#FBF: Pop fans discuss DTM video, TMA and UMS album cover
Aug 5, 2016 21:52:55 GMT
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Post by Underclass King on Aug 5, 2016 21:52:55 GMT
I stumbled onto a thread from PopJustice posted back in 2004 where members discussed the Don't Tell Me video, Take Me Away and the Under My Skin album cover. Although there was a fair amount of negative posts mixed with positives,I still thought it was overall interesting.
Little did they know Girlfriend/The Best Damn Thing would come just a couple years later. 
(I'm assuming what they thought was) the then-rumored tracklist:
Who Knows (produced by Raine Maida)
Don't Tell Me (produced by Butch Walker)
He Wasn't (produced by Raine Maida)
Freak Out (produced by Butch Walker)
Take Me Away (produced by Don Gilmore)
Nobody's Home (produced by Don Gilmore)
Forgotten (produced by Don Gilmore)
Fall to Pieces (produced by Raine Maida)
(So Much For) My Happy Ending (produced by Butch Walker)
Slipped Away (produced by Raine Maida)
How Does It Feel (produced by Raine Maida)
Not Together being snubbed like that.
Like I said before, a fair amount of the comments aren't really positive but it's interesting regardless to see what pop music fans had to say about the album/Avril's image then. I was surprised to see some trash Let Go's album cover and call it "cheap" when I've always thought it was such an amazing album cover. It seems like a lot also saw Avril's image as fake and try-hard when people still say the same today even after revamping her image. I guess some things never change
First, has anyone seen the video for Don't Tell Me? It's nice and simple, suits the song, rather good. She seems to have gone to Get Real School, as the fake-ness isn't there anymore.
Also, the second single from the new album is 'Take Me Away.' It's a corker.
The bit before the chorus goes 'Taaaaakkkkkkeeeee' and it's much better than the 'Ahhhh ahhhhh ahhhh ahhh ahhhhh' bit in [Britney Spears'] Toxic.
Also, the second single from the new album is 'Take Me Away.' It's a corker.
The bit before the chorus goes 'Taaaaakkkkkkeeeee' and it's much better than the 'Ahhhh ahhhhh ahhhh ahhh ahhhhh' bit in [Britney Spears'] Toxic.
I heard Dont tell me was doing well.
I think she's great and I reckon she'll do really well
I think she's great and I reckon she'll do really well
The video. Well I saw a bit of it on TOTP Saturday and to be honest I thought the wearing skimpy little shorts contradicts what she wants to stand for. Then again I dont find her image believable in the first place so its no big shock.
I think Don't tell me is great! Take me away, Daydream, Nobody's Home are all brilliant too
Looks like someone is trying a little too hard to be edgy. I'm not happy about the title either - it reminds me too much of Jessica Simpleton, whose next album, with any luck, will be titled 'In This Soundproofed Chamber'.
That album cover is excellent — much better than the cheap catastrophe that was Let Go. Daydream and Take Me Away are both great, can't wait for the album now. Besides Let Go was ace.
The single's lyrics are indeed rubbish. More worryingly, it doesn't sound like the lead-off from a major 'event' album (as UMS is, since Let Go sold 12m copies). It sounds like an album-filler. I cringed when she referred to it on CD:UK as her 'girl power song'. How 90s!
"Nobody's Home; rather strange, from a 'she's this and she's that' point of view."
And that sounds worryingly like a female version of Sk8er Boi.
And that sounds worryingly like a female version of Sk8er Boi.
This album has had terrible promotion. I mean all I know about it is what I've seen here. The hype behind this should be huge. Avril was so successful but the marketing doesn't seem to have cottoned on to this...
The song [Don't Tell Me] sounds soooooo much like Complicated... quite frankly it's boring me! The video is not too great - yeah, how hardcore to break a mirror! And I don't see why she's gone all girly all of a sudden, wearing pink vest tops - and where are her trousers? I really am not a massive fan of Avril...
Don't Tell Me would be bearable if it wasn't for those god-awful lyrics.
I will probably end up buying her album however, because I do like Avril usually; Let Go was excellent.
I will probably end up buying her album however, because I do like Avril usually; Let Go was excellent.
(I'm assuming what they thought was) the then-rumored tracklist:
Who Knows (produced by Raine Maida)
Don't Tell Me (produced by Butch Walker)
He Wasn't (produced by Raine Maida)
Freak Out (produced by Butch Walker)
Take Me Away (produced by Don Gilmore)
Nobody's Home (produced by Don Gilmore)
Forgotten (produced by Don Gilmore)
Fall to Pieces (produced by Raine Maida)
(So Much For) My Happy Ending (produced by Butch Walker)
Slipped Away (produced by Raine Maida)
How Does It Feel (produced by Raine Maida)
Not Together being snubbed like that.
Like I said before, a fair amount of the comments aren't really positive but it's interesting regardless to see what pop music fans had to say about the album/Avril's image then. I was surprised to see some trash Let Go's album cover and call it "cheap" when I've always thought it was such an amazing album cover. It seems like a lot also saw Avril's image as fake and try-hard when people still say the same today even after revamping her image. I guess some things never change
