U2 delays new album release after Trump’s win

J.G. Taruc

January 11, 2017

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  Irish rock band U2 has decided to delay their upcoming album after the landslide win of President-elect Donald Trump according to the Guardian.

  U2 said in an interview that they are planning to reconsider certain songs in the wake of a Trump presidency. The band was placing the album’s release on hold to take some “breathing space” to consider what they wanted to say following Trump’s suprise victory.

  “We just went, ‘Hold on a second – we’ve got to give ourselves a moment to think about this record and about how it relates to what’s going on in the world,’” the The Edge said.

  U2 was set to release their 14th studio album, ‘Songs of Experience’ which the guitarist said was already completed toward the end of 2016. The Edge explained that most of it was written in early 2016 or before then.,“Now, as I think you’d agree, the world is a different place,” he said.

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