[TOUR] Greatest Hits Tour 2024

Exactly. Twitter (X) already has both sides fighting.

luckily my comment got the most likes, but yeah it's gonna be down(

It's really funny to see the GH album having more songs than the setlist

The comments on her Insta are either brutal (which is deserved) or absolutely delusional lmao there’s no inbetween

I’m just so bored of reading the excuses. Oh it’s lyme. Oh it’s the first show it’ll get better. Maybe she’s tired. Maybe she’s hungover.

Lyme may be an issue, we’ve no idea. IF it is then she needs to adapt her show to allow for it. Give us acoustic sets where she just sits on a stool and sings for a few songs, we’d LOVE it. I don’t need half arsed fist pumping and middle fingers in some lame attempt to keep up this MFP image. This has been going on for years - it’s not a surprise to her if she genuinely can’t do it anymore, so adapt.

First show excuse is crap - you show up for tour ready for tour. Sure you might loosen up a bit throughout the tour as you get more comfortable and confident, but the first show should still be a solid show. See the videos from the first Eras tour date compared to more recent ones - she’s got more silly and relaxed as the tours gone on but the first show is still absolutely solid and polished. It’s her JOB. Fans paid the same money regardless of whether it’s the 1st or 101st show.

If she’s tired or hungover then.. lol. Again, this is her job. Fans, who aren’t multimillionaires like she is, are paying huge amounts of money to see her. She needs to get her act together if either of these are the case, because it’s quite literally taking the piss out of fans.

She won’t do anything about it. People have mentioned when she listened and added Avalanche to the setlist - yes, for a couple of shows then took it off again?! Thats not listening, thats not even doing the bare minimum. Thats caving to pressure then reverting back to laziness at the first opportunity. I know people hate people saying this but she IS lazy, it’s undeniable at this point. She really couldn’t care less about putting on a show the fans want to see, or putting in the effort to make it a show she can physically commit to, she wants to get her payday then go skateboard and drink beer with her friends like a 18 year old.

Whys she just outright talking rubbish in interviews? Why have we been letting her get away with this for YEARS lol? She says things that she has no intention of doing. Sure nobody wanted a Green Day cover but why say it if it’s not happening? Why say she’s going to play Breakaway if she’s not? Like seriously when will she learn to just shut up unless things are set in stone? Shes just constantly setting herself up to fail and winding up fans in the process.

And most importantly, who tells her that accent sounds good?! Sk8er Boi sounds quite frankly ridiculous. If you told me she was drunk performing that I’d believe you.

She needs to bring back an acoustic set half way through. She did this on TTSMU, Bonez and TBDT tours and it really helps to bring more light and shade to the show, shows off her vocals, gives us new interpretations for example Losing Grip and Hot acoustic on the TBDT.

She loves everything to be loud and high energy but it doesn't help from a stamina/pacing of the show perspective.

Honestly: I am not that disappointed because I expected her GH-Tour exactly like that. To be honest: It is kind of a 2.0-version of her latest tours, just with different visuals and clothes.

Setlist is nearly the same, even a bit worse than the tours before. I really wished for (at least) NH and maybe a Let Go-classic like Losing Grip.

What I am still asking myself: Would I prefer a short 15-songs-setlist (like now) that Avril can deliver „safely“ throughout the whole tour or would I prefer a 25-songs-setlist with the danger of her failing to make it through till September (with cancelling dates as a consequence)? Still dont know.

The biggest critics I have: As I witness other bands at the moment that are improving A LOT when it comes to stage presence , I see a worrying development when it comes to Avril. Honestly I cannot really say if she is having fun doing tours…and this is quite sad. (Especially when she performs at festivals in Europe, where there wont be a big amount of hardcore fans in front of the stage)

AND: Her PR-team really does the barely minimum. Show us more behind-the-scenes on Social Media, give us small acoustic snippets or rehearsal-clips…like whatever. You do not have to be a professional in PR (like me) to improve the stuff. Even with a low budget-plan there are definitely strategies to keep your community on fire. Every indie-band is more creative nowadays – and they dont have a big PR-team behind them.

Even if Avril wasn't capable of pulling off a 25 song setlist (as in full songs), she could once again easily adapt it so that she is playing more songs as medleys or shortening some, i.e. removing the second verse and chorus as she did for many songs on TBDTour. She could easily fit in 20+ songs if she did that. Unfortunately, fans are right, there really are no excuses. The thing is, even if Avril herself can't be bothered or simply doesn't know these things exist/isn't skilled enough to create it, she has a musical director who would. I'm just confused why NOBODY around her is making these suggestions, unless they are, and she is saying no? I get wanting to play the songs in full but I wouldn't mind them being shortened (the lesser ones nobody cares about as much like Smile for instance, do we really need that problematic second verse anyway? ) if it meant we'd hear more songs altogether.

Perhaps the Green Day cover might get added as a replacement once ATL is gone. Maybe that's the intention so I don't think we can rule it out just yet.

Next show is tomorrow, we'll see how the next few shows go. I don't expect any changes to the setlist but let's hope her energy and vocals improve. While I agree the first show should be solid, despite any first night jitters or anything, fans did complain about the audio levels and that's down to her crew, so unfortunately it isn't only Avril not giving her best at the start. Despite the fact they do sound checks and tech rehearsals beforehand, you'd think they'd have the sound down perfect, but I guess even with all the prep once you factor in thousands of people in a packed arena it'll change the sound and maybe they should have accounted for that. Maybe to them the sound was perfect but fans think otherwise. It was the same issue with the beginning of the last tour where fans said the backing tracks were way too loud and they adjusted it. I sadly think Avril probably relies on them as a crutch and asks for them to be loud so they purposely sound louder than her but fans complain she's being drowned out. And this is why we're hearing how weak her voice is now.