truecoloursfly
The Fly
I finally got to see the official Popmart video, having missed the tour. Much has been said of the Popmart show; I love POP, so I wanted to see for myself. Well, shite.
I was reading the Mofo thread this morning, too, still fresh with the pain of watching Bono in Mexico. Maybe it'll mellow with a few repeats, but what I saw last night... Watched it again tonight, and again I was in tears by the end of his little chat before ISHFWILF. He's visibly in pain, a drowning man, lonely in a crowd...
The concert is framed by two defining moments: the last-night-on-Earth blitzkrieg of lights and Popmuzik, out of which comes Bono's plaintive first line: lookin' for to save my, save my soul;
and the scarifying HMTMKMKM: Kill me! Come on, KILL ME! he screams at the audience, all those images of dead celebrity supernovas behind him. Can one not tempt fate too boldly?? I'd have been afraid for him! This from the man who goose-stepped in the stadium in Berlin, I know, but ZooTV was about mocking, even defying the Devil, with the power of One as a weapon; Popmart appears to be a kind of... resignation, a last waltz with the Devil.
In Mexico City, I feel the chill, the first time they were not moved by joy. I realize it was a scarce week after Michael Hutchence's death, and that was much on their minds. Yet, the album itself questioned God, and the show (it seems to me) was built on alienation from God, and from joy. (It even mocked Her "mysterious ways.") It wasn't the show's bigness, after all, not its "hubris" that put people off, although on the surface that's what they saw -- it was the darkness, the cold, the fear. I love Bono, and it broke my heart to watch that performance. He is so lost, so desperate -- a boy, a raging adolescent in a hoodie and a summer buzzcut. An orphan.
Please, those who saw that tour, tell me it was different than that. Or wasn't...but tell me what it was for you. The show reviews at U2tours make it sound like any other series of shows. Was it? Feedback is such a perceptive bunch. Reminisce a little, if you would... I need to know.
Deb D
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***Grace makes beauty out of ugly things***
the greatest frontman in the world -- by truecoloursfly: http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=1575
I was reading the Mofo thread this morning, too, still fresh with the pain of watching Bono in Mexico. Maybe it'll mellow with a few repeats, but what I saw last night... Watched it again tonight, and again I was in tears by the end of his little chat before ISHFWILF. He's visibly in pain, a drowning man, lonely in a crowd...
The concert is framed by two defining moments: the last-night-on-Earth blitzkrieg of lights and Popmuzik, out of which comes Bono's plaintive first line: lookin' for to save my, save my soul;
and the scarifying HMTMKMKM: Kill me! Come on, KILL ME! he screams at the audience, all those images of dead celebrity supernovas behind him. Can one not tempt fate too boldly?? I'd have been afraid for him! This from the man who goose-stepped in the stadium in Berlin, I know, but ZooTV was about mocking, even defying the Devil, with the power of One as a weapon; Popmart appears to be a kind of... resignation, a last waltz with the Devil.
In Mexico City, I feel the chill, the first time they were not moved by joy. I realize it was a scarce week after Michael Hutchence's death, and that was much on their minds. Yet, the album itself questioned God, and the show (it seems to me) was built on alienation from God, and from joy. (It even mocked Her "mysterious ways.") It wasn't the show's bigness, after all, not its "hubris" that put people off, although on the surface that's what they saw -- it was the darkness, the cold, the fear. I love Bono, and it broke my heart to watch that performance. He is so lost, so desperate -- a boy, a raging adolescent in a hoodie and a summer buzzcut. An orphan.
Please, those who saw that tour, tell me it was different than that. Or wasn't...but tell me what it was for you. The show reviews at U2tours make it sound like any other series of shows. Was it? Feedback is such a perceptive bunch. Reminisce a little, if you would... I need to know.
Deb D
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***Grace makes beauty out of ugly things***
the greatest frontman in the world -- by truecoloursfly: http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=1575