My akward meet and greet experience

[fanavril]

Originally Posted by Riimu

Oh yeah, the support act was Finnish girlband called Stalingrad Cowgirls.. Never heard!!! So... i never thought i would say this.. but maybe (just maybe) i would have prefered those Jonas Brothers instead...

Thanks

[Madina]

Originally Posted by Riimu

I actually never expected myself to see Avril in the first place... Like if you would have told me about a year ago that i would buy m&g... i wouldn't think i'd laugh, but i'd be suprised. Really suprised.. Hanging here on bandaids kind of made me wonder how it would be like to see her play live and maybe even meet her.

Honestly i've liked her style since beginning. She is the only artist whose music i listen constantly (well linkin park fights for the second place, but anyways). I never get bored to her music. But until i found bandaids she was a musician to me, an artist, singer. Not really a person. After bandaids she's a person and for a lot of times she was / is more person now than that musician.. Now that i've met her, and seen her play live... OMG this is so hard to explain... I just have this feeling on me (and this was also before the show) that now i don't have to see her again. Like, if i'd die now, i'd die relatively happy. _You know never say never, maybe if she'd have a new tour i could go and see her, but i don't think i need to see her in that sence that i'd buy a new m&g....

But i have never been angry at Avril!! I've been angry to myself for making her feel akward.. But now i'm not even that angry for myself either. You all had so many different ideas about the m&g and i kind of maybe see the situation now on Avrils side too. And in a way that i didn't do anything bad or i shouldn't feel bad about it. Maybe i wasn't an ass and maybe she didn't feel as uncomfortable as i originally thought?!

In a way i kind of hope that she'll become more that musician for me again. But i know it's really hard at times when i read all this stuff here at bandaids.. It's addicting, i'm sure you all know that And i don't want to cut bandaids out because this is one of the best forums i ever found!! So.. i don't know if my "relationship" with Avril changes or.. maybe it doesn't...

I'm not sure if i can write this in the way that you'll really get me. But if you don't get the most of it, get just this that i don't have anything against Avril, i still appreciate her the most out of every artist and... everythings cool




Oh yeah, the support act was Finnish girlband called Stalingrad Cowgirls.. Never heard!!! So... i never thought i would say this.. but maybe (just maybe) i would have prefered those Jonas Brothers instead...

I understand you.Av just didn't say you anything when you tried to explain to her why you don't want autograph.I'm sure if she said to you OK or I See what would be great.I mean you wouldn't feel yourself weird but she didn't say anything (like she usually does) and you feel bad....she is not very talkative on meet and greet.

[Riimu]

i guess she said like "ok" but she had this really weird look on her face... so... yeah... and i couldn't explain it to her because there wasn't really enough time...

But yeah... good that you get me

+ i never knew that those meet and greets are so organized. When you read these m&g reviews here, it seems that they really are not that organized. Yes they'll take a picture everytime and yes she'll give an autograph, but outside that i never knew.. And maybe if i had known that i would have just gone with the flow... instead of stopping every action and asking something different...

[Madina]

You just asked about talking pic with middle finger.Av just not allowed...if you asked about thumb up or something she would agree
What do you mean by weird face? she was surprised or what?....

[Riimu]

Like.. suprised... akward... like "what the fuck?!", "is there something wrong with you?"..

but yeah, my second plan was to ask if we could both do funny faces then instead if that middlefingers thingy wouldn't work out... but after i asked the fingers there really wasn't a moment to ask that then... She faced immediately to the camera.. so i felt like "ok, that's all talking, take the fucking picture and we can get this weirdo out of here" - like - i felt like she would have thought that.

I felt it then, in that situation, not really anymore. Like i said before a lot of you guys have made it more clearer of what she may have thought - and not like anything bad about me.. After the m&g i really felt like she thought i was a fucking moron.. I don't feel like that anymore.. And i can understand it now that 'cause the m&g's are so organized, she's probably really used to it and it may be like "shocking" that someone just... doesn't want to settle with it.. And maybe.. 'cause i don't feel that i'm like "omg avril you are a goddess, i lovelovelove you"-fan so i never could have even been that.. And now i feel like if i hadn't asked something different or wanted something more (eventhough i hated myself first after the situation) i'd probably would hate the m&g. Like.. As in if it would have been like: go in - take picture, smile - get autograph - leave.. I probably be dissapointed. like for Avril maybe, and the situation, the organisizers, livenation people... who else?! Deryck, Bush, little green people

The ultimate happy ending would have been the picture with the middlefingers.. but.. i'm starting to feel good about that also that i really had the courage to ask her that - eventhough in the end it didn't happen...

[Madina]

I think things with funny faces wouldn't work out too.....yeah m&g are organised and Av thinks what autograph usual thing and so many fans waiting her near hotels for it so she thought you would like it too.And how did she ask you about autograph?

[Riimu]

Well.. after the picture i was like... leaving already.. so she stopped me and asked that "don't you want an autograph?" and was ready to take my vip pass and sign it.. and... i kind of.. said.. like... no.... So.. i tried to explain a little that why not i don't want it... but it was weird.. that's actually the situation that bugs me more than the middlefingers.. It bugs me 'cause i wasn't that polite. And i'm usually very polite. And now i guess i wasn't. So.. it bugs me that the person to whom i really wanted to make a good/funny first impression probably got the idea that i was more rude than ok/funny.

And hey, it's Avril! First impressions matter.

[Madina]

haha to be honest it's unusual situation and....funny.Really lol

[Riimu]

in a way.. i was aiming for that... kind of hoping for a different result.. but... oh well..... i guess... this is just.. like... being me..