shart1780
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Irvine511 said:
people make the mistake (not you, just jumping off your comment) of asserting that if they don't personally prefer whatever style U2 are operating in, then the band have somehow failed. wong. U2 set out to do something very specific with "Behind" and "Bomb," and by all accounts, they've succeeded. if you didn't personally like it, that's fine, that's called taste. it isn't that U2 are coasting, or are boring, or are predictable, or whatever.
it's incredibly narcissistic, that U2 should make music with whatever *i* might want, they should put *my* needs first.
what they need to do is follow their own passions and interests. the rest will follow.
I disagree. The reason I didn't like Atomic Bomb wasn't because the songs were straigh forward pop. Heck, I really liked ATYCLB a lot, and that was pretty darn poppy stuff. The reason Bomb was boring to me was because... well, it's just boring. Shallow lyrics, shallow songwriting, the sound wasn't very interesting. All in all it was just a disapointment.
Some of my favorite records are straight forward pop albums. I just find U2 to be not nearly as interesting as they were even 5 years ago. My gripe with the album isn't the style, it's the execution.
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