The Tortured Poets Department ILX Pre-Cover Planning Thread

All good!

still fiddling around on account of my overestimation of my ability to use Vocaloid (have only ever plugged in random vowel sounds, conjuring actual words is slightly more complex, haha) but will absolutely have Taylor's next banger sorted at some point this evening

has anyone volunteered for the boudoir photoshoot (for the album art/WDYLL thread)

sent

Got it!

Got quick updates from sarahell and kurt s that time had snuck up on them but they'll aim to have something in the near future (we have time given the 'release date' of April 1); combined with Elvis T and florin's updates here we're on track. If for any reason a gap DOES open up, is there anyone else who can claim a spot? H.P., are you free again?

How is it sounding, Ned? Have any themes emerged?

Theme: "bad music" from all pre-homo sapien musician

Actually mega excited to hear everyone's songs

It is a thing of wonder. (As of this point, Neanderthal's song is the longest; front tea for two's is the shortest.)

If there is an emergency, I do have an extra track that another friend of mine and I devised that sounds like really lush hold music, free to anyone that feels like adding vocals/anything.

I never actually finished mine so let me know if I can keep tinkering. Staying up until 2:30 to “finish” it was a bad idea. As with college papers, I sent what I had.

throwing my name in as a backup to the backups

xpost Feel free to tinker! But there will be a final deadline, no fixing “Wolves” here.

m bison: noted, will follow up as needed!

Okay the stragglers are coming in, we're down to Elvis Telecom, florin and sarahell...

I know I haven't been about much for the past few years but I'm not sure I would have resisted putting something together for the Post Malone track using just samples from Fortnite and him saying "should we sample this?"

FINALLY have full power restored to the house so I can bring it on home. The windstorm knocked out the neutral line to the house - when power first came back automatically after the first blackout on Thursday, there were still lines down and the resulting voltage spike killed a half-dozen surge suppressers, along with a microwave, a dishwasher, and *fuckfuckfuck* my SL-1200MK3. The first two can be repaired, replaced if absolutely necessary but I'm standing vigil for my turntable.

*sad salute*

oh so sorry to hear that

ET, you have an EV, right? Were you able to plug the house into the car?

Eesh that all sounds awful!

Ned’s first listen didn’t go well then

Roffle

lmao

(Not at ET’s travails, that all sounds awful and I am pouring one out for your turntable)

The Tortured Listener’s Department

Okay some late updates!

kurt schwitterz track in hand
Elvis...any update?
Florin: sent you a note the other day. What's the score?

Finally, sarahel confirms that she'll need to step back so m bison if you can grab "The Tortured Poets Department" itself and get me something by Sunday, we're good!

hell yeah bout it

Thank ya!

Okay gotta cough REAL loudly for Elvis T and Florin here; what's going on? (M Bison is working away, obv.)

maybe as a backup plan, m bison records a trilogy!

It's what Elvis (P.) would have wanted.

i have my instrumental, i have written the chorus' lyrics, i have good friday off tomorrow and im gonna have it done by sunday

Great to hear!

Well I sure would love to release this tomorrow but… (Nothing against you, m, you got the assignment late. But Elvis T and Florin, I love you both but I’m wondering why you’ve gone dark!)

im doing last minute mixing atm, i'll have it to you within an hour!

Great!

sendt

Got it!

Release it as is or have the soothing sounds of passing gas as the missing tracks. It’s what Taylor would have wanted.

Spoken word orations.

And you're just the man for the job, Ned.

If Taylor is allowed to re-release her albums with new or different tracks, so are you.

i will gladly record one or both as Henry Rollins-esque spoken word tracks except making much less sense

if there is dead space i can send some filler over but it won't have lyrics or standard song structure
it will have gongs

^omg please do this

It's a must.

Gongs backing Henry Rollins spoken word??

i'd rather leave henry r out of it but whatever works. lmk what is needed (duration) and i will try to find something suitable.

coincidentally and speaking of random spoken word tracks, literally every time i hear "it's a must" i think of REM's "voice of harold"