U2’s 1% Problems
Last week was a bummer for a lot of U2 fans when the Irish band gave away their latest album, Songs Of Innocence, by heavy-handedly and shamelessly jamming it into everybody’s iTunes accounts. Listening to the dud, talking to other U2 fans and finding out that they too think it’s a dud, and seeing the album’s poor reception by critics, millennials, and Tyler the Creator has been sobering. What’s always been interesting about U2 and their grand gestures going back to the beginning is that there’s always been a few grand failures along the way, but this time they went too far. They’ve become a punchline… and spam that everybody wants to delete. And for this longtime fan at least, three duds in a row is enough and the end of the line. I know some fans are into Songs Of Innocence, but one gets the sense that those fans[...]