Varitek
Blue Crack Addict
The Slow Loris said:
No worries.... I was just restating what I said earlier about Bono being at the center of contradiction -- requiring his family life, yet gravitating to the street, being torn in two different directions to his role as an artist -- by using the example of Achtung Baby as the art in question. If he wasn't the torn artist, if he didn't live at the center of contradiction, if he wasn't living "with or without" that life, he wouldn't be creating art as powerful as Achtung Baby. So it's the point that he's making in The Fly which is exemplified by Achtung Baby, itself.
Maybe that's why the music has mellowed out so much now? Not to stir things up.
I like it. But maybe it's mellowed because he's older. He's no longer the young man so tempted and torn.
BTW can we just make this a thread about the whole album, which I am now listening to? Like how Zoo Station is about trying to convince yourself but not really being ready to be single, and Acrobat, which is so amazing... I'm never going to get any work done at this rate.