News 18th Studio Album discussion

Austrogoth said:
End of Burning Ambition documentary. Fade out, black screen, then appears the following message : "The band will enter the studio at the beginning of next year to record its 18th studio album. The story continues."
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"Steve can't be bothered recording a new album because it's too stressful"
 
Austrogoth said:
End of Burning Ambition documentary. Fade out, black screen, then appears the following message : "The band will enter the studio at the beginning of next year to record its 18th studio album. The story continues."
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But that would mean that they have found a suitable but remote studio somewhere that no fans could get to.
Paris would be out of the question. They would be besieged by fans from all over the world.
I'm still not sure whether they think it's becoming increasingly difficult to work undisturbed and therefore some distraction from the project is needed.
Or there's another explanation that the excuses given in interviews aren't particularly coherent or convincing.
 
Melony said:
But that would mean that they have found a suitable but remote studio somewhere that no fans could get to.
Paris would be out of the question. They would be besieged by fans from all over the world.
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That makes me sad to think that some fans just have so little going on in their own lives that they have to be totally obsessed by the band to follow every little bit of news to the point they find out where they are recording and fly there just to pester them.

Why can’t fans just leave Maiden alone to record and release stuff without all the Sherlock holmes investigative work and trying to find out exactly where they are and what they are doing.

Just be a normal fan and listen to music, watch gigs and don’t be stalker or an obsessive.
 
Weaponize the unhinged ones. Say "We'd love to record an album, but we're being stalked and harassed by a group of people". Then watch a counter-group of fanatics stop the annoying ones from besieging the studio and the band. Maximum chaos.
 
Fozzie4 said:
Being a normal fan is subjective though.Some normal fans will think nothing of following them around the world to gigs or whatever.
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That's definitely not a normal fan. Those are the super fans and are a tiny part of the overall fanbase. Doing something like that goes well beyond the scope of a "normal" fan, since it takes a lot of time and money.
 
I can say from my past experience on the official forum that there are definitely fans that would fly anywhere in the world just to find out what Maiden is up to.

There are some scary fans out there that take fandom too far. Following the band on tour to watch gigs, buying and collecting merch and talking to other fans on forums is one thing and all pretty normal in my eyes for fans who love music and support there favourite band but, some fans make bands like Maiden their entire lives to the detriment of everything else and most of these post in the official forms.
 
Obsessive behavior can certainly be offensive or intrusive, but it can also be creative and even mark the beginning of a new and successful path in life. Take Lars Ulrich, for example - he was once a roadie for Diamond Head, and later became the drummer for one of the biggest bands in the world.
Another example is Cynthia Albritton. Her obsessive fan spirit led her to a career in modern sculpture. Who hasn’t heard of her infamous replica of Jimi Hendrix?
So in the end, one has to decide for oneself: do you want to be normal - or a drummer-sculptor?
 
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Vaenyr said:
That's definitely not a normal fan. Those are the super fans and are a tiny part of the overall fanbase. Doing something like that goes well beyond the scope of a "normal" fan, since it takes a lot of time and money.
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The term `super fan` is no less subjective than any other term though is it. If someone wants to spend their disposable income travelling to watch a band play in different places they have never been to it doesn`t automatically make them a super fan .

My trips abroad to see Maiden have cost no more than a standard beach holiday with TUI which in the summer months are an absolute rip off.
 
Fozzie4 said:
The term `super fan` is no less subjective than any other term though is it. If someone wants to spend their disposable income travelling to watch a band play in different places they have never been to it doesn`t automatically make them a super fan .

My trips abroad to see Maiden have cost no more than a standard beach holiday with TUI which in the summer months are an absolute rip off.
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My trips abroad to see Maiden have always been part of a holiday (e.g., visiting Norway and Sweden in 2008 and seeing Maiden on the SBIT tour in Trondheim, Oslo and Gothenburg).

Getting educated and visiting new places with the excuse of seeing Maiden live? A win-win situation.
 
Fozzie4 said:
The term `super fan` is no less subjective than any other term though is it. If someone wants to spend their disposable income travelling to watch a band play in different places they have never been to it doesn`t automatically make them a super fan .

My trips abroad to see Maiden have cost no more than a standard beach holiday with TUI which in the summer months are an absolute rip off.
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I think we're talking about different kinds of folks. It's one thing to travel to one concert (or even a couple if it's back-to-back) and combine that with some kind of trip or holiday. It's another thing to chase Maiden on their tour and see them 5, 10, 15 or even 20 times in various cities and countries. I talked with a couple of lovely Serbian blokes back in 2023 who started doing that. It costs them a lot of money, but they want to take advantage of this as long as they can, since Maiden will retire at some point in the future.

It's not a moral judgement. "Normal" in this case talks about the average fan. And I can guarantee you that the average fan is not going to travel the world to see multiple concerts.
 
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