What Will Be The Message Coveyed This Time?

[Moser]

Well, with How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, the message was clearly about the maturity of becoming a man.

Pop was about consumerism. Achtung Baby about irony. The Joshua Tree about America. War about War, ETC!!

So what will be the message this time?

Exotic Worlds? Numbers? Disappointment? Women? Sorrow? Celebration?

 

[theFly51]

Exotic Women?

 

[the tourist]

It's going to be about circus performers who overdose on hallucinagenic drugs and murder.

 

[chrissybaby]

achtung baby really wasn't about irony at all...
It was about heartbreak, darkness and loneliness.
Yes, ZooTV toyed with a lot of these themes and poked fun at being a rock star, but most of the tunes are all really really heavy IMO.

Come to think of it, was Pop actually about consumerism...? Never really thought any of those songs were, bar TPM maybe...

 

[Numbology]

It will be all about sales.

 

[pacemaker]

It will be all about sales.

Hahaha. For sure!

Paul McDollarBills will have a co-writing or exclusive writing credit on each track.

In fact, I bet all songs will be listed as, "Written and performed by: U2, Inc. with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois"

Seriously? I bet this album will deal with something like, trying to live a full, happy life in such unsure times. Or something along those lines.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

the plight of the blue footed boobie

 

[Aygo]

Well, with How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, the message was clearly about the maturity of becoming a man.

Pop was about consumerism. Achtung Baby about irony. The Joshua Tree about America. War about War, ETC!!

So what will be the message this time?

Exotic Worlds? Numbers? Disappointment? Women? Sorrow? Celebration?

I think that AB has nothing to do with that. AB is about (as someone said) "heartbreak, darkness, (...) loneliness." and betrayal.
Pop's main theme is not that one too (that's for Popmart Tour). Pop is about darkness - once again - and is about the existance of God. Pop's main question is "Do you feel loved?".

 

[chrissybaby]

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I think that AB has nothing to do with that. AB is about (as someone said) "heartbreak, darkness, (...) loneliness." and betrayal.
Pop's main theme is not that one too (that's for Popmart Tour). Pop is about darkness - once again - and is about the existance of God. Pop's main question is "Do you feel loved?".

Agree, Pop and AB are really heavy records. I remember Bono saying that the light hearted title of AB hid the fact that it was a hell of a dark, heartbreaking album. The same sentiment could be applied to Pop too. That record really isn't pop. Listen to WUDM, one of the most honest, dark songs i've ever heard, without entering the gauche world of goth or emo, god forbid!

I honestly never really thought that ZooTV was that ironic either. It parodied mainstream media rather than made a huge ironic comment, there is a subtle but distinct difference. The longer PopMart ran, the less lighthearted I think it became too...

 

[BVS]

Clowns, mark my words, it will be about clowns. Edge's cousin told me so.

 

[chrissybaby]

i hope the album really isn't about "anything" in particular, just original and great rock and roll..

sorry, but i hate all this theme stuff!

 

[jphelmet]

joshua tree is the only album i see as being overtly about something, or having a them all the way through it.

its up to the listener. i don't see any of the albums the way the original poster does.

i thought all u2 albums were about God, but what do i know?

 

[pepokiss]

Powerjuice

 

[the tourist]

^ and SuperWin.

 

[DaveC]

So what will be the message this time?

"We know we can write better songs, but we know you'll buy millions of copies no matter how little effort we put into this, so make us richer."

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Clowns, mark my words, it will be about clowns. Edge's cousin told me so.

 

[Diemen]

I have a hunch it'll tie in to Bono's charity/debt relief/africa/Africa/Africa! work.

Just a hunch. Call me crazy if you will, but I calls em like I sees em.

 

[Rob33]

^ I wish Bono would leave the Africa stuff alone on the new album...maybe touch on it throughout each concert/tour but don't incorporate it so much into the album....PLEASE!

although, I really can't imagine it is going to be considering this "hand played electro" type of sound being described

 

[luna_lovegood]

Well seeing as Bono is harping on about their "new sound" and "new direction" my guess is it'll be about souls, knees, and honey.

 

[Rob33]

Well seeing as Bono is harping on about their "new sound" and "new direction" my guess is it'll be about souls, knees, and honey.

but...I thought he was talking about their "new sound" and "new direction" ...

 

[luna_lovegood]

but...I thought he was talking about their "new sound" and "new direction" ...

sorry. my lame attempt at ironic sarcasm.

 

[U2girl]

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Pop's main theme is not that one too (that's for Popmart Tour). Pop is about darkness - once again - and is about the existance of God. Pop's main question is "Do you feel loved?".

Pop is about consumerism and loss of faith. And Zoo TV was ironic, considering U2's image in the 80's...

 

[Aygo]

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Pop is about consumerism and loss of faith. And Zoo TV was ironic, considering U2's image in the 80's...

Yes, it is true but Zooropa had talked about the loss of faith too.
That's why I reffered the (non-)existance of God in the songs.

 

[U2girl]

Some of it, but not counting The first time and Wanderer, I think that particular subject was more present on Pop.

 

[U2girl]

So what will be the message this time?

Mortality or Africa.

 

[schnumi]

Fuck off..

But seriously i hope they have some attitude now, and i would be even happier if they could cut down the africa part to the minimum.

Not that i don't support it but i think they can make it clear enough around the concerts not in it.

 

[Michael Griffiths]

I think there could be a focus on the collision of Eastern and Western culture, in the sound of the music as well as the theme(s). A journey from Africa, the Middle East, to Ireland and back again...

 

[mofo82]

I think there could be a focus on the collision of Eastern and Western culture, in the sound of the music as well as the theme(s). A journey from Africa, the Middle East, to Ireland and back again...

Great to see you back Michael Now it truly feels like new album season

I hope you're right on a few regards, mainly because Bono is so passionate about his work and the plight of others that if he just channels it approriately as though not making a commercial out of the entire album, that it could be an amazing outpouring by him. Think 'The Two Americas', i.e., 'The Joshua Tree' uprooted, replanted and grown in Africa. In particular 'Bullet' hits me. It's been around so long on the live scene so long that you know it still hits a huge vein with the band. I think it's safe expect something along the same lines.

 

[Aygo]

I think there could be a focus on the collision of Eastern and Western culture, in the sound of the music as well as the theme(s). A journey from Africa, the Middle East, to Ireland and back again...

Fcking great!
Didn't Bono say - somewhen in Fez - that he felt that Morocco is sort of a borderline between the modern western and eastern cultures?