AL7 Album Speculations Thread

For the seventh album, I think it'd be cool for Avril to do something along the lines of a more mature The Best Damn Thing. Obviously I don't want Avril to repeat herself, as what I mean by that is having something sonically similar in terms of the loud, fun guitars and upbeat mood. Head Above Water was a more laidback album, so seeing Avril let loose in a more mature, rockier way sounds pretty appealing to me.

I had really hoped when she talked about TBDT being upbeat and fun before it came out that it would be the kind of music she did end up making but for the lyrics to be postitive and upbeat too but most of the album was meaningless boy-bashing songs. I still want a musically upbeat but also lyrically meaningful, positive album

OMG. I love you. I was thinking the exact thing!

I only wish for the next album, regardless of the sound or music genre, to be more artistic and cohesive.

We've seen her try to do that with HAW and it wasn't bad but it wasn't quite good either. Haw was supposed to be angelic, mysterious with water themes and blue tones. we got a pretty boring music video instead, and with Melissa's cameo and oh well... TMIO it's a christmas breakup song (?) (for some reason) i didn't dislike the music video but it was also pretty simple so yeah. it almost didn't felt like a single. Then we have DB which is a 180º stylistic turn. GF themed. The concept and visuals were pretty cool but it had nothing to do with the album. Also, not having a music video it makes it feel even more out of place... Devil was like straight outta 2000's closet and I like it, the best music video this era. It also seemed a little bit "too much" i mean... it was like in your face, "see, he's the devil because he's dressed up like a vampire lol". I liked it but idk...

Overall, artistically speaking, it's even more of a mess than AL was...and that says a lot. every single is REALLY different from the other one, both sonically and artiscally. And it does no favor to the album, (where you kinda get the idea: there's 2 sides of the album, the dark one (without counting DB) and the bright one (no pun intented). and it's somehow cohesive at least at some extent), but the singles makes you (or the GP) feel like it's an all over the place album or era.

I wish, weherever she makes, to keep it more consistent. TBDT was pretty solid in that regard (and yes, even counting WYG). LG and UMS are the best examples of that as well.

I know maybe it's not as "important" for a lot of people BUT the way you present and product it's actually quite important. Having a consistent theme throuout the whole era, not only makes it look more solid, it's also more pleasing to see and experience.

I would also love her to push her creativity to the next level. She tried with Devil but as I said before, it seems too cheesy. She doesn't have to this alone, there are people that work for that so she should definitely have a creative person around her team or an artist.

Now for my personal taste, she should try something new. Do you guys see her dancing? lol. that would be interesting to see how it turns out lol. The thing is that the pop scene right now it's pretty strange. You won't be able to do "regular pop" and be succesfull unless you are taylor or lady gaga, and even them have incluences from other genres. Reputation and Lover were pretty kpop-ish to be honest (in the way that they mixed multiple music genres and also visually). And it's also a trend right now to go "kpop". The other trend i see going on is to go 70's and 80's pop. modernized obviously but there's a lot of that.

So if she was to make pop i'm afraid it would sound outdated.
If she was to make pop-rock again i think it would work for her in terms of sound, but in terms of "image" idk... i'm afraid she would end up looking like a 40 y/o mom that never got over the emo phase...

So idk. the safest way for would probably be to go pop-rock-country as some of you mentioned or to go ballad-ly like, maybe indie, something pretty acoustic, folklore inspired but not as slow idk.

anyway, sorry for the long text xD to sum up: creative and cohesive. xD

As much as I tried to believe that... I'm afraid it was just us trying to justify DB in the album, but technically and objectevly speaking it doesn't fit anywhere in this era. It's the only boy-bashing song, it's the only "aggresive" song and the only one not related to personal growth (lyme) or love relationship.

We know it was the last song to be added to the album and it was only added so that she could have a potential hit, and that's why she had nicki on it later on.

It was in me was a better follow up to Devil or TMIO, and I know DB is propbably about Rotem as well as Devil is, but it just doesn't fit sonically or visually. I know it's nice to have a balanced album and having a bop like DB is nice but i'm also not gonna sit here and pretend that DB was "originally" meant to be on HAW 'cause it's just not true. It was a last minute attempt to have a hit on the album or maybe she was afraid the album was too boring i don't really know.

but i understand, i guess if we try hard, it does fit in the story (not for me) 'cause it's like putting a Big Bang theory scene in the middle of a WW2 movie (?) weird example but that's how it feels to be honest...

i like the song but HAW has fillers and we all know it. DB is not "the" filler for me, just the song that doesn't belong to the album. Maybe she should've kept the song for AL7 if the next album is really going to be more upbeat as she says, but that's just my opinion. ://

I don't know why people complain about DB. You know she's always going to have one upbeat song on an album. SB and HW were sonically muchmore high energy than the albums they were on but people like them. She'll always have at least one for variety. DB is fine for me. Interesting lyrics rather than a really generic boybashing or party song like her usual upbeat stuff and better quality than anything upbeat post-TBDT