One of my top favorite singers Avril Lavigne is finally back with a brand new video for her crooned fantastical lead theme song entitled "Alice (Underground)," off soundtrack album "Almost Alice" for Tim Burton's epic fantasy adventure film "Alice In Wonderland," based on the Lewis Carroll' classic tale, a magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time, will hit theaters in 3D on Friday, March 5 and the soundtrack album "Almost Alice" will be available for purchase starting March 2.The mid-tempo ballad "Alice" is an alternative rock song, written and performed by the Juno-Award winning Canadian singer-songwriter Lavigne herself and produced by Butch Walker. Lavigne told Disney executives and director Tim Burton she could write a song for the film's soundtrack, and Lavigne "wrote the song immediately" on her piano. Lavigne described the song as "a little darker" and confirmed the lyrics, "trippin' out, spinnin' around, I'm underground, I fell down." The song does provide a suitably dramatic intro to publicity for the upcoming film, and it's the one of the best songs of Lavigne's career.
The music video is coming from the directorial hands of Dave Meyers, and is very much inspired by the Tim Burton's upcoming highly anticipated Walt Disney film. It features Lavigne playing a punk version of the title character, Alice, who chasing a rabbit, stumbling over her steps and falling into a hole and finding herself in another world. One of the most breathtaking shots feature Lavigne as Alice, sitting at a table with Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter. It really looks as if she's in the scene with the actor even though she's not. I'm actually really excited for this video to come out. She does write her own songs, which is rare in the industry. The video looks amazing, and the cinematography blends so well into the artistic aesthetic of the "Alice In Wonderland" film. There are a lot of inter-cut scenes from the movie that are matched with those of Lavigne in the video, which seamlessly intertwine with one another.
There's no questioning that this little Canadian still has some world-class pipes. Her vocals emotional expressing the confusion of Alice falling through that rabbit hole, and brings Alice directly into a contemporary context. This will allow young fans to see more clearly the metaphorical application of "Alice In Wonderland" to contemporary issues and dilemmas. "Alice" works both as an emotional, dramatic evocation of struggles with confusing times in life, and setting the scene for the movie making listeners eager to see the story that generates this heart-pounding, raw statement of the survival instinct.
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