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Just edited this, I'm gonna keep it updated as more billboards appear so we can see all the feats in one place

So, confirmed so far we have: - Addison Rae (released) - A.G. Cook (released) - Robyn (released) - Yung Lean (released) - Lorde (released) - Billie Eilish (released) - Troye Sivan (released) - Jon Hopkins (billboard) - The Japanese House (billboard) - Bon Iver (billboard) - Tinashe (billboard) - Bladee (billboard) - The 1975 (billboard) - Horsegiirl (billboard) - Shygirl (played live) - EASYFUN (played live) - BB Trickz (played live) And some less concrete but highly likely: - HAIM (said to be in same studio session as Bon Iver & Charli) - Caroline Polachek (teased) - Rosalía (highly rumoured) Holy shit. This is gonna be insane.

Jon Hopkins confirmed too! And so happy about that one, glad she's keeping to her electronic roots and not just filling it with pop stars

The family has stated time and time again that this is absolutely not the case, and this is an album that had all of the tracks only touches away from being complete & a finalized tracklist before she died. I don't love the tracklist either, and I also think that some of the artistic choices sound odd (haven't listened yet but going off the singles and what people in here have said), but what we have to remember is that if this album is underwhelming, it's underwhelming because of the decisions SOPHIE made. Honestly seems like some people are using her grieving family as a scapegoat because you don't like the album but don't want to criticise the deceased. Is it "objectively trash" or can you just not understand more abstract music? Some of you people would crumble if you had to listen to a noise album.

From chatting to someone on the Discord, I've found out a few lengths: The Dome's Protection is the longest at around 7 and a half minutes Do You Wanna Be Alive is around 3 and a half minutes The intro is around 4 and a half minutes The album altogether is about an hour, people are speculating it will be an hour and four minutes to match the length of the announcement video

How does it not? The verses have exactly the same melody and lyrics as the verses from that song?

How far did those MVs go? I know Trans Nation was filmed obviously because of the leak, and Plunging Asymptote as a continuation with the same set because there's BTS footage, but I was under the impression that these other two were just conceptualised/written rather than actually produced/filmed. Also, on that note, do we think it's possible that we'll get a Plunging Asymptote MV now that it's confirmed on the tracklist? We know it exists, the only barrier I can see is that it's apparently a continuation of Transnation and it might not make sense now that the first part won't be released.

You could be onto something here. Pretty much all of the fan favourite songs that didn't make the tracklist made heavy use of sampling: New York's Burning Down interpolates Burning Down by Tiga Take Me To Dubai interpolates Love To Love You Baby by Donna Summer Europe For The Summer samples Dame Tu Cosita Transnation interpolates House Nation It's probably just a coincidence, but who knows.

I think the "leaked" tracklist is fake. I doubt they'd sample her stuff posthumously and even if they did I doubt they'd call it a SOPHIE remix.

The stuff you were saying on Reddit was not what Hornet said (for anyone who doesn't know, Hornet is a reputable and consistently accurate insider from the Discord server), you started off repeating their rumours and then used the trust you gained from that to make people believe your fake ones. You may well have real info this time, but nobody is gonna believe you when you've lied so much, especially when you're weirdly withholding stuff.

Before you guys believe this, this person has consistently spread fake rumours on Reddit and Discord throughout this entire campaign. They also harassed a reputable insider that they thought was SOPHIE's brother begging them to release Europe For The Summer. I think they're a kid tbh.

That's definitely plausible, and probably right, but it's worth noting that Caribbean music is pretty popular in the UK mainstream and we have a lot of artists working in that kind of style.

Regardless of whether he actually believes it or whether it's engagement bait, the effects are still the same. I think the moral difference hating women and pretending to hate women so people who hate women admire you is pretty minimal. Also, from digging, it seems like he has a weird relationship to SOPHIE's fans. Clearly posts things that are intended to flex his access to her unreleased music ("This early demo of Lemonade is so good"), then jokes about how SOPHIE's fans hate him because they're jealous they were friends. Seems like he's using her legacy to boost his fifteen seconds of fame. It was because she's using a Carribbean accent in the demo and Starrah is not Carribbean, she felt it was cultural appropriation. We can assume the demo was meant for a Carribbean artist. Although there's obviously nothing she can do it about it now, and it is a relatively small issue, I think this was definitely a misstep on SOPHIE's part and Starrah has a right to be upset.

Do we have any proof of this? As far as I'm aware he's just run into issues with stealing other people's work as well as AI and NFT stuff.

I agree, but I think that we're gonna have to get used to the fact that this album will include some problematic people, and I don't want to hear any meltdowns about it. Pretty much confirmed that Liz will make an appearance, possibly Jimmy too, and we already have a Kim feature.

That's agiven, mixing is something you do last in the process when the track is finalised. I'm more talking about the structure and length and stuff. It's 50/50 so far, Berlin Nightmare and One More Time have been much shorter than what she was playing live while Exhilarate and Reason Why have been the full versions (with Exhilarate even having an extra outro) I think the two long versions we have of Transnation (12 minute and 10 minutes) are soundboard rips from her shows, which means that the more abstract sections could just be part of her live show or maybe even improvisation.

If we're getting Transnation, what version do you think we'll end up getting? I hope it isn't the 3 minute version from the leaked music video, I love all the weird textural stuff in the middle of the two longer versions.

Kinda sick of people not understanding what mixing is. Benny has always been a mixing engineer on SOPHIE'S music (alongside SOPHIE herself), and in fact it's extremely uncommon for artists to mix their own work. To be honest, most people wouldn't be able to tell a mixed from an unmixed song at first glance (unless the original was EXTREMELY poorly mixed). I think we need to trust that SOPHIE's closest collaborator and family member knows better than we do about her wishes and how she wanted the songs to sound. We didn't know her, we were not in the studio with her, and I think it's both disrespectful and unfair to create this odd and unrealistic narrative that Benny is somehow tinkering with SOPHIE's music in a way she would not have wanted for seemingly no reason at all.