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I liked his answer. Transcript: Q: Can you please never release an album on iTunes that automatically downloads to people's playlists ever again? It's really
by EarthLaunch 12y ago
I liked his answer. Transcript:
Q: Can you please never release an album on iTunes that automatically downloads to people's playlists ever again? It's really rude.
A: Uh, oops! Um, I'm sorry about that. I had this beautiful idea. Got carried away with ourselves. Artists are prone to that kind of thing. Drop of megalomania. Touch of generosity. Dash of self-promotion. And, deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into for the last couple of years mightn't be heard. There's a lot of noise out there. I guess we got a little noisy ourselves to get through it.
- dmix 12y agoRight, Apple is the one who should have shown a little class and taste. I've learned not to expect that from Bono or record labels. But Apple should have realized it was a bad idea. Or at least have made it optional.
- bobbles 12y agoThe whole relationship and Tim Cooks weird statements like "ISNT THAT THE GREATEST SINGLE YOU HAVE EVER HEARD?" at the iPhone keynote seem so out of whack with their normal advertising audience I don't know how it made it through
- Bahamut 12y agoArtists are not usually prone to that - that's a total bullshit answer. Few out of the hundreds of artists I personally know & have interacted with are like that. Some even in the record industry itself (one has a Grammy). Then again, it's not surprising that he'd be full of himself.
- joezydeco 12y agoIf you were fearing irrelevance in the eyes of your fans (especially after being off their radars for 5 1/2 years) and had access to a megaphone that reached half a billion potential customers, what would you do? Would the thought cross your mind at least a little?
- coldtea 12y agoDon't know if artists want to be heard, but see how you casually brag about knowing "hundreds of artists", including a Grammy winning one, "personally".
- joering2 12y agoBono is a hard-core businessman, not an artist. This is a guy who raised to fame on giving fundraising concerts to help poor children in Africa, and himself donated ZERO dollars out of 1.7 billion he made on Facebook stock. God only knows what deals has been made behind scenes U2 vs Apple. Edit: I stand corrected: first and foremost, he's a hard-core businessman, THEN an artist.
- xzlzx 12y agoI detest U2 in basically every way, but to say he's not an artist is quite shortsighted.
- glhaynes 12y agoI'd be OK with criticizing his capital gains if he were dead and they didn't seem to be distributed reasonably. At least until then, it seems pretty gross to criticize him on that basis. And to call a member of such an influential band "not an artist" just seems silly.
- pbreit 12y agoSorry, still clearly an artist first. Perhaps even philanthropist would be higher than "hardcore businessman". And Bono made way less than $1.7b on Facebook. Probably well less than $100m. Possibly less than $10m. Simple downvote.
- aaronbrethorst 12y agoSome math: http://fortune.com/2012/05/18/no-facebook-did-not-make-bono-worlds-richest-musician/ http://fortune.com/2012/05/18/no-facebook-did-not-make-bono-... So, again, at best Bono gets $43 million. Or, in other words, just more than Britney Spears will make for two years of judging The X Factor. Let alone Paul McCartney’s reported $1.04 billion net worth. Clearly Facebook has been good to Bono, but not nearly as good as is being portrayed…