powerhour24
ONE love, blood, life
I guess it would depend on the mood of media coverage, but I'd tend to agree. A cop out response that's totally plausible though would be a medley of all their hit slower songs.
I love this song, a lot of the times we (myself included) let the cognitive dissonance of it being overexposed or misunderstood by a lot of people (choosing this as your wedding song? ) overshadow its simple brilliance, is it a groundbreaking composition? No its not complex at all, but the lyric is so much denser than what the surface level would suggest, its the signature example of that in U2's catalog (funny how many different modes Bono has as a songwriter, one of which is complex poetic, and another the kind he often gets criticized for, writing songs that sound too universal and easy, but to me with songs like this you can always hear that they come from the heart and that means something to me, and the lyrics do leave space for people to add their own significance to). The connection its conception has with really uniting the band on their new direction should of course make it infinitely important to a fan, just think about the alternate universe where they didn't write this, or someone scoffed it off cynically... AB doesn't fit together as the pop masterpiece that it was, U2's only known for one sound and that's the UF-JT sound (unfortunately to fools this is the biggest criticism of them in the mainstream, and its so perverse because its simply untrue)... ZooTV doesn't happen, and we don't have U2 to love (or push around) for the past 20 years... as a lover of this band and their amazing history, that connection they have with this song should mean everything, the band obviously still feel that union which is why it is still played every night even when some hits finally take a break here and there, so don't complain about it being worn out, appreciate what you have,
and ontop of that you have to have no pulse not to feel a resonance with it.
I love this song, a lot of the times we (myself included) let the cognitive dissonance of it being overexposed or misunderstood by a lot of people (choosing this as your wedding song? ) overshadow its simple brilliance, is it a groundbreaking composition? No its not complex at all, but the lyric is so much denser than what the surface level would suggest, its the signature example of that in U2's catalog (funny how many different modes Bono has as a songwriter, one of which is complex poetic, and another the kind he often gets criticized for, writing songs that sound too universal and easy, but to me with songs like this you can always hear that they come from the heart and that means something to me, and the lyrics do leave space for people to add their own significance to). The connection its conception has with really uniting the band on their new direction should of course make it infinitely important to a fan, just think about the alternate universe where they didn't write this, or someone scoffed it off cynically... AB doesn't fit together as the pop masterpiece that it was, U2's only known for one sound and that's the UF-JT sound (unfortunately to fools this is the biggest criticism of them in the mainstream, and its so perverse because its simply untrue)... ZooTV doesn't happen, and we don't have U2 to love (or push around) for the past 20 years... as a lover of this band and their amazing history, that connection they have with this song should mean everything, the band obviously still feel that union which is why it is still played every night even when some hits finally take a break here and there, so don't complain about it being worn out, appreciate what you have,
and ontop of that you have to have no pulse not to feel a resonance with it.