U2 songs about "celebrity"

[UnforgettableLemon]

Gone
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me
(presumably) Fast Cars

more?

 

[bcrt2000]

Playboy Mansion-- sort of.. the culture that goes with being a celebrity
Even Better than the Real Thing

 

[UnforgettableLemon]

Ah yes, the Playboy Mansion. Hmmm. Hmm.

 

[kawai17]

OOTS has the word celebrity in it

 

[Popmartijn]

Babyface

 

[Flaming Friar Sr]

OOTS has the word celebrity in it

and it sounds like celerity

 

[ZeroDude]

The Fly to a certain extent...........

 

[If you shout...]

Babyface

I think I'll have to disagree...? I always took "Babyface" as being (at worst) about a guy watching a porno or (at best) a guy fascinated with the beauty of a woman on TV. I guess that that's a rather tenuous relationship with the notion of "celebrity," or that it at least COULD be taken that way, but I don't think that "Babyface" is actually ABOUT celebrity.

 

[djerdap]

I think City of Blinding Lights is about celebrity. And trying to find yourself in it.
"They're advertising in the skies
For people like us."

 

[Popmartijn]

I think I'll have to disagree...? I always took "Babyface" as being (at worst) about a guy watching a porno or (at best) a guy fascinated with the beauty of a woman on TV. I guess that that's a rather tenuous relationship with the notion of "celebrity," or that it at least COULD be taken that way, but I don't think that "Babyface" is actually ABOUT celebrity.

Then we disagree.
I see it as someone thinking they know a person, just because that person is famous (on TV). The protagonist thinks there is a relationship with the person on TV and that he/she can control it by controlling the video.

 

[theedge111]

I think I'll have to disagree...? I always took "Babyface" as being (at worst) about a guy watching a porno or (at best) a guy fascinated with the beauty of a woman on TV. I guess that that's a rather tenuous relationship with the notion of "celebrity," or that it at least COULD be taken that way, but I don't think that "Babyface" is actually ABOUT celebrity.

Babyface was about Adam and Naomi's relationshio i always thought.

 

[patrickU217]

I think Kite is about celebrity in a certain way. We all know that this song is about "letting go of somebody you dont want to let go of", as Bono puts it on the Boston DVD. But if you listen to the last verse of the song i Think Bono refers to being in a rock band and the fact that this will eventually come to an end. When he sings the chorus he also might sing it to us, the fans.

 

[Shade]

I personally don't like that there are so many U2 songs about celebrity, these days. It makes me wonder if U2 are breathing rarified air into their creative lives. I understand that fame has changed Bono's life, but how many U2 fans can actually personally relate to that? When I hear that last incongruous bit on 'Kite', it tears me out of the song, because I can no longer apply it to my own life. What could have been a song about my dead mother, or something, is suddenly about Bono's fame being endangered by hip-hop. Because I am not famous, fame means little to me. And, I don't particularly feel sorry for people who continually seek it out, and then, in a way, complain about it. It seems more befitting of someone like J-Lo.