[SINGLE] 🔥 Flames 🔥 w/ Mod Sun

Forgot to mention YT comments on the video from the JK channel are all pretty positive and don’t seem to be just from fans either.

It's a good performance
The skaters were a bit much but the actual song part was good. I feel like Avril just looks low energy next to Mod because he's so high energy. I feel like if she had given this performance back in her heyday people word have loved it.

I like that she's playing guitar more too. It suits the style she's going for and it's been a while since we really saw her play. People were complaining she didn't learn new stuff for the HAW tour

It was pre-recorded. They were watching the performance airing on TV at her place with Mod's crew. I don't mind it being pre-recorded, personally, as long as it's live and doesn't sound overly edited in post. Plus, they wouldn't have been able to achieve the visuals they wanted to present on this performance (people skating everywhere) in a more limited studio space.

As far as Avril's guitar playing goes, I think it was a mixture of playing it for real and pretending to play it -- with the latter being one of my personal pet peeves with her, I just think it's such a lame thing to do, but oh well. For instance, around the 0:50 mark Avril is filmed at an angle that very blatantly shows her strumming the air instead of hitting the chords of the guitar. Furthermore, she absolutely sucks at pretending to play instruments (much like she sucks at lip synching, I guess lol), so when she fakes it it often looks painfully obvious.

I'd rather see her only playing during the parts she knows and feels comfortable with if she wasn't going to put in the effort to learn and rehearse the whole song. That would have also given her an opening to interact more with Mod during the performance now that I think about it. But overall I'm still happy she brought the guitar for the performance and I hope she does it with her own music too -- she looks more comfortable on stage when she has something to play and with a bit of luck she even decides to learn the full songs first and start displaying more passion for performing like she did during UMS (not overly confident about it lmao, but we shall see 😝). Other than that, I definitely share the sentiment of hoping Flames' cycle can come to a closure with this performance. It's a nice way to wrap things up and it's about time they move onto other things.

^ Well, unless the performance has any significant impact on radio and streams, I don't see why they wouldn't move on considering it's been falling significantly recently and has been out for 5 months already. I believe in general terms the interest is just no longer there for the song. I'm however not ruling out the possibility of them releasing a remix or something like that to try to milk it as much as possible💀 but with Mod releasing Amnesia soon I can only hope they start shifting their attention to something else.

We'll always have the memes in the fandom, so Flames' legacy will forever live on and that's the biggest achievement, really lmao.

Mod is gearing up to release Amnesia as his next single though. And Flames is falling down the alternative chart. They aren’t going to keep pushing a song that has run it’s course.

Down to 31. This time last week 21 on the radio.

well, at least they tried. I'm kinda meh about the performance. I watched it bc of Avril and I was focus on her and her guitar playing. Her vocals were a bit more agressive and IMO it was cool to hear a different version. I know I keep saying this but can we let "flames" die once and for all?