Today’s title is, as some of you might recognize, a line snatched from the U2 track “Zooropa.” As such, it’s sung “in character”—the sentiment, that is to say, belongs not to Bono, ostensibly, but to his evil leather twin, The Fly. Whoever’s responsible for the sentiment, I’m here to disagree with it, at least as [...]
According to Friday’s on-line edition of Rolling Stone, U2 will have a new album out in the next six months or so: U2 are recording a new album with Danger Mouse, and they plan on releasing early next year. “We have about 12 songs with him,” Bono told The Age . “At the moment that [...]
Hey, kids: a chance for you to weigh in today. Not that you don’t always have the chance; and a gratifyingly larger number are taking advantage all the time. But today, see, I’m hardly going to write anything. If y’all don’t comment, there’ll be practically no post—except for this rather remarkable photograph. Which ran as [...]
OK, so this has been building up for a while; and rather than lurking around all snippy and defensive in the Comments section, really I need to mount a more thoughtful, and measured, response to this whole topic. And the topic, of course, is the charge that I “over-analyze” things. I’d like to begin by [...]
[Part 3 of 4] As he tells it, Santana’s rise back to the top of the pop music charts was fueled by a very human desire. After signing with Arista records in 1997 and being reunited with his friend and producer Clive Davis, he complained: “I’ve got three kids at home and they want to [...]
[I discovered through a comment that I’d inadvertently copped the title for yesterday’s post from a book on this topic: Tim Stevens’ Pop Goes the Church: Should the Church Engage Pop Culture? I’ve not had a chance to look at it myself, but if you’re interested in going deeper on this topic, you might check [...]
My thesis, in yesterday’s post, was that Twitter and Facebook together have made attending a conference a lot richer, and a lot more complicated. Which are perhaps two ways of saying the same thing. Richer (cont.): I’m sure all of this—the invasion of conferences by Twitter and Facebook—isn’t news to many of you; I’m sure [...]