Bono apologizes for forcing U2’s new album on you

Last month, U2 released their new album, Songs Of Innocence, beaming it directly to 500 million iTunes accounts. The backlash was quick and full of angered people, wondering how/why this random U2 album was in their personal music library.

One of our most-viewed stories of the month was actually “Apple is letting you delete the new U2 album you didn’t ask for.” That says a lot: People really wanted to get rid of it.

Now, in a recent interview on the U2 Facebook page, frontman Bono was asked by a fan: “Can you please never release an album on iTunes that automatically downloads to people’s playlists ever again? It’s really rude.”

Bono replied: “Oops… I’m sorry about that. I had this beautiful idea… might have gotten carried away with ourselves. Artists are prone to that thing. A drop of megalomania, a touch of generosity, a dash of self-promotion and deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into over the last few years might not be heard. There’s a lot of noise out there. I guess, we got a little noisy ourselves to get through it.”

You can watch the full interview below. Let us know your thoughts.