Summer of love- not u2 song?

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Waffles

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Summer of love- not u2 song?
« on: December 03, 2017, 12:30:03 PM »

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Re: Summer of love- not u2 song?
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2017, 12:33:00 PM »
I'm cringing and confused right now. Did bono not claim to write the "west coast" lyric thinking of aleppo

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Re: Summer of love- not u2 song?
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2017, 12:59:07 PM »
I rated it as one of the worst songs on the album. Bland and vanilla. Doesn't surprise me it's a Ryan Tedder song.
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Re: Summer of love- not u2 song?
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2017, 01:14:10 PM »
https://youtu.be/5UWZxGRR12o

So it seems Summer of Love May have been written by OneRepublic. Here’s a video of them jamming around with the guitar riff and calling the song “west coast” .... anyone know any more ? Did they co-write the song? Did OneRepublic simply donate the song to u2?
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Re: Summer of love- not u2 song?
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2017, 01:37:11 PM »
well that's pretty unprofessional by Tedder

but very disappointing if u2 have effectively bought a song and pretended that it's theirs

the only good outcome of this would be for Tedder and u2 not to work together again


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Re: Summer of love- not u2 song?
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2017, 01:49:37 PM »
Reading tea leaves elsewhere I think it was written by Bono and Edge and OneRepublic is working on improving it but I could be wrong.


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Re: Summer of love- not u2 song?
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2017, 01:50:30 PM »
Looks like I’ve started a topic that waffles also started; not sure how to merge threads so maybe just go with waffles one


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Re: Summer of love- not u2 song?
« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2017, 01:54:55 PM »
i was thinking this yesterday, if U2 is so desperate for Top 40 teenage relevance and can't get their anymore on their own, they'll have someone write a single for them.

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Re: Summer of love- not u2 song?
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2017, 02:00:13 PM »
Oh dear.  Bono must love his OneRepublic albums.

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Re: Summer of love- not u2 song?
« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2017, 02:00:22 PM »
Looks like I’ve started a topic that waffles also started; not sure how to merge threads so maybe just go with waffles one


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Re: Summer of love- not u2 song?
« Reply #10 on: December 03, 2017, 02:03:54 PM »
"This song's a song Lana Del Rey stole from One Republic, we're stealing it back!"

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Re: Summer of love- not u2 song?
« Reply #11 on: December 03, 2017, 02:11:25 PM »
"This song's a song Lana Del Rey stole from One Republic, we're stealing it back!"

There's been a lot of talk about this next song, maybe maybe too much talk - this song is not a u2 song, this song is by Tedder, Ryan Tedder....
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Re: Summer of love- not u2 song?
« Reply #12 on: December 03, 2017, 02:21:34 PM »
well that's pretty unprofessional by Tedder

but very disappointing if u2 have effectively bought a song and pretended that it's theirs

the only good outcome of this would be for Tedder and u2 not to work together again

I would say it's unprofessional by U2, not Tedder.

At least if they are gonna take someone else's song and call it their own, make it a good one, kinda like they did with Do You Feel Love.
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Re: Summer of love- not u2 song?
« Reply #13 on: December 03, 2017, 02:22:23 PM »
"This song's a song Lana Del Rey stole from One Republic, we're stealing it back!"

There's been a lot of talk about this next song, maybe maybe too much talk - this song is not a u2 song, this song is by Tedder, Ryan Tedder....

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Re: Summer of love- not u2 song?
« Reply #14 on: December 03, 2017, 02:23:51 PM »
I just checked the song credits on Apple Music. It says written by Paul David Hewson. Scandalous...