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New song! You know what comes next: fangirl, claim disappointment, speculate, rinse, repeat.
The band's friendship with Nelson Mandela goes way back and it was after seeing early cuts of the film that they were inspired to write a song...
The band saw various cuts of the film over the summer and worked diligently to write a song that truly reflects Nelson Mandela. I think they did a brilliant job honoring the man and the leader they have known for over 20 years.'
I don't believe there's ever been a movie with an original U2 song in it thats been any good.
Where can I hear this song?
Everyone's talking about it as if they've heard the entire thing in good quality?
Well, any new music from U2 is a good thing, and this is progress. Is it confirmed that DM produced this track? Do we know if it is a one-off recorded for this movie, or was it just a song taken from their recent sessions?
But aside from showing a pulse at :47, the song's boring as a dog's ass. I'm sorry, but it is. The kind of Stabucks-lite U2 that I'm really hoping is NOT what we get from this record. Having said that, the track was picked I guess because it's inoffensive and generic enough to be the background music in a movie trailer (couldn't they find, I don't know, and South African musician?), so I'm really (mostly) not going to make any conclusions with regard to the new record based on this. But since Mandella pushed the envelope and was a revolutionary, the least U2 could do was the same for a song about him (assuming the song's about him).
Incidentally, I have high hopes for this film (I admire Mandella as a fellow peacemaker), and I hope it can escape the U2 curse, as the presence of a U2 song (if indeed the song is in the film) typically guarantees the movie will suck, since I don't believe there's ever been a movie with an original U2 song in it thats been any good.
Everyone remain calm.
since I don't believe there's ever been a movie with an original U2 song in it thats been any good.
Well, any new music from U2 is a good thing, and this is progress. Is it confirmed that DM produced this track?
But aside from showing a pulse at :47, the song's boring as a dog's ass. I'm sorry, but it is. The kind of Stabucks-lite U2 that I'm really hoping is NOT what we get from this record. Having said that, the track was picked I guess because it's inoffensive and generic enough to be the background music in a movie trailer (couldn't they find, I don't know, and South African musician?), so I'm really (mostly) not going to make any conclusions with regard to the new record based on this. But since Mandella pushed the envelope and was a revolutionary, the least U2 could do was the same for a song about him (assuming the song's about him).
Incidentally, I have high hopes for this film (I admire Mandella as a fellow peacemaker), and I hope it can escape the U2 curse, as the presence of a U2 song (if indeed the song is in the film) typically guarantees the movie will suck, since I don't believe there's ever been a movie with an original U2 song in it thats been any good.
Everyone remain calm.
Gatsby had an original U2 song in it (albeit in cover form) and I thought that it was fantastic (although many critics disagreed). Does that count?
A sick mean man getting his jollies from being a sick mean man
Paranoia has been a big destroyer for you!! wrong about the wash cycle
The return investment from you = many happy island folks
really, i can't believe you spelled his name wrong
But this is only 30 seconds?
If you know Mandela's life, and in particular a famous story about that spelling of his name whist he was in prison, you'll know the spelling there was actually a homage, and not a typo.
ahhh so you were just being PRETENTIOUS then
Respectfully pretentious.
These threads are black holes.
I just want to hear the full song like everyone else seems to have.
Where can I hear this song?
Everyone's talking about it as if they've heard the entire thing in good quality?
But this is only 30 seconds?
Judging by all the comments in this thread I'm lead to believe you all have heard it in full?
yes, you would think that.. but nope, people are judging the whole song based on this 40 second cut and paste edit
I'm not even close to being the biggest optimist re: this band but this is ridiculous yet strangely very indicative of Interference (I can extend this to other U2 message boards, atu2 is experiencing a similar problem).