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Post by BogoGog24 on Oct 19, 2021 14:48:27 GMT
This is very nit picky of me and I’m sure no one else noticed or cares but it really irks me how Avril’s microphone is set up when they’re playing guitar together. It should have either been plugged into an amp or have a wireless plug like Willow’s does. It just looks like they set up the mic and filmed without a lot of thought or effort put into making it look like a real band rehearsal. You can see the prongs hanging out the back where it would be plugged in. Lazy IMO. It looks like they wanted to shoot this video quickly. And yeah the editing is totally off, how did no one notice the lip synch was completely off before approving this?
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Post by TamyXD on Oct 19, 2021 15:17:34 GMT
Well.... that music video is... kind of a mess. Aesthetically, it's great imo. I love how the colours pop. I love Willow's and Avril's outfits (especially the blue dress and fitting lipstick of Willow's). I love that Willow seems to be having a lot of fun. And the whole idea with everything around Avril and Willow growing small, or rather, them being huge, is something I hadn't seen coming, and I quite like it. However, either Avril and Willow both absolutely suck at lip syncing, or whoever cut the video didn't pay attention to what they were doing. A lot of the time, it looks like Avril and Willow's lip syncing is asynchronous to the lyrics. Other times, it looks like they're both singing a completely different song. Maybe that was intentional, idk, but to me, it seems more like a mistake, at least most of the time. Avril also seems so low energy, as always, but next to Willow having fun and jumping around, it's even more noticeable. Sadly, I hadn't expected much from Avril anyway, since she's been performing like this for years now, and those paparazzi videos from the filming of the video already showed her seeming lack of enthusiasm. So, overall, my feelings about this video are very mixed. In one sense it's great, in another it seems totally messy. But I hadn't expected much anyway, so... eh, whatever.
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Post by TomX on Oct 19, 2021 17:01:58 GMT
I think it was an editing mistake which could've easily been solved if they had some proper QC team for these videos. Hell, not even a QC team, that is basic video editing, whoever edited this did a poor job synching the audio.
The video was ok. Not expecting anything grand given what the song is. Avril has an almost "blink an you'll miss it" presence, but she's in the song for a minute or less, so...
I think this would've been a great opportunity for Avril to throw in some easter eggs of her own upcoming project. Like maybe having some walls spray-painted with a couple of album tracks, something subtle since it's Willow's video at the end of the day, but they could've played with that. Anyhow, it's Avril, so not a chance we got something like that.
I though overall it was cute, but I don't see myself watching it a second time. I'm ready to move on and I hope she doesn't milk this like she did with Flames.
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Post by slapstick on Oct 19, 2021 17:19:19 GMT
This is very nit picky of me and I’m sure no one else noticed or cares but it really irks me how Avril’s microphone is set up when they’re playing guitar together. It should have either been plugged into an amp or have a wireless plug like Willow’s does. It just looks like they set up the mic and filmed without a lot of thought or effort put into making it look like a real band rehearsal. You can see the prongs hanging out the back where it would be plugged in. Lazy IMO. It looks like they wanted to shoot this video quickly. And yeah the editing is totally off, how did no one notice the lip synch was completely off before approving this? I don't even think it was a mistake, I speculate what happened here is that Willow "got what she paid for" - it was a low-budget project, and whoever was editing probably concluded that they weren't paid to spend hours synchronizing singing scenes with the vocals. To me the video otherwise looks mediocre but endearing, obviously low-budget, and a bit too fast paced. Most notably, it was released waaay too late, it should've followed very soon after the song release when it was still fresh and people were listening it more frequently.
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Post by gabbox on Oct 19, 2021 18:59:10 GMT
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Post by alavigneIE on Oct 19, 2021 19:05:04 GMT
I wasn't much into the song when it was first released but I guess I like it better now that I can actually see Avril's face. Still, it ain't my cup of tea, but at least I get to see the good old Avril, the rock chick, looking as badass as almost 20 years ago.
I agree that the lip synching is terrible, but not only Avril's (as usual); Willow's is even worse! At some point I even thought my laptop was frozen!
As for her outfits, I love her first one but I'm not really keen on the second one. I'm sorry but those white thights are horrible, imo... Sometimes I feel like she's trying to "overdress" to look more "punk" than back in the Let Go and UMS eras.
Anyway, I loved seeing her after so long. It's such a pity se can only be seen for a few seconds but again, the song is quite short and it ain't even hers, so what did I expect? Can we just get new music and a music video for the single she was meant to release in spring, pretty please?
PS.: Does anybody else believe this could be the poster for her new world tour?
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Post by BogoGog24 on Oct 19, 2021 21:38:39 GMT
So after watching the video again on my laptop screen instead of mobile I think the reason the quality looks bad is because it's meant to look "vintage," like something out of the '90s, like it has this grainy effect. That's fine, but there's ways to do "vintage" looking videos that don't make it look low quality. And the lip synching looks way too off for it to have been a deliberate thing IMO. It's just bad editing.
Waiting for someone to make a meme out of the scene where Avril throws her picture away and replace it with AL7 lmao
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Post by mark on Oct 20, 2021 2:06:22 GMT
I'm pretty sure they have fixed the synchronization of the video. It's still not 100% perfect, but I was just rewatching the MV and it looked a lot better than before, so they must have adjusted it.
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Post by gabbox on Oct 20, 2021 7:53:05 GMT
Yea they fixed the video thankfully !
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Post by eismann on Oct 20, 2021 10:52:03 GMT
I like the aesthetics but Avril cant really keep up with Willow. She doesnt match Willows energy, her look is kind of off and I'm just so bored of her fake guitar playing...
Nah, I'm not impressed. Though I like the song. Glad they fixed the sync.
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Post by gabbox on Oct 20, 2021 12:49:21 GMT
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Post by ben545 on Oct 20, 2021 16:21:40 GMT
Immediate thoughts. Too high energy for someone my age and possibly someone Avril's age. Maybe it's just too high energy all together? I'm not a fan of Willow Smith, her whole career wreaks of nepotism. Avril is good in it I suppose. I like the way they are really big in the video. I don't think it will be a commercial success but then I don't know how any musicians make money these days. I don't know, I have nothing else to add.
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Post by HBK on Oct 23, 2021 4:25:15 GMT
The video is very meh.
Personally, I don't see the point in releasing it if the song was never really meant to be a single.
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Post by gabbox on Oct 23, 2021 10:39:50 GMT
There's no other song on the record with a feature like Avril and Travis, so after all I can see why they released it
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Post by ame · 雨 on Oct 23, 2021 12:22:24 GMT
they obviously released bc it's Avril and that's promo for Willow, but honestly i would be kinda insulted if they offered me such a bad song lol. I mean, i know a lot of people love it, sorry about that but i don't think anyone can say it's a masterpiece. It's actually one of her most boring collabs. Even Get Over Me had better melodies 😬😬 and Listen was great but sad they gave her weird parts and for their "japanese" version like, lol.
But anyway, they gathered 1M views in 3 days which is kinda really sad, right? Those can't be good numbers xD
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