Credit where credit is due. Back in the day, when I was one of the
ones who was pissed off and making noise about Dave and Joss being
left in ruins, it was iorr's "rocky dijon" who provided me with some key
pieces of this puzzle...

Back when this chart talk started, georgelicks had said that they had no
chance in the US or UK to have a Top 100 hit, and he's admitted now
that this news for him is a big surprise...

Of course it doesnt nearly vindicate my Top 10 prediction, which was
based solely on my (imagined?) cavalry of you-tube reactors riding to
our promotional rescue...

We're in the new chart week now, and still no sign of these troops.
But for now i am choosing to cling to my "embargoed-reactions theory".
I won't give up on Angry being a true worldwide hit until they
formally announce a release date for the Gaga song. 

(the trickle continues, this is my fave recently, this kid is entertaining...)   

1) This is funny I think. It was driving me nuts to be checking out the
Lady Gaga reddit every few days without there ever being any mention
of "sweet sounds". Honestly I was guessing that I would get some
leaked info there before we got anything official from the Stones.
I mean, 109K members...

But then when we got that faux newspaper thing from the Stones with
the big Gaga headline, and plenty of news stories concerning the collab,
I figured her reddit would be buzzing like crazy...

But not a goddamn word. I realized that they get their info there only
from a really narrow range of official and semi-official sources. I have
to wonder if they even know how to google "gaga" 

anyway i took matters into my own hands and posted the Gaga
newspaper over there with my caption "Rolling Stones begin to hype
Lady Gaga's co-lead vocal on the 7-minute-long single "Sweet Sounds
of Heaven" (coming soon). In their 60-year career, this is by far the
most prominence the Stones have ever given a guest vocalist."

So, after one day, I got 4500 views, a 100% up-vote rate, and 43
community karma points (whatever they are). Which is very kind
of them, since I didnt even know how to post the pic correctly...

And that concludes my highly successful reddit career...

2) Nobody anywhere is mentioning the Paul song lyrics
(and there's a lot of Paul fans on iorr dot org)

I'm a lyrics person, so I already like this Paul song.
But will Paul people like these lyrics?
(and no, I am not gonna visit the Macca reddit to
find out the answer. that's a bridge too far)

Are people expecting old-school angry punk rock music with Paul?

I'm like totally expecting pop-punk...

with processed Paul joining in vocally on the chorus

I mean, on Angry, the bridge-verses(?), the parts that have more
melody ("please just forget about me, cancel out my name..." etc),
which are the parts most likely written by Andrew, that's pop-punk.
As are, sorta, those processed outro background voices ("Angry...
Don't be angry with me")

Also, what are your expectations for the doco?

Netflix?  Youtube I hope.

Before, same day as, or after the album release?

I would expect that the vid for "sweet sounds" would be essentially
an excerpt from the doco

Also, I don't think the lead vocal on Angry is auto-tuned. But
I do think its processed, so that certain frequencies/timbres of
his voice are emphasized or de-emphasized at certain moments.
Auto-tune is a blunt instrument, used gently by literally everybody
these days live on stage to slightly auto-correct things. My understanding
of processing is that its like faceting an irregularly-shaped diamond by
hand. Labor-intensive, moment by moment decisions about what sounds
best at each particular moment (as an example, "at 2:32, make that note
more nasal, so it sounds more punk"). 

So you can choose to leave in whatever "flaws" you want, because you
like the way they sound, or re-shape any "flaw" to make it more or less
obvious...

The guitars on Angry have been processed too. Before recording,
you've been able for decades to plug in whatever FX pedal you want.
But now you can apply those kinda pedal-FX in post-production as well.
You can even process the drums if you want, to make Steve sound more
like Charlie (or vice versa)

So I'm quite certain processing would be used on every song* on this
album. It will just be used more heavily, and thus be more obvious,
on certain tracks

*with the possible exception of "rollin' stone"

bottom line: this is a pop record, like Sticky Fingers, not a roots
record, like Exile. I thought they would be forced by age into
making a roots record, but I was wrong. God bless Andrew Watt.