Taylor / Avril Discussion

I feel like comparisions between the 2 are so easy to make, because most of people here are fan of the boths of them, i even know some people who completly drop Avril for Taylor because they found out Taylor was everything they wanted Avril to be.
And also feel like many Avril fans are bitter towards Taylor because of that, they think she stole her fanbase by made the same things,sometimes i read comments on ATRL forums that make me so laugh.. It's not Taylor's fault if she made her Max Martin songs so better, they were personal, they were HER.. Avril could have done the same and not make What The Hell etc, didn't she make I Will Be with him, did she??

Avril was one of the inspirations of Taylor, of course there can be similiar sound like Shake It Off that reminds to The Best Damn Thing, but it doesn't mean that she stole Avril sound, because TBDT was inspired by other songs too. But the 2 made a different career path, Taylor started officialy as a country singer, Avril was sent towards this genre when she was a little kid, then Taylor started to change, to make different genres, to explore, she made pop-rock/aren-rock, dubstep, dance-pop, electro-pop.. Her moving to pop was gradually and she could estblished as a songwriter, so her fans know that she can make any genre but the lyrics are the same.
I always said that Avril fans were so focused on sound and maybe Avril too, so the lyrics were always push aside, that's why there are fans shocked by Tell Me It's Over and that's why Avril think that upbeat songs have to have no personal lyrics.. I'm still waiting for lyrics like Anything But Ordinary or Who Knows.. I don't count Souvenir and Bigger Wow because, don't know, they feel so high school movie soundtrack.

You guys are right. I heard Avril's songs from 2011 and I heard Taylor's songs also. But I personally like Avril's songs and I thought her songs are different from Taylor Swift, different from any other artists. There is no one like her. I hate to say this but when she will close her eyes we will always miss her and her place is always remain empty. No one can take her place right?









-Sorry for my grammar mistakes (Iam weak in English)

I always hated that part of Avril honestly, she has this idea of the songs being interpretated by her fans that she must delete in her head. If you tell me about the inspiration of the song, it doesn't mean that i can't give MY OWN interpretation too!

I'm not a Taylor fan, but since among the genres I love there is the Country too, I must say that her debut albums are very pleasant. I have to say that some of Avril & Taylor songs have great similarities, but I think because they both come from the Country school as a root.

I started listening to Taylor since the album 1989 because I like that genre better than her previous records. I do love 1989 and Reputation and I'm a fan of those 2 records.
Red is also nice but not all songs. All Too Well is one of my faves tho.

In the gap of Avril I was indeed listening to 1989 and Reputation a lot. Especially 1989 was non stop on repeat, those songs doesn't get old (yet?)
I like the things Taylor does for fans so much! She's amazing!! her personality is awesome and before I was involved with her music I always thought she was spoiled but I came to know she truly isn't! She's down to earth and listens to fans. I wish Avril could do that more, more meet&greets and be involved with fans more.
Fans are the ones who kinda 'make' you.

I've been an Avril fan since 2002, since the "Complicated" video appeared in MTV and I felt like I could use "boys" clothes and that would be fine, that a girl could love rock and still be a girl etc. And I believe that my favorite era was the GL era. She was releasing some videos in Youtube, showing the backstage and a little bit about her life, I remember how at that time I felt she was really nice and funny.

I remember hearing "Love Story"by Taylor but it wasn't something that really interested me at that time, maybe too romantic, I don't know...so Taylor wasn't ever someone that I was searching news about or having her songs in my ipod (like Avril). Than, I met Paramore, and kinda moved to them when Av released the "AL" and everything about that era was weird imo.

Two years ago I got obsessed with 1989 (yes, I'm like that, I fall in love with albums only after 1 or 2 years (sometimes 4!) of the release), and started to pay more attention to Taylor (her and Hayley Williams are friends, and because I really like HW I thought "hmn, she might be a nice person as well", and discovered a whole new world of fanbase and a totally different world where the fans were really considered important and essential for the artists (Not that I don't believe that Av thinks her fans are important, she just doesn't demonstrate it a lot). Well, "Reputation"came out, I love it. Now I'm discovering her old songs, some of them I like and some of them I don't.

With Avril, I really like all her songs until GL, some songs from the AL era and with this new album I'm still in that phase were I will probably only love it in 2 or 3 years ahahah. Avril will always be nostalgic and she was very important to a lot of people of my generation. I just can't deny how I wish she could get closer to her fans. In the begging of the internet era it was acceptable, she wasn't an online person, but now... we can see she already knows how to use it, but she stills not use it for her fans. Another thing is that I wish her concerts were more well produced, that she could spend more money with her concerts, like Taylor does.

So there's this radio channel that always plays complicated, and my dad heard it and said "wasn't this Taylor Swift's first song?"