Album 13: Mirror mirror on the wall, there's no album so let's just talk y'all

[mikal]

We should have an Interference member survivor.

 

[last unicorn]

Not really directly U2 related, but a longer article about Ryan Tedder:

BBC News - Ryan Tedder: Songwriter shares his rules of pop

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

No, I'm saying the discussions would still turn into arguments about Pop, whether Invisible sucks or not, if U2 should try a different way to do GA, etc. The exact same arguments.

We could be talking about banana smoothies and it would turn into a 20-page discourse about why Pop failed.

...why Boots was a terrible lead single for NLOTH and what song would have been better

 

[Hewson]

You know one day U2's plane is going to fly into the side of a mountain.

I hope Bono will be OK.

 

[ahittle]

Not really directly U2 related, but a longer article about Ryan Tedder:

BBC News - Ryan Tedder: Songwriter shares his rules of pop

Pretty interesting. In a lot of ways, he seems very clinical - not sure if this is good or bad for U2.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

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[rennowba]

According to the papers Tedder is working with one direction next.

So this is the man to turn u2 into a boy band and be relevent again.

Good god has it really come to this??

Bono stop letting your ego get in the way,accept that youve had a great run in the charts and make some rock music( and tour)

Is this bloke as bad as working with redone or david guetta?i think he maybe is.There looking deseperate now!

 

[Vlad n U 2]

According to the papers Tedder is working with one direction next.

So this is the man to turn u2 into a boy band and be relevent again.

Good god has it really come to this??

Bono stop letting your ego get in the way,accept that youve had a great run in the charts and make some rock music( and tour)

Is this bloke as bad as working with redone or david guetta?i think he maybe is.There looking deseperate now!

This is like the quintessential Interference overreaction condensed into one post.

I can't believe you people, you can't all be serious.

 

[Musikwala]

Somebody photoshop U2's faces on to a boyband pic.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

This is like the quintessential Interference overreaction condensed into one post.

I can't believe you people, you can't all be serious.

oh they can

 

[last unicorn]

U2 as a boy band? Well, if they got the matching bodies, I'm all for it

 

[MrPryck2U]

...why Boots was a terrible lead single for NLOTH and what song would have been better

Plus, there's the genius of Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry must all "reinvent themselves".

 

[ClaytonsKitten]

And yet every 87% of all those discussions would end up being yet another occurrence of every argument we've had here at least five times.

Somebody photoshop U2's faces on to a boyband pic.

Somehow I feel like this is my cue...

 

[ahittle]

I can imagine a guy like Tedder would've stopped Boots in its tracks.

But he almost certainly would've neutered the most special U2 tunes.

"'Bad'? Too long/doesn't have a chorus."

"'Streets'? Get to the hook!"

"'Ultraviolet'? I think Larry dropped a stick - we can fix that in ProTools."

 

[ClaytonsKitten]

Streets was THISCLOSE to being scrapped by the dream team. I seem to recall stories of someone dropping tea and nearly tackling a producer to stop him from erasing the tapes.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

but it wasn't so who gives a shit?

 

[Hewson]

Somebody photoshop U2's faces on to a boyband pic.

 

[Hewson]

Bono stop letting your ego get in the way

But his ego's not really the enemy.

 

[Zoo Lemon]

I guess this next album (or part of that) will be soul-tinted. Remember Bono talking about heartbreakers? Simple as that. They probably thought Epworth and Tedder are good choices for that in terms of a "genre approach", with keeping in mind that in the end the stuff depends on U2.

 

[Zoo Lemon]

To bring an example:

'A Man And A Woman', for example, is a song (that I love) which I could imagine as produced by Tedder or Epworth. Lee's production was basic, yet for me it's a strong point of HTDAAB, in all its simplicity. The result might be basic, or layered and structured, that is yet to see. It all goes back to the songs. There isn't a prototype of a soul/R'n'B/electronic/etc. song. Tedder doesn't equal Adele, nor Beyoncé, nor others.

 

[Aygo]

To bring an example:

'A Man And A Woman', for example, is a song (that I love) which I could imagine as produced by Tedder or Epworth. Lee's production was basic, yet for me it's a strong point of HTDAAB, in all its simplicity. The result might be basic, or layered and structured, that is yet to see. It all goes back to the songs. There isn't a prototype of a soul/R'n'B/electronic/etc. song. Tedder doesn't equal Adele, nor Beyoncé, nor others.

Well, AMAAW is exactly what I wouldn't like U2 to bring back - I'd rather have another revival full of chimey guitars. As I once read in this forum, AMAAW is not a love song, is just a song for housewifes to listen to while washing the dishes.

 

[ClaytonsKitten]

 

[Registered Dude]

sometimes Adam looks like Wheels from Degrassi..

#obscureCanadiana

 

[Registered Dude]

AMAAW is not a love song, is just a song for housewifes to listen to while washing the dishes.

good god.. the ignorance...

 

[Galeongirl]

For just a song for housewives it sure has a great bassline.

 

[Aygo]

good god.. the ignorance...

When someone does not agree with your devotee-blindsheep vision, it's "ignorant", "dissident", "Che Guevara"... What else?

 

[Aygo]

For just a song for housewives it sure has a great bassline.

Unlike what Bono believes, a good bassline (it sure does have one), a good melody or a great verse doesn't necessarily and automatically make a good song.

 

[U2girl]

Of course not. Bands that have been together for 30+ years and remained friends the entire time don't "break up". They merely stop recording and touring. And since when does not doing the supposedly obligatory, half-hearted, cash-register "farewell tour" qualify as "imploding"?

If anything, the class and grace that R.E.M. ended with is something for other bands to emulate.

Well, yes. A break up in a band is the ceasing of recording and touring.

Plenty of bands to farewell tours though. It's a nice way to give the fans one last chance to see their favourite band.

The only cash register tour is if a band is touring without new music.

 

[PhilsFan]

You mean like a farewell tour.

 

[U2girl]

As out of focus NLOTH was,at least 2 songs sounded more fresh than Invisible.The title track and Fez- being born.They didn't use neither of the 2 as a single.Go figure.

Invisible is their most fresh sounding song since BD.

Fez is UF U2 meeting Zooropa U2. Not fresh.

NLOTH -- The Fly called and wants the riff back.