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U2 at Sphere is the nightmare future of music

U2 at Sphere is the nightmare future of music

"Wow, that IMAX movie was amazing! What's that? U2 was there too? Huh, didn't notice."

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We have finally reached peak "I go to the concert to watch a screen and not the band."

That’s what I thought when my timeline filled up with shots from Sphere, the huge IMAX theater/eyeball launched by an evil billionaire in Vegas that opened with some Irish band in the pit playing the soundtrack to a post-modern Fantasia flick that scrolled by on a scr…

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