Uhh, yeah, it's crap. It's boring.
This song is supposed to be uplifting, right? That's what I read. It's telling a girl to enjoy her youth, enjoy the life the has and not to grow up too fast. The end of this song is so joyous I can't listen to it without feeling like I'm on a cloud. But not this arrangement.
This starts like it's being played at someone's funeral. And yeah, it picks up, but it sure doesn't sound upbeat like Sweetest Thing did.
I'm sorry, but the piano is no substitute for Edge's guitar chimes of heaven. There IS no substitute.
Bono sounds great but that's only one part of the formula for success. The only really good thing is that at least they didn't play the embarassingly bad strings from the album version.
I just don't understand why you'd take such a majestic track, with such moving and powerful guitar work, and castrate it.
I hope this gets minimal audience response, so they either shelve it or rework it. I am FUCKING SICK of hearing inferior versions of masterpieces like Stay, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and this one.
Weak. Just weak.
laz