U2's new album, Songs of Innocence has reached possibly more people than any album in history, not because everyone downloaded it but because iTunes automatically 'purchased' it and put it everyone's iCloud accounts, showing up in the iTunes library of practically everyone with an apple product. Some people are calling it a desperate publicity stunt, honestly I disagree. As the music industry is now more of a business franchise than anything else, you have to show some respect to these guys putting it out for free. U2 has been around for quite a while now, and money isn't much of a concern for them anyways.
Now to their music, this new album has some pretty good songs, especially considering they're all free. From the punkish vibe of 'Volcano' to the new age echo of 'Sleep like a Baby Tonight'... This album provides an enjoyable, full of life, and not to mention free, experience.
I imagine they have some sort of agreement with Apple on this release, and possibly even some money involved, but I think either way both Apple and U2 benefitted on terms of popularity from this release. But honestly, who cares... It's free for us right?
Something that has angered me on this release though, not on Apple or U2, but on the audience. People have criticized this album for being desperate, that U2 only wanted attention; yes, U2 wanted popularity, and whats wrong with that? Whats wrong with wanting to give their music to everyone for FREE? I've heard some people say that they 'overpayed for the new U2 album' which is obviously just a joke, but people should just go and actually listen to their songs
and realize that this is an album worth much more than free.
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