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Post by BogoGog24 on Mar 14, 2015 13:05:30 GMT
It's okay. On the one hand I appreciate her doing it for us, especially when it seemed like it was not going to happen. I think maybe they needed the movie for it to happen because there just wasn't a budget for it or maybe they thought it wouldn't reach a lot of people since her fan base has been dead for many months. So on the one hand I agree with everyone else that the movie clips ruin it, but without the movie promotion, the video probably would not have happened. I also appreciate her doing it when she probably was not feeling well. Perhaps the video was shot before she became sick, but I think she made it when she was ill and that's why it's a very simple concept and she's not moving very much.
But as for the actual video, it's just not interesting at all. Had she not been sick or there had not been a movie tie-in, they probably would have had a much better concept. I guess the concept is better than a trashy 50 Shades of Gray type of thing (can't believe there are still some fans who are mad they did a collab with Babysitter's Black Book instead of 50 Shades, ugh) but it's easily one of the most boring videos she's done. The overall look and vibe/lighting is cool, but the concept is boring. I wish there would be an Avril-only version like there was for Alice and that maybe there'd be some more interesting clips in there besides Avril just singing to the song or sitting on the floor. It's cool it was shot in her house though. At least it probably helped promote the song a bit and made people see her as a serious artist, after the HK fiasco (but I still liked HK more). I don't think this will go down in history as one of Avril's greatest videos though.
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Post by TheRaven on Mar 14, 2015 13:29:26 GMT
I like it but I'm not so sure if it was a brilliant idea to include the movie...
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Post by Dillon on Mar 14, 2015 17:06:59 GMT
At least it probably helped promote the song a bit and made people see her as a serious artist, after the HK fiasco (but I still liked HK more). I don't think this will go down in history as one of Avril's greatest videos though. Yeah, I think that putting out the video helped her career in a sense. I saw a few articles talking about how the video was definitely 180º flip from what Hello Kitty was and how this song might be her comeback. I think the song helped her credibility a little bit, but the whole Hello Kitty fiasco happened so long ago that everyone has forgotten and moved past it; it would have different if she had released the song along with HK like originally thought.
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Post by Monet ♥ on Mar 14, 2015 18:01:59 GMT
I probsbly would've preferred a home video without the movie. :/
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Post by marliz. on Mar 14, 2015 20:26:32 GMT
The scenes with Avril are amazing, she looks fucking perfect. Too bad it's 5% Avril and 95% shit scenes that have no relevance to the song at all.
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Post by YänniBanäni on Mar 14, 2015 21:27:07 GMT
The scenes with Avril are amazing, she looks fucking perfect. Too bad it's 5% Avril and 95% shit scenes that have no relevance to the song at all.Good point! I guess the video would've been 1000 times better, if the scenes would describe the song.
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Post by jenda358 on Mar 14, 2015 22:38:09 GMT
I wish there'd be some more interesting clips in there besides Avril just singing to the song or sitting on the floor. I get your point, but honestly – the concept doesn't have to be interesting if there's super amazingly looking Avril.
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Post by funnymaster on Mar 15, 2015 6:11:35 GMT
Really cooooool hat! Really nice touch with the candlelight and mood setting. Really enjoy this song. She's so freak'n awesome.
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Post by StrongSweet on Mar 15, 2015 11:43:55 GMT
I buy the idea like WYWH But the movie clips are annoying as hell
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2015 12:15:15 GMT
Yeah, as a few people have mentioned the bits with Avril are good, the bits from the move or whatever it is are pretty bad - there's no storyline to the video so it really just comes across as if clips have been thrown in just for the sake of throwing in clips. An edit without the clips would be great.
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Post by Vita on Mar 16, 2015 14:19:24 GMT
I don't like it. It's very boring and crappy in my opinion. I expected a lot more for this single...
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Post by sam on Mar 16, 2015 14:40:41 GMT
Yeah, as a few people have mentioned the bits with Avril are good, the bits from the move or whatever it is are pretty bad - there's no storyline to the video so it really just comes across as if clips have been thrown in just for the sake of throwing in clips. An edit without the clips would be great. If only she actually did the video without the Movie clips
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Post by Falling Into History on Mar 16, 2015 17:29:14 GMT
The music video was okay, but could've had more Avril in it than the movie scenes. It kind of makes me wonder if Avril had to support the music video almost all by herself, it kind of looks like it. If it were done better, I think GYWYL could've been one of her best MVs. As for the movie, I didn't even bother watching it. I'm kind of glad I didn't.
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Post by greeneyedsoul on Mar 16, 2015 17:46:46 GMT
It's being sent to US radio on March I hope that it at least cracks the top 30 on Hot AC.
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Post by BogoGog24 on Mar 16, 2015 21:00:19 GMT
Great it's being sent to radio (I've also heard it's already been added by some stations). However, I don't expect it will do very well since she's obviously not going to be doing any promo for it. The hype for the MV is already long dead, that was about the only thing that would have pushed any interest in it.
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