![]() ![]() What I find most frustrating here is that I firmly believe they still have it, they just can't get out of their own way (or heads). This could also be that they've been mega-rich for decades, so they've simply been isolated and lost touch, but the end result are many songs that sound "over-cooked," methodically stripped of anything resembling spontaneity, all "polished stones" to use a Bono lyric and no rough edges. This has led them to pull back on album releases, change producers, always chase a younger audience and basically make decisions that on the face of it, appear like they care way too much about what everyone thinks of them. self-consciousness and second-guessing of themselves. More specifically, they now maintain a debilitating.Ģ). This resulted in some really exciting music, even in their "failures" (after "Pop" there was no more sex anywhere to be found in their music) - You can draw a straight line from the fall-out from that album, critical and fan-reaction, to everything that came after. Up to that point they had really developed a "here we are, we do what we want, and get on board or don't it's all the same to us, but we answer to our own inner-muse" attitude. ![]() I've spent way too much time considering the question of why I find U2 so infuriating at times (or lately).and I say this as a big, big fan.I've tried to distill it down to one thing or another, but it really feels like the combination of many factors.ġ) I have clarified in my own mind is that I feel like the album "Pop" really broke them.
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