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U2 recently visited South Africa. In fact, they might still be here. The last thing I felt the need to do was go stalk B and his cronies. Rumour has it that South African singer Steve Hofmeyer had purchased R5000 worth of tickets for one of U2's shows, but proceeded to throw them into a river after hearing Bono say that it was good to sing struggle songs. Really. I my own humble opinion, I think good ol' Steve may have a point. Go ahead and sing struggle songs in your own country, but to make comments like that in a country such as South Africa, where it is quite a volatile topic was quite an unwise move on Bono's part. Perhaps he is not as familiar as we are with the history of the country, and perhaps he was just trying to help. I can't say. It reminds me of Brandon Flowers' comment on how it was inappropriate of Green Day to Sing "American Idiot" in Europe, where fans may not have bee familiar with all of the satirical comments in the song.
I can say that I think that U2 only ever did one thing right, and that was, well, the song "One". I don't hate them, but let's just say that all the money in Las Vegas wouldn't have persuaded me to go to a concert of their's.
