U2 - rock intro to the topic of my next article / in ENGLISH language


How is it to be in someone else's mind and become someone else?
(Rock introduction to the topic of my next post)

U2
(Note: This is my comment on one specific detail about these people, not the band's music criticism and I do not even want to be a rock critic.)
Their world-wide concert tour ZOO TV from 1992 to 1993 is probably so far the unabridged multimedia spectacle of some rock group. If not by quality, then certainly by ambition. It included everything from pirate video streaming, allusions to the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall with specially decorated GDR trabant car, all the way to the satellite video connection with Sarajevo, then under the war siege. You can read more about it on the web. The detail that is particularly interesting here is unrelated to politics. Bono Vox was then masquerading as a rock egomaniac, a televangelist and even a devil, trying to escape as far as possible from the then serious political engagement of the Irish rock group U2.
At that time, Bono said, "all through the 80's we tried to be ourselves and failed when the lights were on... We decided to have some fun being other people, or at least other versions of ourselves." Bono would stay in his acted character even out of the concert stage, explaining that these cracked characters gave him the freedom to say things that he would not dare to say as Paul Hewson aka Bono Vox.
These two strictly distinct categories of music are also the main characteristics of the band U2. I do not know any of the world famous bands whose songs can be so clearly divided into two types. Those engaged for something, not necessarily political (Sunday Bloody Sunday, One, Pride, Gloria...) and those hedonistically arrogant (Vertigo, Elevation, Mysterious Ways, Even Better Than The Real Thing...) Other rockers soon become boring as they behave predictably and once when they succeed, each day they make a new copy of that same hit hoping that this next song will repeat the same success. So they remain humanists or hedonists in public, all through the life. Only U2 manages to have both faces. Each song is either on one or the other side as if it were two quite different bands.
Dear readers, do you also need to put a mask on your face each time you want to say what you really want? In other words, that you could say what you don't dare to say under your righteous face and identity?
The final question. You already know all about them and if U2 was a capitalist corporation, U2 would be…
a) Coca-Cola
b) UN
c) Vodafone

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