Submitted by Expensive_Ad_403 t3_zzjinh in Music
I know there's a topic about that every month but I wanted to participate too, lol. I'm also aware that a lot of people's answer is Bono who is a douchbag as they say. But there were other great douches like Liam Gallagher or Axl Rose and yet them and their bands aren't nearly as hated as Bono and U2. As far as I'm aware. Some people say that they got too big. But there are many as big or even bigger bands, like Queen for example and no one seems to hate them as much. iTunes scandal is long forgotten and the band was hated already for a long time before. Selling out? All such big and popular bands sold out at some time. For me personally, I think the reason is that of all their hundreds of songs and two dozen albums it's always the same 3 or 4 songs that got so overplayed on the radio or tv that people got so sick of them so much like One, Beautiful Day, With or without you. Majority of non fans never heard anything apart from these songs. My personal favorite their album is seemingly their most obscure and lowest selling one, 1997's Pop which I think ironically is their most experimental and dark one, it has some really great songs like "Staring at the sun" which most people never even heard of but are always treated with another "One" instead
Flosslyn t1_j2bzdss wrote
I personally love U2. It was my first concert at like age… 13? And it was a completely mind-blowing experience. And I don’t think U2 cares… as long as they’re getting hits.