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Thinking about which of the contenders we know about have the most devastatingly iconic opening line to be track #1 and open the album...
 
There's a picture on the wall of me on a John Deere
 
Here's the deal, cause I know you wanna talk about it

I guess you could call it text book

My body is a map of LA

What you don't tell no one, you can tell me

You roll like thunder when you come crashing in

I go back to Alabama, take a look at my life

Is the sun in your eyes, easy rider?

I wore diamonds for the birth of your baby, for the birth of your son, on the same day my husband to be packed his things to run

Blackbirds will sing in the same key as you play in the shoes that I bought you

If you dance I'll dance, and if you don't I'll dance anyway

Hit the street, city beat, I know what you want

Don't be that way, don't you pretend, you're not awake, when you know you are

Lilacs in my mind all the time are blooming beautifully

I, I can fly
 

Oh yes that's an amazing example! It sounds so mean spirited now - playing on your emotions only to punish you for taking the bait. Kinda on brand for M lol.
 
I feel like a misdirect in these times would have the goal of getting fans excited and building hype, planting clues, in the spirit of fun mischief (and to eventually make that sale). So in a hypothetical if Boz were to say "hey I heard Yes To Heaven is the opening track maybe" and it spawns a 3-week meltdown across the fandom, then mission accomplished. Then he can come back and say, "hey guys she cut it maybe" and then another 3 week meltdown. Costs them nothing and we're left frothing to buy 6 vinyls.
 
So, is Boz some kind of baddie p.r. genius? (or, employed by one? )

Omg, I somehow accidentally opened the nfr Post release thread thinking it was the Blue Banisters thread and all the post were talking about how happy that something was finally released and how awesome it was etc, I got sooooo freaking hyped, until I read the date of when the post were and the title of the thread. I almost had a heart attack, I know i'm so dang dumb.

Yes. Triple single release (Arcadia, My Heart Goes Boom Like That - When You Wanna Dance & Never Gonna Give You Up) + Arcadia MV + pre-order /s no, but we're still manifesting

Thinking about which of the contenders we know about have the most devastatingly iconic opening line to be track #1 and open the album...
 
There's a picture on the wall of me on a John Deere
 
Here's the deal, cause I know you wanna talk about it

I guess you could call it text book

My body is a map of LA

What you don't tell no one, you can tell me

You roll like thunder when you come crashing in

I go back to Alabama, take a look at my life

Is the sun in your eyes, easy rider?

I wore diamonds for the birth of your baby, for the birth of your son, on the same day my husband to be packed his things to run

Blackbirds will sing in the same key as you play in the shoes that I bought you

If you dance I'll dance, and if you don't I'll dance anyway

Hit the street, city beat, I know what you want

Don't be that way, don't you pretend, you're not awake, when you know you are

Lilacs in my mind all the time are blooming beautifully

I, I can fly
 

BB deluxe vinyl colour
 

fixed it! 

I remember when I first heard The Greatest, and I thought she sings „all the life dreams almost gone” and it got me in tears because I was in the winter of my life, and then i read it’s actually „the livestream is almost on” and I felt dumb 

Double album 32 tracks
 

BoZ on ATRL:
" lol wtf is Lanaboards right now??? Btw, the snippet is fake, I Talk to Jesus was scrapped and Arcadia out 11/09. I'm not not from Ben's team, so shut up. "

I've wondered about this too. Boz is almost certainly some form of executive assistant/jr. a&r type, either at Interscope, CAA, or TAP. His info is not something that someone on the tech or recording studio level would see - ie his post in the last few days that he heard a call had been put out for director proposals for a new BB music video at some point. That's label, management, or agent level. 
 
Interscope and CAA are relatively massive - so lots of possibilities to have access to whatever's going on in the next cubicle so to speak. But, the tracklist of a major star's new album is basically trade secrets. Everyone who works in those environments would face major legal trouble if they were caught. With as frequently as Boz spills, this strikes me as way too risky. You definitely don't want CAA's legal department on you for leaking. 
 
Something like an evolving tracklist sounds more like management company stuff. That's something that would be discussed by people involved in the creative direction of the album and her managers. They would be hearing about the whims of the artist on a daily basis, in a way that the label or agency would not (CAA agency is just negotiating the deals). Perhaps tracklists are sent out for physical production and he is intercepting it there, but he seems clued in way before anything goes to the printing press. It's possible he is involved in filing copyright stuff or interacting with streaming platforms, but the info he has throughout the process again makes me think he gets it way before anything is legally registered.
 
So that really narrows it down to the management team and people directly adjacent to them.
 
Ben's company is tiny - google says 16 employees. So if Boz works there, 100% they know he is leaking info. ATRL is hardly low pro, the info is just too specific, and there aren't that many people in the loop. In that case I'd say yeah they are def telling him what it's ok to say. He'd be fired and sued if they weren't cool with it.
 
I don't get "sophisticated covert ops" vibes from these people, so an intentional misdirection seems unlikely, but not impossible. Has there ever been a good example of a "misdirect" leak in the past?
 
Sorry for the essay, but the people need to get to the bottom of this!! 

Oh yes that's an amazing example! It sounds so mean spirited now - playing on your emotions only to punish you for taking the bait. Kinda on brand for M lol.
 
I feel like a misdirect in these times would have the goal of getting fans excited and building hype, planting clues, in the spirit of fun mischief (and to eventually make that sale). So in a hypothetical if Boz were to say "hey I heard Yes To Heaven is the opening track maybe" and it spawns a 3-week meltdown across the fandom, then mission accomplished. Then he can come back and say, "hey guys she cut it maybe" and then another 3 week meltdown. Costs them nothing and we're left frothing to buy 6 vinyls.
 
So, is Boz some kind of baddie p.r. genius? (or, employed by one? )

Oh yes that's an amazing example! It sounds so mean spirited now - playing on your emotions only to punish you for taking the bait. Kinda on brand for M lol.
 
I feel like a misdirect in these times would have the goal of getting fans excited and building hype, planting clues, in the spirit of fun mischief (and to eventually make that sale). So in a hypothetical if Boz were to say "hey I heard Yes To Heaven is the opening track maybe" and it spawns a 3-week meltdown across the fandom, then mission accomplished. Then he can come back and say, "hey guys she cut it maybe" and then another 3 week meltdown. Costs them nothing and we're left frothing to buy 6 vinyls.
 
So, is Boz some kind of baddie p.r. genius? (or, employed by one? )

just checked weather app and it says 100% chance of blue banisters tracklist 

Oh yes that's an amazing example! It sounds so mean spirited now - playing on your emotions only to punish you for taking the bait. Kinda on brand for M lol.
 
I feel like a misdirect in these times would have the goal of getting fans excited and building hype, planting clues, in the spirit of fun mischief (and to eventually make that sale). So in a hypothetical if Boz were to say "hey I heard Yes To Heaven is the opening track maybe" and it spawns a 3-week meltdown across the fandom, then mission accomplished. Then he can come back and say, "hey guys she cut it maybe" and then another 3 week meltdown. Costs them nothing and we're left frothing to buy 6 vinyls.
 
So, is Boz some kind of baddie p.r. genius? (or, employed by one? )

Oh yes that's an amazing example! It sounds so mean spirited now - playing on your emotions only to punish you for taking the bait. Kinda on brand for M lol.
 
I feel like a misdirect in these times would have the goal of getting fans excited and building hype, planting clues, in the spirit of fun mischief (and to eventually make that sale). So in a hypothetical if Boz were to say "hey I heard Yes To Heaven is the opening track maybe" and it spawns a 3-week meltdown across the fandom, then mission accomplished. Then he can come back and say, "hey guys she cut it maybe" and then another 3 week meltdown. Costs them nothing and we're left frothing to buy 6 vinyls.
 
So, is Boz some kind of baddie p.r. genius? (or, employed by one? )

Oh yes that's an amazing example! It sounds so mean spirited now - playing on your emotions only to punish you for taking the bait. Kinda on brand for M lol.
 
I feel like a misdirect in these times would have the goal of getting fans excited and building hype, planting clues, in the spirit of fun mischief (and to eventually make that sale). So in a hypothetical if Boz were to say "hey I heard Yes To Heaven is the opening track maybe" and it spawns a 3-week meltdown across the fandom, then mission accomplished. Then he can come back and say, "hey guys she cut it maybe" and then another 3 week meltdown. Costs them nothing and we're left frothing to buy 6 vinyls.
 
So, is Boz some kind of baddie p.r. genius? (or, employed by one? )

? This has been on my mind for a couple of weeks now!!!

Oh yes that's an amazing example! It sounds so mean spirited now - playing on your emotions only to punish you for taking the bait. Kinda on brand for M lol.
 
I feel like a misdirect in these times would have the goal of getting fans excited and building hype, planting clues, in the spirit of fun mischief (and to eventually make that sale). So in a hypothetical if Boz were to say "hey I heard Yes To Heaven is the opening track maybe" and it spawns a 3-week meltdown across the fandom, then mission accomplished. Then he can come back and say, "hey guys she cut it maybe" and then another 3 week meltdown. Costs them nothing and we're left frothing to buy 6 vinyls.
 
So, is Boz some kind of baddie p.r. genius? (or, employed by one? )

When one of Madonna's old albums leaked every track was just her saying "what the fuck do you think you're doing" or something similar. I don't know if it counts as misdirect but they were aware 
BOZ has to do it (leaking info) in a way that he knows he won't face legal consequences cause he's pretty known in music forums and his face is out there so it's not like he's some kind of mysterious anonymous insider. I don't know at what stage he gets stuff but he knows a lot (from actual songs to tracklists and every change in an album process. He even knows when directors are contacted for a MV)

I've wondered about this too. Boz is almost certainly some form of executive assistant/jr. a&r type, either at Interscope, CAA, or TAP. His info is not something that someone on the tech or recording studio level would see - ie his post in the last few days that he heard a call had been put out for director proposals for a new BB music video at some point. That's label, management, or agent level. 
 
Interscope and CAA are relatively massive - so lots of possibilities to have access to whatever's going on in the next cubicle so to speak. But, the tracklist of a major star's new album is basically trade secrets. Everyone who works in those environments would face major legal trouble if they were caught. With as frequently as Boz spills, this strikes me as way too risky. You definitely don't want CAA's legal department on you for leaking. 
 
Something like an evolving tracklist sounds more like management company stuff. That's something that would be discussed by people involved in the creative direction of the album and her managers. They would be hearing about the whims of the artist on a daily basis, in a way that the label or agency would not (CAA agency is just negotiating the deals). Perhaps tracklists are sent out for physical production and he is intercepting it there, but he seems clued in way before anything goes to the printing press. It's possible he is involved in filing copyright stuff or interacting with streaming platforms, but the info he has throughout the process again makes me think he gets it way before anything is legally registered.
 
So that really narrows it down to the management team and people directly adjacent to them.
 
Ben's company is tiny - google says 16 employees. So if Boz works there, 100% they know he is leaking info. ATRL is hardly low pro, the info is just too specific, and there aren't that many people in the loop. In that case I'd say yeah they are def telling him what it's ok to say. He'd be fired and sued if they weren't cool with it.
 
I don't get "sophisticated covert ops" vibes from these people, so an intentional misdirection seems unlikely, but not impossible. Has there ever been a good example of a "misdirect" leak in the past?
 
Sorry for the essay, but the people need to get to the bottom of this!! 

I've wondered about this too. Boz is almost certainly some form of executive assistant/jr. a&r type, either at Interscope, CAA, or TAP. His info is not something that someone on the tech or recording studio level would see - ie his post in the last few days that he heard a call had been put out for director proposals for a new BB music video at some point. That's label, management, or agent level. 
 
Interscope and CAA are relatively massive - so lots of possibilities to have access to whatever's going on in the next cubicle so to speak. But, the tracklist of a major star's new album is basically trade secrets. Everyone who works in those environments would face major legal trouble if they were caught. With as frequently as Boz spills, this strikes me as way too risky. You definitely don't want CAA's legal department on you for leaking. 
 
Something like an evolving tracklist sounds more like management company stuff. That's something that would be discussed by people involved in the creative direction of the album and her managers. They would be hearing about the whims of the artist on a daily basis, in a way that the label or agency would not (CAA agency is just negotiating the deals). Perhaps tracklists are sent out for physical production and he is intercepting it there, but he seems clued in way before anything goes to the printing press. It's possible he is involved in filing copyright stuff or interacting with streaming platforms, but the info he has throughout the process again makes me think he gets it way before anything is legally registered.
 
So that really narrows it down to the management team and people directly adjacent to them.
 
Ben's company is tiny - google says 16 employees. So if Boz works there, 100% they know he is leaking info. ATRL is hardly low pro, the info is just too specific, and there aren't that many people in the loop. In that case I'd say yeah they are def telling him what it's ok to say. He'd be fired and sued if they weren't cool with it.
 
I don't get "sophisticated covert ops" vibes from these people, so an intentional misdirection seems unlikely, but not impossible. Has there ever been a good example of a "misdirect" leak in the past?
 
Sorry for the essay, but the people need to get to the bottom of this!! 

Thinking about which of the contenders we know about have the most devastatingly iconic opening line to be track #1 and open the album...
 
There's a picture on the wall of me on a John Deere
 
Here's the deal, cause I know you wanna talk about it

I guess you could call it text book

My body is a map of LA

What you don't tell no one, you can tell me

You roll like thunder when you come crashing in

I go back to Alabama, take a look at my life

Is the sun in your eyes, easy rider?

I wore diamonds for the birth of your baby, for the birth of your son, on the same day my husband to be packed his things to run

Blackbirds will sing in the same key as you play in the shoes that I bought you

If you dance I'll dance, and if you don't I'll dance anyway

Hit the street, city beat, I know what you want

Don't be that way, don't you pretend, you're not awake, when you know you are

Lilacs in my mind all the time are blooming beautifully

I, I can fly
 

I've wondered about this too. Boz is almost certainly some form of executive assistant/jr. a&r type, either at Interscope, CAA, or TAP. His info is not something that someone on the tech or recording studio level would see - ie his post in the last few days that he heard a call had been put out for director proposals for a new BB music video at some point. That's label, management, or agent level. 
 
Interscope and CAA are relatively massive - so lots of possibilities to have access to whatever's going on in the next cubicle so to speak. But, the tracklist of a major star's new album is basically trade secrets. Everyone who works in those environments would face major legal trouble if they were caught. With as frequently as Boz spills, this strikes me as way too risky. You definitely don't want CAA's legal department on you for leaking. 
 
Something like an evolving tracklist sounds more like management company stuff. That's something that would be discussed by people involved in the creative direction of the album and her managers. They would be hearing about the whims of the artist on a daily basis, in a way that the label or agency would not (CAA agency is just negotiating the deals). Perhaps tracklists are sent out for physical production and he is intercepting it there, but he seems clued in way before anything goes to the printing press. It's possible he is involved in filing copyright stuff or interacting with streaming platforms, but the info he has throughout the process again makes me think he gets it way before anything is legally registered.
 
So that really narrows it down to the management team and people directly adjacent to them.
 
Ben's company is tiny - google says 16 employees. So if Boz works there, 100% they know he is leaking info. ATRL is hardly low pro, the info is just too specific, and there aren't that many people in the loop. In that case I'd say yeah they are def telling him what it's ok to say. He'd be fired and sued if they weren't cool with it.
 
I don't get "sophisticated covert ops" vibes from these people, so an intentional misdirection seems unlikely, but not impossible. Has there ever been a good example of a "misdirect" leak in the past?
 
Sorry for the essay, but the people need to get to the bottom of this!!