Even as recently as twenty years ago, MTV and other music channels played a large role in helping to break new music and to make hits. Following the critical disaster of Pop, U2 went back to the drawing board and, as Bono phrased it on several occasions, reapplied for the job of best band in […]
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I am one of those fans who is naïve enough to believe that by immersing myself in the band’s work, their music, videos, concerts, and interviews, I can come pretty close to knowing the actual members of the band. After all, as Bono once said, (and I am paraphrasing here) If he is close to […]
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As I sit and ponder what I want to say about this week’s featured video, it occurs to me that U2’s promo video for “The Sweetest Thing” seems to be one of their most well-known and popular videos, even with very casual fans, those who hardly know the band at all. A lot of U2’s […]
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I hope that everyone reading this is enjoying the holiday season and that you all had a magical Christmas day. Today, I am continuing this small kind of mini-series On U2’s Christmas videos within the larger series on the band’s promotional videos in general. We are discussing the promo video for “I Believe in Father […]
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U2 has been making much better use of their YouTube channel as of late, posting remastered videos from days past at a pretty good clip. Now available on the band’s YouTube channel are the updated videos for their two Christmas songs, “I Believe in Father Christmas,” and “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home).” Since ’tis the […]
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For a long time, I would have argued with someone if they told me that U2 had made a promotional video for “Mofo.” It never occurred to me that the band might make a video for a song’s remix and not one for the “proper” studio version, and so I assumed that this video was […]
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There are a handful of directors who have helmed several music videos for U2: Kevin Godley, Anton Corbijn, Meiert Avis, and a few more. Of all of these repeat contributors, though, I think that my favorite, and the most consistent, would have to be Phil Joanou. Mr. Joanou simply has a knack, a feel, for […]
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Someone recently said to me that there is a new biggest band on the planet, a K-pop group called BTS. The title of world’s biggest band is open to debate, for several reasons, but I will concede that there are currently several bands that could lay claim to the crown. What I will not concede, […]
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The first promotional video for “Please” is quite different from the videos made for the Pop album before it. Unlike “Discotheque” and “”Staring at the Sun,” which are bright, colorful affairs, the Anton Corbijn directed video for “Please” is mostly in black and white, and even when it is in color, it is quite somber. […]
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U2’s promotional video for “Last Night on Earth” might be the strangest video that the band has ever made. The video starts out with the four members of the band riding in an old green muscle car down a mostly deserted highway. They come across an overturned truck, which has spilled lemons all over the […]
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