prbiker15
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That was great.
That was great.
That was great.
I don't think it's unreasonable if you're someone who doesn't like U2 (or even people who do) and you wake up and see that the new record has been automatically downloaded onto your hard disc that you're annoyed. Just as you have a right to be annoyed at unwanted shampoo samples that show up in your mail and the stuff in your spam folder. Yes, you can throw it away or delete it, but I don't think it's unreasonable that people didn't appreciate it, and have a problem with it.
Maybe the band, all in their mid-50's now, is feeling disconnected from an industry that is chewing up and spitting out acts with increasing frequency and diminishing mercy, mirroring consumer impatience and demand for light-speed gratification. The new generation doesn't have time to invest itself in listening to the nuanced, evolving textures of a complete album when appetites have been slouching towards prepackaged, disposable three-and-a-half minute pop (complete with a healthy dose of booty-shaking) for a few decades now. That's not the music U2 has ever been interested in making, and even their misguided venture down that pothole-filled road, 1997's Pop, could not stray too far from the earnestness and straining for spiritual truth that marks their entire output.
Thanks for responding. I am late in replying...
So surely you'd agree it is entirely about the specific content? It's not about anything else. It's not about a principle of any kind. And it's not about free music itself that has invaded their space. Because there is every chance that if Artist X gave that person free music they would not have recoiled in such disgust. It's merely a subjective want. "Don't clutter my shit with your shit".
And on that note, this is simply about U2 specifically.
It's entirely reasonable to consider U2 or U2's new record as shit but it's not reasonable to try to pretend this is about anything other than simply that.
Don't forget about the Spider-Man musical. I think that was culturally memorable.it's almost like NLOTH is a lost era for them, other than the tour (which basically became a greatest hits tour), there's absolutely nothing culturally memorable from them between 2004-2014. so they obviously had to do something.
Don't forget about the Spider-Man musical. I think that was culturally memorable.
Don't love this part
1. First and foremost, the author completely did not understand POP.
2. While I agree about most modern music listening behavior, I think it's a pretty lazy thing to paint an entire "new generation" that way.
All generations have a minority of more sophisticated listeners and the majority are your basic poppy heads (top40, etc.). It's just maybe there are fewer of the former and more of the latter than it used to be (as an overall %). In that sense it's more like 1955 or 1965 than 1975 or 1995. Singles culture. That doesn't have to be a bad thing. Pop music today is great, as good as it has been in my lifetime. Album rock, OTOH, is on life support. Not in necessarily in quality...just literally in quantity and impact.
At the same time, it's harder for corporate cookie cutter bullshit to be force-fed to the masses and ultimately pollute album rock. So, there is always a give and take. In some ways, we pay the price for Poison/Warrant and Nickelback/Creed even to this day. Because we don't want major label hacks dictating what rock music should be. And we won that battle...but it came with a downside.
You got it!Perhaps as an unmitigated financial disaster... but that shitshow left no mark other than punchlines.
As for the apologies. Bono keeps changing his mind in nearly every interview. Love the band to bits, but he really does not help, especially here in the UK. I have lots of friends who will not even give the album a chance after the Apple stunt & general dislike of all things Bono.
First time forum poster. Rennowba : a u2 & Albion fan ?. Just like me mate !.
As for the apologies. Bono keeps changing his mind in nearly every interview. Love the band to bits, but he really does not help, especially here in the UK. I have lots of friends who will not even give the album a chance after the Apple stunt & general dislike of all things Bono.
Which is a real shame, as like many other people on here, I believe the album is a pretty strong piece of work.
First time forum poster. Rennowba : a u2 & Albion fan ?. Just like me mate.
But he hasn't even apologised?
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Boing boing??
The UK is one cynical place to be living in right now. The politics and the slant of the generally right wing press is very off putting. Then you get the know it all "trendy" left wing press epitomized by the likes of the guardian who think it's fashionable to bash all things u2. It's really boring and to be honest, who cares what the British public think? This album is a belter and I can't wait until the tour. History will judge this u2 period positively.First time forum poster. Rennowba : a u2 & Albion fan ?. Just like me mate !.
As for the apologies. Bono keeps changing his mind in nearly every interview. Love the band to bits, but he really does not help, especially here in the UK. I have lots of friends who will not even give the album a chance after the Apple stunt & general dislike of all things Bono.
Which is a real shame, as like many other people on here, I believe the album is a pretty strong piece of work.
He actually has said, in Rolling Stone, that the album being able to be pushed automatically was an accident.
Bono plays to his current audience. This is why in some interviews he seems more contrite about it than others.
He's a salesman. You have to take everything he says in context.
Yep. And that it was that FUBARed execution that dominated the key initial 24hr news cycle - which is where the real fuck up lay.