elevated_u2_fan
Blue Crack Supplier
Can we all agree that we would rather see U2 over hyped than say... Britney Spears?
Yes? No?
Yes? No?
Frankly, I think the more important Blue Crack/Arcade Fire-related issue today is the fact that I finally got the width of my signature picture/music bar/drop shadow sorted.elevated_u2_fan said:Can we all agree that we would rather see U2 over hyped than say... Britney Spears?
Yes? No?
elevated_u2_fan said:Can we all agree that we would rather see U2 over hyped than say... Britney Spears?
Yes? No?
Canadiens1160 said:Frankly, I think the more important Blue Crack/Arcade Fire-related issue today is the fact that I finally got the width of my signature picture/music bar/drop shadow sorted.
LemonMacPhisto said:She was just trying to copy the Edge by going bald, you know.
LemonMacPhisto said:
She was just trying to copy the Edge by going bald, you know.
Canadiens1160 said:Do you mind if I use Sensory Deprivation Tank as a title for a song?
Originally posted by ntalwar
I think a middle ground is good. A band doesn't need to ride around Manhattan on a flatbed truck. On the other hand, some good bands make it big on myspace.com and remain only on myspace.com.
GibsonGirl said:
Yes, but usually never at the extreme level that U2 does. I think what Win is saying is that you don't need to ram your music down society's throat in order to sell a few records. If the music is good, people will find out about it without needing it to be delivered to them on a platter. Honestly, the only way to avoid the U2 Hype Machine around the release of a new album is to lock yourself in a sensory deprivation tank.
LemonMacPhisto said:OH NOEZ,
they spoke ill of BONOE and YOUTWO.
I can never listen to them again.
Win Butler
There's nothing less interesting to me than the idea of marketing the fuck out of something so people are forced to like it. Some bands are just manipulating people to buy music. That's how 90 per cent of the record industry works! It's basically the same as selling a fucking toaster or a cruise package.
LemonMelon said:
Who has said that at any point in this thread?
LemonMacPhisto said:
No one, but I was making the joke before anyone did. I'm pretty sure some fans are close to boycotting that Seattle radio DJ and the entire state of North Dakota though.
Allegra said:Anyway, I thought it was pretty ballsy if you ask me. I would've never known who Arcade Fire was without U2's opening song. And to think I even went out and bought their album. Maybe I should ask for AF's money back and let them keep my CD if they want to act like this.
U2DMfan said:
There is a big difference between a music magazine trying to sell copies of their magazines by talking about the hipster band of the day and a band itself trying to forcefeed a public that is probably already overexposed to said band.
The difference being who is trying to sell what.
"I don't know if U2 started it, or The Stones or Oasis but a lot of bands think in terms of: 'I'm going to be the biggest band in the world. Fuck all those bands who've got no ambition'. I think that's a total crock of shit.
"There's nothing less interesting to me than the idea of marketing the fuck out of something so people are forced to like it. Some bands are just manipulating people to buy music. That's how 90 percent of the record industry works! It's basically the same as selling a fucking toaster or a cruise package."
XHendrix24 said:Did most of you even READ THE ARTICLE?
He didn't say anything bad about U2's music, nor did he say anything bad the members of U2. He just doesn't agree with the marketing strategies of big commercial bands like U2 (and Oasis and the Rolling Stones). And no, having your album hyped by magazine after magazine because of the quality of the record IS NOT the same thing as appearing on ipod commercials and playing at the Grammys and screaming to the world that you've got a new album out in every way possible.
And it's not even an ISSUE of "gratitude," since as I already mentioned, Win's beef is not with the MEMBERS of U2 OR the bands music, it's with the overblown marketing strategies that bands LIKE U2 happen to use.
I swear, some people...
puh-LEEZ.Allegra said:Anyway, I thought it was pretty ballsy if you ask me. I would've never known who Arcade Fire was without U2's opening song. And to think I even went out and bought their album. Maybe I should ask for AF's money back and let them keep my CD if they want to act like this.
lmjhitman said:
puh-LEEZ.
fact is, anyone who went out and bought funeral on the basis of hearing ONE song at a u2 show is probably not going to buy the new cd, and if they do, they probably won't even like it, since it has no association with u2.
LemonMelon said:
WTF is he going on about here?
I must give another to his indietastic marketing skills.
MrBrau1 said:I love the naive idealism in this thread.
It's cute.
"Just put out great records, people will find them and buy them."
Right.
Cause that happens all the time. And after 2 underpreforming albums, they get dropped by their label and are drowning in debt, so they break up the band.
But at least they did it right.