On top of that, the strange Christian super-protection of u2 is just amazing to me. they're not heathens, they're not even anti-Christian, per se... but when did they become elevated to some musical form of angels or something? im really in the dark here and quite shocked at peoples' reactions to my comment.
Monday, October 26, 2009
u2 sucks
i made a comment on my facebook status of how u2 was good in the 80's but really hasn't done much to innovate music since. you would have thought i called the pope a nazi or something! i am amazed at the voracity in people's responses, yet the lack of substantiation people can provide for rebutting this view. i am not going to pretend to own all of the right answers to everything, but when u2 is long and gone, what songs are we going to remember? "One" or "Lemon?" "With or Without You" or "Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own?" "Pride (In the Name of Love)" or...or.... ???
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The answer is simple - Hipster Christians want so badly for the rest of the world to think they're cool. U2 is Christian-y, and the world thinks they're cool.
Don't take away the only cool Christians on the planet, Matt.
U2 is also quintessentially "Fuller." Sophisticated, urbane people think U2 is too Christian, and fundamentals think U2 is heathen. That's just like Fuller.
Well, if you want to get technical, Achtung Baby was released in 1991...
I somewhat agree with Elijah. Christans continue to look to new "Messiahs" that put us in the mainstream. We try to find that popular, well-liked celebrity that also avows to Christianity so that we now have a new spokesman--because Jesus was not enough, I guess.
I did go to the concert--though I won't be as harsh, one of the things I've always appreciated is U2's simplicyt. The Edge creates easily accessible licks. Adam and Larry aren't really that great of musicians. But Bono carries such passion. He may sing off key, and be a bit obscure--but he is still passionate ABOUT something. I think that's attractive.
But, I agree, they haven't been very creative in their last few albums.
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