Why do i hate u2

Sandro Olivo, who runs the U2 Australia fansite, says no one knows what the band may privately donate to charity. Still, U2 haters will grab any chance to have a pot-shot. It came on a global level in when the band did a deal with Apple that saw their album Songs Of Innocence drop, uninvited, into the iTunes library of million users worldwide. The release fast became a PR disaster, especially in the age of social media, and led to the company inventing a function to delete the record.

They should have given a free voucher people could redeem. It was a very bad PR move. People were getting something for free and they were so angry. The world had gone crazy! The U2 haters have been around for a long time.

Unfortunately all the preaching probably overshadows one simple fact — Bono is such a great singer. Or give Beautiful Day a spin. The Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen never cop the same kind of flack. Reaching the pinnacle of any industry will always attract negativity from some quarters. But when the news broke that they were moving some of their holdings overseas — reportedly because of a new cap on that exemption — it sparked furious accusations that they were tax cheats, even to this day.

Maybe Bono should spend less time writing coronavirus ballads and more time paying his taxes in Ireland that will be used to help our stressed out healthcare system. The band did their best to defend their actions. But we have companies moving here from the rest of the EU, so it all evens out.

Since the days of the Beatles , performers have publicly fumed about the amount of money they have to hand over to the government. Cross, the man who was rebuffed when trying to find a U2 tour in Dublin, later told the singer about his encounter at the tourist office. That was certainly the takeaway from an infamous Guardian piece , written by Dean Van Nguyen, who interviewed his fellow Dubliners to figure out why the Irish hate U2.

But U2 did very well. But although Clarke mentions that other Irish celebrities, such as Oscar-nominated actress Saoirse Ronan, get a certain amount of grief from their countrymen and women, Bono inspires a unique, and intense, level of ire. You really hate this guy.

The rock star was a peace-loving internationalist. This is quite a comedown for a band who, just over a decade ago, could still call itself the biggest band in the world. But in , they seem to be disliked with the same intensity that they used to be patriotically beloved despite their overt Irish heritage. The reason why depends on your perspective. In a roundup of songs that broke their respective bands, CBC rounds up all the usual suspects of wildly popular bands a bunch of people now hate for their own ink-blob reasons: Coldplay , Mumford and Sons, Dave Matthews Band, and Weezer.

Each of these groups started their careers either well-liked or beloved especially in the case of Weezer , only to find themselves a punchline among the kinds of folks who want to differentiate their music taste from the rest of the pack. Comments Our site Facebook. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published.

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