AL7 Album Speculations Thread

MGK is indeed a rapper. Until 2020 he was a rapper and boy and now he's doing skate...ok sorry xD but yeah, just bc he released tracks with Little mix or Camila Cabello doesn't discredit him as rapper. Lil wayne made a collab with Shakira, Eminem with several collabs with Rihanna and Pink. It's pretty common in the music industry, especially some time ago when people had to have a catchy pop chorus to be able to digest rap. For instance i didn't like rap back in the day but i loved "Love the way you lie". Now i do like rap but it's not for everyone that's why they tend to make collabs with pop artits form time to time to still get hit, even Eminem lol.

I know there is some kinda of "oH bUT bEinG a rApPer iS a wAy oF LiVinG, nOt a mUsiC gEnrE" clture or something, don't really understand but i've seen so many people saying X or Y isn't a rapper bc they didn't grew up rapping in the streets or smth. 

But anyays, i'm not here to defend him, i only like 2 songs from his rap phase LOL. and they were more pop-rock oriented so... but he released like 5 rap albums before 2020.

I agree. Girlfriend was like lightening in a bottle, so they capitalized on its success as much as possible and that’s partially the reason it is her biggest hit to date. Nowadays you have to be really smart and strategic with releases in order to really get anywhere since streaming has taken over.

Sorry to all the Taylor haters on here, but I’m going to mention her anyway as a good example of this. She wanted willow to go #1 but knew she’d have tough competition with the Christmas releases and knew that the song alone wouldn’t be enough. She created 3 different remixes, along with “Yule log” videos for each, a clever way to get people to keep streaming the song while also tying it into the Christmas season. She also put out a version of the music video that included the storyboards, another clever way to get people to keep watching the video but it offered something new. And lastly she put out 3 different digital EPs that included one of the remixes and either the instrumental track, the songwriting demo, or a live performance. Again - a clever way to get people to purchase the song but the key is that it offers something new and it isn’t just asking people to keep buying/streaming the same exact song and video over and over because people will get bored of that quickly. And as a result, willow indeed went #1.

I feel Avril or her team needs to start thinking outside the box like that this era. You can’t rely on your small group of fans to keep buying and streaming the same song over and over, you have to get creative and come out with new stuff like remixes or behind the scenes videos, and offer people something they haven’t already heard or seen to keep people interested.

This new era needs to be very well planned. It kills me to think that HAW only peaked at #64 on the US. And the worst is that it could've been top 30 or even top 20 with a little more strategy. Song was released on a wednesday, music video 1 week later in a thursday, radios 3 weeks later, spotify promo just 1 month after all that....like it was such a mess
And the song was so well received
They need to do everything at once with her next lead single or it won't even chart

She covered billboard in october to release the album in feb 2019
Pushing back the album destroyed everything and all that without an official second single since tell me it's over wasn't even send to radio or anything. A complete mess
It made me miss self-titled era a little bit tbh

Mitch Allen is really a disney hit maked, when i was looking through his hits on wikipedia, he made a lot Demi, 1D, Little Mix songs oriented to teens and kids, i personally like this Hanna Montana and naive childish sound, but i think it is not for Avril anymore, we are done of hearing this material from her whole career, and i more interested in grown lyrics and sounds. like it was on other HAW songs. AL is a total flop but anyway Avril is not Avril without her Hello Kitty and RNR vibes) And i just want her auditory to drow up. Or just if she do songs like Dumb Blonde, they should be more iconic and hit sounded, well promoted etc. And both RNR, DB, Bigger WOW are not like that, unfortunatelly. 

I hope that maybe they will release FLames in 2 versions, since we know about Marshmello. First single is just Av and ModSun, and second - is a remix by Marshmallow which can be played on the radio and they can make a mv for it. I think they understand that no matter pop punk is back, they need to make it more radio oriented so the best way - is to do a remix version and make it more commercial, and first original version will be just for us, fans) What do u think about it?

HAHAHAHAHHAAHHAAH OMG!! I laughed so hard!!! that's so HER 😂😂😂😂😂 just pitch the voice a couple of semitones up and it's Avril. I can't...xD