After participating in the “We Are One” concert yesterday in honor of Obama, U2 released their newest single “Get on Your Boots” today. Their next album No Line on the Horizon comes out on March 3, and you’ll even have to wait until February 15th to get the newly-released single on iTunes.
It’s different– and is that so bad? I want to let the hardcore fans decide, because I’m certainly no U2 expert. I do have a feeling that this is going to take some time to get used to, but at least it’s been received better than their performance yesterday: Newsday’s Backstage Pass claims that there “wasn’t enough drum and bass in the mix” during their live performance, and that “[Adam] Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr.’s unassailable rhythms have always given Bono and The Edge the cover to say and play what they want. Without them, U2 seems much more ordinary.”
Tell us: is “Get on Your Boots” a lyrical “red herring”? Like, hate, or love?
