Oh, I know. Which is why I said:
Aging rock stars don’t come across as sincere or genuine when they try and relate to everyday folk.
If Bono, at 59 years of age, trotted out a single about growing up with a widowed father and telling kids in a video pandering to teens that “You’re not alone”, it again, comes across as pandering.
Especially in Whimbly’s case where he’s been irrelevant for what, 15 years? That song isn’t anything the world hasn’t heard a million times before. And, if “trotted out” by a much younger singer on their first album where they haven’t been rich and famous for decades, or if by an aging multi-millionaire who’s nearly 40, perhaps a less generic song.