Avril Lavigne - Greatest Hits -2024- -flac- -24... -

“They’ll find these in twenty years. Tell them the anger was real. But so was the hope. Don’t let them remaster the hope.”

He looked at the file’s metadata. Creation date: 2005. Last modified: 2024. But the hard drive it was on had been sealed in an evidence locker since 2010. A forgotten backup from a defunct studio in Los Angeles.

Then, a man’s voice, muffled: “Take five, Av.”