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U2 - Song for Someone
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Songs Of Innocence (2014)
  1. Originally posted by LikeASong:Proshot version (a mix from Vancouver and San Jose it seems) for Red Nose Day.

    This boring songs improves a lot played live and electric, I admit it Sounds great! And Bono is spot on, singing it better than on the album!!

    [YouTube Video]
    SFS is definitely a song that gets bumped up a notch live. The album versions portray it as a tame ballad, but the live versions have all featured Bono's emotional, raw vocals and Edge being more rough on the guitar. In many ways it sounds very unpolished live, but it works well this way.
  2. A seven and a half minute short film by Vincent Haycock, starring Woody Harrelson and Zoe Harrelson, accompanies the release of Song For Someone, the third single from Songs of Innocence, released this Monday.

    The video features Woody Harrelson as a man being released from prison after years of incarceration and also features his daughter Zoe Harrelson.

    In the US you can now watch the video on Sundance TV: http://bit.ly/1H5cjy4

    In an exclusive for U2.com subscribers we're premiering this special behind-the-scenes video in which Vincent Haycock talks about how he came up with the narrative idea - and how Woody and Zoe became involved.


    http://www.u2.com/news/title/stories-that-havent-been-told
  3. I don't get the video, except maybe "if there is a light, don't let it go out"
  4. Yeah... Not sure what they were going for in video. Unless Woody Harrelson + primetime on Sundance = New market for exposure of song.

    Good marketing, as always.
  5. My reaction to the video:
  8. Now on YouTube

  9. FINALLY a video that is as boring as the song
  11. I don't know how you guys can't see how well the song fits for this scene. Song for Someone has always been about an imperfect individual seeking redemption. A recently released prisoner trying to pick up the relationship with his daughter is the perfect fit for this. The simplicity of the video during the song emphasizes the lyrics and the awkward conversation at the end is absolutely perfect.
  12. Yes! Great drama. Perfect contrast of innocence and experience at the end, which gets a deeper layer with the father's clumbsy conversation and his "new" innocence now that he is free again. And the daughter too, who seems to be very wise already (having a real open mind about her father and being "a better driver than her mum"), seems to show that innocence and experience are flowing into one another (it's not a black and white distinction).
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