Avril's Unreleased Political Song

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Yes I would like to hear this song someday, if it ever leaks, just to hear how it sounds and the rest of the lyrics. Ironically enough, this song could be really relevant even today with all the shootings happening in the US.

And ok I agree with harvey the lyrics aren't the best but I do like the line "He shot somebody every day and now he's still getting away" because it really has this air of sad truth in it.

I think even if Avril were interested in writing a political song now, which I'm not entirely sure she is anymore, I don't think her label would release it, just like what happened to this song. But maybe a more general song about people coming together or something like a "We Are the World" or "What the World Needs Now is Love" type song. Her label should let her do songs with more substance, that is for sure.

But yeah at this point in her career I think Avril has been kind of numbed by the industry and to be perfectly honest I think her talent has been dumbed down from being influenced by labels for so many years. In her early career she was all about songwriting and being a "serious" artist and now she's a commercial popstar, if she's ever going to write a political song, it'd probably be something more vague like what I mentioned above. I doubt she's going to write a song about ISIS or the Clinton-Trump election. It might be nice if she wrote a tribute song to Christina Grimmie or a song for the Pulse nightclub victims. I could see her doing something like that.

But she got panned really hard for Hello Kitty with people accusing it of being "racist" and that was completely unintentional, so I can only imagine how hard she'd get raked over the coals if she wrote a political song. And like harvey said, if you're going to do a song like that, it needs to have really strong lyrics like "A Change is Gonna Come," "Where is the Love?", etc. And after the bad taste that HK left in a lot of people's mouths, she needs to be really careful about what she releases in the future unless she really wants her career to end for good. On the other hand releasing something controversial might at least bring her attention.

The line itself is very goid already, I honestly need to hear. She might be too young for political opinion exposed in public, but now she can.

Under My Skin's writing in general was pretty weak in my opinion. Even though the intent was nice, Slipped Away in its entirety isn't that great lyric-wise and we can't forget the infamous "she wants to go home, but nobody's home" line in Nobody's Home. Although I agree that if she were to do a political song it'd probably need some stronger lyrics. I also agree that the lyrics are pretty relevant, especially today. I can't really see the song fitting with the album theme-wise since almost every song is about relationships or being yourself though maybe it could've worked as a b-side or bonus track a la I Always Get What I Want? That way fans would've been able to hear it and her message would've reached some people, but not too many that a controversy or anything could ensue.

It would've been interesting to hear that song, even though its lyrics seem to be basic (to say the least). As for Avril exploring that kind of topics, I'm not against it but I don't know if results would be too good. I'm all for her expanding the topics of her songs, more than love/breakup songs (which I like) or "juvenile" topics (never growing up, being "rock n roll" or "come come, kitty kitty, you're so pretty pretty"), but political songs might be too much for her. Perhaps when she was younger could've worked, but I'm not so sure if it would work nowadays. I think she still has a lot of topics to talk about: her classic love/breakup topics, friendship, Lyme, issues with label, etc.

She may have lied but I always got the feeling she did write the song but it was very vague. I don't think it was about the sniper but happened to mention the sniper and was more about "why are bad things happening in the world?" sort of like HDIF in its vagueness