Leaked Songs Discussion Thread

C'est la vie reminds me of Runaway lite.

Perhaps her lyrics have never been elaborated, but the rawness and how direct they are is equally or more valid for transmitting emotions. Her singing conveys emotions much better than most other singers and her simplicity is part of who she is, not a flaw. At this point I don't understand those criticisms. In fact, songs with more elaborate lyrics like Tell me it's over or Dumb blonde seem quite mediocre to me. She is not a poet, she is a singer, she does not have to write like Lana del Rey.

If you have a great voice but can’t write great songs then you get help from a songwriter. If you can write great songs but can’t sing then you get a singer to sing them. I’m not ever expecting Taylor-style lyrics from Avril but if the best she can give us is bois lie love sux I’m gonna throw up a million times over then she should get someone to help her with lyrics. There’s lyrics being direct and raw then there’s lyrics being immature and samey. She’s the latter.

That's what I thought... but I've been in this fandom since 2002 and what you said it's okay for Let Go era. In Under my skin, she improved her songwriting because she worked with Chantal and Raine. 

"Her singing conveys emotions much better than most other singers" this is subjective, because this opinion goes from which singer you like over other artists.

Everyone here expects to be better as we get older and with Avril, I think a lot of us thought that she'd getting better with the years: As a singer, songwriter, live musican and performer but... it did not happened and she stayed the same: her singing technique gone quite backwards, dodges high notes, uses too much pre recorded tracks, she stopped playing piano at her shows, her drumming skills are quite... poor, she justs "plays" her electric guitar in one song and stopped the acoustic moments where you can hear her true playing and true singing, her writting got so repetitive, monotonus and simply short for someone with 20 years of career.

Sure she had some highlights but in general, she stayed quite simple and quite boring in her writing.

What it feels mediocre here is trying to excuse her lack of motivation for improving as rawness in her songwriting and her performance overall.

Of course a new song leaks and is taken off the internet when I'm not online for a couple of days.

This is really random but, Spice girls wannabe really suits her style at the minute, get this 'I tell you what you want what you really really want so tell me what you want what you really really want... ticking time bomb I come on strong, i come in hard like a cannonball' 😆 it fits really well 👌

Thanks! 

Ahh, such nice nostalgic TBDT vibes.