Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:I know it's been 3 years since No Line, but does anybody else feel like they can wait a bit longer? To me it feels like U2 JUST got off the road still, and that asking for music at this point would be early or something. I know it shouldn't take years after a tour finishes to write 11 songs, but I dunno. As with anything else, especially U2, these things take time. Look at The Killers, they haven't been on tour since like 2010, and haven't released an album since 2008, and there still isn't any concrete word from them when we'll hear from them next. I feel like at this point I'm still enjoying a little bit of a break from U2.
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:I know it's been 3 years since No Line, but does anybody else feel like they can wait a bit longer? To me it feels like U2 JUST got off the road still, and that asking for music at this point would be early or something. I know it shouldn't take years after a tour finishes to write 11 songs, but I dunno. As with anything else, especially U2, these things take time. Look at The Killers, they haven't been on tour since like 2010, and haven't released an album since 2008, and there still isn't any concrete word from them when we'll hear from them next. I feel like at this point I'm still enjoying a little bit of a break from U2.
Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:I know it's been 3 years since No Line, but does anybody else feel like they can wait a bit longer? To me it feels like U2 JUST got off the road still, and that asking for music at this point would be early or something. I know it shouldn't take years after a tour finishes to write 11 songs, but I dunno. As with anything else, especially U2, these things take time. Look at The Killers, they haven't been on tour since like 2010, and haven't released an album since 2008, and there still isn't any concrete word from them when we'll hear from them next. I feel like at this point I'm still enjoying a little bit of a break from U2.
Originally posted by aussiemofo:[..]
No a new album couldn't come sooner imo. They average about a 3-4 year break. End of the year would be a good release date for me. They're not getting any younger so the more albums of high quality they can produce before they throw in the towel the better as far as I'm concerned. If you look back at their early days and even into the early 90's, they were pretty quick follow-ups. They boast how they have all this unused material now. Well let's see it. I don't think they should feel obligated to quickly follow the new album up with a tour straight off the bat. They can let it go a while if they want and maybe tour on second quick follow up album.
Originally posted by iTim:One of Black Eyed Peas' biggest hits was inspired by a U2 song.
Legendary music producer Jimmy Iovine has revealed that will.i.am wrote I Gotta Feeling after working on the Irish group's 2009 album No Line on the Horizon. Jimmy says will.i.am came up with the tune after being impressed by the melody on the U2 track I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight.
"I sent will.i.am over to the studio to do some remixes on I'll Go Crazy," Jimmy is quoted as saying by British newspaper The Sun. "He works on them for two weeks, comes back and writes I Gotta Feeling."
The Black Eyed Peas star is even said to have admitted to U2 frontman Bono and his band members that he had sought inspiration from him.
"The chords are U2 chords, 100 per cent," Jimmy added. "Will even told them."
I Gotta Feeling was the second single on The Black Eyed Peas' fifth studio album The E.N.D. It was a huge hit around the world when it was released in 2009.
The track spent 14 consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and is the most downloaded song on iTunes of all time. It has sold over 14 million copies worldwide, making it one of the biggest pop songs ever.
Belfast Telegraph
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