- It showed up one day in your apple library
- You couldn’t delete or remove it
- The band’s stupid name stood out in any library due to it being short
- At the time you couldn’t get rid of the album. It sat there eating up memory space and the best you could do was disable the album from playing in shuffle.
- Thank you OP for reminding me about this. It took over a decade but I finally got that album out of a now empty music library on a device that sat unused in a drawer. At some point between then and now deleting the album from your library became easy. Back in the drawer it goes.
To this very day, iOS dictation still inserts U2 instead of you two. I had to manually set a correction to get it to mostly stop
I was a kid when this happened. I didn’t mind it. Free music, I thought. Cool.
Windows came with music samples back in the days too. I would’ve appreciated U2 more
Windows 95 had the music video for Weezer’s Buddy Holly on the install disc.
U2 is such a groundbreaking band. They’re the first band who managed to make an album with negative value.
It didn’t help Songs of Innocence was one of their worst albums.
It’s alright, it’s alright, alright.
Apple moves in mysterious ways.
Then one day Lyft (US ride sharing app) rolled out Lyft Bieber and I uninstalled immediately
…Lyft Bieber?
Some bullshit Justin Bieber promotion
Would’ve been cool if it was a Ween album.
I’m still surprised so many people had such a strong opinion. Though honestly it’s probably a “vocal minority” moment. I know myself and quite a few other people I talked to were “oh cool, free album”
To me, “free album” is like a person handing out free CD’s on a busy sidewalk.
This is more like my landlord going into my living room and putting a CD on my shelf.
(Now someone will tell me about how my analogy is flawed, I don’t care, that’s how analogies work. It’s not the same, it’s an analogy.)
And then your landlord forbids you to remove the CD from your shelf.
Politics fans were miffed because at the time Bono was bitching about how the Irish Government wasn’t spending enough on foreign aid, while the band had just bought a skyscraper in Dublin and had offshored their business affairs so they no longer paid tax in Ireland. They’re the PETA of gobby musicians.
They’re also aggressively mediocre, so most music fans would find no value in the album. There was a reason the band took the payoff.
Tech fans were outraged because the album turned up on every iTunes-connected device without consent, and there was no way to remove it until the avalanche of complaints led Apple to make an update specifically to allow this.
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