[ALBUM THREAD] The Head Above Water Thread

A German inteview, yay!!! BMG having its headquarters in Germany, I'd hoped Avril would finally get some more recognition there, and the rest of Europe. Looks like it's really happening. 😄

That interview is really sweet. And a tiny bit of information on the album:

- there's one track with "loud electric guitars"
- jazz and motown influence
- voice in foreground
- diverse

Yeah, it does sound a lot like GL. I'm not so sure about the jazz influence. I'm really not a fan of jazz, but idk, I might not mind some influence, as long as it's not too heavy. I honestly don't know what motown is, I need to google that . "Diverse" makes me a bit worried to. Wasn't AL also described as diverse, or is my memory fooling me?

Well, despite all the slight worries I just mentioned, I really enjoyed reading this article and I'm a bit more excited for the album now.

Btw, I can translate the entire interview if you guys like.

It would be great if you can translate it to English. Not really understand the Chrome translated version.

I have no idea what motown is either, but I agree that the interview is really sweet. I could understand it but I'm not confident enough to translate it in English haha so if you did, it'd be awesome, thank you

She still didn't say a date?

I'm not liking this diverse description but as long as it's cohesive and not like AL, I can live with it.

Motown is a group from the 60s. Like soul kind of music from what I googled.

Agreed, Daily Mail is known to be biased and inaccurate with their articles. That's why I don't look up to them.
But other than that, we'll definitely need to wait in order to find out.

I doubt she's using the word "diverse" in the same way she was in AL. Back then she meant it was literally all over the place, from rock to EDM songs. Now, I think she's talking about adding different elements to the songs. Some may have a jazz feeling, others a more mellow, piano-driven feel, others a more guitar-driven sound, but I don't think she's saying "there're jazz songs, rock songs, ballads, pop songs". I feel the album will remain in her (softer) pop-rock roots, but with some different influences here and there. Actually, the album sounds really coherent by what she's described up to now. All of her albums have been diverse, anyway.

What I'm not too happy about is the fact that this points to be an album like Goodbye Lullaby. It's exactly the same description: voice being the main instrument, stripped down, soft, basic production. And I think those were the big problems with that album. I loved it at first, but the flaws started to leak more and more after some time, and I realized it was a rather boring album, with most songs sounding pretty much the same, as if it was one reeeeally long ballad. I hope she proves us wrong, and has some more pop-rock uplifting songs like Who Knows or Fall To Pieces. I hope this "reboot" doesn't mean "old Avril is dead" crap and that it still has the classic Lavigne signature on it.

That's true I moved on to Taylor Swift as my main fave since 2014.