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Post by StrongSweet on Jun 21, 2019 4:53:43 GMT
Avril is minimalist after all LMAO I think she is smart to choose something not the best not the worst. She might want to let us know not the professional deaigner gonna win so this competition seems fair she simply does not have taste for pictures, she always picks the worst filters, pictures with watermarks and the worst pictures from her red carpets etc. I don’t think she has someone professional to manage her social media is just her and Jenn. Next time we should try to do a meh job for a competition and our chances will be huge She can basically look for graphic designer for the best filters. There's no point of this campaign if she needs a professional one. That rawness the fans give is the whole point it seems. Further more, she didn't instantly post the winner cover on her Instagram, she might be refining the art work from the winner for the editing technique imperfection.
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Post by Erik on Jun 21, 2019 8:02:42 GMT
Well im not hating on the cover but i saw so much better....
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Post by aia on Jun 21, 2019 11:19:19 GMT
Sometimes a 10 minutes editing could be the winner...
I'm not mad with that cover lol, cause i just won a design competition last month, i got $400. Before i win the competition, i always think the jury picked the worst one of my design (i sent them 5 designs, but they only picked 1 for the final)...
And ta-daaaa... My design won the contest... I don't know the reason... But my design is a lot simpler than the rest...
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Post by cees94 on Jun 21, 2019 11:54:51 GMT
Can we not just, as a fandom, come together and appreciate the fact a fan has designed this and support that? The amount of people slagging it off is unreal. This person might not have amazing graphic design skills, they might have self taught themselves Photoshop just to enter. Can we not just congratulate them?
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Post by katy on Jun 21, 2019 12:02:59 GMT
Agree. There were ones I personally preferred but it’s all down to taste. It’s a lovely cover and really glad a fan got to design it. Better than 99% of her previous professionally designed covers lol.
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Post by RockBitch on Jun 21, 2019 13:55:53 GMT
Avril looks so good, healthy and excited in this video, thanks for posting She looks so pretty!!! I dind't even listen that much.. I only looked at here.. It made me SMILE
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Post by ame · 雨 on Jun 21, 2019 14:00:34 GMT
Tbh I'm happy a fan won this, of course, and so glad she's doing these kinda things. And yeah, congratulations to the winner. But...with that being said, the cover is not the best, and that's a fact. We're just discussing about how a lot of people probably put a lot more work on the edits and how a lot of them were like, 1000x better.
And agreed with what someone said. She has a terrible taste in art....(GL photoshoot being one of her best photoshoots ever and she chose the frog pose. Yep)
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Post by rosegold on Jun 21, 2019 14:06:53 GMT
I'm very happy with the initiative as it gave fans the chance to actively get involved and be part of the new era in a productive way. Any sort of fan engagement from Avril is welcomed since we get so little of it. I also really enjoyed the video revealing the winner. It's been a while since I saw Avril sitting down and talking to us without feeling like she's reading pre-rehearsed lines. She actually sounded natural and genuine there, like she was talking directly to us as friends, and I wish we got to see more of that side. One of the reasons why I can't consider myself a big fan of Avril anymore is we rarely get to spend time with her these days and see her as a real person, I guess? More than the music, I initially became a fan because she seemed so down to earth and there was a connection with her as an individual who had a message and stood for something that seemed unique and real. She has interviews from 2002/03 where she sounds more mature and has more interesting things to say than a lot of the more recent interviews. There was a certain rawness about her as an individual that seemed to vanish gradually with time for me, and this little video of her announcing the winner sorta took me back to that period for a moment, which was appreciated.
With all of that being said, the winning cover itself is just so... bad? No disrespect to the fan who created it if they happen to come across this thread, and I can totally get behind the idea of supporting a simple cover because some of the other concepts people were coming up with were clearly never gonna happen -- I mean, Avril covered in satanic symbols bleeding from her eyes with snakes coming out of her all mouth and a photo of the devil himself reaching his arm out to her? Lmao, that's reaching for somebody who's been almost exclusively performing a song like Head Above Water for this long. Imagine switching the tone THAT fucking drastically hahah. Amusing concepts, though!
But yeah, the winning cover is just so weak. Not that it really matters in the grand scheme of things, but I hope her team tweaks it a little because the blending is so poorly done, there's hardly any sense of depth to the image which makes it look quite flat, and the font is kinda awful.
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Post by delmatico on Jun 21, 2019 14:22:55 GMT
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Post by RockBitch on Jun 21, 2019 14:31:22 GMT
I really think so too delmatico !! P.s I find the cover a bit "boring" and everyone can have an opinion I think! But yeah, it's Avril's choice.. And I think we have to respect that also.. ?!? So I think we will have to deal with it..?! sorry if i say something wrong !!
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Post by BogoGog24 on Jun 21, 2019 14:36:42 GMT
Can we not just, as a fandom, come together and appreciate the fact a fan has designed this and support that? The amount of people slagging it off is unreal. This person might not have amazing graphic design skills, they might have self taught themselves Photoshop just to enter. Can we not just congratulate them? I think we’re all happy she decided to let a fan design the cover but it doesn’t mean we all have to agree with the final choice. There were lots of great entries so it’s not surprising many find the winner to be underwhelming. They certainly could have picked a better font at least, it just doesn’t go with the style or the rest of the era. Nothing wrong with constructive criticism. Not everyone will like the choice. Just because a fan designed it doesn’t mean we have to love it. Frankly I think there were tons of entries that were better. But good for them that they can say they designed a famous singer’s cover and it’s great that Avril chose a couple others to use on the merch. I hope she will do this again.
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Post by BogoGog24 on Jun 21, 2019 14:38:30 GMT
I'm very happy with the initiative as it gave fans the chance to actively get involved and be part of the new era in a productive way. Any sort of fan engagement from Avril is welcomed since we get so little of it. I also really enjoyed the video revealing the winner. It's been a while since I saw Avril sitting down and talking to us without feeling like she's reading pre-rehearsed lines. She actually sounded natural and genuine there, like she was talking directly to us as friends, and I wish we got to see more of that side. One of the reasons why I can't consider myself a big fan of Avril anymore is we rarely get to spend time with her these days and see her as a real person, I guess? More than the music, I initially became a fan because she seemed so down to earth and there was a connection with her as an individual who had a message and stood for something that seemed unique and real. She has interviews from 2002/03 where she sounds more mature and has more interesting things to say than a lot of the more recent interviews. There was a certain rawness about her as an individual that seemed to vanish gradually with time for me, and this little video of her announcing the winner sorta took me back to that period for a moment, which was appreciated. With all of that being said, the winning cover itself is just so... bad? No disrespect to the fan who created it if they happen to come across this thread, and I can totally get behind the idea of supporting a simple cover because some of the other concepts people were coming up with were clearly never gonna happen -- I mean, Avril covered in satanic symbols bleeding from her eyes with snakes coming out of her all mouth and a photo of the devil himself reaching his arm out to her? Lmao, that's reaching for somebody who's been almost exclusively performing a song like Head Above Water for this long. Imagine switching the tone THAT fucking drastically hahah. Amusing concepts, though! But yeah, the winning cover is just so weak. Not that it really matters in the grand scheme of things, but I hope her team tweaks it a little because the blending is so poorly done, there's hardly any sense of depth to the image which makes it look quite flat, and the font is kinda awful. So agree with all this. It was nice to see her speak candidly for a change instead of reading from a script.
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Post by Erik on Jun 21, 2019 18:27:52 GMT
Tbh it doesn't even matter. I mean nobody (pardon, I mean the general audience) will not see it anyway. We saw it and that's all, even she hasn't posted it on her IG so.... And also, this single will go down the drain so for me it doesnt matter who won lol. Good for the person because she/he will get cash and it would feel awesome to be the winner, but after 5 minutes, we will remember that this song became a "single"? I know I won't...
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Post by biggerwow on Jun 21, 2019 19:10:43 GMT
^ that's exactly my thoughts since this "campaign" started. I find no use for it. Happy for the fan that got money out of it though. At least they finally acknowledged the fans. Which is really the most important thing this era.
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Post by slapstick on Jun 21, 2019 19:56:14 GMT
Tbh it doesn't even matter. I mean nobody (pardon, I mean the general audience) will not see it anyway. We saw it and that's all, even she hasn't posted it on her IG so.... And also, this single will go down the drain so for me it doesnt matter who won lol. Good for the person because she/he will get cash and it would feel awesome to be the winner, but after 5 minutes, we will remember that this song became a "single"? I know I won't... Do you Hungarians also use double negatives? Feels so unnatural in English.
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