For me, then, the best thing about Songs Of Innocence is that it confirms how great an achievement BEYONCÉ was. When that album arrived out of nowhere, it was easily to get caught up in the excitement, but it was just as easy to wonder if the excitement was real. It sounded great, sure, but were we all trapped in a collective joy-delusion? Was the means of delivering the album so new and so audacious that it made an otherwise-just-good pop album feel revelatory? As it turns out, no. BEYONCÉ really is that good. If you’ve come up with a sudden and game-changing way to throw an album out into the world, it will absolutely get people talking, but it won’t necessarily get people to like the album. The actual songs still have to do the heavy lifting there. BEYONCÉ had those songs. Those songs had energy and spirit and ideas, and they all sounded different from each other, tickling pleasure centers in different ways. And lo and behold, the album still sounds great almost a year later. Songs Of Innocence doesn’t have those songs, and it sounds like bullshit two days later. All the audacious marketing in the world can’t polish a turd.

Songs Of Innocence is in your iTunes right now, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Source: http://www.stereogum.com/1704542/premature-evaluation-u2-songs-of-innocence/franchises/premature-evaluation/

Ya kurang lebih gue sama kaya review di atas…

Atau karena gue mentok sampe album zooropa aja yah jadi album2x sesudahnya gak masuk lagi sama gue?

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