They do joy

I don't like much about U2, and in the UK I'm not alone. However, my housemate likes them, especially their lyrics, so maybe I'm just a stick-in-the-mud. Sean O'Hagan comments in The Observer that U2 break the unwritten rules of British rock stardom because instead of angst they do joy. "And spiritual joy, to boot. This made them unfashionable in Britain, the irony capital of the world, where sincerity, especially sincerity tinged with spirituality, is seen, at best, as uncool, at worst as downright embarrassing." (HT Simon Mayo).