Magnificent is mediocre ???! Man, that song is a classic. U2Most definitely! We can all debate the merits of ATYCLB and HTDAAB until we're blue in the face, but the fact remains; the launch and continued promotion of these records were things of beauty! As far as doing what it took in the early/mid 00s to have a hit record and keep it in the charts for well over a year... NAILED IT.
Then along came NLOTH, and a high school economics class could've come up with a better strategy then what was actually executed. What they did was basically smack everybody over the head, repeatedly, with mediocre material like Boots and Magnificent. Take over BBC, take over Letterman, appear on every awards shows with a stupid song like Boots, etc. It was no surprise to me at all that the album flopped, while the tour was a runaway success.
With SOI, they took a gamble, and they lost... big time.
Magnificent is mediocre [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]! Man, that song is a classic. U2
Holy crap, skipped this thread for 6 days and had 36 pages to catch up on. Is it time for me to drive up to Detroit yet?
Fixed it for you.
My thinking is 75% chance a new song is debuted.
New single is imminent by all accounts.
Marketing is starting for this/these singles
Detroit show is on 9/3 and that would likely be only a week AT MOST from the new single being released
U2 has an audience of ~50k to debut new material to...why wouldn't they take advantage.
It also wouldn't shock me if they opened the show with a new song (they did it on 360...although ROTSG was never released and turned into lucifers hands)
"You don't know how beautiful " which I guess is the chorus after listening to it again. I always thought the repeating "get on your boots" was the chorus. The song is just clunky as all hell. If the "beautiful " piece is the chorus it's sad (I think) the chorus of all things ruins the pacing.
Not a fan of NLOTH but you are spot on about Magnificent. U2 at their best.
Really? I didn't know anyone thought magnificent was a great U2 song.
Everyone is different, but magnificent is about as boring as U2 gets.
It's a fairly obvious guess.@U2start: The Songs of Experience promo tour will take #U2 through Europe and the US during November and December. https://twitter.com/u2valencia/status/901495379585269760
Is this bs?