Aardvark747
Blue Crack Addict
That cd cover is better than the song.
shart1780 said:By the way, I think that album cover is completely atrocious. That guy from Greenday looks so incredibly ugly there.
ozeeko said:I'd give him kudos for trying at least.
MrBrau1 said:
No you wouldn't.
You'd whine and say it sucks.
That's what you do.
That's all you do.
MrBrau1 said:
No you wouldn't.
You'd whine and say it sucks.
That's what you do.
That's all you do.
Zootlesque said:Kid A
ozeeko,
Why do you find this surprising? Ever since Bono showed off his jacket lined with the American flag, I knew that he'd whored himself out. With The Joshua Tree and Rattle & Hum, he seemed to have a genuine appreciation & fascination for America. Now he just comes off as a corporate whore. I've stopped caring about these things. Waste of time.
Zootlesque said:Why do you find this surprising? Ever since Bono showed off his jacket lined with the American flag, I knew that he'd whored himself out. With The Joshua Tree and Rattle & Hum, he seemed to have a genuine appreciation & fascination for America. Now he just comes off as a corporate whore. I've stopped caring about these things. Waste of time.
ozeeko said:What I find funny is that I can't even criticize my favorite band without being insulted or pigenholed in some way. The conclusion I've come to is... If you don't like The Bomb then u ain't a good person, and u don't care about what Bono's doing in Africa.
Zootlesque...when you heard Bono singing about "Magnolia trees, and being on your knees, and please, and blah blah he's an American (or a corporate whore is what he meant)"...don't u just cringe at shit like that? Don't you want Bono to branch out and write some new shit for a change? I sure as hell do. Buy a fucking Thesaurus, Bono.
SpaceOddity said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't Bono worn jackets lined with the flags of other countries (not just the USA?). I suppose he's only "whoring" himself out if he wears the American flag. LOL.
Even if it is cheesy, I still believe it comes from the same place of sincerity as the JT/RH admiration. It's all about the context - when he wore the USA jacket during the Halftime show, people were moved. If he pulled the same stunt now, of course, I'd agree that it was extremely overbearing. On that same token, I guess Bono took a step backward during the Vertigo tour, with the whole blindfold/POW routine. LOL.
Zootlesque said:Kid A
ozeeko,
Why do you find this surprising? Ever since Bono showed off his jacket lined with the American flag, I knew that he'd whored himself out. With The Joshua Tree and Rattle & Hum, he seemed to have a genuine appreciation & fascination for America. Now he just comes off as a corporate whore. I've stopped caring about these things. Waste of time.
ozeeko said:
What I find funny is that I can't even criticize my favorite band without being insulted or pigenholed in some way. The conclusion I've come to is... If you don't like The Bomb then u ain't a good person, and u don't care about what Bono's doing in Africa.
Zootlesque...when you heard Bono singing about "Magnolia trees, and being on your knees, and please, and blah blah he's an American (or a corporate whore is what he meant)"...don't u just cringe at shit like that? Don't you want Bono to branch out and write some new shit for a change? I sure as hell do. Buy a fucking Thesaurus, Bono.
BonoVoxSupastar said:And exactly what corporation did he whore himself out to? America? Africa? Katrina?
Zootlesque said:
I'm not sure. I'm only talking about how he comes off these days in the public eye. I could be totally wrong on this. But...
- panicking at the comparitively low sales of Pop in America
- coming out with safe pop melodies soon afterwards to get sales figures up at the expense of the music
- changing 'Pop' songs on the already messed up Best Of just to make them more radio friendly
- apologizing for Pop & how they were at the end of the 90s
All of that = whoring out IMO. But like I said, maybe I'm wrong and there's a perfectly good explanation for all of that.
And Utoo, the jacket with the American flag just seems to go with all the points I mentioned above and that's why I said it. On the other hand, he hasn't really buckled to the Argentinian public's music tastes now, has he?