petethechopp
The Fly
I can't believe anyone is still debating whether or not POP is a masterpiece. Hasn't this fight already been lost?! Pop is atrocious, pretentious and nearly succeeded in accomplishing what all the critics and naysayers could never do-- relegating U2 to this list of over-rated, flash in the pan stars who made a couple of great albums and disappeared. ATYCLB and HTDAAB ARE great albums. Additionally, they have restored U2 to the top of the music scene both critically and commercially. AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, artistically. U2 is relevant again and there music is both inspiring and heartfelt--something POP never was and never will be.
For all the POP lovers, was there something grand in Discotheque that most of us missed. Was it funny to see the best band in the world dressed as the Village People for the video? Was there something inspiring to you about the lemon on the tour? or the Kmart pressconference, or the jokes about this album starting with Edge's mustache? Even the good to great songs on the album couldn't find a way out from under all the crap that was around them.
Consider that this album was laughed away before it even began to sell, that it produced one of their weakest tours, that The Year In Pop special is the LOWEST RATED NON-NEWS TV SHOW EVER.
Lastly, I went and saw POPMART at Franklin Field in Philly with my college girlfriend. We had both been die-hard U2 fans since The Joshua Tree and had seen ZOO TV several times. At the point where the band climbed out of the lemon, she turned to me vowed never to buy anything by U2 again. She was brought back to the fold by ATYCLB.
For all the POP lovers, was there something grand in Discotheque that most of us missed. Was it funny to see the best band in the world dressed as the Village People for the video? Was there something inspiring to you about the lemon on the tour? or the Kmart pressconference, or the jokes about this album starting with Edge's mustache? Even the good to great songs on the album couldn't find a way out from under all the crap that was around them.
Consider that this album was laughed away before it even began to sell, that it produced one of their weakest tours, that The Year In Pop special is the LOWEST RATED NON-NEWS TV SHOW EVER.
Lastly, I went and saw POPMART at Franklin Field in Philly with my college girlfriend. We had both been die-hard U2 fans since The Joshua Tree and had seen ZOO TV several times. At the point where the band climbed out of the lemon, she turned to me vowed never to buy anything by U2 again. She was brought back to the fold by ATYCLB.