[TOUR] Greatest Hits Tour 2024 / 2025

I’m not really sure why anyone is surprised she’s tapping into the “legacy” artist brand. 7 albums may not be a lot but she is 40 and been at this since she was a teen. Her battle with Lyme didn’t help, it maybe even caused permanent health effects we don’t know about. The music industry has greatly changed from 10-20 years ago. Music has a much shorter shelf life than it ever has thanks to social media and short attention spans, with too many artists competing for such a small amount of attention/airtime. Music sales are down except for vinyls and unless your name is Taylor Swift. The pandemic put a massive pause on the live music industry.

The fact Avril has even managed to roll with all these changes as well as she has and is still here is pretty impressive when you think about it. I think she genuinely enjoys being in the studio (maybe a little too much, to her own detriment) and enjoys creating new songs. She will always be doing that, no doubt. But I think fans need to accept the old days are gone and her album releases will look different than how they used to be. She doesn’t necessarily need to put out a new album every 2 years. The tours don’t necessarily need to support the new album. She IS a legacy artist and she’s likely making a ton more money doing it too. For all we know she could decide to launch a Vegas residency next. At least with the tours there are still opportunities for fans to see her in their area, whereas I can’t see a lot of fans traveling specifically to Vegas.

But yes, as she gets older, it’s to be expected her career is going to look different, likely less albums, less new songs on tour, etc. We all have fond memories of her from our childhoods and the fun of seeing a new, fresh era, but I think we have to let go of that image of her and accept she’s getting older, doesn’t have the same label support she once did, and the industry as a whole is way different. Even Taylor is slowing down with her album releases, she doesn’t do as much promo for them anymore because she doesn’t need to. She puts out a few videos and calls it a day. The money is in touring.

We all get annoyed with the long periods of silence from her now she’s actually doing something people don’t like that either 😅 a tour doesn’t mean we aren’t getting music. we all spent this year thinking what a wasted opportunity it was to not put out new music alongside the tour when she was so in people’s minds - there’s no reason she can’t do it next year instead. if she doesn’t then whatever, I’d like new music but at least she’s doing something!

My thought is that I guess she doesn't feel the need to release new songs, her tours haven't revolved around new material since 10 years now at least. Her label probably doesn't even want to invest that Much money on new albums which then barely enter charts. She's not relevant anymore as she was once. But she has a big, huge, power:  she's super strong with her old hits. Surprisingly, she still has a huge fandom who love her.

It's not common that a 00s artist still has such a loyal fandoms and sell out arenas worldwide. She's still a queen for real and also very lucky imo!
Just.. I can't see new material in the horizon, I think (but I hope I'm wrong) she's not releasing anytime soon.
She needed Love Sux to let her re-enter inside the pop punk scene and shake off the HAW - Disease thing from her image, now she's into her "Icon" as a whole and that's all she needs to sell out arenas and go on. 
She makes a lot of money with little to none new investments.

I hope I am wrong, but I just prefer to wrongly "look negative" from other perspective but preserve my mental health than being illusional thinking she will drop a new album in 2026 or 2027 and then finding out she won't and she will live from now on from the legacy image she (greatly) created around herself. 

Also, from a loyal fan perspective since day 1, I absolutely love the GH tour and I'm fine with it, I just hope she comes out with something new cause the idea of seeing the same show from now to the next years will necessary look boring after a while, even with all the love of the world.

Again, I hope I haven't come off negative and made myself understood