I like it but I don't want to like it so I have to pretend that I don't really like it but I really do like it.
Please think I'm cool.
Haunted by the indie ghosts of the past 4 years? How the hell is that an accurate description of the sound on display here?
That amounts to a 5-star review from the Guardian (or UK press in general). Their standard U2 articles are more along the lines of: “Fresh from the gates of hell, worlds worst band U2 and their fuckhead lead shouter return with more overblown bullshit for 45 year old suburban middle managers who don't actually like music.”
That amounts to a 5-star review from the Guardian (or UK press in general). Their standard U2 articles are more along the lines of: “Fresh from the gates of hell, worlds worst band U2 and their fuckhead lead shouter return with more overblown bullshit for 45 year old suburban middle managers who don't actually like music.”
bloody hell - just finished reading the Guardian's review
But I'm going on record now. I am not...fucking NOT...chanting "There is no them, only us" at the concert. No, no, no, no, no, fucking no. The line must be drawn here, no further, and it's one line I won't cross.
yeah yeah that was what i thought when i saw Radiohead, but there i was arms in the air singing "i'm a creep, i'm a weirdo" with 19,999 other twats
There's nothing wrong with that review.
Frontman Bono openly questioned whether the band could remain relevant and insisted "We have to make hits if we are to survive."
The first fruits of their labours suggest that U2 are scaling down their rocky sound for a contemporary pop world of small speakers and social network song sharing where digital genre bending electronica reigns supreme.
It means the single will not be eligible for the charts but I am not sure that matters. They have effectively made a song for pop radio formats that don't play old rock bands anymore, and come up with a way to deliver it straight to a mass audience.
This "There's no them, only us" stuff is just trite blather.