elevated_u2_fan
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gherman said:
This is what I put for my earlier post:
"The problem with POP was the marketing of the whole theme. POP is a bad name and Popmart is even worse. I like it because I get it and what U2 was trying to do... I get the joke. Problem is that the general public didn't get the joke. They were daring with this album and tour. They could have been safe and called it something else and the public probably would have perceived it diferently."
Sorry if I missed that, yes I agree, I think allot of this album will be forever associated with all the Kitsch that went on with PopMart and it's a shame.
Videos have an impact as well, it doesn't matter how many times I listen to Discotheque, all I can think about is the Village People. Now, I liked that part of the video, I thought it was funny and very fitting but how many people were turned off? And that was their lead single...
Zootlesque said:
So are you saying they should've been safe?
Looking back as someone who loves POP, hell no. But from a business end... That's a little tougher, at least in the US the whole POP thing seemed to turn allot of people off.
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