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U2 adapts to changing times
More recently, U2 appeared on "SNL." "I love to see an outsized band like U2 behaving like they're in the kindergarten and just doing what you do with your first album -- taking it to the market, setting up your table, selling your wares, selling it out the street corners, giving out fliers ... I think selling out is when you stop believing enough in your music to put yourself out to explain it to people." U2's Blackberry partnership includes an application that allows users to download the CD and photographs, liner notes and more. Full Article at Southeast MissourianI love to see an outsized band like U2 behaving like they're in the kindergarten and just doing what you do with your first album -- taking it to the market, setting up your table, selling your wares, selling it out the street corners, giving out fliers ... I think selling out is when you stop believing enough in your music to put yourself out to explain it to people.
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U2 adapts to changing times
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But I think, in a sense, the more interesting challenge is, 'What is rock 'n' roll in this changing world?' Because, to some extent, the concept of the music fan -- the concept of the person who buys music and listens to music for the pleasure of music itself -- is an outdated idea.
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The biggest danger for a band like U2 is accepting that you've reached a certain age, and, therefore, you can just actually sit back
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The thing about U2 has always been its audience, and in this environment, I think the audience is so important, and the reaction is so important
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The commercial challenges have to be confronted
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Music exists in an environment where people are multitasking, and I think that's a very different environment ... I worry that the world of rock 'n' roll that I grew up in is destined to end up that way.
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That's not what we signed up to do. We want to make relevant, great music, and Bono has said numerous times, 'One crap album and you're out
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We're trying to do everything we can on that front without having to change what we're about artistically: The music stays sacrosanct ... We are much more focused on being the best than being the biggest.
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I didn't think it could come to this so quickly, after the joyous occasion of that election
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Judging by the reaction to the album, live, I feel like it has really connected
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