U2 unveiled their 'intimate' album cover, and it's making people feel weird

A FEW DAYS ago, U2 unveiled the ‘physical’ cover for their new album Songs Of Innocence. (The one which they put on everyone’s iPhones without asking.)

It looks like this:

That’s Larry Mullen “protecting” his 18-year-old son, according to a statement on the band’s website, in which Bono added:

Songs Of Innocence is the most intimate album we’ve ever made. With this record we were looking for the raw, naked and personal, to strip everything back.

Be that as it may, the cover is drawing some mixed reactions.

That U2 album cover. All it needs is Larry or his son to hold a labrador puppy against their bare skin and its a calendar shot from the 90s.
— Niamh Conroy (@niamhconroy) September 26, 2014

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Maybe because it looks like the most awkward hug of all time.

“You know, they hug differently in Ireland.” - @BarbAbney on the new U2 album cover pic.twitter.com/DpzAn9IS8L
— Jay Gabler (@JayGabler) September 26, 2014

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U2 oh dear worst album cover ever.. That's it ..it's over .. We sld see other people..
— Skelly. (@skellylookit) September 26, 2014

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This was at the heart of a lot of people’s feelings.

@KevEFly It's super homoerotic, which would be cool--IF IT WEREN'T HIS F#CKING SON!
— The Persian Leaps (@PersianLeaps) September 26, 2014

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But maybe this guy nails it most.

U2 unveiled their 'intimate' album cover, and it's making people feel weird

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