Courtesy of Broken Fingaz Crew
Courtesy of Broken Fingaz CrewA provocative video for the new U2 song “Get Out of Your Own Way” has premiered on the band’s official VEVO YouTube channel.
The animated clip was directed and created by the Israeli graffiti collective the Broken Fingaz Crew, and features a variety of ominous and politically charged images, including a dead body washing up on a beach, and a scene where President Trump watches hooded Ku Klux Klansmen marching with torches outside the White House.
A message from the Broken Fingaz Crew explains, “The video addresses the current political situation: 2017 for us was the year fascists worldwide felt confident enough to raise their heads again, encouraged by Trump and other world leaders, who use people’s fear to build more walls and segregation. The song is both a personal letter and a clarion cry to the global situation.”
According to the collective, the clip was “shot entirely analogue, using paper cut and stop motion animation techniques.”
The video also features an animated depiction of U2 performing onstage, children from different races holding hands on a spinning planet Earth, a pile of burning money, and a graffiti-covered wall.
“Get Out of Your Own Way” appears on U2’s recently released album, Songs of Experience.
In other U2 news, the Irish rockers have announced a European leg of their exPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour that gets underway August 31 in Berlin and is plotted out through an October 23 concert in London. The trek kicks off with a previously reported North American leg that begins May 2 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and runs through a July 29 show in Newark, New Jersey.
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