I know Bono is our savior but doesn’t he take his role a bit too seriously? Not only U2 has received the big bucks from Apple – reportedly $100 million, and if you don’t call this prostitution I don’t know what it is – to release their album and deliver it for free in every iTunes account of the planet, but there are about to make some big announcement? What is this about, the return of the messiah? Or apparently something similar for the music industry.
According to Spin, Consequence of Sound and probably many other news outlets, the Apple-U2 collaboration has a secret project that ‘could revolutionize the music industry and help artists get compensated for their work’. Oh stop teasing us and spread the beans, it’s ridiculous! This actually comes from Time magazine’s upcoming cover story which reveals that Bono doesn’t like free music:
‘Bono, Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr believe so strongly that artists should be compensated for their work that they have embarked on a secret project with Apple to try to make that happen, no easy task when free-to-access music is everywhere (no) thanks to piracy and legitimate websites such as YouTube. Bono tells Time he hopes that a new digital music format in the works will prove so irresistibly exciting to music fans that it will tempt them again into buying music — whole albums as well as individual tracks. The point isn’t just to help U2 but less well-known artists and others in the industry who can’t make money, as U2 does, from live performance. ‘Songwriters aren’t touring people,’ says Bono. ‘Cole Porter wouldn’t have sold T-shirts. Cole Porter wasn’t coming to a stadium near you.’’
This reminds me when Bono had announced the end of AIDS! I hope we will see the end of AIDS, but Bono will have nothing to do with it. What a pretentious prick this guy is, to always think he can save the situation! No matter what they do, whatever format they manage to produce, this won’t save the music industry, piracy will always exist! And what a lie it is to say he wants to help less well-known artists and others in the industry who can’t make money, the music industry is already screwing these people, and the music industry is just afraid to lose its cash cow. I bet these less well-known artists make much more money using Bandcamp than relaying on the music industry. Music will survive without the music industry and Bono, and it will even be better for many artists without all these fat rich white guys sitting on their millions.
