Have you ever gone to church after not being there for a while, and you hear a really illuminating, all-knowing sermon, and you feel cleansed? You walk away from the church feeling 10 pounds lighter and like a giant weight has been lifted from your consciousness. Anyway, that's how I felt after interviewing U2. Interviewing them made me feel how I used to feel when I first got into the game.
They were excited about music culture. As big as they've become, they have more humility and hunger than rappers I've interviewed who've only had one hit in the past year. Music to them is not just plucking their strings; it's spiritual. Them boys live to play, and they love to create and they love to make an impact on those who listen, and they want to be as good as they can be. They care immensely about their fans.
By Kathleen Newman-Bremang
By Melanie Wolfson
By Melanie Wolfson and Kathleen Newman-Bremang
By Benjamin Wagner
You were expecting perhaps a dissection of the impact of mosquito netting on the incidence of malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa? A thoughtful rumination on the long-term impact of the global financial crisis on debt-relief schedules in the emerging world, perhaps?
