[ALBUM] AL8 Speculation Thread

You all talk about Avril as if she hasn't sold out concerts in many countries over the last era serving the bare minimum as an artist and performer. She has a solid fanbase and guaranteed audience only because of what she achieved on the first 5 years of her career. Creative process is a great kind of content to get some attention from the general public.

I imagine how interesting is her perspective on "love" subject considering the deep songwriting of Love Sux and many other recent love songs released by her. lol

I can only speak for myself, but my thought process is that her career is based upon the fact that she's a singer who writes her own songs based on the things she goes through.  IMO you can't really separate her career -her songs- from her relationships because that's what she mainly writes about.  And her career is mainly being a singer-songwriter, but as a celebrity -which is an aspect of her career- her personal life does affect her career; in addition to basing her songs on her personal life, the general public is aware of who she's dating/married to/getting divorced from, and it's definitely affected the public's opinion of her.  Nickelback jokes for example.  She got dragged by people for dating/marrying Chad because people love to make fun of Nickelback.  People commented that they started taking her less seriously.

I definitely want to hear untold stories and stuff we haven't heard/seen before, absolutely.  I also want her to talk about writing her songs, and discussing them.  I want to hear about the inspiration for them (within reason) to better understand her as an artist and the songs themselves.  For example, and not that it has to be this deep, but in light of the Justin Timberlake talking Britney into having an abortion, overnight her song "Everytime" has such a drastically different meaning, same with the music video for the song.  Dare to Love Me is an example where she touches broadly on her fears of falling in love again after all her heartbreak, it's a fairly deep and introspective song by her standards, and if she were to talk about aspects to breakups other than "I was treated wrong and I deserve better, so I broke up with him, and I'm still mad about how I was treated," it could make the song that much more powerful/moving.  I don't think anyone here is like saying she should talk about her exes and the details of the breakups, I think we're just saying it could put her songs in a different light if she were to reflect on her feelings (more than just anger and nausea) during the breakups.

And for me personally, and I know this isn't how everyone feels, but I'm the type of fan that does want to know about her personal life (like what she willingly shares, not if someone were to tell stuff that isn't there's to tell).  As much as I find the unseen stuff cool, I also want to hear her thoughts/opinions/reflections about her career, not just unknown facts surrounding it I guess.

Edit: in regards to the documentary needing to contain more than just straight up career stuff for people to be interested: I believe this is true for any artist, whether it was Michael Jackson or Taylor or Rihanna or Ed Sheeran: fans will engage in any content, but people who only know of the artist and maybe like a few songs are IMO not very likely to watch a documentary just detailing their creative process and career.  Like I enjoy some of Taylor's music especially Red onward, but I don't really consider myself a fan -however, I've been tempted to watch Miss Americana because I know it discusses her as a person, her struggles and triumphs, and some high-profile events surrounding her (the assault case for example).  I'd be far more interested in getting to know more about her as a person cause I don't care so much for career stuff.  Obviously fans are interested in that stuff, though.  I just think that nowadays, people have such short attention spans (thanks Twitter) and seem to be more into juicy gossip stuff, so non-fans are more likely to watch it being curious about, for example, Chavril being the Canadian royal couple or if she were to talk about how she had to fight to be taken seriously as a teenage girl in a male dominated industry.

Oh speaking of Nickelback they have a docuemnatry coming too they jsut premeired it at TIFF< and its about them but also share some personal stories and how people loved to shit on them. So hopefully its something like that that. 

Her deepest most personal and saddest song always will be Slipped Away. I want more songs like that

I couldnt care less about all the private / relashionship stuff. I dont like all those personal stuff in documentaries of other artists as well. I mean I love to watch literally everything you can find out there about avril, sure, but her love life is like the least interesting part to me. I want the documentary being about herself, her music, career, tour, studio... not anyone else. I'd love her to go through the eras like that or talk about how she managed to get back on her feet after having lyme and how it changed her.

I guess for an interesting documentary she would have to open up about something secret that not even her fans know. Like an overcome addiction, a miscarriage or something. And I dont see her doing that.

She doesnt want to talk about Lyme, she has nothing interesting to say about her lyrics, she doesnt talk details about growing up as a woman in the music business etc. She clearly doesnt want to open up.

I really dont think we will see this documentary happen...