Accusations of inappropriate behavior by Bemis were first levied last week, when screenshots of his alleged flirtatious messages with two teenaged fans were shared to the Say Anything subreddit.
The allegations have also shed uncertainty on the status of a forthcoming collaborative album between the band and Wavves, Cherry Soda, which is set to drop on September 18.
On Patreon, Williams also claimed that he composed the majority of Cherry Soda. When a fan asked if the album could be re-recorded as a solo LP, Williams didn’t rule it out as a possibility, explaining that it “wouldn’t be hard” since Bemis allegedly “barely wrote anything.” However, Williams pointed out that the “issue is 10,000 records [were] already pressed.” As of this writing, Cherry Soda is still available for pre-order via Rough Trade.
Williams and Bemis first announced Cherry Soda back in July, when they released the lead single “Deathx1k.” In a press release circulated at the time, Bemis said that the two artists “kind of wrote to each other’s situations.
We’re both very different people, but we get along really well… I think we brought out some of the stuff that isn’t most obvious in each other.”.
