Re: Re: Re: Re: Political or Africa album?
Correct, I didn't mean charity songs of something anti-Bush or something overtly preachy. The betrayal/not helping direction of Crumbs is what I'm getting at.
I think we would have gotten more by now if Bomb hadn't turned out so personal for Bono.
Utoo said:
I dunno. I can't see too much coming from it without sounding like a charity song (i.e., Do They Know It's Christmas). For a political song, war is sexy. War/anti-war songs give you fire, rage (NYD, SBS, etc.). Starvation & malaria aren't sexy. Bono's acknowledged that many times. The only real fire that I see could be in a song about those things would be the sort of "you can help me but you're not" sentiment of Crumbs---and they've already gone that route. Maybe he could do something from the point of view of a starving/dying/diseased/whatever African person, sort of calling out "you've betrayed me, you won't help me," whatever.....but that'd pretty much be a cross between One and Crumbs.
I dunno. I just don't see much fire coming from a song about the work he's currently doing. And I definitely don't think it'd pass the Larry Test----it would sound too much like the image they tried to knock down with AB, or even too much like a Vertigo Tour Bono Speech set to music.
If it'd work, I'm all for it. I just don't see the potential for it to compare to songs like NYD, SBS, or Bullet.
Correct, I didn't mean charity songs of something anti-Bush or something overtly preachy. The betrayal/not helping direction of Crumbs is what I'm getting at.
I think we would have gotten more by now if Bomb hadn't turned out so personal for Bono.