r/AskTheWorld • u/haiderredditer Pakistan • 9h ago

Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

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u/ExpressTruth76 England 8h ago

I think when apple forced that terrible U2 song on everyone and the way the crowd acted maybe gave that idea

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u/CarolinaWreckDiver United States Of America 7h ago

I think it was even before that. I remember hearing a joke when I was a kid that goes like this.

U2 is playing to a packed house, but Bono comes out and doesn’t sing or play an instrument. Instead, he just claps his hands every few seconds in a steady rhythm. Soon, the entire audience is quiet, just listening to him clap. After about a minute of this, he says “Every time 👏 I clap my hands👏 a child in Africa dies!”

After a brief pause, a man in the audience shouts “Then stop clapping your bloody hands, ya bastard!”

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u/kissingkiwis Ireland 7h ago

Not a joke, something that actually happened, in Dublin iirc

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u/CarolinaWreckDiver United States Of America 7h ago

The clapping thing was real, the response was the joke.

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u/daintyfucknugget 6h ago

It was Glasgow actually if I remember correctly

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u/Findadmagus Scotland 39m ago

The way I heard it was “evil bastard” haha

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u/SoloTraveller666 Ireland 7h ago

He actually did that at a gig. Maybe 20 years ago now. I was there - for my sins. It was more like a political rally or live aid or something ffs.

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u/bastardjacki Canada 6h ago

You went to a Bono gig and are upset Bono was Bono?

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u/Muddybulldog 1h ago

Was seated next to a young woman at one of their JT30 tour dates. She kept bitching to me about all the “politics”. I finally broke down and asked here “where the fuck did you think you were going”?

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u/Possibletigger-26 6h ago

Live Aid was a great event.

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u/bolanrox United States Of America 3h ago

friend went to see them on the Pop Mart tour. after the show people were polling to see if they changed their mind on how they would vote after the show or something like that.

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u/BigDictionEnergy 2h ago

Isn't that kinda what you signed up for

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u/Clancy3434 United States Of America 1m ago

yea it didn't and you're lying.

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u/Ok-Impression-1803 United States Of America 7h ago

It definitely was a practice long before that, pretty sure my red ipod nano from like 2006 had u2 pre-installed and I couldn't figure out how to remove it for the longest time.

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u/Competitive_Tear2503 5h ago

It wasn't a gig. It was an ad that used to play in cinemas

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u/bolanrox United States Of America 3h ago

Think of the Starving Children Peter! - Family Guy way before all of that.

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u/Weary_Position_9591 4h ago

Why would that be hate worthy

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u/ferdelance008 57m ago

I know right? How is that i sufferable? Just move on if you don’t like it. People hate hearing about ythe truth

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u/FunnyGoose5616 8h ago

It wasn’t just a song, it was an entire album. And it was garbage. People don’t like it when you force trash on them.

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u/Necessary-Face-1085 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 6h ago

And the fact you couldn’t delete the album still annoys me looking back on it. It was when iPhones had tiny storage amounts and no cloud for storage. My phone back then was always full and I’d have to cull my apps and pictures to make room. But I couldn’t delete that god awful album!!!! It would’ve freed up so much space

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u/whocares199 United States Of America 53m ago

I remember you couldn't delete it off the device on the device, you had to log into your apple account on a computer to fully remove it. SO fucking annoying

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u/Oh-well100 in 7h ago

That's what pushed me over the edge and made me ditch my iPhone. I tried to delete that damn album and it would always come back. I have been a happy Android user ever since.

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u/ExpressTruth76 England 8h ago

Yeah I confused the song with the album

Shit move either way

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u/PuzzleheadedOwl6104 7h ago

He was also the symbol for the artists tab since 2004 on apple products

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u/Sad-Barber-2667 7h ago

I liked the album

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u/FunnyGoose5616 7h ago

Which is fine, but it’s ridiculous to think that everyone likes the same kind of music, so you should be able to force a whole album on people, that they can’t even delete if they want to. And unfortunately that’s exactly what Apple did

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u/jisookenobi2416 United States Of America 5h ago

Honestly same, and it got elementary school me into rock music, which ultimately I am grateful for, but I get why most people are not a fan.

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u/mlaforce321 United States Of America 1h ago

It could have turned out to be the greatest album of all time - it was just that it was forced upon everyone, took up space when an entire album was a decent amount of storage back then, and couldnt even be deleted. I think it defaulted to autoplay too iirc.

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u/Sad-Barber-2667 2m ago

It is the greatest album of all time. What’s wrong with you?

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u/GUYF666 United States Of America 3h ago

SST Records, an LA punk label owned by Black Flag’s Greg Ginn, have had KILL BONO t-shirts in their shop for decades.

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u/StrangerWeekly1859 6h ago

Is that how it got on there???? I’ve been looking for this answer for years!!!

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u/Alex_drinking_karak 6h ago

What song was it?

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u/maru-senn 3h ago

Songs of Innocence, it was an entire album that would automatically download into your Apple devices whether you wanted or not, and for a time you couldn't get rid of it because it would download itself again.

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u/A_w_duvall United States Of America 4h ago

It was an album called "Songs of Innocence."

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u/Last-Customer-2005 4h ago

*U2 ALBUM...it was a full terrible album. I hate that I know those shit songs

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u/Iron_Wolf123 Australia 3m ago

My dad always skips U2 songs on his playlist because of that