It appeared to us that you revolted against yourself, you threw away your own crown… or something like that. The stage usually is an up-drawbridge situation that offers regency, a crown… rock is feudal. There’s something annoying about the safe distance that separates performers from their crowd, but no one brought such a violence to cross that moat like you. The intellect as sharp as flint fists… but if you were stupid enough to miss the intellectual Iggy Pop, the instinctual was there for you… part animal/part animus, it was an adrenaline rush to see you leap from the stage into us, smashing the fourth wall with your head. That voice that carries those words carried so many of us. But in and around the death cult that follows rock, it felt so bold and bracing to hear you sing… We thought to ourselves ‘if Iggy made it, we all can’… that turned out not to be true. The picture of health that you appear on the cover of the album, LUST FOR LIFE, was so inspirational to me and my friends. The lights, camera, action is the way we draw nearer, but the intimacy is always about meeting people where they are, and reminding us all that…
… this is an invocation as well as a declaration.Ĭountless shows U2 have walked on to PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER because it reminds us that the real action of the show lies in the hearts and minds of the people who attend it and it’s not the apparatus, however thoughtfully contrived and constructed. I learned that the dizziness, the headiness, the highness of a great show can only happen if both feet are planted in the mud and the messiness of God’s earth.Įven better if the devil is making a play for it… and especially if I’m not feeling it or feeling distracted.
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Whether reading a sacred text or being reminded of how to be in your body on a stage, I refer to you constantly. There are many rituals a performer can choose to give them the strength to take on their audience… to believe tonight can be the best night of our lives (really!) In fact it’s the only way to get anything done.
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Your activism has taught me that it’s OK to be full of rage and still smile and dance with joy. Your music has taught me its OK for an Irishman to try and dance with his whole body not just his feet. It’s as if you are here, your irresistible magnetism pulling people to the dance floor. Immediately all earnestness is vanquished and languished bodies become taut and vertical again, dancing their socks off. Your voice cuts through the torpor like a laser beam ray of sheer joy…like a pizza cutter through the box of boring and all. there has been food and drink and dancing…people have moved to couches, starting to talk earnestly if slightly erratically, about feelings or work or politics… engaging for the ones talking (yes, me), tedious for the listeners… my wife Ali takes a strong view that parties are for partying and that people should not NOT be having fun while there is still fun to be had. I have learned to manage.It’s late at night and the party is growing tired. These New York City streets getting colder, I shoulder Tryin' to reach my goal, my power of speech: unimpeachable I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal The problem is I got a lot of brains, but no polish
I probably shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish (Burr), Anthony Ramos (Laurens), Lafayette, Mulligan. "My Shot" is a song from the Broadway musical Hamilton performed by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton), Leslie Odom Jr.