BY MIKEY MIGO
New Years Day. It happens once a year. It’s pretty crazy to think that most of the population wakes up on the first day of a new year hung over and embarrassed from the night before. One thing that does stand out to me on New Years Day is avoiding college football, greasy foods, and hearing the song “New Years Day” at least one during the day. U2… one of the best bands in the world with an anthem of the ages. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why people would want to jump on the U2 Hate bandwagon. People blindly hate U2 for no reason. It’s as bad as racism, but worse! If we take musical preference and opinion and put it to the side, Bono is not any less pretentious or overbearing than John Lennon’s “politics”. If John Lennon were a live he’d be on twitter telling us to donate to random charities all day. It’s like Matt Damon, but with rhythm. Bono is full of shit. I get that and embrace it. He means no harm and does more than his part in helping those who speaks out for. There is no reason to hate on them because of THAT. A few years ago South Park made fun of him and now a whole generation of ignorant music fans think lowly of one of the greatest bands of all time. That’s lame and so are you if you hate U2 without having at least 5 reasons why. That’s all I’m asking. Five reasons why YOU hate U2. And again, I’m only going to allow musical preference to be ONE of those reasons. U2 is responsible for some of the best rock and roll songs of all time. When hair bands were jumping, new wave bands were looking for a personal jesus, and hip hop was all about my Adidas U2 carried the banner of rock and roll for everyone. “Sunday Bloody Sunday” is one of the greatest songs of all time. “One” is a thing of beauty. “New Years Day” is great. “Where the Streets Have No Names”, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”, “Beautiful Day”, and so on and so on and so on. They make music the world wants to hear. If you’re dumb enough to miss out on the greatness that is U2 then it’s your loss really.
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