For Love or Money?

Question

I'm a huge fan of U2. I can't stand Green Day. When they performed together(at the Superdome, for those not up to date), I thought I was going to puke. U2 are a perfectly freestanding band.They don't need to ride tailcoats like Green Day seem to do. Do you think that the bands played well together or not? Was money the only reason that these bands played together(U2 is of Dublin, Ireland; Green Day originated no where near New Orleans)? Tell me what you think.

Answer 1

The short answer of your question is: Money.

The reality of the situation has nothing to do with the music or the musicians. It has only to do with advertising dollars.

The NFL makes a lion's (no pun intended) share of their money on selling commericial time during the television broadcast of their games. The advertisers pay large sums of money to make sure that their product is seen by the viewing audience.

Tons of research goes into the demographics of a TV braodcast to find out who's watching but, more importantly, who isn't. In an effort to generate more money, the producers of a TV show (in this case, the NFL) try and get people to watch that normally wouldn't. One of the many ways this is accomplished is by featuring entertainers before or during the game.

U2 has a specific, although quite large, fanbase. Green Day does as well. The important part is that U2 fans and Green Day fans are, for the most part, seperate demographics. Since most of the country music fans are already watching the game, the NFL hired two completely different acts to perform but in the interest of broadcasting time (comprimises made in a board room), the producers just crammed them up on stage at the same time. This gives them a wider audience, therby raising the value of commercial time, theyby increasing revenue and more commercial time to sell. More money, more money, more money.

Since most professional musicians are much less picky about music than their fans, they don't mind a huge paycheck to play 1 or 2 songs to a huge TV audience with fellow musicians that they often admire and may even be a fan of. Chances are, U2 likes Green Day more than you do and I'm certain that the members of Green Day are huge U2 fans.

Artisticly, it's a crap shoot. Sometimes cross-genre collaborations work and sometimes they don't. In this case I found it interesting but not spectacular. In the past I have seen phenominal performances by Chuck Berry with John Lennon, Ray Charles with Aretha Franklin, and most recently, Loretta Lynn with Jack White. Remember U2 with BB King? It can be a great thing but no one knows until it's over.

Quite generally, the music has nothing to do with it. It was all about the money.

Answer 2

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