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  2. This might very well be the funniest thing I've read this month, and by far the funniest U2 thing I have read this year.

    I mean I've been laughing out loud, alone at home, for almost half an hour.

    http://www.atu2.com/achtoon/2013c/


    Just...
  3. Some good ones there. Larry Mullen changed his profile pic got me good.
  4. NO
  6. that's brilliant. Hilarious.
  7. Most of the times she's spot on, but this one is maybe her best haha!
  9. Not sure how I feel about that article, the writer is making plenty of assumptions, especially on who the audience for this kind of stuff is. When it comes to Bono's need for relevancy he's right, the Top 40 doesn't contain any rock nowadays, but there's definitely still a market for it when it's done with a current sound and U2 is such a well oiled machine that there will always be a market for them as well.

    I still don't think this managerial stuff will change much for U2. They were with Live Nation for 360 and look what they let them do, the biggest tour ever. Creatively U2 won't change, and probably most of the stuff that McGuiness did was beyond the eyes of the fans anyway.
  10. I actually think the article has a point. They're ageing, I think decline is somewhat inevitable. They can still pull out some great music, and they will. But it won't be JT or AB again.

    What worries me, and what the article implicitly acknowledges, is that there's no new U2. Yes, there's Coldplay. But U2 were already huge at 27. Who is 27, huge, and does rock n roll?
  11. Originally posted by JuJuman:I actually think the article has a point. They're ageing, I think decline is somewhat inevitable. They can still pull out some great music, and they will. But it won't be JT or AB again.

    What worries me, and what the article implicitly acknowledges, is that there's no new U2. Yes, there's Coldplay. But U2 were already huge at 27. Who is 27, huge, and does rock n roll?

    That precise age is only hit by Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys' frontman), who was born in 1986, but Arctic Monkeys are much more "audience restricted" than U2 were with The Joshua Tree, and nowadays, audience is much more fragmented than it bas back in the 80s. There's no way Muse or Arctic Monkeys (only young rockers that could hold U2's crown in a sense) can pull out a song that appeals to the same amount of masses than were fascined with WOWY or Streets in 1987. No way. Rock is still appreciated by a big part of the music-consuming population, but it's not the main thing anymore. And both U2 and us have to deal with it.
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