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Thankfully it hasn't overshadowed the tour announcement...yet.
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So tickets go on sale tomorrow for U2.com members? Where's my email and code?
No new info or anything, but apparently the Trump factor was a big enough deal to make the political website The Hill. Go figure.
U2 delays album release after Trump win | TheHill
ETA: And Mediaite. Looks like the band might get some attention with this story.
I usually don't like the views of Pitchfork, but this time, maybe they have a point.
U2 Are Finally Acting Their Age | Pitchfork
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Of course they have a point.I usually don't like the views of Pitchfork, but this time, maybe they have a point.
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1406-u2-are-finally-acting-their-age/?mbid=social_twitter
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i know most people here seem to think they're making up an excuse for not having soe ready, but what we've all heard from several sources over the past few weeks is that it was ready. These weren't the usual bono quotes we're all used to hearing.
I believe the results of the us election had a huge part in what they're doing now. We all know where they stand on political & social issues, and the president-elect steers completely opposite of their core beliefs. It doesn't surprise me that they want to re-work the album a bit, or maybe add a couple tracks to express their concerns about the future of the political landscape.
I'm sure the jt tour is just a way to satisfy live nation & the fans, but there's nothing wrong with that in my book. I read someone's post last night, pointing out they don't even want to hear the first 4 tracks since they've heard them enough already. Seriously? If this were the soe tour, we would likely hear those 4 songs anyway. Now we get to finally hear the rest of the jt album live, including some songs for the first time ever. That is totally worth it for me. Soe will be out in its own time.
I'm sorry if i come across as too quick to accept the album delay news, but the forums were getting a little too negative on a day when we just had a tour announcement.
Of course they have a point.
U2 stayed around longer than most bands ever could. That they were able to have a third moment of world domination in their third decade is truly remarkable. But every band faces a tone where that's just not in the cards anymore, and where striving for world domination will make you look out of touch and slightly sad.
That started creeping in in 2009, but it hit full force on this last album promotion cycle. No Line should have been their warning... a massive world tour... the biggest of all time even... but nobody cared about the new music.
Rather than learning their leseon, they double downed and flat out embarrassed themselves with the Songs of Innocence release, not to mention the scrapping of sessions to bring in poppier producers in search of hits hits hits... how they have seemingly forgotten large chunks of their catalog from the pre-2000 "classic U2" era of the band.
I hope this embrace of their past on this tour is part of a move in the right direction. Not that they have to give up writing new music... just that they're going to give up trying to appeal to a younger generation that has passed them by, that they'll be more comfortable in their own skin. That they won't pass by a song that may have a more "classic U2" vibe to it simply because they feel it's too "U2ey." (I mean really?)
They're fucking U2. They don't need to cater to anyone.
The irony upon ironies is that they'll be more likely to find that fourth moment they've been looking for if they stopped trying so hard to force it.
I welcome the era of a grown up U2, comfortable in their own existence, if that is indeed what this is. It's long overdue.
Of course they have a point.
U2 stayed around longer than most bands ever could. That they were able to have a third moment of world domination in their third decade is truly remarkable. But every band faces a tone where that's just not in the cards anymore, and where striving for world domination will make you look out of touch and slightly sad.
That started creeping in in 2009, but it hit full force on this last album promotion cycle. No Line should have been their warning... a massive world tour... the biggest of all time even... but nobody cared about the new music.
Rather than learning their leseon, they double downed and flat out embarrassed themselves with the Songs of Innocence release, not to mention the scrapping of sessions to bring in poppier producers in search of hits hits hits... how they have seemingly forgotten large chunks of their catalog from the pre-2000 "classic U2" era of the band.
I hope this embrace of their past on this tour is part of a move in the right direction. Not that they have to give up writing new music... just that they're going to give up trying to appeal to a younger generation that has passed them by, that they'll be more comfortable in their own skin. That they won't pass by a song that may have a more "classic U2" vibe to it simply because they feel it's too "U2ey." (I mean really?)
They're fucking U2. They don't need to cater to anyone.
The irony upon ironies is that they'll be more likely to find that fourth moment they've been looking for if they stopped trying so hard to force it.
I welcome the era of a grown up U2, comfortable in their own existence, if that is indeed what this is. It's long overdue.
They're fucking U2. They don't need to cater to anyone.
No new info or anything, but apparently the Trump factor was a big enough deal to make the political website The Hill. Go figure.
U2 delays album release after Trump win | TheHill
ETA: And Mediaite. Looks like the band might get some attention with this story.
Except Live Nation. Hence Joshua Tree 2017.
ohhhh! clever!
tell us again how you never have to answer to your boss.
read this in Anthony Bourdain's voice. it sounds even better!
Nice red herring response. Don't let facts get in your way.
The band will never ever admit to it and LYV senior management won't ever say it on the record to the press so as not to embarrass the band (whom they really like and have sunk a ton of money into) but they will tell their investors and shareholders. U2 could tour SOE this year or come up with something else, the band chose the later. And it is all about the money.
this also seems to mean that, like Springsteen, we could be seeing U2 tour every 2-3 years for the foreseeable future.
U2 is a cash cow, and this is how they shall be milked henceforth.
I hope this is the plan, they could perform a lot of places they haven't visited.this also seems to mean that, like Springsteen, we could be seeing U2 tour every 2-3 years for the foreseeable future.
What worries me is that they're gonna bleed the US market so dry for this tour that they're not going to come back next year for the I&E Tour. There's basically just going to be a lot of 2nd/3rd tier cities for the theoretical tour next year. Places like Portland, Columbus, Minneapolis, St. Louis. There is still a good 30+ show leg just based on cities that haven't gotten I&E 2015 or JT 2017. But it'll involve a lot of single night stops.
I'm just afraid SOE and I&E are going to go the way of SOA. If they can't tour the US again, they probably won't start up I&E at all (because they are obsessed with the US). I don't want U2 to become a nostalgia act. I don't know why, for some reason that bothers me. My 2nd favorite band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, are going on a 40th anniversary arena tour this year (even though their 1st album actually came out in 1976, but whatever). No new album, Tom's been working on a collection of unreleased songs from the Wildflowers sessions but that's it. This 40th anniversary tour is clearly only about money, and I didn't bat an eye whatsoever. I happily bought a ticket and can't wait to go.
Why do I hold U2 to such higher standards?
How are you different from the Pitchfork writer again?!
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