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Glad I saw them when I did, in 2012. Consistently amazing visual presentation (IYKYK), and at that stage of their career, they had so much strong material from which to build a killer greatest hits set. The more they've leaned into pop in recent years, the less interested I've been, and I hated the two songs they performed on SNL.
I saw them on the X&Y tour, and I really enjoyed it. I liked the Viva La Vida album well enough, but I really haven’t liked anything they’ve done since. I’m sure they still put on a great show, but I’m also sure they play a lot of songs that I have zero interest in hearing.
I saw them in 03 and it was an incredible show that Elton John guested at and then never saw them again.
I saw them on the X&Y tour, and I really enjoyed it. I liked the Viva La Vida album well enough, but I really haven’t liked anything they’ve done since. I’m sure they still put on a great show, but I’m also sure they play a lot of songs that I have zero interest in hearing.
It feels like they've leaned away from their early U2 influence and have embraced more of an alt-pop sound. Nothing wrong with that, but I always wonder why artists who want to change their sound often lean into whatever's popular at the moment. I remember when Jewel did a dance pop album years ago that felt like total trend chasing.
Be like The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Bowie, and Prince - use stylistic pivots to create something entirely new (or, at least, bring some thing obscure to the mainstream) and not simply do what everyone else is doing.
Upcoming Shows: 10/18 - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit & Iris DeMent @ Ryman Auditorium 11/8 - Goose @ The Andrew J. Brady Center 11/13 - Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros w/ The Wolfpack & The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra @ Cincinnati Music Hall 2/14 - Alan Walker @ The Fillmore Detroit 4/15 - Ben Folds w/ The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra @ Cincinnati Music Hall
I saw them on the X&Y tour, and I really enjoyed it. I liked the Viva La Vida album well enough, but I really haven’t liked anything they’ve done since. I’m sure they still put on a great show, but I’m also sure they play a lot of songs that I have zero interest in hearing.
It feels like they've leaned away from their early U2 influence and have embraced more of an alt-pop sound. Nothing wrong with that, but I always wonder why artists who want to change their sound often lean into whatever's popular at the moment. I remember when Jewel did a dance pop album years ago that felt like total trend chasing.
Be like The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Bowie, and Prince - use stylistic pivots to create something entirely new (or, at least, bring some thing obscure to the mainstream) and not simply do what everyone else is doing.
There are very few big mainstream artists that continue to make creatively relevant music into their 30s and after.
Even the examples here make that case - Stevie, Bowie and Prince made a lot of duds in their later careers.
Coldplay was always a poor mans, poppier Travis - them doing harmless pop down the stretch run always seemed like endgame.