Publicity Stunt Tier List

[@diebug6277]

That U2 album was the first album i legally owned

[@-Scrapper-]

"legally"

[@cesarv2804]

That should've been illegal.

[@boejudden9011]

The fact that it wasn't the first time U2 did this...

[@PlanetEntity]

Holy shit me too I never realised

[@Dru_Won]

I have yet to legally own anything

[@niallgalaxy48]

Taylor Swift also did that thing where people vote on where they have to perform. She was supposed to perform at a school so naturally, the internet voted for a school for the deaf to win

[@catmat9449]

She donated to the school and chose not to perform. What a legend

[@daylight137]

She also donated tickets to everyone at the school, so they could go to a real concert of hers (because they could enjoy the vibrations + visuals better).

[@Rose-hh7mk]

@@catmat9449 Would have been better if she DID perform

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@gagegibson1436]

I traveled to Jamaica where I didn’t have data and I was so thankful that U2’s album was halfway downloaded on my iPhone. It allowed me to have some amount of music for the 2 week trip. Unfortunately it was only like 3 songs. I got to know them more intimately than my fiancé. The experience was 3/5. Would do again.

[@astroblast2325]

2 weeks w Bono sounds like a nightmare

[@marcelinemoodie5628]

that's weird because jamaica has free wifi in the cities and spotify streaming is available 💀💀💀 Jamaica is not some internet-less place

[@neelanshsingh2846]

@@marcelinemoodie5628 i think they meant they didn't have an international data plan?

[@lindboknifeandtool]

The miracle of Joey Ramone

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@littlewillowlinda]

Ok honestly the pitbull one was so wholesome lol. That's what you call flipping the trolls on their head. Alaska was going crazy. I request a part dos

[@littlewillowlinda]

Not me reading this comment a month later and wondering what a dog had to do with this 😭😂

[@fc7777fc]

Fun fact: The Lady Gaga meat dress has been preserved by turning the meat into jerky

[@erod425]

Yummy

[@user-yb7kk8pj7p]

then kathy bought it and had chloe lukasiak wear it

[@lindboknifeandtool]

$100 says she wears the jerky dress to met 2050

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@chicochacoyayaya]

LADY GAGA MEAT DRESSSSSS

[@cool_as_cole]

Funny thing is Songs of Innocence is widely considered to be the worst U2 album by far!! So I think the backlash was also caused by the fact that the album STANK BOOTY!!!

[@cdizzy42069]

s t a n k. b o o t y.

[@2DVincent]

or did it stank booty because it got so much backlash being there? cause vs effect which one came first?!?!?!?!

[@sp0ngeb00b7]

u2 fans so bold for that when Zooropa exists... Songs of Innocence is perfectly mid, perfectly okay u2

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@justingerald]

The Pitbull one was heartwarming when I heard about it.

[@SamadSaVage]

U2 is a great band, but I didn’t know that when they non consensually stuck their unwanted drum sticks, throbbing mics and guitar licks into my headphone jack

[@Vikdeb25502]

Hello Samad.... cool to see yeah

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@fiizz01]

It was refreshing watching something on this subject matter without it turning into a Kanye retrospective! KISS also did something where they donated and mixed each member's blood with printing ink for a promotional comic book with Marvel!

[@piersonmcwayne1136]

They had no blood left

[@graylikethecolorr2687]

I have that comic somewhere, it’s one of the more unique ones in my collection (and one of the cooler hand-me-downs I have)

[@Dru_Won]

"Autopilot" review - my mommy won't says I gotta get 1000 views and she'll let me out this cat cage kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3POZpV5rsifhdU

[@thambidave]

That Pitbull one is so wholesome dale

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@a.aljohani3657]

I just want you to imagine my non English speaking mother and aunt freaking out every time their phones auto connect to the car’s bluetooth and a random English man starts singing out of no where.

[@sp0ngeb00b7]

I know this is totally about the language he's speaking, not the fellow himself, but you do noooot wanna call Irish folks English my guy 🤠🤠 lol but RIP her tho, if French rappers started yelling at me when I connected my phone to the car I'd panic too

[@a.aljohani3657]

@@sp0ngeb00b7 noted 😭😭😭😭 didn’t know that

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@Murkymaid]

one of my favourite album rollouts was for year zero by nine inch nails. they had usb drives in toilet stalls, dozens of websites, secret performances and a shit ton of other stuff building on the albums themes in an extremely fascinating way.

[@dinospumoni5611]

That's so cool. Reznor is so creative.

[@CirclingTheDead]

I’m pretty sure the first website was discovered by looking at the highlighted letters on the back of the UK Tour shirt… definitely one of the coolest album promotions

[@Murkymaid]

@yours truly, virtu givenchy dubstep

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@alexisw8662]

dude people were so mad about the U2 album it was genuinely funny

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@cherblairbear]

I remember secretly owning Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded and got caught by my parents😭 They threw it away after I listened to the whole album, but it didn't stop my love for every song on it

[@polimana]

oof hard relate, well done persevering!!!

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@xzavierslater3512]

My favorite publicly stunt is Lady Gaga releasing the Judas music video on Easter Sunday. An absolute power move that solidified Born This Way in the zeitgeist of the 2010s but it did effect her career quite negatively but she was insane for that and I support it.

[@lindboknifeandtool]

Did she get flak from religious people? She was everywhere in the 2010’s. I played a game called weeworld or Wiiworld lol and you could buy her clothes and everything😂

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@tylerinmotion4075]

didn’t paramore also do a music video breaking dumb world records? i think it was “aint it fun”

[@dannybuchanan3661]

In regards to the U2 thing, I remember I actually liked the album in the end but it was annoying because of the way that a lot of people listened to music at the time right before streaming. Shuffling your music was pretty new when iTunes came out, it was a huge selling point being able to hit a button and then have iTunes able to play your full library of music you love back to you, you didn't even need to make a playlist you just had a radio of songs you and your family think are great, so all of a sudden you have U2 with a pretty longwinded and basic soft rock album. My dad was a big music collector so my iTunes library was huge and not always consistent but if you were someone who didn't have hundreds of albums already loaded up then you'd probably be needing to skip that album constantly.

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@ferth2315]

I’m pretty sure the “perniciousness” was in reference to when they MSCHF made Jesus shoes with drake that had some holy water in them and Nike was fine with it but I guess Nas’s shoes weren’t holy enough or something.

[@croatianshiftry]

This U2 record has left some scars on my soul.... And when the media outlets were reporting, that it was worse than spam, they were being nice tbh. This album was worse than getting hit by a car for free.

[@mgg9416]

In my opinion getting hit by a car should stay free. It really shouldn't be about the money but purely about the joy and satisfaction of hitting somebody with your car.

[@jackbaird8648]

I think I heard somewhere that the reason that they sent Pittbull to Kodiak Alaska is because he rhymes Kodak with Kodak in Give me everything, lil fun fact awesome he went through with it though

[@ilexdiapason]

that was a joke by internet historian, it was cause it was the remotest walmart in the world

[@MOVIEMASHUPS]

At the time I thought I was the only one who had the U2 album on my phone, I didn't know it was a thing. Honestly thought I was cursed or something. By the time I gave up on trying to remove it and wanted to actually have a listen it wouldn't let me for some reason. It felt so cathartic when I first heard someone mention it as a thing some people collectively went through. What a time 😩

[@musicmattersthemost]

The statue of Michael Jackson in the Netherlands was actually removed in light of the "Leaving Neverland" documentary.

[@Jaws-zb1cg]

Good

[@APBT3chnoM0nkey]

You live near the statue? I live about 10 km away

[@ErinisinTrouble]

Terrible, especially with all that came out about those liars and creeps.

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@VinVonVoom]

The statues in Milan and Johannesburg are both still standing afaik and the one that was originally used for the album cover has been put back up somewhat recently in Vegas

[@MrLonelyRiver]

Radiohead's release of 'In Rainbows' feels like the antithesis of what U2 did with 'Sons of Innocence,' and that was done seven years prior.

[@maya-mu3ce]

what?? tell me more

[@Sinoops]

@@maya-mu3ce I believe it was the first major album released digitally with the fans having the option to download it legally for free. It was like a bandcamp release. You could choose to pay any amount of money to download the album.

[@johnathangould9320]

That album is still in my catalog to this day

[@rymmusicfan713]

I remember the Lady Gaga publicity stunt too, but I was told a slightly different story. I was told by my mom that it was a statement on men not seeing her as a piece of meat, and my mom thought it was confusing and gross (especially since she was vegetarian at the time). Knowing the full story actually makes me appreciate it more. Lady Gaga is one of the very few pop artists I actually respect. Also, my mom was a big U2 fan and played the whole album that was released in the car. It was okay, I prefer their older stuff leading up to it.

[@regooona]

my mums a massive u2 fan and she was so happy about the album, she had one of the ipods too, the black signed one,, and I listened to it eventually and did enjoy some of it

[@bearthezooescapee2439]

The Pitbull thing seemed to work out in the end cause it was him looking out for a section of the US that maybe felt invisble

[@witchflowers6942]

pitbull’s arrival in kodiak is the most wholesome thing to me

[@DashFlashTheLife]

It hurts how underrated as a commentator you are, subscribed!

[@kawaiicrusade]

i was legit excited for that U2 album.... i had started listening to them in high school during that 5 year album hiatus and i had grown a love for a lot of their songs, but that 2014 apple exclusive album was the beginning of the end of my U2 fandom

[@dansimpson5056]

I honestly liked getting that album cuz my parents wouldn’t let me download anything but Christian music so I was really happy it was on there cuz it gave me music to listen to other than glorified hymns

[@AAR0NWE1R]

9:43 - "The Th-ames" river of London?"

[@spookyaliens6286]

Huh I always thought the meat dress was a critique on the meat industry! I didn’t know it had to do with gays in the military

[@jswyr]

I have never hear the River Thames be pronounced like that. Good job Dev!!

[@brookhaven86]

They don't call him Mr. Worldwide for nothing. 😂

[@boejudden9011]

U2 actually did that twice. The album with Vertigo came preloaded onto iTunes

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@vaap]

a recall is basically just them asking u to refund it

[@hi.365]

I still have that U2 album on my iTunes account, and whatever I do, it will not leave my library. It’s there to this day.

[@saml.purecats4695]

You should do one for every decade! I'm sure you can find some weird rumors and stuff from musicians in the 70's! AND If you read the comments, prove it 😳

[@harrykey6016]

Xmas 2021 my sister was playing her music. The U2 album came on and she said she’s never been able to delete. I just pressed delete and she was amazed she would never have to hear it again.

[@4bidn1]

Only person I know who was genuinely happy about the U2 album thing was my best friends alcoholic dad who was obsessed with them already lol I remember distinctly every Friday night we'd be playing Halo in my friend's room and around 9:30pm we'd hear him start playing the album at the backyard table where he could be found sipping from a bottle of wild turkey lmao

[@thunderphantmusic1153]

Wow, never knew that's why that U2 album was on my phone forever ago, I thought it's because my dad bought it...

[@gotzemusic]

“The problematic nature of christianity” i want u to make this video

[@skerion7956]

This is a music channel

[@Jaws-zb1cg]

I’ll pass

[@zantezalighieri]

not to discount her capabilites as a content creator, bc I feel like most people here can say she's pretty entertaining, but there are endless amounts of people on KZbin that have done this video you want

[@skerion7956]

Why not the problematic nature of atheism?

[@gotzemusic]

@@skerion7956 the problematic nature of dogmatic thinking tbh

[@christianmancia4006]

I listened to the U2 album. I hated that it was there but listened to it bc why not. And it actually was good. Not a U2 fan tho lol

[@Golgito]

Gz on 100k!

[@songpsych]

THANKS!

[@sigh824]

I was never a U2 fan and I'm still not, but I was pretty stoked about it bc I love free stuff.

[@realcompetentatgames7387]

It was my first u2 album at like 13 and I honestly loved it, was one of the first albums that got me into drumming

[@butterfLye9604]

the u2 album was on our school distributed iPads and would sometimes just randomly start playing in the middle of class

[@joegoldin]

Your content makes me smile :)

[@Mic16345Plays]

I remember liking California there is no end to love when I eventually gave it a listen but I despise the fact it was on my phone

[@verybestandmilkyestcow4623]

Breaking the world record is actually so fun I'm currently trying to do one myself, you remember the loom band craze that kids went to like the colorful rubber bands that people would make into bracelets and stuff well some kid broke a world record for making a very very long rope of that and I've been working for half a year to beat It by July it should be done then I'll call it in and see if I beat it. Wish me luck

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@JumelCouto]

I use Cedarwood Road from U2 as an alarm on my IPhone still.

[@froobzz]

AT MY WEDDING I WON'T WEAR A GOWN, YEAHHHHH

[@agustincarfora7111]

Went on a trip to Miami back in 2015. Didn’t have any music on my iPhone, so the U2 album became the soundtrack of my stay. All I listened to, essentially. California quickly turned into my favorite song all throughout those 2 weeks at the beach. An “accident” gone right, if I do say so myself!

[@vllexiis7899]

i had one of my first iphones during the time of the U2 rollout and I never heard news about it so i thought it was a glitch or something. either way i thoroughly enjoyed the album and it helped me open up to more genres in music during early high school :>

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@renatocfrancisco]

0:05 new ringtone

[@duckiily]

i grew up listening to U2, so i remember really liking that album!!! i only found out how much people hated it when i tried to play a song from it for my friends in high school lmao~

[@JoshDare]

THE U2 ALBUM!! I completely forgot. I had a similar reaction. I'd never heard them before, but I remember just being told by everything around me that I wasn't supposed to like it, so I didn't end up listening to it. To be fair I was like 15 or something at the time. It is funny and sad to know that they were just wanting their music to be heard. That must've been an interesting time for everyone involved

[@cartercrawford7348]

Dude this channel has been going crazy recently. So many good topics being discussed!!

[@sky4797]

would love more content like this... there's many more to cover sis!!!!!

[@melodyhaviland9393]

i adore your channel

[@angiegilles]

i remember the u2 album on my iPhone in middle school. i didn’t want it at first n was actually pretty annoyed it was there but I didn’t know how to illegally download music at the time and my dad wouldn’t let me buy songs so I just ended up listening to the album and actually liked a few of the songs.

[@lanaalways]

The U2 album interrupted me listening to a 2000s alt rock compilation album and bloodhound gang as a kid and I was not happy about it

[@holaferfi]

Biggest desktop icons in the game.

[@joliescott6845]

So I remember the U2 ordeal and it pissed me off to no end because I didn’t have enough storage and constantly got notifs that I needed to make room for an album I DIDNT CARE ABOUT AT ALL LIKE LEAVE ME ALONE

[@renhaker]

I still got that album on my old phone, I was wondering why it was there anyway, so to hear this happened was surprising

[@danielpederzini923]

The worst thing about the U2 publicity stunt was that the album was on the cloud, so you couldn't delete it, it was always on display for you to download it!!!😒 great tier list btw, we need part 2 👀 I wanna know everything about the Beyoncé/Jay-Z divorce set up for B's Lemonade, well I guess it was a publicity stunt I don't know please make part 2 and talk about thissss

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@tok6581]

i was a little u2 fan when that albums came out and i was so down with it i didn’t understand why ppl were complaining

[@BinxKnight1488]

I really enjoyed this one. Please can we get a part 2?

[@202guitars]

I honestly did listen to the U2 album 😂 my parents are big fans and so I grew up listening to them. I wasn’t like super stoked but I remember liking the album

[@Chloe-pi8hf]

The U2 album is still on my iTunes I tried to delete it many times, but to no avail

[@TJUntame]

I remember getting that U2 album way back, never listening, and being pissed. Went back years later and actually liked a few songs. I still listen to Every Breaking Wave regularly. I DO see why most people were mad tho LMAO.

[@AlleyDreamer]

I love how big your icons are on your desktop, cuz same

[@ydi7438]

hes literally mr worldwide. i could never doubt him

[@AC-mp7cx]

MJ's history album is one the best albums and tours ever on Earth. RIP to the GOAT.

[@omori6371]

I never knew that the u2 album that my dad couldn’t remove on his iPhone had such a history behind it

[@lonethecoy4556]

I still have the album on my phone and still mad about it, anytime I try to play music my phone just automatically plays it. Just not my type of music.

[@jaiarrell204]

The U2 iPod classic was my first ever iPod

[@samdayak427]

I wasn't stoked about having Songs of Innocence on my iPod as a kid, but it was the only thing I would listen to because I was too afraid to ask my parents if we could buy better songs from iTunes. Now I still won't do that, but I don't listen to U2🤷‍♂️

[@RedHoodedWraith]

I was okay with the U2 album when it happened and I did like the music surprisingly but in saying that I was aware of the promotion so it wasn't a surprise to me when I found it

[@jeremycorbin2178]

No drunk Kanye bagging out Taylor? No Nicki Minaj ass exploding on stage? No Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animal's promo? You're lacking on some of the classics my friend

[@jeremycorbin2178]

@@WerionFr I hope you looked it up :D

[@shelbystafford4199]

I was very hype about the U2 album after my dad grounded me and took my phone and I finally had SOMETHING to listen to when I broke out my old iPod touch

[@mickeydiesel311]

i cannot stand the fact that the folders on your computer are fucking enormous

[@Shaksvshsvsjabav]

I saw someone break a world record yesterday in real life, his name is Daniel Kid and he broke the Guinness book of work records for balance boarding, he got 23 minutes or so and the old record was 15 min or so, so that’s pretty awesome 😂

[@thecolorjune]

I never understand why some weird songs I’ve never heard before were on my devices, but now they’ve randomly played so many times I’ve almost grown to like them just out of familiarity lol

[@Laughingwithtravii]

insta sub you are so fucking hilarious i love my recs!! edit: and yes i remember the u2 apple nonsense, i had heard of them before, but that was the first time i listened to them. wasnt like bad, but wasnt good either? i guess is how i would describe it. i havent listened to u2 still to this day. i wonder how much that has to do with it.. i do respect them tho, even if its not for me, i dont think i could ever hate them. gr8 tier list tho

[@FREE_DRILLY_GZZLY]

those folders are fucking huge

[@baileynicole1824]

I was in middle school and I had never heard of U2. It came on one day and I immediately deleted it.

[@judahmoar2533]

I love the internet. The amount of times a corporation opens up a poll and the internet organizes to vote for the dumbest possible option. Chef's kiss

[@monst3rtruckbf]

i’m smoking in my room while watching this abs thought i heard sum coming right @2:03 so i paused glad to say no one was coming😅 ever more glad i paused right at that second lol 😹😹😹

[@witchflowers6942]

i’ll never forget the shock and horror and confusion i felt when U2 was loaded onto my pink iphone 5C(my first ever phone, btw) and i had absolutely no clue how to remove it. Now that i’m older and knowledgeable on all the deep lore, i can say definitively that U2 has always been inferior to their homeboys The Virgin Prunes. They were totally real, its why they’re significantly lesser known, but more respectable imo. also their music is so much more interesting. Gavin Friday would never do us like dat.

[@Chachixo]

dammit the pitbull one made me tear up. that was so precious.

[@JamesChessman]

Yes precious but what did he rap about in Walmart, is what I want to know. Was he rapping about Walmart sales

[@theungracefulme]

yeah to this day the first thought in my head when i heard someone say u2 is that damn unwanted album

[@jamespc1996]

I was excited at first about the U2 album cause I was a fan, but then I listened to it and automatically wanted it removed 😩

[@siat_gab]

I enjoyed the video, congrats on the 100k !! keep it up 👍

[@samskpopcorner]

i didn’t know who u2 was and because of that album i had a u2 phase

[@scuffedharrypotter4733]

the u2 album oh man i have every song memorized cause everytime my bluetooth connects in my car it will 90 percent of the time play valcano or frikin raised by wolves if not one of my songs i loaded on to there and everytime i get out to open the door and get back in it will auto play my shuffle again and i do not know how to make it stop doing that other than removing the album from my phone and ive been to lazy to do that aubviously since it was loaded on its not a bad album to be honest but when i finally decide to remove it a chapter in my life will end

[@jessicapirnat]

i literally still havent listened to that U2 album (and avoid U2 in general) out of spite

[@ridofchris]

I remember I couldn’t delete that goddam U2 album off my phone I was so pissed

[@kristenlehmann]

I hated the u2 album too like I always just shuffled my entire song library and when it came on I YEETED to the next song like I didn’t sign up for this sir