After teaming up with RED and Bank of America to debut new song "Invisible" as a free charitable download with a high-profile spot during Super Bowl XLVIII, Irish rockers U2 have released the song's black and white performance music video. This anthemic number about leaving one's hometown, is typical of the band's joyous, soaring and inspiring anthems. Goosed by a motorik beat and piled high with Edge's otherworldly guitar spasms, the tune functions as both a love song and a universal call for harmony as the rock band's charismatic frontman, Bono soulfully intones, "There is no them, there's only us."
"Invisible" is an electro-tinged rock anthem with features lyrics harnessing notions of self-respect, both the personal kind and the universal-struggle kind. According to Bono, "Invisible" is a song about him "leaving home with just enough rage to see it through and this feeling of arriving in London, sleeping in the station and coming out into the punk rock explosion that was happening." In an interview with BBC Radio 1, he explained that "there were really wild extraordinary people and then you feel deeply not extraordinary. You feel invisible and you're screaming to be seen and you've got your band and this is your whole life. It's that feeling of getting out of town."
While Bono has claimed recently that "Invisible," is not the first single from U2's upcoming Danger Mouse-produced 13th studio album (tentatively scheduled for a summer release), "We have another song we're excited about to kick off the album, ('Invisible') is just sort of a sneak preview - to remind people we exist," adding that "it's the first one we finished" and that the group will continue working on the full-length "for a couple of months." The song has received all of the trappings of a single, like this splashy black and white performance video.
Shot in a Santa Monica airport hangar over three days last month, the Mark Romanek-directed visual clip - a dynamic live performance - finds the Irish quartet performing the new tune against a massive tri-panel screen with multiple video effects in front of a captive audience of exuberant fans, Bono crooning the song from a circular hangdown microphone while the rest of the band riffs away in front of a screen of multiple video effects. It's no "Where The Streets Have No Name," but it's better than "Red Hill Mining Town." Bono crowdsurfs in it.
"Invisible" is an electro-tinged rock anthem with features lyrics harnessing notions of self-respect, both the personal kind and the universal-struggle kind. According to Bono, "Invisible" is a song about him "leaving home with just enough rage to see it through and this feeling of arriving in London, sleeping in the station and coming out into the punk rock explosion that was happening." In an interview with BBC Radio 1, he explained that "there were really wild extraordinary people and then you feel deeply not extraordinary. You feel invisible and you're screaming to be seen and you've got your band and this is your whole life. It's that feeling of getting out of town."
While Bono has claimed recently that "Invisible," is not the first single from U2's upcoming Danger Mouse-produced 13th studio album (tentatively scheduled for a summer release), "We have another song we're excited about to kick off the album, ('Invisible') is just sort of a sneak preview - to remind people we exist," adding that "it's the first one we finished" and that the group will continue working on the full-length "for a couple of months." The song has received all of the trappings of a single, like this splashy black and white performance video.
Shot in a Santa Monica airport hangar over three days last month, the Mark Romanek-directed visual clip - a dynamic live performance - finds the Irish quartet performing the new tune against a massive tri-panel screen with multiple video effects in front of a captive audience of exuberant fans, Bono crooning the song from a circular hangdown microphone while the rest of the band riffs away in front of a screen of multiple video effects. It's no "Where The Streets Have No Name," but it's better than "Red Hill Mining Town." Bono crowdsurfs in it.
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