[SINGLE] 🔥 Flames 🔥 w/ Mod Sun

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.