Pop
The latest target for singer/songwriter Bono's acute social critique is advertising. POP frequently distorts words while the ongoing Popmort Four feature the largest TV screen ever made as stage backdrop. Both these devices deliberately confuse reality and perception, which is precisely the charge Bono wishes to level at the marketing execs.
Simon Wheeler
U2 remain the band capable of putting more meaning into a line than many others manage in a whole album.
