unforgettableFOXfire
I serve MacPhisto
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Apart from the fact that its been almost a year, or maybe even more than a year since Ive posted on the actual boards here, I do have a confession to make.
While I still love U2, the new album is probably one of my least favourites.
I can't even explain why. The only song I don't even care for is Vertigo, and I like all the other ones. I loved some of the press that the album got, and I loved what the band had to say. I still respect bono for his political efforts, and everything. The new album is vibrant, alive, and ringing with new energy and a departure from ATYCLB. And yet... it still ranks behind JT, AB, Pop, R&H, ATYCLB, and boy. Was it become too pop-oriented? I don't even think it was that. ATYCLB was really popular, and that didn't bother me. It's not even like the whole 'yeah we're sellouts because selling out is awesome' thing did anything but make me laugh. I'm truly at a loss to explain why I've only listened to the album a handful of times since christmas, and why I always change the channel or station when I hear it on the radio or see it on tv. I just don't like it that much.
And the thing is, I'm still going to see them in Toronto in the fall, and I've actually come to fear the passion and the vigour with which some people defend the band. I almost don't even want to go see them as a U2 fan, but just as a music lover; I fear telling other U2 fans that I don't like the new album, as the resultant conversation is invariably the same: 'OMG, you don't like the new album?! Blasphemer! Bono is a hot angelic manbeast to whom I must make sweet monkey love! Get out of my sight, traitor!' ... okay, well, obviously it's not as bad as that, but still... Its hard to relax when you might offend someone's sensibilities when you say you don't really like their favourite song/album, and they get into a whole discussion about how/why its awesome and try to demonstrate how much more knowledge about U2 they've come to possess by reading every article, seeing every documentary, interview, as though their knowing more made their opinion more right/made them a 'better' fan. Why people try to make others feel inferior because of this kind of stuff, when they should be enjoying themselves, irunno.
I feel detached from everyone, that I can't relate to the U2 community anymore, and that I ought best observe the awesomeness of the band from the outside; free of the frenzied fanatacism of bonoholics and lusty larry mullen fans. And hence my disappearance, and continued absence.
I hope everyone's doing well.
Take care.
While I still love U2, the new album is probably one of my least favourites.
I can't even explain why. The only song I don't even care for is Vertigo, and I like all the other ones. I loved some of the press that the album got, and I loved what the band had to say. I still respect bono for his political efforts, and everything. The new album is vibrant, alive, and ringing with new energy and a departure from ATYCLB. And yet... it still ranks behind JT, AB, Pop, R&H, ATYCLB, and boy. Was it become too pop-oriented? I don't even think it was that. ATYCLB was really popular, and that didn't bother me. It's not even like the whole 'yeah we're sellouts because selling out is awesome' thing did anything but make me laugh. I'm truly at a loss to explain why I've only listened to the album a handful of times since christmas, and why I always change the channel or station when I hear it on the radio or see it on tv. I just don't like it that much.
And the thing is, I'm still going to see them in Toronto in the fall, and I've actually come to fear the passion and the vigour with which some people defend the band. I almost don't even want to go see them as a U2 fan, but just as a music lover; I fear telling other U2 fans that I don't like the new album, as the resultant conversation is invariably the same: 'OMG, you don't like the new album?! Blasphemer! Bono is a hot angelic manbeast to whom I must make sweet monkey love! Get out of my sight, traitor!' ... okay, well, obviously it's not as bad as that, but still... Its hard to relax when you might offend someone's sensibilities when you say you don't really like their favourite song/album, and they get into a whole discussion about how/why its awesome and try to demonstrate how much more knowledge about U2 they've come to possess by reading every article, seeing every documentary, interview, as though their knowing more made their opinion more right/made them a 'better' fan. Why people try to make others feel inferior because of this kind of stuff, when they should be enjoying themselves, irunno.
I feel detached from everyone, that I can't relate to the U2 community anymore, and that I ought best observe the awesomeness of the band from the outside; free of the frenzied fanatacism of bonoholics and lusty larry mullen fans. And hence my disappearance, and continued absence.
I hope everyone's doing well.
Take care.
