Even though a huge number of people illegally download music these days, U2’s new album ‘Songs of Innocence’ was met with a very negative response.
Where applicable, he album automatically downloaded into people’s iTunes playlists.
In a question and answer forum on Facebook, Bono was asked: “Can you please never release an album on iTunes that automatically downloads to peoples [sic] playlists ever again? It’s really rude.”
The singer replied: “Oops. I’m sorry about that. I had this beautiful idea and we got carried away with ourselves. Artists are prone to that kind of thing.”
“Drop of megalomania, touch of generosity, dash of self-promotion, and deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into over the last few years mightn’t be heard.”
Bono said: “There’s a lot of noise out there. I guess we got a little noisy ourselves to get through it.”