Oh my God, isn't one thread of bitching about a comment enough?
He said,
I like Bowie when he’s evenly pulled in the direction of
being a pop star and Picasso, where he’s right down the middle. That’s
usually my favorite,
when the songwriting is disciplined but the recording is not.
I love when he’s pulled equally in the directions of art and populism.
Blackstar is much more art,
so I shouldn’t like it as much as I do. But I really loved it. And so did my daughter Jordan.
I don't get what's hard to comprehend. He set a clear definition of what he likes out of Bowie.
Because he used the word "more art" you're dismissing him as though he whined, "it's too arrttsssyyyy" like a teenager or something. This isn't a simple one word throwaway comment.
If I had to guess, and I'm obviously not Bono, so I don't know, but if I had to guess, he probably heard "Blackstar", thought the album was going to be a lot more like his early 90s stuff, and had some trepidation, but when the whole thing was laid out, understood it for what it was and loved it.
This is not some huge scandal. He just doesn't like certain Bowie albums. Pretty sure that's how everyone feels about Bowie. There are little things we like and little things we don't. He's the most versatile musician we will likely ever see. I'm not shocked to see someone has a kind of Bowie they don't care as much for.
All of which is to say that the rest of the article is beautiful and overlooking it to pick on Bono,
again, is silly. It's very, very silly.