Unfortunately, that's the thing U2 is really, really good at....
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Unfortunately, that's the thing U2 is really, really good at....
The bad stuff gets forgotten and the good lasts. It happened to the Stones, Fleetwood Mac, REM, and Bowie, and it'll happen with U2. We're just too close to the bad things. It also depends on them ceasing to embarrass themselves, and I don't know if that's possible.
Even if the band broke up, I feel like you'd still be seeing Bono all the time on talk shows, music documentaries, etc. Let's hope he'll at least have the sense not to be a judge on one of the music competition shows like The Voice.
This is simply not true.Yeah, it cannot be overstated that, in terms of “cool” factor, U2 is only slightly above Creed and Nickleback in the public consciousness. That’s hard to bounce back from.
“The youngs” hardly even know who U2 is, and U2 fans are more obsessed with the iPhone debacle than most people.
Exactly,people were pissed at the time,but soon forgot about the album.
Just us that blames it for the album failing,by U2 standards.
It's been... checks watch... 3 minutes since someone has made a SOI joke on twitter...
Other winners from the past couple of days
https://twitter.com/elizabethram11/status/1310723421828009984?s=19
https://twitter.com/kaiju_kam/status/1307880638830108674?s=19
https://twitter.com/whitetiger4455/status/1310283770969325569?s=19
I really like this one
https://twitter.com/ReallyBLBootsy/status/1308964454655315972?s=19
But, ya know, we're the only ones who still remember
Sorry, I'm with Headache here. Every time I see anything from a music site in my FB feed, whether it's Pitchfork or Rolling Stone or Consequence of Sound or some company selling vinyl, that mentions U2 or Bono for any reason, multiple people make references to the "phone invasion", without fail.
You can't say "only fans remember that SOI release" and then when presented with a bunch of random people who are still pressed about it, say "well those people don't count".
Do me a favor... go to twitter, search "u2 album" and sort by latest.I'm sure we can all pick out tweets to suit our argument,still valid points though.
Do me a favor... go to twitter, search "u2 album" and sort by latest.
Enjoy.
I know, right? It's my new favorite pastime.That was actually pretty funny,I enjoyed that![emoji1787]
Point still stands,can find people praising the album and hating it.
But I know see people have LONG memories when it comes to SOI.
I know, right? It's my new favorite pastime.
You’re missing the point. The internet is full of trolls and the comments section of a social media post are not indicative of most people. They’re indicative of the angriest and loudest people.
A social media post about U2 generates three types of reactions. Love, hate, and indifference. You’re seeing hate. You’re not seeing indifference, which is the majority of people.
I think it’s just an easy dunk/punchline for the Very Online.
If pressed, most people like/love maybe 10-20 U2 songs, and if you’re over 35, voluntarily own/have at least one of their albums. And a lot of people downloaded their albums after the release. A lot.
As an old, when I was in college, they were the one band that everyone agreed everyone owned at least one album by them.
Jury’s out on whether they’d do it again. They’d say it’s better to be hated than ignored, but this has been quite a Zamboni to their past for some.