[SINGLE] 🔥 Flames 🔥 w/ Mod Sun

Video of the two watching the performance airing. It was recorded on the 8th of May.

I liked the performance! Okay she looked mostly at her guitar but still I liked it to watch! A pleasant surprise Feldmann was on the guitar too and he has a lot of energy! Very nice performance!

I think most people on here are just tired of flames.
But take that down a notch and realise this is brilliant. How long ago do you have to go to see Avril singing this aggressive and playing guitar and the whole let go vibe?
Nostalgia card? It's working for me. I loved it.
Sure she was just trying not to overshadow Modsun you can see the camera took more time with him and that's fair because its his song.

PS: personally I'm not actually tired of flames because I didn't listened to it in loop this time... I think this helped. I like the song a lot.

mod SON 

In her defense I would like to say that "for YOUUUUUUUU" is a pretty long vowel and it's a "U" it's rather uncomfortable to sing and sustain, it's just not practical and pronouncing it correctly would sound even weirder.

Even in the studio version she doesn't sing it like "You", she sings "you-uh....." in the performance she slightly changed it to "You-eeew" LOL ahahaha but yeah, it's not a big deal for me, she doesn't sound as AL5 era, she definitely imporved her accent or got rid of that weird one she used to have. Can't remember if she had it during HAW (i think no..?)

Hahahah that's kind of hilarious. His big TV debut and they couldn't even spell his name right lmao. Poor guy.

The skating fits both their images tho, I don't think it was tailored to Avril specifically and her "going back to my roots" album. If anything, it fits Mod Sun way more since he can actually skate unlike Avril ~le shade~ lmao. Also let's not forget his first single off his record, Karma, had a music video where he was predominantly seen drumming and skating -- that's kinda his thing. I'd say the stage was made to fit the imagery of pop-punk in general though, not one specific person -- it's one of the elements that was heavily featured when pop-punk was popular in the late 90's and early 00's and obviously they're now trying to bring the whole shebang back, so it did make sense to me.


As for my thoughts on the performance -- way better than I anticipated! I agree with you guys when you say Avril was perhaps too focused on the guitar, but I don't think it made her seem less present in this specific performance -- it felt like she was trying to commit which is more than she usually does. In fact, I'd go as far as saying I'm kinda glad she brought the guitar for this performance because I'm much less confident in her ability to appear committed without it -- I just have a feeling she'd be standing there looking awkward and not knowing what to do to match Mod's passion. 😅
The stage was cool and I like the fact that they tried to bring a more elaborate production for a TV performance. I do think the skaters were distracting and I could have done without them, but I get what they were trying to do and I appreciate the effort. Overall a pretty solid performance imo.

Honestly, I won’t even blame her this time for being too focused on the guitar, at least she tried not to screw up and seemed genuinely committed to make a good performance as more of the “guitarist”. How long has it been since we saw her playing her guitar at a random performance on TV? I think last time was in 2011, so I’ll give her that. If she’d put much more “energy” into it she would’ve started doing whatever on the guitar and I bet people would be laughing at her/ pointing out how silly she looked. She reminds me of her LG/UMS days here, where she wanted to play the songs on her guitar and focused well on it, so kudos to her. Could she have improved since it’s been 20 years and not look like a bit amateurish like a girl in a school rock band? Sure, but we know she already peaked in UMS(as a performer) and it is what it is. We’re not ever getting much more from her IMO