Street Of Dreams by U2 on Album Whale

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Seven Songs for the Week #170 - 8th July 26

Jason Carty

God, U2 fans can be a grind. If you haven't been paying attention, they dropped a surprise EP on Ash Wednesday, which was excellent, and said there was an album coming later this year. Then they dropped a second surprise EP on Good Friday and said there was still an album coming. Street of Dreams has been in the ether since May when they very publicly made a video in Mexico and most of the song could be heard from clips posted on social media, unfettered by U2. People started complaining. The single cover leaked about three weeks ago, and this time U2 did ask fan sites to take it down. More fans were complaining. Then fans started saying "oh they aren't going to put out Street of Dreams", "they are changing their minds" loads of parasocial stuff. Anyways, the single gets announced and released and even though we've had over an hour of excellent U2 music this year, easily their best stuff in 20 years, people are still moaning. Street of Dreams is a calling card, the album hasn't been announced yet, and all of this feels very organised. We'll get a second single in September, I guess, album in October and tour for 2027. Nothing is being left to chance. U2 have a new manager, which is interesting.