In an inadmissible show of proof that the universe doesn’t like happiness, U2 have brought out a new single.
Great, the day America gets its first black president is also the first day you’ll hear an annoying Irish tit with a Napoleon complex scream “Let me in the sound” again and again. Oh U2, you’re spoiling us. Literally.
U2’s new single is entitled Get On Your Boots – it’s taken from a concept album about things Yoda would say if he worked in a shoeshop. Other songs include Not In A Ten Size These and Interest In A Shoehorn You Sir?
You might not realise it, but U2 haven’t released an album for five years. That’s because U2’s promotional cycle for an album involves releasing the album, touring it solidly for three years, appearing on adverts for iPods going “Doo doo doo” like some sort of self-absorbed milkman, releasing a special deluxe edition of the album with a couple of B-sides and a DVD of the tour on it, going on Entourage, making up a charitable cause and arranging an all-star concert to raise awareness of it, bringing out yet another Greatest Hits collection and then suing someone for the fun of it.
Therefore, although U2 haven’t brought out an album for five years, they’ve only really been away for, ooh, about 12 days. But the good news is that U2 are BACK!
In fact, U2 aren’t just back – they’ve changed direction. Yesterday U2’s new single Get On Your Boots got its first radio play by our old friend Dave Fanning. AP reports:
For decades, U2 has given Irish broadcaster Dave Fanning first dibs to broadcast its singles. Fanning ? a friend of Bono since U2’s Dublin rise in the late 1970s ? led his morning RTE 2FM show with the song, which he praised as “a big song with lots of layers, but not overproduced.” The “Get On Your Boots” single goes on sale Feb. 13 in Ireland and shortly thereafter worldwide.
It’s true – Get On Your Boots marks a dramatic change of direction for U2 after their last two albums. Those albums, of course, ripped off U2 when they were popular and had long hair, and Get On Your Boots rips off U2 when they were less popular and Bono had short hair. Take a listen for yourself…
Actually, you know what? We quite like Get On Your Boots. Not because it’s a good song or anything, but if U2 have started plagiarising Achtung Baby then it means their next album will plagiarise that album where they all started hanging out in big glittery lemons and everyone stopped liking them. And frankly that moment can’t come too soon.
And if that’s not enough, once U2 have got Get On Your Boots’ parent album out of the way, then they can get on with that Spider-Man musical of theirs. Surely nobody will be able to like them after that. Surely.
Julian Mentat says
These people are taking up bandwidth that could contain good musicians.
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