Lorde | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: So there's Lord who's she's been around for a while.

0:04 Speaker 1: I think, right, yes, she's got a new CD. And

0:07 Speaker 1: this is from the Verge dot com. So you know,

0:10 Speaker 1: sometimes when releasing physical media, people like to come up

0:15 Speaker 1: with cool gimmicks, you know, like back in the days

0:19 Speaker 1: of when vinyl was was well. Of course, vinyl has

0:23 Speaker 1: had such a resurgence over the past decade, but you know,

0:25 Speaker 1: sometimes with Vinyl people tried to do cool stuff, release

0:29 Speaker 1: limited edition vinyl. I remember I still recall when Dan

0:35 Speaker 1: of Dan Randall and the Randlettes some people will know,

0:39 Speaker 1: when he showed me he had bought the the Kiss

0:43 Speaker 1: single for Unholy that came out in ninety two, and

0:46 Speaker 1: it was they put it out on limited edition white vinyl.

0:49 Speaker 1: It was so cool.

0:50 Speaker 2: Anyway, My favorite was a Stix album that I think

0:54 Speaker 2: it was Paradise Theater that actually had the theater in

0:58 Speaker 2: the album like the visual. Yeah, you had to hold

1:01 Speaker 2: the album a certain way to see the Yeah, to

1:04 Speaker 2: see it.

1:04 Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean I always love stuff like that.

1:06 Speaker 1: Yeah, pick picture discs they call them, yeah, and those

1:08 Speaker 1: are cool. And you know, some artists have tried to

1:12 Speaker 1: do things unique and innovative with CDs, as well not

1:17 Speaker 1: just vinyl. And Lord's new CD is transparent. You can

1:23 Speaker 1: see through it. And if you don't know what I'm

1:25 Speaker 1: talking about, you know, you can always go go find

1:28 Speaker 1: a picture of it online. It's interesting. It's it's completely clear.

1:31 Speaker 1: You can see right through it, right through it. What

1:33 Speaker 1: a cool idea, right, yeah? Actually, well there's only one problem,

1:38 Speaker 1: and this is from the Verge dot com. Lord's new

1:40 Speaker 1: CD is so transparent that stereos can't even read it.

1:45 Speaker 3: Oh god, that's so terrible.

1:47 Speaker 1: And there's only one version and it doesn't work on

1:50 Speaker 1: most players. So this is from the Verge. It says

1:53 Speaker 1: Lord fans are clearly struggling to play the CD version

1:56 Speaker 1: of her new album, consumers who purchase the special edition

1:59 Speaker 1: of Virgin released on a transparent plastic disc, or reporting

2:05 Speaker 1: on Reddit and TikTok that many CD players car serios

2:09 Speaker 1: and other sound systems they've tried to play it on

2:12 Speaker 1: are unable to play it. The transparent CD, promoted it

2:18 Speaker 1: as being fully recyclable, is currently sold out on Lord's

2:22 Speaker 1: web store and was the only disc variant available for

2:26 Speaker 1: the Virgin album. So, in other words, if you don't

2:28 Speaker 1: want the clear CD, if you want something you can

2:30 Speaker 1: actually play. You can't even get it. Nope, So that

2:34 Speaker 1: may have come as a that may have been a

2:35 Speaker 1: welcome compromise for fans, given the singer opted to forego

2:38 Speaker 1: a CD release entirely for her twenty twenty one album

2:42 Speaker 1: Solar Power over waste and environmental concerns, but little comfort

2:46 Speaker 1: to customers who can't purchase alternative options. One Reddit user said, quote,

2:51 Speaker 1: very cool looking and I'm not going to return it,

2:54 Speaker 1: but doesn't work in three of my top players, PC

2:58 Speaker 1: was able to rip. The files are not great. There's

3:02 Speaker 1: distortion and clipping. User unquote. User reports indicate that older

3:07 Speaker 1: hardware is less likely to work with the CDD than

3:09 Speaker 1: devices with newer sensors, So you know, we should just

3:13 Speaker 1: stress that so people know. It's not that it doesn't

3:16 Speaker 1: play at all. You just have to have a new,

3:19 Speaker 1: a very new CD player apparently that is able to

3:23 Speaker 1: actually read the data on it. Because as one person

3:27 Speaker 1: pointed out, and this isn't from the article I saw

3:31 Speaker 1: this on uh, I saw this on another post. Somebody said, Hey,

3:36 Speaker 1: you know it's completely clearer. There's no silver coding, but

3:40 Speaker 1: isn't the silver where the data is stored.

3:43 Speaker 3: God, that's true.

3:45 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's true. So apparently it's so so if

3:49 Speaker 1: you have a newer CD player you can play it,

3:52 Speaker 1: but older ones car serios won't play it. Uh, it's

3:57 Speaker 1: it's you're just sol it says here. One talk user

4:00 Speaker 1: demonstrated that her car CD player was an unable to

4:03 Speaker 1: recognize the disc and said that forcing the CD inside

4:07 Speaker 1: resulted in automatic ejection, mirroring similar reports made in Reddit comments.

4:13 Speaker 1: Uh this redditor said, quote, whoever decided to design this

4:17 Speaker 1: as an idiot? Cars can't read the CD. Walkman's can't

4:21 Speaker 1: read the CD. You need to create CDs that are

4:23 Speaker 1: fit for purpose of for the medium in which they

4:27 Speaker 1: are played on, which is older technology. Unquote.

4:32 Speaker 3: No, you should update your technology, but that's your it's

4:35 Speaker 3: your fault. You didn't update your technology. Right here the

4:38 Speaker 3: greatness of the desk.

4:39 Speaker 1: If you're a true Lord fan, you know this reminds

4:43 Speaker 1: me of a There's a podcaster who we know who

4:46 Speaker 1: always complains about people not listening to his podcast on

4:49 Speaker 1: good quality equipment and expects everyone to upgrade their equipment

4:54 Speaker 1: when they listened to his amazing must yes yes, how

4:59 Speaker 1: he how he knows how people are consuming this content.

5:03 Speaker 1: I have no idea.

5:04 Speaker 2: But what I don't get is like, didn't they test

5:07 Speaker 2: it out on They must have like only played it

5:10 Speaker 2: on the very best.

5:12 Speaker 1: That must that must be what happened.

5:13 Speaker 3: Yeah, and nobody bothered to go, hey, let me go

5:15 Speaker 3: see if this will work in my car.

5:17 Speaker 1: That that's probably what happened, it says here. Lord has

5:20 Speaker 1: yet to address any of the issues raised about the

5:22 Speaker 1: transparent Virgin CD. The official came uh. The official cause

5:27 Speaker 1: of the playability issues also has not been confirmed. It's

5:31 Speaker 1: certainly striking. It's certainly a striking disc. CDs with even

5:35 Speaker 1: partially clear designs are uncommon and can be a hit

5:39 Speaker 1: with collectors, but the lack of functionality in this example

5:42 Speaker 1: has been a bitter experience for some Lord fans.

5:45 Speaker 2: Yeah, I can imagine, I got a pretty disc, I

5:49 Speaker 2: can't play it.

5:51 Speaker 1: One TikTok user said, quote, seems like they didn't account

5:54 Speaker 1: for this pretty disappointing. I know it was for an aesthetic,

5:57 Speaker 1: but at least press it on normal CD unquote. Yeah,

6:01 Speaker 1: that's the other weird thing. It's like, why wouldn't you

6:04 Speaker 1: also put out well a non clear.

6:09 Speaker 3: Edition because they thought that it was going to play

6:11 Speaker 3: and everything.

6:12 Speaker 1: Well, I also wonder if they thought that people might

6:18 Speaker 1: this is Wow. There's a picture here in this article

6:21 Speaker 1: two of the disc of someone holding up the disc

6:24 Speaker 1: and yeah, it's very clear. Yeah, I'd be pretty skeptical.

6:27 Speaker 1: Like if someone handed that to me and said, here,

6:29 Speaker 1: play this, I'd be like, uh, what is this? Is

6:32 Speaker 1: this actually a CD? What are you giving me here? Yeah?

6:35 Speaker 2: It looks kind of it doesn't You're right, it doesn't

6:38 Speaker 2: look like any disc that you've seen before. Yeah, but

6:42 Speaker 2: it's cute and it's quirky, and if it had played

6:45 Speaker 2: on everything, it would have been great. And that's probably

6:47 Speaker 2: why they didn't print regular ones. But then maybe they

6:50 Speaker 2: should go back and do that now and like offer people,

6:54 Speaker 2: you know, hey, you bought this disc, it's great, but

6:56 Speaker 2: here's one you can actually listen to, right, Like that

6:59 Speaker 2: would be great to do for Yeah, that would make

7:01 Speaker 2: it better. Yeah, But to spend the money to buy

7:03 Speaker 2: the thing and you can't play the music, that's It's

7:06 Speaker 2: not just about aesthetics.

7:07 Speaker 3: I mean, you want to hear what's on it.

7:10 Speaker 1: Unless they also made the calculation, it's possible that someone

7:13 Speaker 1: made the calculation that people weren't going to buy this

7:17 Speaker 1: discs to play it, But people are going to buy

7:19 Speaker 1: this disc just to have it.

7:21 Speaker 3: I think that's silly.

7:22 Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. The only reason I think someone

7:24 Speaker 1: might have thought that is because, you know my theory

7:27 Speaker 1: about vinyl. I've said it all the time that when

7:29 Speaker 1: when artists release new vinyl, you know, because some of

7:32 Speaker 1: the guests that we've had on the show, for example,

7:34 Speaker 1: they'll they'll do vinyl. And I always say that My

7:38 Speaker 1: theory is most people who buy new vinyl don't even

7:42 Speaker 1: have a record player. They just buy it because they

7:45 Speaker 1: want to have it, Like, they never even necessarily open it.

7:48 Speaker 1: They just want to really support that artist, so they'll

7:51 Speaker 1: buy it just to you know, maybe put the artwork

7:54 Speaker 1: on the wall or something, or just just to have

7:56 Speaker 1: it because they want to support that artist, not because

7:58 Speaker 1: they actually have a record player that they're going to

8:00 Speaker 1: play it on. You know what I mean.

8:02 Speaker 2: I do know what you mean, But I honestly think

8:05 Speaker 2: in this instance, it's just not the equivalency.

8:08 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I'm just I'm just wondering if someone maybe

8:11 Speaker 1: had that theory though, Like maybe somebody had a theory

8:13 Speaker 1: to my theory about violin they thought it would have

8:15 Speaker 1: even if.

8:15 Speaker 3: That was the theory. Why would you print only discs

8:18 Speaker 3: that you can't listen to? Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.

8:22 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so it's pretty strange, and apparently it's not

8:25 Speaker 1: being addressed. I guess it just came out because this

8:28 Speaker 1: story just broke a couple of days ago.

8:30 Speaker 3: I'm sure that she anticipated that the disc was going to.

8:33 Speaker 2: Work, you know, I highly doubt that it was sold

8:36 Speaker 2: to her as Hey, we want to print millions.

8:38 Speaker 3: Of your desk, but we don't want them to be

8:40 Speaker 3: able to necessarily play unless you got expensive equipment.

8:43 Speaker 1: Yeah.

8:44 Speaker 3: Yeah, unless you have new equipment. It done work.

8:48 Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, and that done not good. So well,

8:52 Speaker 1: hopefully everyone learns something from this.

8:54 Speaker 3: Yes, do not make.

8:56 Speaker 2: It clear unless they find a better material used to

9:00 Speaker 2: make them on that can actually be read.

9:02 Speaker 3: They kind of need the silver part.

9:04 Speaker 1: Yeah like that.

9:05 Speaker 3: One person wrote