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Re: new math
>From: CLQ007 at aol_com:
>prestokelvo at yahoo_com writes:
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> > popularity does not equal selling out.
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>Excellent point. Too many cynics make that assumption easily...
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>Chris
I think a remark of mine prompted this so...
Guys, I'm not a cynic. I'd never make the argument that popularity=
automatic sellout. However, U2 did go through a period of self-agrandizing.
They were singing about nothing. They'd folded to the demands of their
critics, reducing themselves to "sluts without a mission". They were
embracing all that was ugly and crass about popular culture. If it was
intended as a clever satire, it must have backfired, as evidenced when the
diminishing returns kicked in.
Now, U2 have gotten back to making music for music's sake, with a vitality
and purpose that recent efforts have lacked. Praise the Lord. I'll even
allow for the "Tomb Raider" tie-ins, so I'm hardly being unfair. U2 really
are one of the great bands of our time, so relax. The past is, as they say,
in the past...
Long live U2!
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