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Perhaps - August 18. UPDATE IV: A New Hope (Radio Premiere Tomorrow?)


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5 minutes ago, AxlRoseCDII said:

Any “leakers” and “insiders” are currently drinking champagne and laughing at all of us. Kind of just like TB.

Nah....

Any “leakers” and “insiders” are currently drinking Monster energy drinks and laughing at all of us from their parent's basements. 

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16 minutes ago, allwaystired said:

All of that is true.....but it's also true that they never officially said "Perhaps is coming on X date". 

It's utterly frustrating and baffling of course, but as regards the exact date- that disappointment is a little on us. We should know better. 

 Nope.  F Axl and his enablers. 

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1 hour ago, Voodoochild said:

The video wasn't posted. The source code of that page still shows this line that indicates it was some kind of testing: <title>Campaign Preview</title>

NOTHING gets posted to that page without approval from two or three parties. Period. Stop making excuses for this band.

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7 minutes ago, The Real McCoy said:

NOTHING gets posted to that page without approval from two or three parties. Period. Stop making excuses for this band.

It's not excuse, it's fact. The page wasn't POSTED. It got leaked. And it didn't get post probably because the band didn't approve it, for whatever reason.

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What if all this years optimism ends in one massive fuckyou goose chase?

2 minutes ago, The Real McCoy said:

Some folks need to use some critical thinking here: That Linkfire page wouldn’t be activated, nor would anything be posted to it, much less a fully produced video unless the band, label, and management were ALL on the same page regarding a promotional strategy. You remove one of those three from the equation, and the page stays dormant with nothing being posted to it: test code or otherwise. 
 

SOME kind of promotional campaign was in place, but either “someone” got cold feet at the last minute, or they got pissed off that we found the page early and pulled the release to try to spite us.
 

Anyone trying to deny that is just lying to themselves. 

So we've shot ourselves in the feet and we get punished....great.

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6 minutes ago, Voodoochild said:

It's not excuse, it's fact. The page wasn't POSTED. It got leaked. And it didn't get post probably because the band didn't approve it, for whatever reason.

No. It’s not.

You can send a mock-up of the page to the band and management. You can post it on a private page on Universal’s servers - you don’t need to activate it on a live page if you don’t want to. 

SOME sort of release plan was put in place. Something happened that canceled that.

If you want to fall on the sword for the band, that’s your right to do so. The rest of us gave up that fight a long time ago and for good reason.

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8 minutes ago, BillConnor_1982 said:

I guess he also made a mistake when he said this stuff sounds like Appetite for Destruction. I definitely see the similarities between Perhaps and Out Ta Get Me

cause he was definitely talking about Perhaps when he said the material sounded like AFD? what is your point here, that he lied? if so, I don't think he has any reason to. It's not like even if a changing of the narrative was something Gn'R was actually doing, that they would turn to Tom Mayhue to do that.

sometimes people just describe shit as they see (or hear) it and mix up things. I think you're jumping to conclusions.

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3 minutes ago, Voodoochild said:

It's not excuse, it's fact. The page wasn't POSTED. It got leaked. And it didn't get post probably because the band didn't approve it, for whatever reason.

What @The Real McCoy is saying is that the marketers would not redirect the Perhaps Linkfire URL to the Perhaps promotion page detailing a release date without permission. This is most likely true, but for whatever reason, the marketing department thought it would be a good idea to redirect a live link to a draft page instead of a final page. This was obviously a big mistake on their part as they weren't expecting people to find it so quickly (which is something they should have anticipated as a possibility given that Hard Skool was found similarly early). 

 

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3 minutes ago, Live Like a Suicide said:

What @The Real McCoy is saying is that the marketers would not redirect the Perhaps Linkfire URL to the Perhaps promotion page detailing a release date without permission. This is most likely true, but for whatever reason, the marketing department thought it would be a good idea to redirect a live link to a draft page instead of a final page. This was obviously a big mistake on their part as they weren't expecting people to find it so quickly (which is something they should have anticipated as a possibility given that Hard Skool was found similarly early). 

 

As someone that has worked in marketing and promotion on the radio side over the years: everything is internal until you want it to be released. It’s marketing 101.

Someone authorized that link fire page to go live. That was NOT an accident. 

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