1972 project speculation thread

[GDFan2019]

5 minutes ago, DookieLukie said:

Anything but 1981. Boy that sucked.

Although we were hearing it through someone’s smartphone, along with the fact Billie was having audio issues with his earpiece!!! And nerves probably came into play as they were playing the song for the first time.

[suffoKate]

I’m loving this teaser campaign so far! Up there with the Trilogy! 

[Virginia Lot Lizard]

1 hour ago, GDFan2019 said:

Although we were hearing it through someone’s smartphone, along with the fact Billie was having audio issues with his earpiece!!! And nerves probably came into play as they were playing the song for the first time.

The lyrics and everything sucked. Not just a sound quality issue.

27 minutes ago, Radiation Fear said:

I’m loving this teaser campaign so far! Up there with the Trilogy! 

This has been a sucky campaign. 

1 hour ago, DookieLukie said:

Anything but 1981. Boy that sucked.

Sucked!

27 minutes ago, Radiation Fear said:

I’m loving this teaser campaign so far! Up there with the Trilogy! 

I would love if this was like the Trilogy.

So far just sucky songs and a sucky campaign.

The Trilogy was way better promo, teasers, songs.

I hope the singles and 1981 were just tests and not what the new album is going to be like.

Holy Toledo was good. I would love that for how the new album is going to sound and feel but it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen. Here Comes the Pollyanna 1981 Shock.

[GDFan2019]

22 minutes ago, Radiation Fear said:

I’m loving this teaser campaign so far! Up there with the Trilogy! 

 

2 minutes ago, Virginia Lot Lizard said:

This has been a sucky campaign.

The teasers always got me hyped. The only downside is the length of time. If we do indeed get the first single in October, it will be 2 years since the sessions began, and then December will be 2 years since the first teaser!!!

[Austrian_Insomniac]

what i like about the teasers is, that the band themself is joking around with the WMUWSE and the death of billies dad,, finally all the crybabies who cared more about this than billie himself can stop the "omg its so sad dont joke around with WMUWSE, bc if u do i am gonna cry" ahahahahaha

[AlienVisitor]

2 hours ago, GDFan2019 said:

What do you guys think the first single would be?

1981?

Saviors?

American Dream?

Pretty sure it's not 1981..

Why the hell would they let us hear the lead single so  goddamn early ??

I think it's been already a month since we've heard it.

 

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

Just pure speculation, but someone mentioned that someone said somewhere that his uncle, who is an insider, said that Operation is part of the title of the album or single. 

If the font analysis of the mystery website done here is correct (Capital bolded letters from Green Day, rest is the album title), we likely have two words in the album title since we have two capital letters, an extra t and a p from NopE: 
O…
T…

Operation Timebomb? 

Fitting the dates pattern (1972, 1981), tribute to Operation Ivy and Tim? 1972 is dead cause it was timebombed? 👀

Just excitement led speculation, forgive me 🥲
 

Edit: Nevermind, there’s a capital P in Nope. Operation Private Timebomb 🥴

[ThranaM]

2 hours ago, Virginia Lot Lizard said:

The lyrics and everything sucked. Not just a sound quality issue.

This has been a sucky campaign. 

Sucked!

I would love if this was like the Trilogy.

So far just sucky songs and a sucky campaign.

The Trilogy was way better promo, teasers, songs.

I hope the singles and 1981 were just tests and not what the new album is going to be like.

Holy Toledo was good. I would love that for how the new album is going to sound and feel but it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen. Here Comes the Pollyanna 1981 Shock.

Loving the positive vibes 😂🙌

[MillenniumFan]

5 hours ago, HAPPY FINKING UNICORN said:

Just pure speculation, but someone mentioned that someone said somewhere that his uncle, who is an insider, said that Operation is part of the title of the album or single. 

If the font analysis of the mystery website done here is correct (Capital bolded letters from Green Day, rest is the album title), we likely have two words in the album title since we have two capital letters, an extra t and a p from NopE: 
O…
T…

Operation Timebomb? 

 

Operation certainly feels like something greendayish to put into an album title!

Love how you're giving it a try, I feel like creativity is key now.

 

Speculators of this fine and aged establishment, this is your shining hour  

Join our quest for truth! We need all our best minds at work!

 

Anyway, we essentially we have the following clues thus far: 

23 Sep: NOPE

25 Sep: NOT YEt

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Broken down by dy date and category this spells: 

23 Sep: NE ––– OP

25 Sep: NEY ––– OTt

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Quick recap: 

For Green Day we currently have: GREEN DAY ---- and an extra N

For the album/single title we currently have the letters: O P O T t ---- if we say one O is just a repeat then we're left with: O P T t 

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We had a theory earlier on relating to the small t. The idea was that it might be to indicate that it's not a repeat. But as we can see, the bold N in (presumably) GREEN DAY is also repeated.

So there are three more possible scenarios: 

1) It's referring to a t within a word, non-capitalised, for example Operation

2) It's referring to a t in a less meaningful, potentially non-capitalised word like "the" ----  for instance: Operation of the People  

3) It refers to it definitely being repeated, unlike the letter O for example. 

However, since Green Day seem unlikely to name anything in the second way, scenario 2) seems very unlikely. Scenario 3 does not necessarily contradict Scenario 1, so 1) and 3) seem quite plausible. 

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So then the question is, what to do with the following letters 

O P T t 

Could it be an album title with three or more words, each respectively starting with O, P and T?

I feel like Operation is a worthy candidate for O. Perhaps also Oakland? 

This whole teasing cycle has definitely had a nostalgic element to it, so Time seems like a worthy candidate for T. 

P, I don't know. Pop? Punk? Play? Poprocks? Prosthetic? Panic? Paradise? Passalacqua? 

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The other thing we could attempt to do, though with very little to go on, is to look at what the next composite words might be. 

GREEN DAY is still missing the letters G R D A

So the next three messages could read: 

1) kiNDA (for D and A)

3) GEttiNG READY (for G and R)

2) Oh YEAh 

Although, admittedly there would be a lot of repeats there, so not sure about it. 

Perhaps they'll also continue with the theme of starting with an N, until the answer to the question is yes. 

1) NOT TODAY  ---- (for D and A)

2) NOT Right NOw  ---- or NOT REAllY ---- (for R)

3) GOd YEAh ---- (for G) 

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But here's where we need all the creativity this place has to offer  So give it your best!

[PluckyJokerhead]

Operation Bottle Rockets & Razor Blades

[TJChrobo]

Not to throw a wet blanket on the letters in the website theories, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it meant nothing. It could just be different fonts and capitalization is an aesthetic to look edgy.

I hope it is something more, I just can’t bring myself to hold my breath.

PROvE mE wRONG GREEN DAY.

[MillenniumFan]

30 minutes ago, TJChrobo said:

Not to throw a wet blanket on the letters in the website theories, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it meant nothing. It could just be different fonts and capitalization is an aesthetic to look edgy.

You could so be right 

If there's one thing we know, it's that they really suck at promotion and teasers. Lord, do they suck. Hell, Panicland really put them to shame last time. Now that was what you would call great promotion/teasing...

Still love 'em though. How couldn't I. 

[pacejunkie punk]

I love that despite their multi millions and the music industry machine behind them, they still come off as a janky DIY outfit

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

25 minutes ago, MillenniumFan said:

You could so be right 

If there's one thing we know, it's that they really suck at promotion and teasers. Lord, do they suck. Hell, Panicland really put them to shame last time. Now that was what you would call great promotion/teasing...

Still love 'em though. How couldn't I. 

Rather than how much they suck at it (they don’t actually do any of that), is how much they are willing to pay for it. Or how much Warner does. 
Hiring the right (expensive) agency and creatives they can get the best promotional campaign. I guess them or the label didn’t consider that a priority or something worth spending money on in the recent past (this campaign is still about to start, let’s see maybe they surprise us). 
 

[Gwen Stacy]

Five years from now we’re the only ones who will remember the marketing. Long term the biggest success the record can have is being good. 

[HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN]

1 hour ago, Gwen Stacy said:

Five years from now we’re the only ones who will remember the marketing. Long term the biggest success the record can have is being good. 

Absolutely agree, but some people legitimately want the band to be commercially successful, and when it comes to pop music that requires an adequate promotion. Personally I don’t give a fuck about that, the band proved anything it had to prove already, from any perspective including the commercial one. But if someone care about how many streams the new record will have on Spotify or whether it will sell more or less than the record of another pop band, or how much and how social medias react to it, well I get why they will care a lot about promotion and advertisement.

That said the cringy failures of the FOAM marketing reached ridiculous levels that even a masterpiece record wouldn’t handle, and got very close from damaging the band image long term. I don’t give a fuck about record sales when it comes to a 90’s band releasing in 2023, I don’t give a fuck about GD vs Blink in 2023, but I care about my favorite band image being compromised by ridiculous and idiotic marketing agencies. Hope the people that worked on those FOAM billboards are as far away as possible from this promotion cycle. 
 

 

[jengd]

Agree with @HAPPY FINKING UNICORN, I was going to say, I thought FOAM was supposed to be “slick marketing” by Crush!

@MillenniumFan Ilove your work on this, I spent way too long yesterday looking at the possibilities.  Re the P, all I came up with was “do we know Billie doesn’t want to name a whole album Platypus.” 😂

[nflsbest26]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxqVqhWLzDw/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
 

not sure who’s page this is but I guess something is happening soon…

[alexander_seiter]

16 minutes ago, nflsbest26 said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxqVqhWLzDw/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
 

not sure who’s page this is but I guess something is happening soon…

I just hope he's not right about 1981 being a single.....

[alienlifeform]

20 minutes ago, nflsbest26 said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxqVqhWLzDw/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
 

not sure who’s page this is but I guess something is happening soon…

you guys sometimes give too much attention to random fan accounts. Probably a 14 year old kid is running that

[DookieLukie]

Yeah has this person posted anything original or just whatever they read on here?

[Sanity Loan]

27 minutes ago, nflsbest26 said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxqVqhWLzDw/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
 

not sure who’s page this is but I guess something is happening soon…

What gives me pause about that account is that they are only mentioning song titles that have already been rumored, rather than anything new.

[Redundantuserjinxboy]

4 hours ago, TJChrobo said:

Not to throw a wet blanket on the letters in the website theories, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it meant nothing. It could just be different fonts and capitalization is an aesthetic to look edgy.

I hope it is something more, I just can’t bring myself to hold my breath.

PROvE mE wRONG GREEN DAY.

JASON implied the fonts meant something, he's the guy in the know here

[Christian's Inferno!]

Yeah literally everything that account is saying is stuff we already know about (1981, Saviors, One Eyed Bastard) or that can be reasonably assumed i.e Early 2024, 2 songs in 2023

[Redundantuserjinxboy]

21 minutes ago, Christian's Inferno! said:

Yeah literally everything that account is saying is stuff we already know about (1981, Saviors, One Eyed Bastard) or that can be reasonably assumed i.e Early 2024, 2 songs in 2023

2 songs in 2023 sounds like a liberal guess. Im thinking 1 song as single. Then 2024. And maybe another single with the release of the album