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Fan Base: Avril Lavigne
Member Since: 1/6/2011
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Originally posted by Black Umbrella
Nah.. I feel like she's gonna have something really light & about self empowering and stuff like that.
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Obviously she's gonna make some songs where she remembers how hard it was for her during that time...
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by greeneyedsoul
Obviously she's gonna make some songs where she remembers how hard it was for her during that time...
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Yeah, but in light and happy way, tbh she should use
The Sailor Moon look for next era
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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I want her to do single collabs with "relevant" artists
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by Yvess
I want her to do single collabs with "relevant" artists
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Go buy Cheers on iTunes !!1!!111!!!!!!!
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Member Since: 9/25/2011
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I think she should have a MATURE overall album/era, once and for all. I don't think she should write dark/depressing songs (at least not a full album), but she should find a good balance, and present herself as a grown-up 3x-year-old woman. I'm a male, older than her, and it's hard for me to feel identified with her sometimes, ESPECIALLY with girly (and stupid) material.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by Jack Jackson
I think she should have a MATURE overall album/era, once and for all. I don't think she should write dark/depressing songs (at least not a full album), but she should find a good balance, and present herself as a grown-up 3x-year-old woman. I'm a male, older than her, and it's hard for me to feel identified with her sometimes, ESPECIALLY with girly (and stupid) material.
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Not ready for depressing songs nor super girly songs. Do want know "Insert One of her albums" 2.0 I want something new & refreshing. Mature & happy. Don't mind love songs & self-empowering songs too.
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Member Since: 9/25/2011
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Originally posted by Black Umbrella
Not ready for depressing songs nor super girly songs. Do want know "Insert One of her albums" 2.0 I want something new & refreshing. Mature & happy. Don't mind love songs & self-empowering songs too.
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Mature and happy would be good. Love and self-empowering, nice. I wouldn't mind some "vulnerable" song, not necessarily depressing. I don't necessarily want a 2.0 of any album, but I wouldn't mind if she took a few things from certain albums (especially my favourite ones) and added them to the new music, maybe giving it a twist to not like a "rerun".
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Member Since: 8/7/2015
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Hi guys! I'm a new member here and as soon as I looked into the base and saw this thread I knew I had to post. Avril's music literally slays and I'm so happy to see/hopefully be apart of this thread and just talk about her and all that jazz. (btw I stan alot of other people as well so literally my music taste is always all over the place) but avril was always be one of my main faves, for a fact! & oh, I'm calvin, 18, and from houston lol.
Okay I hope this wasn't too horrible? I'm just bad at writing/talking about myself, etc.
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Member Since: 1/6/2011
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Originally posted by moonlight.
Hi guys! I'm a new member here and as soon as I looked into the base and saw this thread I knew I had to post. Avril's music literally slays and I'm so happy to see/hopefully be apart of this thread and just talk about her and all that jazz. (btw I stan alot of other people as well so literally my music taste is always all over the place) but avril was always be one of my main faves, for a fact! & oh, I'm calvin, 18, and from houston lol.
Okay I hope this wasn't too horrible? I'm just bad at writing/talking about myself, etc.
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Welcome...
So we have three new fans and all three are from the US. I thought her US fans died in 2007...
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Member Since: 1/6/2011
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2 hours till Sk8er Boi's VEVO report...
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by moonlight.
Hi guys! I'm a new member here and as soon as I looked into the base and saw this thread I knew I had to post. Avril's music literally slays and I'm so happy to see/hopefully be apart of this thread and just talk about her and all that jazz. (btw I stan alot of other people as well so literally my music taste is always all over the place) but avril was always be one of my main faves, for a fact! & oh, I'm calvin, 18, and from houston lol.
Okay I hope this wasn't too horrible? I'm just bad at writing/talking about myself, etc.
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Welcome dude! My favorite new Avie stan
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Member Since: 8/7/2015
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I was a huge stan for Avril back in the day, and what started to turn me off was The Best Damn Thing. I thought 'Girlfriend' was catchy and I loved the music video, but I was kind of hoping that was the "girliest" she was going to get. I couldn't have been more wrong.
It just really disappointed me that she literally became everything she used to mock back when she debuted. I don't know if it was her decision, her label's, or a mixture of both, but the blonde, cheerleader, Avril felt like an entirely new artist and I wasn't here for it.
Then, with label conflict, she took four freaking years to come back into the industry with songs like "What the Hell" and "Smile", which again, just were not half as good as her older material. Her music became more immature as her career went on, which I think made a lot of her original fans abandon ship.
She should really focus on Hot Adult Contemporary radio this next era. P!nk and Kelly Clarkson can flop all they want on pop radio, but they are HAC/AC staples and probably will never flop there. As much as I would stan so hard for Let Go/Under My Skin 2.0, that wouldn't be very progressive and I think if she wants to revive her career, she needs to come out with something refreshing, but not immature. Her ballads are her strong point (I'm With You, Keep Holding On, I Will Be, When You're Gone). It's those awful, uptempo, bratty singles she's been releasing for the past six years that made the GP lose interest (WTH, Smile, HTNGU, RNR, like ) She's capable of so much more than that.
I'm rooting for you Avril!! :
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Member Since: 8/7/2015
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Originally posted by greeneyedsoul
Welcome...
So we have three new fans and all three are from the US. I thought her US fans died in 2007...
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thanks boo! not at my ari avi i made already impacting you lol. And oh noooo, I might have been the only one form the US to buy her self titled tbh now that you think about it
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Originally posted by grAntVRIL
Welcome dude! My favorite new Avie stan
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Thanks man! I'm proud to be an Avril stan and same here as well. I just hope new music comes soon.... it might be 84 years but sadly I might be able to wait that long lol
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Member Since: 8/7/2015
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hello! Now I'm here!
I'm Tatiana.
My first song was Sk8er boi, and it was 2005 (I was 11 years old)
Now I'm 21 and I'm from Russia (sorry for mistakes lol my friend usually laughs at me because of it)
We have VK group about Avril and I'm posting news there with another one new ATRL member, she is still waiting email with the link. This group has 69 152 members (69 152 where-is-old-Avril members ugh)
I love b-side songs.
Hope I will be a part of this place!
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Member Since: 1/6/2011
Posts: 18,390
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Originally posted by yepstepz
hello! Now I'm here!
I'm Tatiana.
My first song was Sk8er boi, and it was 2005 (I was 11 years old)
Now I'm 21 and I'm from Russia (sorry for mistakes lol my friend usually laughs at me because of it)
We have VK group about Avril and I'm posting news there with another one new ATRL member, she is still waiting email with the link. This group has 69 152 members (69 152 where-is-old-Avril members ugh)
I love b-side songs.
Hope I will be a part of this place!
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Welcome.
Are you a member on any other forum? Bandaids maybe?
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Member Since: 8/7/2015
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Originally posted by greeneyedsoul
Welcome.
Are you a member on any other forum? Bandaids maybe?
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yeah, temporary and old Bandaids (nickname: yepstepz)
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Member Since: 1/6/2011
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I saw your username before, but I couldn't really remember from where.
So what are your fave albums and singles?
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VEVO views, update of the week
#1 Girlfriend 287.295.741 (+836.271)
#2 Wish You Were Here 235.367.096 (+701.384)
#3 What The Hell 233.371.838 (+713.134)
#4 When You're Gone 226.762.892 (+791.099)
#5 Smile 120.339.608 (+467.732)
#6 Here's To Never Growing Up 109.926.498 (+458.797)
#7 Hot 92.406.626 (+184.406) VEVO certified in early 41 weeks
#8 Hello Kitty 91.073.769 (+634.609) VEVO certified in early 14 weeks
#9 Let Me Go 90.158.889 (+459.352) VEVO certified in early 21 weeks
#10 Complicated 88.199.319 (+505.219) VEVO certified in early 23 weeks
#11 My Happy Ending 57.582.846 (+367.830)
#12 I'm With You 57.239.170 (+352.967)
#13 Sk8er Boi 57.129.404 (+343.622)
#14 Rock N Roll 54.870.793 (+290.918)
#15 Nobody's Home 33.209.606 (+189.317)
#16 Girlfriend (remix) 29.393.778 (+7.000)
#17 The Best Damn Thing 29.579.375 (+93.000)
#18 Don't Tell Me 24.357.894 (+128.000)
#19 Give You What You Like 18.911.056 (+330.000)
#20 Alice 17.061.710 (+87.000)
#21 Losing Grip 13.929.256 (+97.000)
#22 My Happy Ending (Explicit) 6.904.794 (+20.000)
#23 He Wasn't 6.399.150 (+31.000)
#24 Fly 2.358.120 (+58.000)
#25 Don't Tell Me (clean) 1.996.085
#26 Girlfriend (remix clean version) 1.555.742
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Member Since: 9/25/2011
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Originally posted by musicman101
I was a huge stan for Avril back in the day, and what started to turn me off was The Best Damn Thing. I thought 'Girlfriend' was catchy and I loved the music video, but I was kind of hoping that was the "girliest" she was going to get. I couldn't have been more wrong.
It just really disappointed me that she literally became everything she used to mock back when she debuted. I don't know if it was her decision, her label's, or a mixture of both, but the blonde, cheerleader, Avril felt like an entirely new artist and I wasn't here for it.
Then, with label conflict, she took four freaking years to come back into the industry with songs like "What the Hell" and "Smile", which again, just were not half as good as her older material. Her music became more immature as her career went on, which I think made a lot of her original fans abandon ship.
She should really focus on Hot Adult Contemporary radio this next era. P!nk and Kelly Clarkson can flop all they want on pop radio, but they are HAC/AC staples and probably will never flop there. As much as I would stan so hard for Let Go/Under My Skin 2.0, that wouldn't be very progressive and I think if she wants to revive her career, she needs to come out with something refreshing, but not immature. Her ballads are her strong point (I'm With You, Keep Holding On, I Will Be, When You're Gone). It's those awful, uptempo, bratty singles she's been releasing for the past six years that made the GP lose interest (WTH, Smile, HTNGU, RNR, like ) She's capable of so much more than that.
I'm rooting for you Avril!! :
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I think I've seen your username before. I like your thinking, and quite agree with it. I never listen to WTH and Smile, I think they're the worst songs from that album, I really liked the rest (even the Max Martin's ILY and WYWH, which fit nicely with the rest of the album) and it's my second favourite album after UMS. If I hadn't liked that album (or she had released a TBDT 2.0), I probably wouldn't be still a fan.
Her ballads and "soft" songs are always on point, I trust her on that. The problem are the "pop", "upbeat" songs, which haven't been too good lately, indeed. Forced and shoehorned thanks to her label, they look non-genuine and Avril doesn't seem too excited about; and of course they aren't even that successful to justify their existence, in my opinion.
I agree, she should ditch pop and go for HAC, She definitely needs to leave immaturity behind, but will she finally do it? Will her label let her do it, or will it happen like last two albums?
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Originally posted by yepstepz
hello! Now I'm here!
I'm Tatiana.
My first song was Sk8er boi, and it was 2005 (I was 11 years old)
Now I'm 21 and I'm from Russia (sorry for mistakes lol my friend usually laughs at me because of it)
We have VK group about Avril and I'm posting news there with another one new ATRL member, she is still waiting email with the link. This group has 69 152 members (69 152 where-is-old-Avril members ugh)
I love b-side songs.
Hope I will be a part of this place!
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And how much time have they been like that? 8 years, since she released TBDT?
Welcome to all new members
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Member Since: 1/6/2011
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#15 Nobody's Home 33.209.606 (+189.317)
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NH needs to stop flopping...
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#7 Hot 92.406.626 (+184.406) VEVO certified in early 41 weeks
#8 Hello Kitty 91.073.769 (+634.609) VEVO certified in early 14 weeks
#9 Let Me Go 90.158.889 (+459.352) VEVO certified in early 21 weeks
#10 Complicated 88.199.319 (+505.219) VEVO certified in early 23 weeks
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Her VEVO updates will be so boring after these are certified. What other updates can we check when it comes to her?
My Happy Ending will pass 100M in like 2 years, Spotify is not her strong side, her recurrent sales are non-existent... There's really no interesting stuff going on for her chart fanatic fans. We will hopefully get some new RIAJ certifications...
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