Ok I could barely stand the American Soul performance. It was so bad, my wife who has only seen U2 live twice because of me, compared to the 7 times I have seen them, called out Bono for using the megaphone again. If someone who has barely seen you perform is already calling that out, you know your routine is tired. Needless to say I didn't even finish watching the performance, just fast forwarded through it. Kendrick Lamar really? worst idea they ever came up with, and I went through the PopMart era, which in comparison to this wasn't that bad at all.
I didn't even bother to watch the 2nd performance. My wife was reading a book while I fast forwarded through SNL to the last sketch and realized we were at the end. She asked me where the 2nd performance was, I jokingly said U2 didn't want to do one. I didn't want to watch it plain and simple.
This is incredibly sad since I have been following this band longer than any other band I know.