They’ve earned it, and secondly, their latter-day albums (mostly) aren’t merely Years so they can go out on tour again and rake in millions. Seemed for a long time that they’re now just churning out albums every four Depeche Mode have been doing it for so long by this point that it’s easy to take them for granted, but they represent a textbook case study in the art of being famous pop stars.
Of those that do attempt to do so, not all of them manage to sustain their popularity, and even fewer manage to keep pushing themselves in creative terms while maintaining it.
Do you double down on the formula that brought you that fame to try to retain your fanbase as you go forwards, or do you change things up to avoid being pigeonholed? Few artists actually hit these rarefied peaks of commercial success and genuinely have to answer this question. When bands achieve a certain level of fame and exposure, it becomes hard to know which direction to go in.
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