I’m a Scottish guy watching an Irish band singing a tribute to America and I wanna cry. When that curtain falls....shit man, it’s heartbreaking and euphoric at that same time.
The names was done during the U2 Elevation Tour shows before the Super Bowl. This is, by far the greatest halftime show ever. Nothing even comes close. It was not only a great performance, but it was an iconic cultural event. After 9/11 big events cancelled. Sports and concerts and other large scale events were put on hold. Flights were cancelled for a while. It took a while to get back to normalcy. So this halftime show was enormously important. Many artists could have done an entertaining show. U2 went far beyond that. They caught the zeitgeist of the times, and delivered an experience like no other. People were crying, screaming, shaking, dancing, hugging and shivering. It was a cathartic euphoric communal healing rejuvenating event that was greater than just great entertainment. Every other halftime show was, at best, just a great performance of spectacle excite and music (sometimes even live and performed excellently). The next best halftime show was Prince, which again, was just a really great performance in the Rain, nothing more. It was also about him. U2 performance (as usual) was a communal experience. No other band could elevate the show, and make everyone forget they were at a football game, coming together fully enraptured that emotional release, expression and shared oneness. Other bands would have made it a spectacle, gone over the top with fantastical fashion, conversation-conjuring wardrobe bits and pieces, lavish lasers and lights, and monster medley of musicians like all other Superbowl halftime shows. Instead, U2 chose to keep it simple, the flag was a small reveal inside his jacket (not part of the set. not blaring across the stadium), It was small, and inside his jacket, close to him. Intimate. That was intentional symbolism. It came at the end, after the clear, dedicated focus on the names was over. Here too, the scrim had the effect of falling (it could have been lifted, or pulled down), then the lights came up and out into the crowd, immediately after the fall, during climax of the song.
That was an awesome assessment of U2's performance in contrast to that delicate, emotional time we all experienced as a nation. Togetherness, a truly unified solidarity was born out of that horrific terrorist attack on 9/11/2001 - for a up to a year, liberal and Conservative, Democrat or Republican, Caucasian or African ancestry, all seemed to melt into one authentic patriotism and each of us represented the United States of America with unquestionable pride. We could use a heavy dose of unification and empathy during these troubling times. I will leave my political viewpoints out of that conclusion just to allow for those sentiments to ring sincere. 🙂 However, wonderfully written comment, seemed more like a professionally impressive informative article from a reputable magazine than a simple whimsical response on TH-cam! I enjoyed it, again, you demonstrated great insight and really captured the symbolic meaning of this particular U2 performance at that specific time and place.
@@bodies2magenta Im humbled. Thanks for such a complimentary reply. I feel it was what we were all experiencing and needed. And I very much agree on needing that unity today.
I can't even watch this without shedding tears.....55 year old man.....9/11 devastated me along with many, many others......I will never forget. Ever......
The most moving Superbowl halftime ever, I can remember Like it was yesterday. One of the only times i ever seen my father cry........ He never heard of U2.....hates rock music.... But when i told him they were an Irish band ......and when he opened his coat and showed our Flag...... Remember how united our country was and still can be.....thanks 1st time watching your channel and Im impressed with your knowledge and respect of U2 ....seen them 4 times myself ....much respect
The look on his face alllll the way through the video of U2 playing is exactly the same look as my face while watching it back. Timeless performance…timeless band. ✌🏻
So very lucky that this was my only Super Bowl in person. Absolutely amazing. Pregame was Paul McCartney and the Boston Pops. Got to drink beer with Pete Coors on Bourbon St. New Orleans stepped it up big time. Security was amazing. Game was a nail biter. But U2 was so perfect. America at its best was on full display for the world.
love the reaction from the both of you. this was the halftime performance that i will remember forever. it brought me to tears so soon after 9/11. it still does until this very day. thank you for uploading this. it really means something to me. as another person has commented, please react to their song "bad" from live aid 1985. thanks again. love and peace to you....
Hi Lovely Sassy, Hi Hank, U2 frontman Bono was born Paul David Hewson on 10th May 1960 in Dublin, Ireland and is 60 years old, guitarist The Edge was born David Howell Evans on 8th August 1961 in Barking, England, but moved to Ireland in 1976, he's 59 years old, bassist Adam Clayton was born in Chinoor, England, then moved to Ireland, he's 60 years old, and drummer Larry Mullen Jnr was born in Ireland and is 59 years old!! 😀 😀 Stay Safe Lovely Lady, you too Hank!! 😀 😀 Where The Streets Have No Name is from their 1987 album The Joshua Tree!! 😀 😀
great video guy!! i am soon to be 22 and when this half time show was live i was just 2 years old! i have watched it many times and so wish i could have been there and feel the emotion, energy and sadness in that stadium. just watching the video is intense. my dad has listened to U2 since the 80s and i have been listening to them my whole life, U2 means a lot to me.
Mixing up his music with his sports is too funny. I think brother in law Hank is losing it when sister in law Sassy knows is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers😂😂😂 I love U2 so I love this choice of song🙏🏻🙏🏻👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️❤️❤️
Giants all the way for me too. Was rooting for Buffalo this year though. My favorite Halftime performance is Prince doing Purple Rain in the rain. Will be interesting to see what you choose to do next.
So sad to see the names of all those folks who perished, but quite a tribute, assuming you can get past the hotness.. And we should remember , not so coincidentally, thst the Patriots won the game that year.
I’m a Scottish guy watching an Irish band singing a tribute to America and I wanna cry. When that curtain falls....shit man, it’s heartbreaking and euphoric at that same time.
American here, in my early 20's on 9/11. This performance is gutting in the most... heartfelt way.
The names was done during the U2 Elevation Tour shows before the Super Bowl. This is, by far the greatest halftime show ever. Nothing even comes close. It was not only a great performance, but it was an iconic cultural event. After 9/11 big events cancelled. Sports and concerts and other large scale events were put on hold. Flights were cancelled for a while. It took a while to get back to normalcy. So this halftime show was enormously important. Many artists could have done an entertaining show. U2 went far beyond that. They caught the zeitgeist of the times, and delivered an experience like no other. People were crying, screaming, shaking, dancing, hugging and shivering. It was a cathartic euphoric communal healing rejuvenating event that was greater than just great entertainment. Every other halftime show was, at best, just a great performance of spectacle excite and music (sometimes even live and performed excellently). The next best halftime show was Prince, which again, was just a really great performance in the Rain, nothing more. It was also about him. U2 performance (as usual) was a communal experience. No other band could elevate the show, and make everyone forget they were at a football game, coming together fully enraptured that emotional release, expression and shared oneness. Other bands would have made it a spectacle, gone over the top with fantastical fashion, conversation-conjuring wardrobe bits and pieces, lavish lasers and lights, and monster medley of musicians like all other Superbowl halftime shows. Instead, U2 chose to keep it simple, the flag was a small reveal inside his jacket (not part of the set. not blaring across the stadium), It was small, and inside his jacket, close to him. Intimate. That was intentional symbolism. It came at the end, after the clear, dedicated focus on the names was over. Here too, the scrim had the effect of falling (it could have been lifted, or pulled down), then the lights came up and out into the crowd, immediately after the fall, during climax of the song.
Well said Mike.
That was an awesome assessment of U2's performance in contrast to that delicate, emotional time we all experienced as a nation. Togetherness, a truly unified solidarity was born out of that horrific terrorist attack on 9/11/2001 - for a up to a year, liberal and Conservative, Democrat or Republican, Caucasian or African ancestry, all seemed to melt into one authentic patriotism and each of us represented the United States of America with unquestionable pride. We could use a heavy dose of unification and empathy during these troubling times. I will leave my political viewpoints out of that conclusion just to allow for those sentiments to ring sincere. 🙂 However, wonderfully written comment, seemed more like a professionally impressive informative article from a reputable magazine than a simple whimsical response on TH-cam! I enjoyed it, again, you demonstrated great insight and really captured the symbolic meaning of this particular U2 performance at that specific time and place.
@@bodies2magenta Im humbled. Thanks for such a complimentary reply. I feel it was what we were all experiencing and needed. And I very much agree on needing that unity today.
U2 fan but get real prince had the best performance
Perhaps Greg,
But U2's performance had a more emotional impact because of the times.
Best super bowl performance ever
If not the best, certainly the most powerful and important.
I can't even watch this without shedding tears.....55 year old man.....9/11 devastated me along with many, many others......I will never forget. Ever......
The most moving Superbowl halftime ever, I can remember
Like it was yesterday. One of the only times i ever seen my father cry........ He never heard of U2.....hates rock music....
But when i told him they were an Irish band ......and when he opened his coat and showed our Flag...... Remember how united our country was and still can be.....thanks 1st time watching your channel and Im impressed with your knowledge and respect of
U2 ....seen them 4 times myself ....much respect
Thanks for your kind words William.
I'm glad your dad enjoyed this great performance By this very important band.
Super emotional and powerful. No lip snycing needed with Bono.
Easily the best halftime performance ever!
The look on his face alllll the way through the video of U2 playing is exactly the same look as my face while watching it back. Timeless performance…timeless band. ✌🏻
That was definetly the best half time show ever since I've been watching the Superbowl, I am 62 lots of Superbowls!!
So very lucky that this was my only Super Bowl in person. Absolutely amazing. Pregame was Paul McCartney and the Boston Pops. Got to drink beer with Pete Coors on Bourbon St. New Orleans stepped it up big time. Security was amazing. Game was a nail biter. But U2 was so perfect. America at its best was on full display for the world.
Brings TEARS to the eye's STILL!!
A U2 fan😀
Greetings from the Netherlands👍😃😀
U2 is amazing. Please more U2 reaction, we need it!
I agree Mario.👍🎸
love the reaction from the both of you. this was the halftime performance that i will remember forever. it brought me to tears so soon after 9/11. it still does until this very day. thank you for uploading this. it really means something to me. as another person has commented, please react to their song "bad" from live aid 1985. thanks again. love and peace to you....
Thumbs-up from Ireland, 🇮🇪 guys, Great review.
The greatest performance by the greatest band on earth!
It can’t possibly be overstated how moving this performance was. This was the first Super Bowl after 9/11. This was massive.
Brother in law Hank is such a fan of U2 his little doggo is named Bono 😁🤗🐶🥰
I love 2 Bonos.😁🐕🎸
Hi Lovely Sassy, Hi Hank, U2 frontman Bono was born Paul David Hewson on 10th May 1960 in Dublin, Ireland and is 60 years old, guitarist The Edge was born David Howell Evans on 8th August 1961 in Barking, England, but moved to Ireland in 1976, he's 59 years old, bassist Adam Clayton was born in Chinoor, England, then moved to Ireland, he's 60 years old, and drummer Larry Mullen Jnr was born in Ireland and is 59 years old!! 😀 😀 Stay Safe Lovely Lady, you too Hank!! 😀 😀 Where The Streets Have No Name is from their 1987 album The Joshua Tree!! 😀 😀
The Edge moved to Ireland long before 1976. He grew up in Ireland.
A country united. Amazing performance.
great video guy!! i am soon to be 22 and when this half time show was live i was just 2 years old! i have watched it many times and so wish i could have been there and feel the emotion, energy and sadness in that stadium. just watching the video is intense. my dad has listened to U2 since the 80s and i have been listening to them my whole life, U2 means a lot to me.
i have to ask, where you guys there at the half time show? we are from canada so sadly my parents were not there
Mark Bavaro!! Love it. This was the best superbowl halftime ahow ever.
Terrific reaction :)
NO ONE does it like U2 does!!
Mixing up his music with his sports is too funny. I think brother in law Hank is losing it when sister in law Sassy knows is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers😂😂😂 I love U2 so I love this choice of song🙏🏻🙏🏻👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️❤️❤️
This song was written about Heaven.
Hey hank play Bad by U2 from live aid concert
Giants all the way for me too. Was rooting for Buffalo this year though. My favorite Halftime performance is Prince doing Purple Rain in the rain. Will be interesting to see what you choose to do next.
Go Giants and stay tuned.🏈🎸👍
So sad to see the names of all those folks who perished, but quite a tribute, assuming you can get past the hotness..
And we should remember , not so coincidentally, thst the Patriots won the game that year.
Try to react Bruce Springsteen's super bowl show!!!
they all love America....obviously ?....lol
Is this a Football reaction?!
It's a football musical reaction Laura.😁🎸🏈
@@humbertofarias5980 I was being facetious😉.
He yammered on so long about Football🤪...
Unbelivable Rockconcert. Not Football game.