I do. I’ll never get over it and I’ll never change my mind. Fuck anyone who wears sunglasses as part of their image. Except ZZ-top, I guess I never cared if they did for some reason.
And don’t give me some excuse about Bono’s sensitive eyes. It doesn’t make a difference to me.
But I don’t know why. There are plenty of pop stars that I don’t particularly like but I don’t have a visceral reaction to them like those two I mentioned.
How do you feel about Roy Orbison? Or the Blues Brothers? Ray Charles? Stevie Wonder?
That’s because it is classic douche behaviour, and you’re projecting it onto known pretentious celebs. Makes perfect sense, if not strictly objectively fair.
I’m confused. Why should there be even the tiniest skerrick of doubt in your post that you are completely justified, rational, and well on top of the moral high-ground riding the tide of history?
Say no to to louche douches!
Bono does’t have “sensiive eyes”, he has a full-blown medical condition called glaucoma. And he tried to find a good compromise by getting glasses that do keep his eyes visible. U2's Bono Sheds Light On Why He Wears Sunglasses All The Time: 'I Have Glaucoma'
A neighbour of mine does wear mirror sunglasses in the house, during conversation, even. It’s like talking to a smug bug-eyed insect. I told her I do not want to talk with her when she does that. So we don’t talk anymore…
While I am no fan of Bono or U2, I am also a Glaucoma patient. My eyes are very light sensitive. I wear tinted lenses too. Mine aren’t quite as expensive or fashionable as his.
It might ease your burden if you instead hated Lenny Kravitz for what he did to American Woman.
Do they wear them at night?
Amen. Recently, I got suckered into some magazine Top 50 list, this one being covers better than the original. Number one was “All Along the Watchetiwer.” OK, that’s a classic on these lists. That’s fair. Number two was “American Woman.” I stopped reading the rest, disgusted I even took the click bait.
No, that’s Corey Hart.
Allow me to offer this defense of that cover.
I almost never see the artists whose music I’m listening to. Once in a while on a YouTube video, but that’s about it. So their appearance rarely figures in to my attitude towards them.
Removing the sound certainly improves Kravitz’ abomination!
I wear some form of tinted glasses everywhere, due to light sensitivities. I sympathize with Bono. Lenny Kravitz is an idiot.
Before Lisa Bonet married him, she posted nude on the cover of “Rolling Stone.” Their daughter Zoe recently did the same thing, posed in the same way.
She’s the spitting image of HIM, not her! :o
Same here. I try to find the most normal, less douchey models I can find. Still, it’s so tiring having to listen to the occasional, actual douche who has to prove how cool and hip they are by telling me how uncool and unhip I am with their judgemental comments. Tools all of them, self-important tool to boot.
I love me some Wilburys.
Roy Orbison didn’t originally wear dark glasses while performing. He did need prescription glasses, and, early in his career, he performed wearing normal glasses. He misplaced his usual glasses on an airplane, and wound up having to perform while wearing his prescription sunglasses. Various sources I’ve read suggest that he liked the look (and that he was uncomfortable with how his eyes looked), so he stuck with the dark glasses.
In addition, Orbison was extremely introverted and uncomfortable in public, and I suspect that wearing dark glasses helped him with that.
His fellow Wilbury, Jeff Lynne, has worn dark glasses in public since the mid '70s, and I don’t think I’ve seen a picture of him from later than around 1980 in which he wasn’t wearing them. Like Oribson, Lynne is pretty introverted, and I think that it’s part of why he wears them, too.
I’ve always wondered if tinted contacts could help with light sensitivities. Anyone know?
