AL7 Album Speculations Thread

I'm just worried it won't be HER. You know how she is with her own music. She seems so excited in the studio but when it comes to promoting and even performing she loses all her spirit. She looks bored. Loses interest quick and doesn't even care to talk about the process of making the music. I'm all for her trying new things but if it's another flash in the pan music moment for her...I just want songs that will add to her legacy and evolution. A revival of her pop rock / pop punk days can be it.

Just in case someone hadn't seen it yet. Cause I had to go on twitter to see it myself.

Hello Kitty did its job as the substitute for acid trips. It was created for that purpose and fulfilled it 100%.

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On the other hand it was produced and written by a rock musicians. She did Wings Clipped with Grey and that one sounded much more professional and she sounded great on it. 
Mod Sun's album was supposed to be released in December, I guess it will be postponed a little bit now due to the collab with Avril. Not only is she constantly postponing and delaying her music, she's doing it now with other artists' records too.
 

I dislike Hello Kitty, I never listen to it, but that doesn't mean that she can't explore EDM sounds and meaningful music. And HK transpires AVRIL in everything, that song is literally Girlfriend meets basic EDM instrumentals.

I don't love the summer vibe songs with the exception of Souvenir, but I loved her exploration of more alternative/indie sounds (GYWYL, Hello heartache), the blues-ish sound of TMIO, Crush and LMI, the industrial rock she did with Bad Girl... so I'm all for her to explore more genres.

If she is to come back to the pop-rock/punk-pop roots, I'll probably like it, but I hope she goes into themes like sex, lonileness, bitterness and impotence like she has done in AL and HAW and not a full album of "Boys are bad, I hate u".

Sidenote: I don't understand why people think the poppier songs are things Avril didn't wanted to do, with the exception of GL. I get why people think she is not passionate about her music because she doesn't go miles into explaining each song and skip half of the albums in the live shows (something I see bands do outside the mainstream pop niche, but whatever.) The songs she usually put in social media for her stories etc are usually songs like SOS, BS, Bigger WoW and even Smile and HK. I think she likes those songs enough, she just prefer to do a hits setlist (mix of clever marketing and some laziness). Unlike other artist that hate playing the old songs, Avril surely likes to play MHE for the thousand time. If she is enjoying now doing punkier songs in the studio with Modsun, and then skip them in the live, that wouldnt mean she is not passionate about them.

I would really love for Avril to do an interview with Zane Lowe of Apple Music when the record comes out. Miley did one not too long ago for her Plastic Hearts album and Taylor will be doing one this week for her new albums. Zane always does such incredible, in-depth interviews. They are usually pretty lengthy, like around an hour, think Miley's was 1 hour and 20 minutes. He always asks such great questions, not the stupid stuff people have asked a thousand times and that's super obvious, but like real, thoughtful questions about the music. You can tell he's actually listened to it and done his research and asks actual questions about the process of making it and stuff like that. It's time Avril did more challenging interviews like this where she has to actually discuss her process and the meaning behind the songs and not just be like "Um... like Bigger Wow is about like... um... wanting a bigger wOw and like... um... like living the fucking rock and roll lifestyle bitch... like hell ya"

Who else is ready for new songs that we will hear live?