[SINGLE] 🔥 Flames 🔥 w/ Mod Sun

I think they still tend to buy more than stream yes. Both mgk and yungblud debuted at #1 with the album. Mgk in the US and yungblud in the uk. But mgk is good at both. His album has like 700M on spotify and for a pop punk record with less than 6 months that's pretty big
Maybe Avril can have this kind of support too

It's not really a fair comparisson, both MGK and Younblud have young fans, which is basically what you want to succeed. Avril's fans are not that young anymore. And I mean, 12-17 young people, not 25-30 like us lol xD

She really needs to do something about it, maybe not tiktok BUT still. Artists these days are basically influencers that happenes to make music as well lol. And I mean incluencers not in the meaning of posting cute pictures and selling products no, i mean personalities that people can relate to. I think Avril does have what it takes to be incluencial in social media, except for one thing. Her poor social skills. She's maybe too shy, even tho for posting a video it doesn't take too much courage especially when you've been in front of cameras for 20 years. Once you get to know a little bit more of her, you see that she's quite relateable and funny and genuienly a nice person. She's just terrible at showing that to the world SO....yeah.

I do think that if she keeps working with this team, music and video wise, it could go a lot better. People are waiting for her to come back to her roots and it shows. Maybe nostalgia would do all the work for her but i wouldn't bet any major success on that xD

Avril had 700 million streams on spotify in 2020. That number is great. Britney did 1 billion and she has the double amount of music. Many artists from the early 00's couldn't adapt to streaming so that's pretty good considering avril's last solid WW hit was what the hell
HAW did great there too. A christian ballad with almost 200 million plays for her first lead in the spotify era is very telling how she can grow there. I'm really curious on how this next lead supposedly upbeat will do on spotify

Great point, ame. I was about to type something along those lines.

Avril needs to let her personality come through more. Be more personable. Express herself more. It's all about connection.
She's improved a lot in just a couple months, but there's more room for improvement. An easy way to establish more of a connection is to actually show herself more. Show her face. Talk verbally to her audience, express what she's feeling. That's how people sustain fanbases these days, through connecting on a more personal level with their audience.

Remember when Avril posted that video of her playing It Was In Me on the piano with her hairstylist unwillingly appearing on camera and then realizing it and awkwardly trying to get out of the scene while Avril laughed her ass off? That's a real moment right there. That's the type of stuff people connect with. Firstly because it feels like we're getting a glimpse into Avril's day to day life -- it allows us to feel close to her, like we're special enough for her to invite us in -- and secondly because it's something genuine, candid, unstaged. Not only did we get to hear Avril playing and singing for no reason other than she wanted to (typically we only listen to her singing as a formality, a duty she has to fulfil: TV performances, concerts... I'm not saying she can't be genuinely passionate about those performances, but there's always a contract behind them, as opposed to just sitting in your living room playing because there's no other thing you'd rather be doing in that moment), but we also got to see a tiny bit of a real interaction with one of Avril's friends in a genuinely funny moment. That's the kind of stuff virtually anyone can relate to. That's how you go from being this untouchable artist to an actual human being in people's eyes.

For instance, Modsun making stories expressing gratitude for all the support and being super genuine about his excitement VS Avril just typing "Flames is out now, go watch it!". What are you most likely to connect with on a human level? The man who's showing real emotion, facial expressions, verbal speech while talking directly to his audience, or the person who typed a quick sentence on her socials? Now, I know this example is flawed because obviously Flames is Mod's song and he's seeing this level of success and recognition for the first time in his career, but it still goes to show how much being personable and interacting with genuine emotion can help form a connection. The premise is still there.

I was thinking that perhaps Avril could bring back vlogging for her next era. Just some simple stuff showing what she's up to, her thoughts, what she's working on, what she's excited about, even mundane things like what she's been watching lately or something that inspired her recently. It doesn't need to be anything super elaborate or overwhelming for her, just a few videos here and there would be awesome. Also show more behind the scenes of her studio sessions once she releases new music. Any fan of any artist ever LOVES that shit, we love getting to see an artist in their natural element working on their craft. And in general just be more personable, allow the world to see her personality and get to know her beyond the "omg, 2000s icon, that's the girl who sang Complicated!".



ETA: oh shit, sorry for the long post.

Agreed, idk why she doesn’t have daily update videos. She has an entire team to edit and do it for her. All she needs is her cell phone and to email it lol

It almost feel like a different fandom i totally have this feeling too
My two cents on this is that all the criticism towards that live stream became the reason she's doing all the things people wanted her to do now. Fans were really frustrated about that terrible situation and that brought up every bad shit prior to that. Somehow she read all of it and decided to clean up her career or she would have none to comeback from. So my guess is that the lyme concert brought us here today in this scenario were things are going the right way for once in a decade

I think is too soon to have a 100% opinion about this, at least in my case. Yes, it's not the first time we get excited lol, and nope, it's not the first time she let us down SO....i'm excited but...if things go wrong again i wouldn't be surprised to be honest.

It does look different this era tho, especially the timing, it's her fastest release since LG-UMS, i don't think she's ever responded that much to coments so that's also good. It seems like AL7 will arrive sooner than we expected BUT again...it's Avril, until I don't have the album already released i won't be calm...lol. A lead single, or a date release means nothing in this fandom. She had 3 "lead singles" for AL5....and she's delayed every single album since TBDT.....as i said, it's too soon for me to say that indeed this era will be different or that she changed...

Time will tell, it looks promising tho and i hope she really learned the lesson 'cause the lyme concert was terrible, and yes...people don't talk about it anymore and they are excited for Avril coming back to her roots, but will they forget the lyme concert fiasco? i can guarantee you that they won't.