Sometimes life is funny in its synchronicity. As anyone who knows me already knows, I am currently enrolled as a full-time college student, pursuing my bachelor’s degree. This semester, I am taking a class on gender studies. This is noteworthy because this past week, and for much of the semester, we have been discussing in […]
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I had intended to talk about a different video today but I feel like there won’t be many more occasions of a new U2 video, so I decided that I should take advantage of the opportunity and write about the promotional video for U2’s new song, “Your Song Saved My Life.” The video is about […]
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U2 has won many awards over the years. 22 Grammy awards – more than any other band in history. Brit Awards. Golden Globes. A Hall of Fame induction. The list is nearly endless, but yet, somehow, its the ones that got away, the awards that U2 didn’t win that I tend to remember the most. […]
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I worry that the members of U2 are feeling old. I noticed a while back that after this video, which showcases the band performing live from a barge in the Hudson River, there were no more videos in support of Songs of Experience, which actually showed the band. There was a fistful of remix videos […]
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I often write about how I like videos that tell a story. Well, this video tells a story that is directly related to the lyric of the song in question. This video showcases four couples who are all answering the question, as presented in the song “You’re the Best Thing About Me,” of “Why am […]
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In a video campaign that had several entries, from “The Blackout” and on through all of the remix videos for “Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way,” this video for “You’re the Best Thing About Me” might go down as the best video from Songs of Experience. Certainly, it is my favorite, as it […]
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Often, the first single from a new U2 album is the first thing we fans have heard from the band in several years. Even though that wasn’t the case with Songs of Experience and its single “You’re the Best Thing About Me,” I was still anxiously awaiting the single and its corresponding video. To be […]
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There seem to be two types of U2 songs–those that sound better in the studio, and those that work best in a live setting. I believe that “The Blackout,” the promo video for which is today’s topic, falls firmly into the latter category. It seems that the members of the band U2 agree with me […]
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This week, we are examining the 2015 video for “Song for Someone,” by director and producer Matt Mahurin. Mahurin’s name should be familiar to U2 fans as he has worked with the band in the past, most recognizably on the video for “With or Without You.” Mahurin is, as opposed to a storyteller, an artist, […]
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The videos from Songs of Innocence were somewhat unusual for U2 at the time in that there were a couple of short films that did not feature video footage of the band at all. The first short film was Aoife McArdle’s video for “Every Breaking Wave.” The second short film was Vincent Haycock’s video for […]
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