— makayla FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@makeofit) May 20, 2024
❤️ We love our customers and @twentyonepilots fans! Thank you everyone who came out to the #ClancyRSC Listening Party & Prizes! The crowd was BEYOND THRILLED with Twenty One Pilot’s new album “Clancy” — they couldn’t stop smiling and grooving and singing along! pic.twitter.com/2d780iDilQ
— Down in the Valley (@DownNthevalley) May 18, 2024
we took the twenty one pilots listening party to Pryzm. good times, new album Clancy played loud, and plenty of prizes raffled off. thanks for coming out! pic.twitter.com/Pdx1rYbiTr
“Clancy” by twenty one pilots has been leaked online. The reason is that after the band postponed the release date of the album, many record stores still sold CDs as originally scheduled, and many people even posted screenshots of the album being shipped a week in advance.
Among them, @jumpsuitlive posted on Twitter at noon of Thursday, May 16th (EST time, the same below), saying that he had received the CD. (According to subsequent info, he should have bought it at Walmart.)
By 7 am on the 17th, a Discord server called “TOP LEAK” released a low-definition version of each song in “Clancy”, which was a phone recording of the album playing on a speaker.
The low-resolution version of the audio was then uploaded to Dropbox and was removed a few hours later.
The person who got the record seems to be called a-jam-jarr, and many people want to teach her how to rip tracks and upload high-definition copies of the CD. But she said she didn’t have a computer and couldn’t rip the CD.
The server appears to be purged after a few hours.
At 1 p.m. on the 17th, @jumpsuitlive, mentioned above, ripped the CD track and uploaded the FLAC lossless audio and the album’s lyrics book photos to the website clancyinbio.com made by @loisbearer. The audio source was initially uploaded to the Mega.nz service, andthe link was removed a few hours later.
The website uses the cartoon image of Lois Griffin from the cartoon “Family Guy”, which is very funny…
According to the information I found, this website is actually made using the free hosting service of GitHub Pages. The only thing that they paid should be the domain name.
Before the link to the Mega.nz network disk expired, loisbearer also uploaded a copy to Google Drive. But a few hours later, the links were dead. Eventually, they changed the link to a page on the justanothermusic.site website, which requires registration to see the content.
As of now (11am on Saturday), clancyinbio.com is still online. I don’t know if GitHub received the DMCA notice but didn’t handle it, or if Warner Music’s legal representatives couldn’t figure out who to contact.
According to jumpsuitlive, this website seems to have 2.9 million visits (?) I’m not sure if this is true…
The following is gossip from myself.
Yesterday, I uploaded the leaked FLAC audio file compressed zip file to my personal WordPress blog [the domain name is status.dun4real.org], and then shared it on Twitter. Because I did not use a 3rd party file hosting service, but placed it directly on my own server, I think this will make it more difficult for them to take it down.
Because I had received a deletion email from Rock Sound before, I was basically certain that I would receive an email from the legal department after spreading the audio files. I received an email at 5 p.m. on Friday from GrayZone, Inc., a company that specializes in music copyright issues. They were entrusted by Warner Music Group and asked me to immediately delete the Copyrighted Content about Twenty One Pilots “Clancy” from the website. (In order to avoid my site being taken down by the server provider, I subsequently deleted the link)
The email also ends with contact information for the person handling the matter.
What’s really funny is that they didn’t find the right recipient. My website is hosted on DigitalOcean, but maybe because they saw a Substack link in the web page and so they sent the email to Substack at the same time. (my site isn’t even hosted on Substack.) If they send it to DigitalOcean, I don’t know if the website will be taken down (the biggest concern is this), or if they will just send me a warning.
By 5 am today, I received an email from Twitter informing me that a post involving infringing content from Twenty One Pilots Clancy had been deleted. At the same time, a DMCA takedown notice from the UK IFPI was forwarded, which required Twitter to delete or disable all links mentioned.
At the same time, my account was temporarily blocked and was not unlocked until I agreed to the warning message.
The email mentioned a total of four Twitter post links, two of which were from loisbearer and two from my account.
The contact information of the sender is also given at the end.
Overall my impression is that the legal representatives that handle infringement removals are either very slow to respond to such content, or they don’t even find the right service provider.
The Leak page I published has been visited a total of 1500 times, which has probably the highest I’ve ever seen.
Overall, whether it is downloading leaks or sharing leaks, I feel thrilled, very excited. Maybe this is the feeling of doing bad things, or the thrill of rebellion. What’s more, good guy’s response is so slow.
因为之前收到过 Rock Sound 的请求删除邮件，我基本上确定大肆传播以后会收到法务的邮件。我在周六凌晨五点收到了来自专门处理音乐版权问题的公司 GrayZone, Inc. 发送的邮件，他们受到华纳音乐集团 Warner Music Group 的委托，要求我立即删除网站上有关 Twenty One Pilots “Clancy”的版权内容。（为了避免被服务器提供方停止服务，我后续把链接删掉了）
they were great!! josh very sweet we had such a polite and professional almost interaction of “hi how are you” 🙂 tyler complimented my blurryface shirt !! 🙂 pic.twitter.com/mo8nNdZKzk
— aims ψ met the pilots (@mxlberryyst) May 9, 2024
很多人都在网上分享了签名活动的良好经历，说 Tyler Joseph & Dun 都很友好很礼貌。但也有人说自己讲话时被 Josh Dun 忽略了。（很多人在现场偷偷拍下了照片或者影片，比如 1, 2, 3, 4, 5）
另外有人在签名活动当中对 Joseph 提到了 Simone Weil 的名字，Joseph 停下签名，看向她然后让她重新说一遍。（Simone Weil 是法国的作家，也是 André Weil 的姐姐/妹妹，最近有很多人发现了她的信件跟 Clancy 日记的关联性。）
At a recent signing with fans, Tyler acknowledged Simone Weil, a French writer and philosopher who was the sister of André Weil, a member of the Nicolas Bourbaki mathematician group. While nothing is totally confirmed, it’s worth looking into. pic.twitter.com/bmWzn9KIav
这场演出加入了《Vessel》的一首歌曲《Screen》。但最让人惊喜的是，在此之后 Joseph 首度演唱了新专辑尚未发表的歌曲《The Craving (Jenna’s Version)》。
附上 Bing Chat 对于歌词的理解：
The lyrics you’ve shared seem to express a deep sense of longing and introspection. Here’s a breakdown of some of the themes and emotions conveyed in the song: Verse 1 & 2: The speaker is reflecting on their own behavior, noting that overthinking leads to less communication. There’s a recurring theme of “craving,” which could symbolize a strong desire for connection or understanding. The line “Now I see intentions don’t mean much” suggests a realization that despite good intentions, actions (or the lack thereof) speak louder. Chorus: The repetition of “Say enough, say enough” and “Did I let her know, let her know” indicates a worry about whether they’ve communicated their feelings adequately. The imagery of being “in chains” could represent feeling trapped or restricted, possibly by their own emotions or circumstances. The hope that “she looks for me” implies a desire to be sought after or valued by someone else. Outro: The outro touches on the “fear of the unknown,” which can be paralyzing and affect one’s actions. The speaker doesn’t want to burden “her” with their issues but promises to contribute positively rather than take away. Overall, the song seems to deal with the complexities of communication and the human desire to be understood and cared for. It’s about the internal struggle between wanting to express oneself and the fear of being vulnerable. The “craving” mentioned throughout the song could be a metaphor for this need for emotional connection and validation.
— twenty one pilots (@twentyonepilots) May 7, 2024
一些粉丝对于这种试听活动能否阻止盗录感到担忧。
I don’t wanna say it but doing this increases the chances of getting the album leaked. I’m not saying it’s gonna happen for sure, but cmon, we all know the history of previous albums.
乐队在纽约演出时顺便造访了 Elektra Entertainment 和纽约 Z100 电台演播室。现在纽约 Z100 的访问影片放出，可以在 YouTube 观看：https://youtu.be/nMpNYxYPHwA
电台访问主要讲了下面的内容：
关于当父亲和事业：Joseph 说他觉得自己的父亲在当爹以后变得不酷了。他不想这样，他觉得让孩子看到自己在继续做自己爱做的事情，这就是最重要的事情。他说 4 岁的 Rosie 发现他的歌出现在电台上，已经有点理解他们做的事情了。当 Joseph 要去巡演的时候，她会问他们是不是要去拍 MV 了。
关于 Josh Dun 的导演处女秀：他跟 Joseph 都觉得《Backslide》这首歌的含义很深刻，如果直白地把含义讲出来好像太轻松了。（意思大概是，所以他们用了一些视觉上的隐喻去表达歌曲含义。）Dun 承认自己在摄影方面不如专业导演了解，但是有合作的伙伴帮助处理这些技术问题，去帮他们实现自己的想法。Dun 在摄影当中也需要权衡成本，比如他提到了 Joseph 骑车的场景（其实他没有真的在骑，是用了某种牵引的装置拉的），要用导轨去固定摄像机拍出一个平稳的影像其实要花很多钱，他们最后好像叫了一个朋友帮他们做了一个道具来实现这个。
乐队在 5/2 晚八点在纽约 Bowery Ballroom 剧场进行了 An Evening with Twenty One Pilots 特别演唱会的第一场演出，这也是乐队半年多来首场演出。演出以新歌《Overcompensate》开场，到半小时处演唱了三首老歌，包括《Trapdoor》、《Isle of Fightless Birds》和《Screen》。之后乐队演唱了《Trench》的主打单曲《Jumpsuit》和专辑末尾曲目《Leave The City》。当中 Joseph 在演唱《Shy Away》的时候还把两段主歌的歌词搞错了。接着乐队又唱了一首老歌《Ode To Sleep》。演出以《New Semester》和《Tree》结尾。当中 Joseph 多次讲到他们没有排练（“we didn’t rehearse.”）。
小插曲：Joseph 唱 Shy Away 之前让粉丝 effing help him 然后开始扭腰，笑死😆（因为他自己记不清楚主歌歌词了…）
“so can you just… JUST EFFING HELP ME…….. im gonna dance though :3 🕺🕺🕺🕺” JDFOWNDOWNDOWKFKKSDKWKDNSM pic.twitter.com/wi3bma1eGu
