that the reason she didn't record Warrior until November is because she wanted to work with a certain producer who was not available until thin. Avril is not the only artist making an album and she's not the biggest one shopping for producers so she had to wait. I honestly take that as a good sign because it means that she wants this record to be perfect enough to wait until the right producer was available.
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Post by paperbackwriter on Jan 12, 2018 13:19:43 GMT
That mic pic is both funny and annoying. If she's back in the studio again....I give up lol. If she's just recording acoustic versions of songs she could have said that along with the mic pic lol. We know she's not clueless about what people are saying because she's alluded to it in her posts before....she must really not care lol. She needs someone on her team to say ok Avril that's enough songs now lets put the record out.
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