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Post by UnderAlexSkin on Mar 16, 2020 22:48:15 GMT
So many of you still put "Goddess" in the same category as BW and LMI. You all have no taste. "Goddess" is amazing! [/div][/quote] Was said by Tammy standing in a pajama in front of a mirror and treating herself like a goddess due to listening and signing along "Bright" and ofc "Goddess" xD 🎶😁😉
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Post by ame · 雨 on Mar 17, 2020 1:29:08 GMT
Just heard Bright (burning) and OH. I love it but hate that it isn't so much more. I agree with the chorus being a bit off, idk, i got used to it already but it could've been something much better. The she sings "....burning burning BRIGHT" like, going for a higher note and the end, it feels weird, but idk. AND, just love the verses and pre-chorus. (kinda a happens the same with all HAW album songs to be honest) and the melody from when she goes for head voice and sings "when we fall, we fall so hard...." aahh, SO beautiful. I think it should've been in the album, or at least in the non-existent deluxe version. (
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Post by ame · 雨 on Mar 17, 2020 1:42:50 GMT
Oh and production-wise, i don't think it's too "modern", in any case the exact opposite. It feels like a 2015-2016 song. Not much different from her attempts to make GL or AL5 modern, so i don't agree with the "too modern" thing ://
just my opnion obviously. It could've been done by any other artist? of course, but any of her songs tbh. Her most unique albums and concepts are the first 3
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Post by StrongSweet on Mar 17, 2020 2:27:43 GMT
In such high quality, I highly doubt this was leaked by accident...
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Post by StrongSweet on Mar 17, 2020 2:49:01 GMT
I listened to "Bright" twice by now (once last night, and then again just now). My first impression was that it was good, but by now I already find it only okay. It's clearly about her health struggle, and I quite like the way she describes those feelings in the verses and pre-chorus. I especially like the lyrics "I've been feeling I can't even fight for things that used to get me feeling so alive", firstly because I totally feel that, and secondly because it's finally a bit of a different writing style from her. Usually, as someone pointed out here a while ago, Avril writes one sentence per line/bar. "Devil" is a very good example of this. But in the pre-chorus of "Bright", the line I mentioned above stretches over two lines/bars, I think. It's finally something a bit different. I don't know how better to explain it in writing. Anyway, apart from that, I also like the high vocals sung with head voice in the chorus. But that's all I can really praise about this song. There are more negatives: the second part of the chorus is too autotuned. In fact, apart from a few exceptions, I somehow don't like Avril's voice that much in the entire song. But the chorus is the worst. I don't like that vocal pitch shifter either. Sounds too generic. As does the entire song, actually. It doesn't sound like an Avril song to me, just like some pop song any other pop singer out there could have released. Which is kinda sad, because Avril clearly wrote it from personal experience. Overall, it's still a decent song, but not one that I will go back to often, I think. Would I have preferred in on the album instead of my least favourite song, "Bigger Wow"? Probably not. At least "Bigger Wow" doesn't sound that generic to me, and the production fits the album better. Hence, I can see why they discarded "Bright". I'm still glad it got leaked. With so much trouble in the world right now, every little spot of brightness is appreciated.
EDIT: So many of you still put "Goddess" in the same category as BW and LMI. You all have no taste. "Goddess" is amazing! You can tell she straight up tune the notes into lower notes in "till Im till Im bright" of ad-lib. It sounds like demo, so doesn't have to be so serious about the production quality.
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Post by erikvaze on Mar 17, 2020 11:15:16 GMT
My dream is if Avril released EP with all those unreleased songs together. Like there could be indie-pop non album for wide auditory and not only for fans, I mean in genre and sound. Avril’s voice is so perfect to be abandoned and tracks like Don’t Stop, Bright, In Touch are really great to be just demos and forgiven. Their sound and atmosphere is more catchy than some songs from HAW. So Im sure Avril can make a really great indie, pop, dream pop album but only if she will work with popular/great producers! For example also Jack Antonoff, Joe Little and many more....
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Post by BogoGog24 on Mar 17, 2020 11:28:29 GMT
Maybe since there’s no tour now and we don’t know what she’ll be doing the rest of the year, she could actually do that and release an EP of the songs that didn’t make it (Bright, Black & White, Here in Your Arms, Lights Out), to tide fans over who were going to see her in concert and while we wait for a new album.
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Post by Duwod on Mar 17, 2020 17:48:48 GMT
I really hope she does that. Bright deserves to be released. Would be a good thing in this situation we are stuck in right now.
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Post by MPone01 on Mar 17, 2020 20:18:45 GMT
I really hope she does that. Bright deserves to be released. Would be a good thing in this situation we are stuck in right now. I've seen so many brilliant ideas from artists. Even indie ones. Theres a festival going on online until the end of the month in my country where this huge amount of artists are making homemade 30min sets. Starting 17h until 23h30 each artist goes live. This measure was taken because they're all isolated and to stimulate everyone to self isolate as well. And obviously to bring a little light in this dark times. I think its wonderful. There's also some artists realising balcony sessions each day. So simple... yet so gratifying for the fans.
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Post by pllforlife on Mar 17, 2020 23:02:59 GMT
Head Above Water is even more relevant since the covid affects your lungs. I listened to the song today and it made me cry.
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Post by pllforlife on Mar 17, 2020 23:23:10 GMT
How did they put Love Me Insane and not this on the album? What were they thinking?!
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Post by ame · 雨 on Mar 18, 2020 2:25:06 GMT
Now that we heard so many unreleased songs I'm pretty sure Here in your arms, lights out, black and white are "sad" too (including bright and lucky ones) or at least not happy songs.
That makes me think she throw those songs away (at least for now) maybe 'cause she was afraid the album would be "too depressing". I think that's why we have the second half of HAW, and, well, that makes me sad, 'cause i do think Bright is better than bigger wow, love me insane, and it definitely fits the album way better (way better than Dumb blonde for sure).
So i'm kinda sad that she always restricts herself from her initial idea. GL was the same (i know she was kinda "forced" but still...)
She could've released HAW as a dark album and then a happy EP with all the love songs from HAW and in touch, don't stop, etc....
in conclusion, bright should've made the cut
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Post by pllforlife on Mar 18, 2020 2:51:05 GMT
Why’d she have to date JR? These songs are fire. Burning would have been a huge hit.
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Post by goodbye on Mar 18, 2020 6:03:23 GMT
Now that we heard so many unreleased songs I'm pretty sure Here in your arms, lights out, black and white are "sad" too (including bright and lucky ones) or at least not happy songs. That makes me think she throw those songs away (at least for now) maybe 'cause she was afraid the album would be "too depressing". I think that's why we have the second half of HAW, and, well, that makes me sad, 'cause i do think Bright is better than bigger wow, love me insane, and it definitely fits the album way better (way better than Dumb blonde for sure). So i'm kinda sad that she always restricts herself from her initial idea. GL was the same (i know she was kinda "forced" but still...) She could've released HAW as a dark album and then a happy EP with all the love songs from HAW and in touch, don't stop, etc.... in conclusion, bright should've made the cut A lot of artists are afraid of dark albums. UMS is her darkest so far.
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Post by BogoGog24 on Mar 18, 2020 10:53:54 GMT
It could have been lots of reasons why she abandoned those songs. From what info people have dug up about the writing credits, it looks like this song may have been for another artist and Avril didn’t even write on it. She’s never included songs she hasn’t had a hand in writing. I also think even if these songs fit her life at the time once she started recovering she probably wanted more uplifting songs, not songs that would remind her of the illness she was beginning to leave behind. It’d be like dwelling on the past that had caused her a lot of pain and trauma, I don’t blame her for wanting to include some happier stuff that represented her life in recovery.
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