The Great Popcorn Debacle of 2014 (formerly Walk Me To The Bridge Official Reactions)

[allisvanity]

Originally Posted by Dancing Kirby

Christ, if legal teams finally start taking them to task on their plagiarism, we'll be lucky if we're left with an EP.

[revcheese]

Being new, I'm curious, and it's hard to decipher tone over the internet, but is DK usually serious with his/her posts or just being humourous?

[Mrs Bradfield]

this is the best thread ever ( barring JDB Blackstar), has given me some good laughs. i managed to legally download WMTTB from google play this morning. but yeah...confusion reg album and single even with the explanation this morning, seems to be the watchword for this album.

[Mrs Bradfield]

Originally Posted by revcheese

Being new, I'm curious, and it's hard to decipher tone over the internet, but is DK usually serious with his/her posts or just being humourous?

DK is alright

[AK47]

Originally Posted by revcheese

Being new, I'm curious, and it's hard to decipher tone over the internet, but is DK usually serious with his/her posts or just being humourous?

That user is generally sarcastic.

[AK47]

If the video features Popcorn it will be a magic moment.

[revcheese]

Originally Posted by AK47

That user is generally sarcastic.

Okay, thanks for the clarification.

[AK47]

Originally Posted by revcheese

Okay, thanks for the clarification.

Quite a nice person though at times. It depends on wether or not she is fed after midnight.

[Bobafettish]

You can't blame manics fans for wanting/sharing new music, not can you blame the band. Almighty cock up.
If there's a copyright issue too then it's just ridiculous though haha

[Takk]

Lol, Popcorngate is the underdogs of 2014.

[Takk]

Originally Posted by Bobafettish

You can't blame manics fans for wanting/sharing new music, not can you blame the band. Almighty cock up.
If there's a copyright issue too then it's just ridiculous though haha

Especially when the track wasn't leaked or illegallly made available, it was available for purchase on official sites..

[Abstract Unknown Girl]

Originally Posted by Takk

The announcement doesn't even say when the single is gonna be released!

It was basically an announcement of an announcement

At least they've bothered to address it now though. Yeah it's confusing and not the start to the Futurology era we'd all have liked but I don't think it'll affect anything in the long run. Most people who haven't been reading this thread probably aren't even aware of exactly what's been going on anyway. We're already all laughing about it so can't be that bad

[Futurologist]

Originally Posted by FacelessSenseOfVoid

After all that's happened I actually feel some sympathy towards the band. It's not their fault. Sony / Ooh FFS have fucked this all up. It's nice that they've finally put us all in the picture and now we know what's going on. I wonder if the band have been trawling the internet reading our comments.... that would be scary.

Their PR company don't actually control the release dates, Sony didn't fuck up, the release date changed and some small retailers didn't get the memo.

Sony and the PR company are almost definitely aware of comments here and on the internet, it's actually the only way they would have been alerted to the leak.

As I said on your fb, it takes time to respond to unexpected issues and the PR company are unlikely to have had an 'oops, there's a leak in Australia' press release to hand. From what I know about the PR company, they seem to be real fans of the Manics and are really enthused about the upcoming album.

Originally Posted by AK47

so I'm hearing the band have had legal issues regarding "Let's Go To War" and copyright and it now won't appear on the album? Can anyone clarify this? I saw a post on Manic Street Mania.

Originally Posted by FacelessSenseOfVoid

Maybe because the riff sounds like it was taken from one of a few classical pieces?

The classical pieces are well out of copyright. If there is a copyright reason, I don't think Tchaikovsky raised the complaint.

[Suicide Aldi]

I just find the whole situation hilarious to be honest.

[Takk]

It probably actually created far more interest in the single/album than would have existed online before. Course they could have achieved that with, i don't know, an advert?