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U2 Took a While But They’ve Returned to Form with Martin Garrix-Produced “Fireflies,” The Right Single to Put Them Back on Top

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Ah, U2. My U2.

They released two EPs of interesting music. Then a single called “Street of Dreams” that I tried hard to understand.

But now order has been restored in the universe. DJ Martin Garrix has produced this new U2 track called “Fireflies,” and now I want to hear it in a stadium. It’s excellent. Bono has command of his falsetto and his voice soars. The band supplies a U2 signature with Edge’s clanging guitar reminding us why we love this group.

U2 is on the way back.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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