Just when we were wondering what Justice was going to remix next, we got our answer — and a quite surprising one at that. The French remixing-master duo will be pairing up with U2 to remix the No Line On The Horizon single, “Get On Your Boots”.
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Despite what critics are saying about U2’s new album No Line On The Horizon, we’re sure they won’t have any trouble selling out the stadiums they plan to visit on their upcoming world tour to support the new LP.
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You and I have absolutely nothing in common with the members of U2. The Irish quartet has sat at the zenith of fame for twenty straight years. They sell out stadiums at every end of the world, own hotels and restaurants, talk with the U.N., and live a life unimaginable to most (though it should be said that 95% of U2’s fame is really Bono’s fame). Bono’s international prestige and abundance of global experiences have insulated him from real world experiences. It’s not that Bono doesn’t understand the proletariat anymore — after all, U2’s ostensible raison d’être is humanism — it’s that Bono’s wealth of experience has resulted in a righteous and celestial persona that has produced the worst music of his career. Indeed, there have been several bloody Sunday’s to sing about, but Bono’s now the one ineffectively mediating the crisis at the U.N., not the one protesting at the front line. This is why Bono’s motives are viewed with suspicion, why his idealism in regards to African aid is considered naïve, and why he is a constant parody of the “celebrity meets activist” paradigm.
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It should come as no surprise that the Hiroshi Sugimoto photo U2 chose for the cover of No Line On The Horizon was already used. Popular artists work is often appropriated for various reasons, just ask Shepard Fairey. But we’re guessing that Sugimoto “forgot” to tell U2 that his image of a gray sky meeting the horizon was already used for a record cover a mere two years ago.
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Late last week U2 announced the new single “Get On Your Boots” would be made available to the world yesterday, January 19. And even though we weren’t working, it didn’t matter, because the first single from the forthcoming album No Line On The Horizon wasn’t available for you to stream until today anyway.
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