Click Here! don't hesitate to download "One" (track 16) performed by Mary J. Blige and U2. As
Slate's music critic Jody Rosen says:
"Blige encounters a heretofore immovable object: Bono. In a live recording from the Hurricane Katrina relief telecast, she joins U2, one of the few acts in the world with a comparable mastery of the grandiose, to perform "
One." Bono sings the song's first verse beautifully. Blige then steps forward and steals the song from him completely - swooping, growling, leaping into a supple falsetto and unleashing spiraling melismas - recasting U2's anthem as a troubled sister's condemnation and lament. Bono may have planned to sing another verse; he doesn't bother. What do you call a woman who can storm U2's stage and reduce rock's biggest ego to a shrinking violet? Diva seems too mild a word."
It's amazing!
5 comments:
J - I downloaded it on your recommendation. Nearly brought me to tears.
Go ahead, everyone. Laugh if you want.
I PARTED with my dollar..and wow. i'm blown away. the girl BRINGS IT!!! the old version just seems lame now. i think i'll play it again!
Awesome! I am glad you both found it as moving as I did. It's the one time where I am sure Bono was like..."I'll just step aside and let this thing happen."
Her phrasing of
"Love is a temple, love the higher vow, you asked me to enter, but then you make me crawl, and I can't keep holding on, to what you got, when all you got is hurt"
Is devestating. Especially when you have the images of Katrina, Africa, or other places of crisis bouncing around in your head.
When I played it for Brandon, he said "that makes me wanna cry!" without having read my comment! He also had no idea who Mary J. Blige was.
I have a strange attraction to Blige's music since she collaberated with Sting a few years back. Wow, is all I can say about this one.
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