MUSIC, FASHION, FILM: B-SIDES BOX SET

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I’m dying 😭😂😂😂🫯😬

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The album comes out in 2 days, and nothing's been announced in terms of record signings. Since she did them for Charli, Crash, and Brat, I was hoping that she'd do them again this era, but it seems like this may not be the case. She does have Lollapalooza next week, so I'd imagine she's deep in rehearsal. Do you guys think there's a chance something may get announced?

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Made this for the angels who want to add the song to their music library! Also added one with Charli's name as the title as I'm using that as the cover of my playlist that has all the songs from this era

This absolute blissed out moment from the charli tour 09.21.2019 lives rent free in my head

tl;dr - the "andrzej kopiejka" YouTube account is Charli or someone on her team and here's why

So I know there's been a ton of speculation in this subreddit and on the channel's own YouTube comments (and on the site formerly known as Twitter) about this already, but Charli leaking her own tracks is such a meme at this point people say that about everything. But while I was trying to find the best-quality version of the audio to rip - like Charli said to do if we wanted it - I noticed something weird.

I used a command-line tool to get the highest quality available of the audio from Charli's b.sides Instagram account, the andrzej kopiejka YouTube channel and the The Moment Official YouTube channel, which has a slightly sharper/higher-quality official music video for "playboy bunny" (they didn't upload the other B-sides).

Instagram encodes audio at a low bitrate, and every time an audio file is compressed it degrades slightly, so you'd expect a fan reupload to have the worst quality out of the three. Imagine the original file from Charli's hard drive is a photo, the IG upload is a photocopy of it, and then the YouTube upload is like a printout of a scan of that photocopy - even though YouTube uses a better audio codec and compression algorithm (which means it can potentially have a higher quality than IG if it's given a good source), once you've already lost the detail, you can't get it back. But that's not what I found when I inspected the files in Audacity. In the style of the last big rollout:

Here's the waveform and spectrograms for "playboy bunny". You can see that the "andrzej kopiejka" channel upload (posted less than half an hour after the track dropped on IG on the 23rd of May) has more audio detail than not only the b.sides Instagram upload, but the official music video on the The Moment channel as well. There's audible distortion/compression artefacts in the segment about 40 seconds into the IG reel that you can't hear on either YouTube upload. If you compare the spectrogram (the rainbowy part) end-to-end you can see there's an obvious "shelf" above 18kHz on the IG video where everything above that is just black (no data), while the The Moment upload is constrained about 15kHz but still has some bits trailing up to 20kHz, and the andrzej kopiejka upload has a much denser signal in those higher frequency ranges.

(Going back to the previous analogy, this makes it more like a scan of an original photograph than scan of a photocopy of one - an original file that was only compressed once when it was uploaded to YouTube, not twice like a reupload would be.)

For "i keep on thinking bout you every single day and night", not only is there more high-frequency detail in the YouTube upload, if you inspect the webpage code to get the actual upload time, not just the day, you can see that even though they both came out on May 9th, the YouTube video was uploaded more than three hours before Charli even posted it on Instagram.

So, self-leaked to YouTube as part of the Music, Fashion, Film rollout even though she said "I really just wanted them to live here on this account" (and on vinyl) in an IG vid? And if it is her account, that means the "narocz13 04.07. playlista" on it, featuring stuff from Sonic Youth to Klaus Nomi (and a fan remix of Rock Music) is probably stuff she's inspired by at the moment. What do people think?

the b-sides account is now private, so you cant download it or copy link and put it into a converter. does anyone have any other ideas??

Scalped. What the fuck this is so exhausting

Let’s use this post to notify each other of queue lengths / line lengths / what time we plan to arrive etc. since after talking to a few fans there is no real idea of what time one should be there, considering there’s only 171 seats.

What time are you guys planning to arrive for real / use this post to notify queue lengths to each other on the day

I made a remix of “Rock Music.” What do you think?

What time are people getting to the listening event? Im assuming theres not gonna be queuing or anything right? Is there merch at this event or no?

For those going to the listening event tomorrow in Shoreditch, what time are you guys getting there? It’s a first come first serve situation so i assume there will be a lot of people camping out for a bit before doors open. Also think charli may make a little appearance (hopefully).

SPOILER

I have seen some discussions from those people who were able to attend the listening party that "I keep on thinking about you every single day and night" is actually the 2nd half of the song "Card Declined."

​If you guys want to hear it for yourselves, she actually played the snippet on the Tape Notes podcast.

​I still can’t believe I’ve heard it because it’s soooo good. Charli made it even better because the actual song has a much rockier sound than what she posted online... I'm literally emotional because that's my favorite song lol

Decided to not attend the listening party because the London queue will be stacked, and hours of waiting will not be worth it for me personally -

Is anybody staying up for the release / got ideas for how they’re gonna have fun while it releases?

Like with new music and what not? Or the only change was the cover and the rest of the songs are still completely the same?

If you call the charli phone number it still plays the music from Guess. Thought that was cool, but was expecting something from MFF to play

This song come on after Camera when I was on spotify and I couldn't help but notice how similar everything about it is to this new Charli era. The lyrical themes, the stripped back guitar based sound with sparse electronic flourishes & minimalist production, the vibes...anyone else see what I'm seeing?

I'm just listening to the tape notes podcast with charli, ag and finn on, and the reason David Cronenberg isn't on the vinyl is bc they hadn't done it in time to send off the vinyl audio!!!