The Most Disastrous Album Release Of All Time
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2023
- This is the story of the disastrous release of U2s album “Songs of Innocence”. A release that has gone down as one of the biggest dumpster fires in music history. Tim Cook really thought he was onto something with this one.
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"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." - Bono
“Hot, hot, hot, hot.” - Randy
Bono.........No thank you.
Insufferable, insufferable, insufferable, insufferabl.
why was this also the first thing i thought to respond with? 😂
@@mkv2718” NUMBER 2 ??!!! DONT EVER CALL ME THAT!!!! “ 😅
James hetfield “he took my job!”
Heres the thing, if they just ASKED whether I wanted it, I would've said yes, and felt like I was getting something for free. This felt like it was forced on us.
The "surprise gift" in OP's scenario would have been the pop-up itself PRESENTING you with a free gift you didn't expect to see... which would be surprising... a surprise gift. Then you are also given the freedom to 'accept' or 'deny' the "surprise gift" just offered to you, much like in reality when someone shows up with an unexpected present for you. You could accept their gift, or tell them no thanks. The surprise gift still exists either way. @@laartwork
@@CordeliaWagner honey if your posting that comment in a video about U2 you are NOT normal
Honestly yea, if I saw a little notification asking if I want a feee U2 album I’d have thought “Bono? Never really listened to the fella, yea why not? It’s free right?” Cept now to this day I resent that album and the only name and face I know was involved in it
He was using 'i suck cocks and want every one to know it' month as an example of things being forced on an unwilling public , get a grip.
I shall now enjoy my 24 hour suspension.
@@CordeliaWagnerwhy is this relevant?
My mom had an iphone and they not only automatically downloaded the album on her phone. They changed her wall paper to the album cover.
She thought her phone was hacked and someone was putting gay porn on her phone. It took me a bit to figure out what was going on.
U2 is gayer than gay porn so that's understandable
I wish someone would hack my phone and put gay porn on it 😞
EXACT same thing happened to my dad.
THE EXACT SAME THING KEPT HAPPENING TO ME TOO!! I never understood what was going on until today when I just uninstalled the entire album (I don’t use Apple Music at all) and got rid of the app
@@eastonthehistoryguy2925not 9 years later
I called Apple when this happened to make them remove it from my phone. They placed me on hold and U2 was the hold music. I literally asked them if they were doing it deliberately to lose customers or taking the piss
what song was if
"The free U2 album, is overpriced" had me chuckling
It’s the most deleted album in music history. U2 should be very proud.
You have the most unfingered butthole since history began.:. You deserve a medal in you’re name 😂
I got in trouble with my mother, as it auto downloaded to my new ipod when i was like 13, and had to explain (with hardly any idea myself) why there was such an “explicit” image and why I had gotten it, and only through great difficulty convinced her I hadn’t bought it and goggling it proved it had auto downloaded to all iTunes accounts and my name was cleared
I couldn’t delete it quick enough.
I remember excitedly downloading the new Iron Maiden album for my work day, only to wake up and find out it had been deleted to make room for the U2 album.
I found out this had happened when I switched on "recently downloaded" while doing a messy job where my hands wouldn't be free for an hour. I cannot describe how incandescently mad I was for that whole hour.
So they deleted an album you paid for to shove that u2 crap on there?
Same thing happened to me and it pissed me off so much that I had to learn how to hide it from my entire library since the cloud just wouldn’t completely delete it
man thats fucked up, if someone replaced my Iron Maiden tunes for another Bono ego project i will be so mad.
@@HinataUchiha_22 That's really the worst part. I wouldn't delete. I every now and then it still shows up in my library, regardless.
That is just nasty. Someone should pay for that.
I can still remember being on the family desktop as a child, importing a cd to iTunes, then suddenly seeing this album start downloading.
I was literally terrified. Terrified that my not-so-computer-literate parents would think I’d let the computer be hacked. The album cover stood out like a sore thumb from the rest of the library. Deleting all trace of it is was a moment of relief and satisfaction!
My granny once told me that she knew ghosts were real because she had been cleaning out the old church and all of a sudden this random music started playing- she was convinced it was her nephew coming back to haunt her.
As it turns out it was this damn U2 album- she had somehow butt dialed it into playing on her brand new iPhone, which didn’t have any other music on it. She gets a good laugh out of it now!
The Songs of Innocence forced download was my introduction to U2 as a teen, so I always thought of them as ‘that random annoying band who’s songs I have to skip past’ for years. Probably not the image they were going for.
I knew of U2 probably since 2000. I like a couple of their songs but you are right in that this forced download is now probably the biggest thing they are known for now. I can’t even think of U2 without my first thought being them forcing their album on everyone. I was ticked!
Beautiful Day is a nice song though.
@@ravenm6443For the 2014 album here, Every Breaking Wave is a good track and I really like Cedarwood Road too.
But the rest of the album I don’t remember all that well.
You’re lucky, us old people have suffered through U2 and Bono since the early 80’s. 😭
@@meh_lady WTF, Achtung Baby and Zooropa want to have a word with you.
Sunday Bloody Sunday is still one of my favorite songs. Just has a raw sound to it. Bullet The Blue Sky also rocks. But I can see how a forced download would suck. This was a bad idea all around. Bono should have known better.
*"Wasn't that the most incredible single you've ever heard?"* has to go down as one of the single dumbest things anyone has ever said in the history of mankind
"Don't you guys have phones???" Is right up there, IMO
"It just works!" 😆👍
How dare you ?
So out of touch. Or maybe just a liar!
Why yes, Mr. Sir Corporate CEO Man! Sure to be a real unit shifter!
I remember this bs. Woke up one day to find U2 on my phone. I tried to delete it but it didn’t work. Pissed me off so much.
Someone said it best at the time: "There's a difference between someone knocking on your door and someone letting themselves in."
I place more blame on Apple and the way they set up iTunes than on U2.
I agree, I blame that mostly on Apple being obsessed with anti piracy
Your right I think . But the guy is right who made this video especially about giving the iTunes app the option to download the u2 album.but it was supposed to be a self promotional idea from u2 hats off to u2 for trying
Fuck them both
Hate iTunes...such a bossy little freak, i still use my Ipod classic but have far less painful ways of putting new music on it
@@jevinday"Anti piracy"?
.. huh?. In what way?. Itunes never gave a fig where i got my music from BEFORE i put it on my Apple devices
Something that annoyed me was on how difficult it was to delete the album off your library. The fact people had to make guides to delete it made it a massive problem. I’m not a fan of U2 or anything but giving us the option would’ve been the better option
They gave everyone the option to abandon apple. Im amazed people kept using their products after this invasion of privacy.
Apple clients aren't the sharpest tools in the box you see.
I still haven't gotten it off of mine. Even when I delete it, it comes back the next day.
@@luciojaimes4827 No, they clearly are not. I have no other explanation why someone would buy those ridiculously overprized products that only work with other Apple products and where a chip that dies from overheating due to terrible design, but only costs 50 cent, leads to 'repairs' that cost twice as much as a brand new PC.
@@drmantistoboggan2870 let's be honest, all our smart devices are breaching our privacy lol
But I agree, Idk why people still purchase apple. Ridiculously expensive and slowly breaks with every update.
This was such an Apple thing to do. "You're an Apple person, therefore you will worship EVERYTHING we do and listen to what WE tell you to."
@niklass1641 It was also such a U2 thing to do: "We'll make a deal with the devil so that our new album will be downloaded to your iTunes for free, and you'll absolutely LOVE IT, because we're U2."
@@mpemberton7760and God doesn’t go round the world pretending to be Bono.
@@hardlines2635 That's because God isn't so pompous or pretentious.
This album hasn’t been in my library for almost a decade, yet the memory of it even being there still lives in my head, rent free
My favorite part was when Bono said something like "We wanted to deliver milk for free to everyone but some people just don't like milk" Yeah and using that comparison some people just don't like milk and just like u2's music it makes some people violently ill
Funny that Bono would compare his own music to milk, since a lot of it has aged about as well.
@@CityofButterflythe problem is, this album being forced down people's throats gave people the impression that all their music is garbage. Achtung Baby and Zooropa are absolutely amazing albums, but because this was most people's introduction to U2, a somewhat decent album, most people thought they only made garbage.
@@Shr00b Their first 4 albums are absolutely brilliant.
U2 has aged like milk
@@Shr00bthey are garbage period.
Having one hit wonder doesn't stop it from being general trash
This album came out about 4 months after I got my first iPhone and in that time I became addicted to buying music. Seriously, I was 18/19 then and maxed my credit card out 3x in 3 months buying music on iTunes. I was working really hard to not buy anything on there anymore. So, when that day came and I opened my phone for the first time, I had this twinge of heavy stress and sinking in the pit of my stomach.
I was like "HOW THE F--- DID I BUY A U2 ALBUM? WAS I ASLEEP WHEN I DID IT?" I felt like crap the rest of the day, then finally heard it was a failed stunt, I resented the album for making me feel like shit and have never actually listened to it.
Are you better with credit cards, I hope?
@@DrAllDoRespect congratulations!
(one of the best bad things that happened to me was maxing out a credit card i had in college. i never repeated that mistake again, and have great credit as well.)
@@thejohnbeck Oh yeah, of course, that was just the bluster of youth.
@@iainronald4217 that forced download is like the flyers people stick under your windshield wiper
When this happened, I was a teenager. I had the 5c with the smallest storage available. My mother is an abusive POS who would often leave me stranded with my three year old sister for days to weeks on end. And many times, she would "forget" to pay the phone bill, so I had no contact w the outside world. So the music I had on my phone was a precious reprieve from the stress of trying to care for a toddler by myself, and worrying if we had enough food to last us until my mother deigned to grace us with her presence. I woke up one morning and went to put on the latest song I downloaded to distract my baby sister while I tried to scrounge up some semblance of breakfast. Instead of being relieved that the bill had been paid, I saw 12 of my songs had been replaced with this bullshit album. And it had used up a good chunk of our monthly data to do so. So I couldn't just use youtube to play the music. When I say I was pissed, I mean that is the first time in my life I had ever yeeted a phone. I hadn't thrown something out of anger since I was a toddler. That's how pissed I was.
When people my age hear U2, this is what they remember. They don't know anything about Bono, but they will all tell you he is a d list celeb who thinks he is as legendary as the Beatles, Ink Spots, Elvis, etc. who huffs copium like towelie from South Park huffs keyboard cleaners. And I don't think they are too far off
I'm about a decade older than you and I still feel the exact same way about Bono. Idk how far back we have to go to find people who like him but for my entire life I've been like "what is with this guy?!" U2's music is generic even for its era and every time he's entered my awareness he just gave off "D list celeb who thinks he is as legendary as The Beatles"
(hope you're having daily awesome breakfasts and ongoing phone service now btw)
If U2 didn't have their own arses to live inside, they'd be destitute. I'm 42.
@@exoZelia The only person I could think of who liked him back in the day was my teenage brother whos now 31, he was kinda a dick back then but now he's chill, my brother that is probably can't say bono grew as much lol
Womp womp
The Ink Spots? Really? That’s who you put with Elvis and the Beatles? lol
It’s not just that it was a download you didn’t want, it also interfered with your preferred downloaded playlist, and you couldn’t separate those songs from your list without creating a whole new list. Plus, it ate up that precious, precious IPad space. They should have given you the choice if you wanted to download it or not. They may also have had more success doing this with a U2 greatest hits album rather than a brand new unheard album.
EGGGGZACTLY?! ^THIS 👏👏👏
I cannot even come close to understanding people like you. This is the most first world shit ever.
I feel like the moral of the story is that Apple, and Apple music in particular, sucks. I abandoned Apple products purely because iTunes was absolute garbage and they somehow made something as simple and enjoyable as listening to music as difficult as possible.
@@DontstopbelievingmanI would say itunes is what made apple good. It’s just pointless and outdated now
To be fair, you kinda deserve it if you're ignorant enough to consume Apple products.
The greatest smokescreen in Apple history, while this happened and the internet exploded they rolled out a DRM policy that removed thousands of purchases from people's accounts by adding a device limit policy. So me, who had been buying albums since the shuffle was a thing, had thousands of dollars of purchases disappear and in it's place "songs of innocence"
Possibly a smokescreen or just APPLE at that point being like fuck you we can do what we want! btw i dont get why they still have us agree to terms and conditions if they can change them at anytime
*laughing in samsung*
@@grindelston5968golf clap of solidarity in google pixel
I have had an iPod ( the 2nd Gen Brick you circled with thumb ) since 2008.
Got an iPod Touch 4th Gen 2012 and it still functions like it did the day i bought it.
Had iPhone 4, 5, 6+, 7+, XR, 11, 12, 13, and now 14pm
And not one time have i ever lost ANY of my music, purchased or Burned CD transferred to apple format.
@sprinkleddonuts6094 some famous quote about a fool and his money...
"you can feed the poor from the crumbs off your table" sang bono, as he alighted his private jet, and boarded his private limo
The fact that In Rainbows was also a banger sure did help it
The moral of the story: You can try to share something with as many people as possible, but you shouldn’t force people to Experience something whether they like it or not.
“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.”
- John Heywood
You mean like gender language and rainbow flags and drag queens in Kindergarten?
@@CordeliaWagner Yes… that as well.
@@CordeliaWagnerkek the brainrot on some of you people
@@CordeliaWagnerYou people have to make everything about your fearmongering fantasies don’t you? When’s the last time a drag queen held you at gunpoint and forced you to use gendered language?
@@maldonr2758 Says the anime fan.
I plugged my iPhone into my car last week and some crazy noise started play. I thought some app was running. I closed everything but I still heard noise. It took me like ten minutes to realize I apparently had the iTunes app and this U2 album was the only thing in it and it was instantly playing when plugged in?! This damn album! Still angering people a decade on!
I love how you heard the music from the album and didn't even recognize it was actual music, just "noise." It was just an annoying noise you wanted to stop, that's hilarious.
@@thecactussword4304 It was this song! The first minute is legit just noise!! ua-cam.com/video/ZWOuj_bkNRc/v-deo.html
I plug my I phone into my car radio to listen to UA-cam playlists, every time an ad pops up it cuts to Bono going Ba Ba Barbara Santa Barbara. Pisses me the hell off.
same happened to me haha
I remember when that happened. I was a bread delivery driver at the time and listened to a lot of music while I drove my route. I listened to predominantly heavy music at the time and the music starts playing U2. I almost veered off the road and crashed.
Bono almost caused the bread to be spilled on the road smh
I hadn’t paid attn to U2 since the 90’s when this happened
Forcing this album down people’s throats wasn’t the way to bring even old fans back
I remember that album showing up in my library and I was pissed. I hate that band with every fiber of my being. Bono has a God complex and this was a sign of that.
Their old shit is great though, Achtung Baby is a classic. Bono is just a prick
Yeah they’re so awesome. I love hearing whiny Irish band whine about American politics. So profound.
Wow Janet is such a visionary
@@joshuawesteros5345 their best stuff has nothing to do with America. c’mon you can’t tell me Achtung Baby is a bad album that shit is awesome
He's had it for years, it's like someone came along and ate him! He didn't used to be like that.
OMG my mother hated this album but especially since it was the only album on her iTunes so it was automatically played whenever she entered her car. And she absolutely hated the art on it. “People are going to call me a pervert if they see this”.
Your poor mum. I'd be upset if that was the only album on my iTunes😂. Mine got looped just playing my Jamiroquai albums on my iPod Classic. When I mentioned it at work my workmate said: "70 songs of Jamiroquai, never knew they made that many."😂😂😂 As a fan from the beginning even I got a bit fed up of it after a while.
If she buy cds and listen to cds and if she wasn't lazy like most of you Americans this wouldn't have happened
I remember back when my phone would default to playing my entire library in alphabetical order when I got in my car. That irritated the crap out of me.
I had the same exact experience as your mom
What's perverted about a man embracing his son...?
The hard drive space issue is such a huge factor. At the time, I was constantly running out of space. I remember the first time I noticed this album sitting there taking up some space and immediately feeling extremely annoyed. I never even considered listening to it, and I actually liked some of U2's older stuff.
U2 was the band that made me want to be a musician. I'll always defend their 80s stuff, but this was one hell of a boneheaded move. Their career is still suffering, almost 10 years later. It didn't help that their music hasn't been that good since the year 2000. I didn;'t know about how hard it was to remove their album or how much space it took up. Great video
you must suck as a musician if U2 was your inspiration .....
Their music was never good lol.
I know a guy who thinks only their post 2000 stuff is really good.
He's a moron
That's a lesson in not forcing things on people who didn't ask for them. Unbelievable how huge Bono's ego is that he genuinely thought 500 million people would just absolutely love his music being given away for free, without ever considering that many of those people may not even be into U2 at all
“People like different things” is definitely something musicians should understand.
This stunt was enough to delete all u2 on my phone.
He's dang crazy from the fame.
Honestly, had equivalent technology existed in prior decades, I don’t think even Elvis/The Beatles/Michael Jackson would have escaped blowback.
@@pokepressProbably not, but I'm not sure they'd have the god-complex Bono does to want to pull this stunt.
Napster wasn’t so much “musical piracy” as musical revenge. As the major record labels were found guilty in a civil law suit for working together (i.e. defeating competition) to continually raise CD prices. Even though CDs were cheaper to produce than LPs or cassettes. But Sony’s CEO called Rhino’s CEO, who already had Universal’s CEO on speaker phone, and they said, “Hey, we raised the price of CDs to $16 last year. How about $18 this year?”
The industry loves to talk about Napster, but always leave out the anti-trust lawsuit they lost. All Napster did was say, “Hey, fuck those fraudsters.”
I feel the same way about pirating video games!
Oh I'm sorry, did you honestly expect me to pay you to ruin my favorite past time by forcing your shit politics into my video games?
Nah fam, I'm gonna give you a crash course in your politics. I didn't steal your intellectual property, I took our intellectual property. It was already mine. 😹😇
@@slyguythreeonetwonine3172 Microtransactions, player retention focus, GaaS, and poor, unfinished releases are the problem with games these days, not whatever political agenda you disagree with.
@@slyguythreeonetwonine3172 do you honestly thinked you owned someone else's ip by just playing their games?
The lawsuit obviously didn’t do very much because now it’s digital platforms akin to Napster doing exactly the same thing.
To say they dead and buried Napster would not be true.
They merely took Napsters torch and industrialised it into Spotify, Beatport and the like.
@@SawGudmanMoron
I wonder if Tim Cook genuinely loved that album, I wonder if he actually thought that was the best performance he’s ever heard
You know... I wouldn't be surprised...
I remember for maybe a year or more after I removed the album from my library, I still frequently got random pop up messages on my iPad saying there was an error downloading. It really was like a virus on iOS, and it seemed like it was more involved than just adding it to people’s purchase history. It was more difficult to remove or hide than a regular purchase.
something about how they set it up made it behave like a default app, automatically being installed whenever the system detects its been hidden or deleted because you arent supposed to be able to remove a default app
Agreed. U2's execution here took the thrill of discovery out of it. While Radiohead's method kindles that magical feeling of finding a great record that just happens to be in the bargain bin (I discovered The Velvet Underground in exactly this way), U2's approach felt more like THAT GUY at the party/dorm/apartment who hijacks the sound system, saying "Dude, you GOTTA hear this band!" It's an immediate turnoff when it feels foisted upon you. Another important factor was that Radiohead maintained a direct connection with their audience, whereas U2 tied their release in with a massive corporation, which detracted from the authenticity and credibility of the music in question. Such overt collaboration with a multinational entity that is perhaps the ultimate embodiment of the pejorative quality of being "corporate" was bound to rub a lot of fans the wrong way.
And the Radiohead album was actually really good
Extremely well said.
That last sentence is a bit much. But U2 sucks. Their fans always push their music too hard on you.
@@RobertHurleyJr you're so right about the fans, I recently listened through a bunch of classic U2 from the 80s and found I was finally able to enjoy it because there wasn't anyone prattling on about how it's the greatest music ever
@@RobertHurleyJr Which part? Does Apple not have an exceptionally corporate vibe? Or is a band's collaboration with them to release an album not likely to rub fans the wrong way?
Funny thing is that I didn't realise how much of an issue this was until much later, because I liked the album myself and thus never tried to delete it so it just felt like "cool, free music I like".
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Well said, a few weeks later they released it to buy and it reached No 4 in the charts strange
Here’s my experience with it.
I found this album after the controversy because I didn’t use iTunes properly until like 4 months after this happened. I had a collection of albums my sister prepared for me for my birthday so I downloaded them all to my iPhone and I was basically going through the whole collection all at once, and when I came across this album I didn’t think much of it since my sister already listened to U2 on her own time. But since it was U2 and since my sister was a 90s kid I thought this was maybe an older album since the cover was in black and white and that was a popular stylized choice for their genres earlier era.
So I got used to the songs, even picked out some favorites while I was at it. But one day my friends and I were at a coffee and donut shop near my high school just talking about random crap and I suddenly heard one of the trending songs from the album playing. I vividly remember getting so excited I stopped our conversation and went “OH, I know this song!” I thought I was gonna look cool as heck showing off the U2 album like it was some old obscure relic, and when I played the song on my phone in sync with the one on the speakers while showing my friends the album art with it, they all just looked at me like I was an idiot and they were like “Oh… okay cool?”
Then I found out about the album being forced down everyone’s throats a couple of weeks later from a different friend group and I felt so stupid I had a change of heart and hated the album. Later I explained myself to my friends from the coffee and donut shop told me they were worried I was somehow a shill or the exact demographic for Apple’s dumb schemes.
Apple did me dirty
You did yourself dirty
Always found it weird that people think it's a flex to like old music
@@freddiesimmons1394 Just childish high school habits I suppose. I was only 14 or so at the time? So yeah I was probably tryna look cool lmao
@@Cheaty_Fourwhat kind of 14 year old would ever think u2 is cool lol
We all have those memories that keep us up at night
So that’s why this has been on my phone for years! I don’t have music on my phone, so every time I accidentally play music, that album plays! I never thought about it, so this is a crazy revelation for me
You forgot to mention that if Apple could dump an album on your device, it can dump whatever else it wants too!
Does it mean they also can remove anything ?
That's the reason why I still buy CDs.
@@deedeechurthey can. Ive had it happen with audiobooks and been bloody raging
Oh boy wait until you discover that Apple can remotely update your phone too! Technology is frightening.
It’s in the EULA of every digital asset. Games, music, books, etc. if you purchase it digitally you don’t actually own it. You agree to a contract when you click “Agree” that only licenses you to consume what you downloaded. You actually have no ownership rights like you do with a physical copy. I’m speaking about the U.S. only here, btw. My understanding of consumer protection laws of the EU is that they’re much better, but I don’t know if this is the case there or not.
@@notrab13 im not too sure, it happened to me a few times when we were still in the EU. The EU was generally good but they bend over for corporations nearly as much as the US system
The biggest difference between In Rainbows to Songs of Innocence is that In Rainbows doesn't suck
Nah, the U2 album is perfectly fine for a pop rock album. The release method is the problem
Keep telling yourself that. I personally am not a fan of music that makes me want to kill myself but I guess everyone has their own preferences.
Every single U2 song is absolute shit. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
@@rickrivers2021shut up bono
@@rickrivers2021 Really? Without looking, name one song off Songs of Innocence...
I grew up loving U2…then this happened and I questioned my childhood
This album was like the diffrence between helping an old lady across the road and just grabbing hold of her wheelchair without being asked.
Bought In Rainbows download for £1. Then realised I loved Radiohead and bought their other albums (including In Rainbows again) on CD. We all won.
That's basically how music sales had been working already. People listened to your music for free, usually on the radio. Some of the people who liked it would then go on to buy it on vynil, then tapes, then cds, etc depending on the popular medium of the day.
Radiohead >>>>>>>U2
@@meh_ladyRadiohead wouldn’t exist without U2. Ask Thom.
Yeah, but U2 still sucks. @@goldenhourkodak
@@goldenhourkodakstill Radiohead >>>>>> U2
The only thing worse than this is if it had been a Coldplay album instead. 😂
Coldplay would never release anything for free.
The thought of coldplay foisting a free album upon my person keeps me up at night
Or Nickleback.
the triad of evil U2,coldplay and nickleback.@@BroNapartay
@suppenkaschper4686 I would take any of them over a force fed album by Imagine Dragons.
THAT keeps me up at night ...
Almost 10 years later I'm still trying to get this album off my phone..
I would pay money not to have to suffer through a U2 album
Edge must feel rad as fuck considering his riff is on the company phones of part time security guards in public libraries
I still remember how annoying it was to have your iPod on shuffle and having one of this songs ruin your perfectly curated playlist. If it was just a single that wouldn't be that bad. But a WHOLE album, a dozen songs when memory space was pretty limited at the time. That was pushing it way too far.
Great video, hope the algo gods bless you with their favours, you got some talent for this
fr. I actually just got my original Apple account back recently and it wasn't easy. I managed to get into it and that U2 album still won't go away.
Yep! I don't use iPhones anymore, but whenever my sister's iPhone syncs to our car radio, U2 starts automatically. We just laugh now. What else can we do? 😅
You deserve so many more subscribers. The editing and the content in general is incredible!
You smashed it out the park with your first few videos. This one just hit a topic that was more ‘viral-worthy’ I guess. Nice job man!
it wouldnt fucking leave.
i deleted it over and over again off my school ipad.
it would not leave.
i had deleted it, and it had cloudsaved to my ipad. i couldnt get rid of it.
there was no music on my ipad, i hadbt even discovered that i had music i loved yet. and i had U2 jammed down my throat.
The worst part was getting it deleted, which I think made the whole thing worse. Being forced to download a horrible album by a terrible band was not a good idea. Not being able to delete it made it so so so so much worse.
Pretty much what was implied
I just binged all your videos. Loved them all. Haven't laughed so much in a long while!! 😂😂
First vid i seen of yours , loved it & subbed!
This album is still in my purchase history 😭
Yep! I was looking for a single the other day… Bam, this stupid album is listed. I got angry all over again.
Mine too but I hidden it
I just deleted it …u2 only good albums were like the first 4
@@marigold3208 call apples tech support, they are still able to manually delete it, the methods you were able to do yourself have all been disabled by security updates, but they can do it from their end if asked
Bono is genuinely perplexed why people think he’s a cockhead
Know he's a cock head, not think!
I rarely laugh at skits that are included in video essays by UA-camrs, but yours actually made me laugh. Earned a sub.
Interesting vid, I enjoyed it! I like your animations and storytelling style.
I remember when this album ended up playing on my iPad multiple times when I accidentally pressed the button on my earphones (the ones with a cord, that is), initially thought it came already installed as a freebie, as I never used the music app. I got rid of it and thought that was that, BUT THEN IT CAME BACK. I literally thought I had been hacked. That was years ago and only now am I finding out that I was not the only one who had this happen to them.
I think they saw the successful way Radiohead approached the release of In Rainbows and said, "Oi let's do something like that but in our own way!" Then they proceeded to miss the mark by a wide margin.
People want to feel like they're in control of what goes onto their devices. In that way it felt like a violation. It also is a bad look for a band to assume that everyone on a certain platform would want to have their album. Smacks of narcissism.
Bono has a bigger ego than any politician in the history of the world so its 100% on point that this happened!
Amazing editing!
3:40 - LOL - excellent comic timing! You get a subscription just for that.
I was one of those people ticked off by it. I had limited space and already had to be super careful about what I put on my iPod. Then I had that shoved down my throat. And it was like a virus you couldn't get off of it. I looked up how to, and it took me so freaking long to figure out how to finally delete it. I literally had to go back through my music and redownload things it deleted to make room for their automatically downloaded album. It made me pissed, to say the least...
I love how just from your thumbnail and title, I INSTANTLY knew this was about that particular album of theirs. Every time I hear their band name, it just brings up how annoying that was and makes me not want to listen to their band.
You put it PERFECTLY, they should have just given us the option to say yes or no if we wanted it. I would have said no because of space, and they weren't really the genre of music I was listening to at that point in time. But now they made me never want to listen to them. The only time I've ever heard Bono sing was because he sang a cover song in a film I like, but other than that movie, I will not be listening to him, sorry.
What sounds better than one 500$ delay?
Twelve 500$ delays at the same time.
-The Edge probably
Good job on the video, well made, keep up the good work mate
I have a story with this album as well. My mate borrowed my work van and synched up his phone to it. The next day I was driving again and guess what song played every time I turned the keys!!. U2 raised by wolves. Had to show him how to delete it.
It was like an ailment he’d been living with for over a decade!!!
Still shaking my head at how the Apple board was convinced by Tim Cook to fork over the $100 million (according to one report I saw) for the initial exclusive rights to the album. And afaik, no shareholder lawsuit was ever filed over this. Definitely thought that Apple could have offered the option of downloading the album or getting another album for free. But this is what happens when the CEO is such a fan of something that he cannot comprehend that others might not be.
U2 was on a high at the time, huge prior album + sold out tour world wide. I'm sure people at apple thought it couldn't fail.
It shows you how deluded and unethical people become with centralized control. They can't help watching you more and more (youtube), attempting to censor what you say (twitter), going through your personal information (facebook), or trying to force you to use their products (google plus, "songs of innocence"). And they can't fathom that it's wrong, they actually get so used to the idea that they start thinking it's cool and they can do it out in the open. Thank god Web 3.0 is replacing these pieces of trash and will have no Zucks, Cooks or Dorseys.
Shocked to see that this video came from a not huge channel- editing is incredible!! Glad to be here before all the subs come in.
6:38 is the most unfathomably based thing I've seen on UA-cam and it's not even close
How well I remember this. And how well the enormous presumption involved in it squared with U2's endless sanctimony. Despite installing the app that claimed to get rid of it (from memory it actually left one of the entirely forgettable songs on my iPod...), I ended up just dumping Apple products a couple of months later.
when I was a kid, I saw this in my iTunes and would "hide" it from my mom because of the album cover and I didn't know how to delete it.
Crazy how they didn't anticipate a negative reaction to this. Songs of Arrogance.
Great video anyway, man! Subbed. Congrats on 1k!
I remember being so pissed when this happened. It filled up my storage. And it was the first big wake up to realize Apple’s business model is to constantly remind you that you don’t even on the item you bought and they can make changes to it whenever they want.
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U2 were always one step away from coming across a smug and a bitt naff so this was that final step which theyve never recovered from.
Bono counting down to the release, and yt cutting off to a Tylenol ad, is the funniest thing I've ever witnessed in my entire life
Seven years prior South Park had a interesting way of describing Bono. Seven years later Bono proved it to be true. Yes he was, and still is "the record".
That Hank on the toilet visual was just sooo perfect for this.
Fitting Isle Delfino’s theme into this was appreciated. I love Super Mario Sunshine.
I applaud your use of Spy vs Spy music. You've awoken memories in me. Thank you
I’ve just checked and it’s still on my phone. I’ve never listened to it, at the time I also resented it just being there….and I’m someone whose first concert in the early 1990s was U2 and the Zooropa tour. Maybe I’ll listen to it one year…decade.
6:39 Yeah, this option was turned on by default and normally you would have no reason to turn it off, logic being "why would Apple forcibly add a song to your library, and if I bought a song I obviously want to listen to it". 😅
Fucking me up seeing this level of quality on a video with less than 1k views. Keep up the good work, man!
Well , it's nearly at 40k now.
It's the less than 1k subscribers that's doing me 'ead in
They did charge for the digital version of In Rainbows. You had to pay at least $1. I paid $10 and it was worth way more as it's one of the greatest albums of all time.
And not only that, but it was also automatically playing when you plugged the phone to your car. What a nightmere it was!
This is the most disturbing part. SO many comments confirm this. UnREAL...
I love at 5:59 if you read the prediction of 2030 "Kanye West vows to break into the home of every American , refuse to leave until they listen to his new album "my struggle" and tell him how great it is" isn't too far off
Talking of planned obsolescence, I had a coworker who bought that U2 iPod and it died after the warranty expired and it can't be fixed according to Apple. But it is highly collectable by now.
I recently noticed that album is still in my iTunes library, and I still haven’t bothered to give it a listen.
This album used to auto play while wearing headphones constantly. I’d fall asleep to rain sounds, and be woken up by Bono whining in my ears. 😬
Great topic. "Every Breaking Wave" is a nice mid tempo ballad, besides that i thought the album was hot garbage. In hindsight i think Bono is just unintentionally megalomaniacal. Basically inthink he has a god complex but doesn't realize it
I actually think there's several other good songs (Song for Someone, Raised by Wolves, Sleep Like a Baby Tonight) but the release method is just so ridiculously terrible, I can't blame anyone for not liking it. I didn't have an iPhone, so there wasn't really the chance for it to sour on me
I always enjoyed U2 earlier work , I wasn’t crazy for the new stuff but I could understand how in Bono’s mind they were the top group at one point and I guess he wanted to get back to that… it just wasn’t the best way to do it
I remember that, I had an iPhone 5c at the time and when I wanted to take photos of some class notes in school it wouldn’t let me since the storage was maxed because it had downloaded that freaking album.
I was like 13-14 and I remember vividly sitting on the couch in the living room at my dad’s house, on the brink of tears because I had no idea what this album was or how it got on my iPod. I think even I just made a playlist of every song on my iPod and didn’t include the album, so that way I could hit shuffle and not have to worry about U2 popping up lmao
This has to be where the writers of the Andy Samberg movie 'Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping' got the idea.
He plays a later-career Eminem type rap star spoof character, and he makes a deal to release his new album through an appliance company, so it plays automatically through millions of people's home appliances, forced on everyone unexpectedly, it pisses off the whole world, causes a massive blackout over half the U.S., and it was a total flop of an album TOO. 😆
I never would've thought that ridiculous of an idea actually came from a real life incident.. until I watched this video.
Weh! 😂🤣💀
Had this on my secondhand Iphone in my teenage years, I got jumpscare each time I unlock the screen because the damn album was playing in the background. I legit thought I was getting hacked or maybe the previous owner really love U2.
If they had asked, just sent out a little message saying hey would you like to download the new U2 album no one would have had an issue with it. I'm sure a lot of people would have jumped at it finding the songs they like from the album but this was forced upon us and worst still some songs were deleted in order to make room for it.
how do you not have like a million subscribers? you're awesome. SUBBED!
People have forgotten how great they were in the 80s and the beginning of the 90s.
Nah, lots of people never really liked their music, you either really like them or you can't fucking stand them
I admit i kinda liked their Achtung baby & Zooropa era it was refreshing to see for the band ,but now I could believe that Bono just went jackshit on his own band. Kinda shy
It’s called an opinion Robert.
Were as in past tense
@@Chef_Alpo yes, in past tense, but all bands have a limited number of years in which they were great. All bands have albums that arent so good. Somehow people forgot the U2 of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s. Radiohead is worshipped but U2 offers a lot of things Radiohead does not offer.