Reactionary

I’m in awe of their awesomeness etc and all their acceptance speeches were so cute and funny and *cute*. But… I’m beginning to suspect that I may be stupid. Case in point: Springsteen’s induction speech. I didn’t get why people thought it was so funny besides just a general shadow of what he was saying. But I always want to get jokes totally before laughing at them and I just didn’t get what he meant. What did he mean? What was I missing. I’ve watched it a few times since and I still think I just don’t get it. It could be because I’m very protective with U2 (mothers with their cubs have nothing on me and my man). Or it could be I just don’t get Springsteen and I don’t get why people think he’s such a genius etc. I always found his sound rather grating though I do like some of his songs. I don’t know. Ali obviously loved it and so did U2. I don’t get it. I’m stupid. Dammit.

I hate Bono’s hair. There I said it. I’m a superficial wench. But it bothers me and I cringe whenever I see it. There are people who would tell me SHUT UP ABOUT THE HAIR ALREADY!!! ISN’T IT ENOUGH HE’S SO AWESOME ETC. But, isn’t it unfair to himself to not play up how hot he really is? He doesn’t get it. I think he thinks he fooled everyone during the ZooTV era into thinking he was a babe. He was a babe. And he didn’t get it. He thought it was all part of the con. Get a haircut Bono and keep up with the dye job. I know it’s a small matter when placed against the Concerns of the Century, but when taken for what it is and in its context, it’s just aweful hair. “The Ground Beneath Her Feet” was awesomeness for being in his forties. And now that he’s lost the weight, he needs to fix that hair. Could it be possible he thinks it looks good? I mean, he obviously thinks about it (hair dye), he just thinks the wrong thing!

I’ll give it to you Larry Mullen’s good-looking. But do I really need old rock stars to tell me that, too? There was Springsteen at the Waldorf attesting to that again, pounding it into the eternal pavement. Larry’s great-looking, but he’s too typical in the hotness for me. I mean, he looks like how societal norms have dictated Anglo-Saxon (or Celtic) good-looking men look like. Is everyone blind or am I the only one? His bad hair and increasing lines haven’t helped the cause, but circa 1986 Bono hit the Hot Phase. In the Hot Phase, the man was burning holes in sidewalks, I swear upon all holy books written and to be written. From then to about 1993, he was the hottest thing alive or otherwise. I love POP, gym-rat Bono also, but the early 90’s are for me the apex of male hotness for the ages. Fortunately, some of that was caught and digitalized in videos and some very flattering camera angles and photographs. People magazine will roast forever in brimstone for getting it so so wrong back then.

Congratulations, U2, for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and for your continuing work, but don’t quit your day job, darling. If you won’t listen to me (because I’m nobody), listen to the man you so obviously admire– The Boss.

Posted on March 20th, 2005 under General, Tunes •  Print •  Email • RSS 2.0 feed • Both comments and pings are currently closed