[ALBUM THREAD] The Head Above Water Thread

I agree with the sentiments that it’s a good concept that conveys what she has felt over the past few years with her struggle - IMO it’s fairly straightforward in terms of what the image is telling you but as Tamy said there is clearly depth such as the water and the guitar in front of her like a shield.

Editing goofs aside, I love it I know it’s not great to have a cover with those kind of things but honestly the image and it’s symbolism more than makes up for it; I am so excited for this album. Its Avril’s vision and what she wanted to make. And that to me is much more important than image editing issues.

Yes personally I think you can only notice the editing mistakes if you look for them or know Photoshop really well. Most people really won't notice them. 

Anyhow who gives a Tiny Rats Arse what the cover looks like because at the end of the day Avril is a Singer, You are here for her Music not what she looks like!!!

I am still mad for only 12 tracks, I don't care about the cover. Like someone said, what happened to the 4-6 tracks she did with Rotem, the 4 songs she wrote with Zane, the Travis songs are still in the album he wrote HAW, Warrior and probably Goddess or I fell in love with the devil. Also only 1 song with her best write Lauren Christy? It's obviously that the 20 songs won't make the cut but I do think 15 would be cool, 10 more minutes of her voice in new material.


Where is In Touch, Lucky Ones, Don't Stop and Lights Out, I think these songs have the experimental material more jazzy and electronic stuff. All these songs that made the cut are probably new ones. I guess all this delay was for this, because the original songs of the album were all scrapped. It is really sad IMO, she's probably gonna say she will use the songs for another album, but, she always said that in every album and until now we don't have any back to back / compilation album.

On avril-lavigne.pl we posted an article about all the 12 songs from the album. We looked back, checked when was heard about the track for the first time, who is the producer, basically we put together everything we know about the tracks so far.

Goddess is the only track we know nothing about. The article is in Polish, you can use translator for it if you are interested. But as I said, that's all what we've been posting here on Bandaids for years.

avril-lavigne.pl/2018/12/head-above-water-2019-garsc-faktow/

Goddess and Tell Me It's Over are basically the only two songs we didn't know about.

We still have a little info on the three tracks produced by Levine, which is interesting. These might be either the tracks she did with Zane or Bonnie, because she is the only co-worker who still isn't listed under any of the titles. Warrior is the oldest track, Crush is another one. The rest is at least from 2017. Warrior, despite what Avrils been saying, is the oldest track on the album. She keeps saying HAW was the one she wrote in bed but before the released HAW, she was saying this about Warrior and she was teasing this song back in 2016.

I assume, based on photos from her IG, Dumb Blonde and Head Above Water are the newest tracks on the album. Even though she did it (HAW) originally with Rotem, the sound we know from Moccio may be a way different than Rotem's ideas.

Maybe she never found a suitable producer for Warrior so she did it herself.

I'm hoping with only 12 songs we'll still get to hear some others.
Japan often gets a bonus track, maybe an itunes exclusive?
Or maybe she'll get AL7 out quick with songs she wrote for this album that didn't fit her overall feel for the album