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Post by TamyXD on May 5, 2021 21:23:22 GMT
Somehow I hadn't expected them to ever perform the song live, seeing as it's been out for four months already. But I'm kinda looking forward to this. Also, the picture is super cute, probably one of my favourites of this shoot.
BogoGog24 I'm really sorry for your loss. Sending you and your family love and strength.
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Post by TamyXD on May 4, 2021 20:22:11 GMT
"That's what I get for sk8ing in my slippers and dress"? No, that's what you get for clowning with us!! π€‘
I'm joking. I'm glad she didn't hurt herself. Beautiful location btw. Also really like her slippers, they look super comfortable.
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Post by TamyXD on May 4, 2021 19:28:24 GMT
I actually find this hilarious at this point (no sarcasm). What kind of promotion strategy is this? Have they not learned anything at all over the past decade? Don't they look at what other artists and their promo teams do? Lol. π€‘π€‘π€‘
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Post by TamyXD on May 1, 2021 12:00:34 GMT
Oh noooooo π I can't believe it. Since she doesnt read the comments maybe she is talking about the album ?! (I am desperate) Or it is 1 song per week which bring us to summer - july Oh no, don't say that!
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Post by TamyXD on May 1, 2021 11:59:30 GMT
Her answers are always so vague... maybe she means "all new songs (meaning LP) coming in summer"? Or maybe it means June (teasing in May, first single early June)? At least I hope so... Btw, I really think she ought to post these lyric alerts on Twitter as well, and maybe even on Facebook (if people even still use it), to spread the hype. Instagram isn't the only social media platform, not everyone has Instagram or uses it regularly. Also, she / her team managed to post that Laundrin ad on all of the above mentioned platforms, but the lyric alert is only on her Instagram. Why?
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Post by TamyXD on Apr 30, 2021 19:59:01 GMT
Sheβs revealing the tracklist, CANNONBALL is the opening of the album I guess Her way of communicating is so weird, lol! This instagram user asked her "[Is this the] new single?", a simple "yes" or "no" question. And she replies with "song titles are coming"? I don't get it... But maybe that really is supposed to be a hint at her revealing the track list, and "Cannonball" is the first song, hence the "#1". I initially thought it was supposed to mean something like "let's get this song to #1", but the former option seems more likely. It'd be so damn cool if she posted one lyric alert plus song title per day for the next 1 1/2 or 2 weeks, followed by the first single release shortly afterwards, preferably including a date for the LP. May must be the month! Let's bring the hype back, Avril and team, please!
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Post by TamyXD on Apr 30, 2021 19:47:36 GMT
Finally some news! I quite like the lyrics, and as someone else already mentioned here, they (and the apparent song title "Cannonball") seem like a very good, powerful start for this era. Let's hope May really is the month. (It's also my birthday in early May, so... birthday present, please, Avril? ). The photos look kinda weird to me, her poses aren't really my taste. But the white tank top is such a huge throwback to LG era! Really love that.
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Post by TamyXD on Apr 29, 2021 16:24:24 GMT
Is she the daughter of Will Smith , the actor? Man I must be so old then. Just googled it, and yes, she is!! I had no idea. No wonder I thought I'd never heard of her before. Will Smith's daughter is like 10 years old in my mind. Oops... Guess we really must be that old, lol.
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Post by TamyXD on Apr 29, 2021 16:21:28 GMT
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Post by TamyXD on Apr 29, 2021 16:14:32 GMT
Not sure if I've heard of Willow Smith before. That song "transparent soul" sounds quite cool; I like the production and mixing. It's what I'm hoping AL7 to sort of sound like. I can't really imagine her and Avril collaborating, though. Their voices are so different. But we'll see. It's certainly something to look forward to.
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Post by TamyXD on Apr 28, 2021 19:45:57 GMT
Oh jeez, this kind of advertising is so so cringey to me. Also feels a bit like a bad joke to be posting something like this these days, when we're all desperately waiting for some news regarding her own music.
As for Mod: I get where some of you guys are coming from, but I really don't think he's to blame here. As others have said before, he's been in the music business for many years, now he finally has a song that's actually charting quite well; why shouldn't he "milk" it? We also shouldn't forget that neither Mod nor Avril have 100% control over when Avril's new music gets released. There's still a label. I may not know much about the music industry, but I'm pretty sure that in the end, the label has the most control over when new music gets released, and how much longer "Flames" should get hyped.
Imo, Mod isn't doing anything wrong, and I'm happy for him finally getting some recognition. But I do believe that Avril - once again, sadly - made a big mistake in hyping us up too early and then just leaving us in the dark. Again. That, I believe, really is on her.
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Post by TamyXD on Apr 27, 2021 22:42:49 GMT
Quickly skimmed the article. There really doesn't seem to be any news in there. I honestly don't like articles like that much; the headline suggests that they interviewed Avril (and/or Mod), but in the end, it's all just "blah blah blah" and nothing new. Seems kinda cheap to me. But I get it... clickbait... they want the money. The photos are pretty nice, though. Oh, and I did learn that "Mod Sun" does not stand for "Modern Sun" as I'd always thought for some reason, but "Movement On Dreams Stand Under None." The official drum tutorial is really awesome! I haven't watched it yet, but alone the fact that it exists is amazing. I very rarely see artists give a tutorial for their own songs. Imagine Avril doing this...
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Post by TamyXD on Apr 23, 2021 22:35:02 GMT
I really wonder what happened to make her lip synching so bad over the years? She really didn't use to have this problem up until around AL era, as far as I remember. Ever since then, she seemed to be getting worse and worse at it. Now, she looks really awkward when lip synching; there's no passion, she seems really shy and as though she feels embarrassed for some reason, and it often doesn't fit the actual words that are being sung in the recording / she's off tempo or something. Like, what the hell happened?
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Post by TamyXD on Apr 23, 2021 18:52:09 GMT
Oh wow, between some time early noon and now (late evening), I had completely forgotten this video was to be released today, lol.
I really liked it. It's a super sweet video. I love the simplicity, just Avril, Mod, and those three women performing in a room. Such chill vibes. I'd initially thought that a music video for a meh acoustic version was so unnecessary, but this video made the song so much better for me. It also made me hear that xylophone for the first time. Such a cute little thing to add to the instrumental.
EDIT: After reading other comments here, I'm surprised at all the rather negative critique. Not that anyone's "wrong", everybody is entitled to their opinion. I just hadn't expected to be in the minority here. I also didn't really catch anything especially bad about Avril's lip synching, guitar playing, or passion. I mean, she hasn't been lip synching or showing passion well for ages, so I hadn't expected it to be any better with this video anyway. But imo it's not worse than in any of her other recent music videos.
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Post by TamyXD on Apr 15, 2021 22:29:42 GMT
"I never thought that WE would end, gone are all the days, when we swore we'd never break" it doesn't seem like a losing someone song to me. The rest f the lyrics yes, it could be, but that part is kinda like..nope xd haha and tamy, don't worry, we obviously have different tastes and that's ok. It sounds really dated to me and her sound good in the song, well that's what supposed to be, xD i really was looking for the moment when they would make a song together and that they decided to make best years the one...it really made me happy and then..."oH LeT's mAkE tHis MoDerN" i do think that maybe the orginal instrumental is a bit simplistic (which works for me) but they could've added real drums, strings, piano, idk, the traditional way you make a song lol, best years is not the right song to tunr into hip-hop ππ but anyasy, this went too offtopic, i'm really sorry xD only 20 minutes till i'm abl to hear the acoustic, it seems she re-recorded her voclas after all (??) that's good. D: I always interpreted those lyrics you mentioned differently. Hard to explain over text, but I don't think it really matters anyway. The beauty of music is that it can (usually) be interpreted in many different ways. And it's pretty much all subjective anyway. So I think we just gotta agree to disagree on how we interpret the song and which version we like better.
To get back on topic: "Flames (Acoustic)" is finally out in Germany, too, and I just got proven (again) that you can't and shouldn't judge a song by a snippet. I was wrong. Avril did re-record her vocals. Sorry, Avril! I'm still not a fan of this version, though. I can still hear this low-pass or low-cut filter (don't remember which one) someone here mentioned to have been used on Avril's voice in the album version. I don't like that filter, it makes her voice sound weird and even more nasal than usual. Mod could've used a bit less of his distorted singing style, imo. I usually love this kind of singing style, but I don't think it always works in this acoustic version; it's too "heavy" / over the top. What mostly bugs me, however, is the mixing. As I mentioned before, after hearing the snippet, the instruments and voices seem to be battling each other. Everything's so loud, too far in the foreground, if that makes sense.
It is nice to hear this song in a different arrangement. I like the fact they added strings, and that both Avril and Mod re-recorded their vocals, instead of just using those from the album version. But other than that, I honestly don't care much for this acoustic version. I'm generally not "burning" for the song anymore. I still like it a lot, but it's just not something I feel like listening to atm. They should've released this acoustic version way back in January or February, I think a lot of us might've enjoyed it more then. But oh well... Next stop: hopefully AL7's first single some time before July.
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