U2 - Acrobat | The Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project | 11 | November 2021

"Where there is no value to human life... you will find me. My name... might be Trump... Bolsonaro... Putin... Le Pen, Assad, Orban... Gauland. Big bruiser...or little despot. Wherever you see those many names... remember this – there's just one face attached to them. It's MY face. It's MY face. Don't believe what you hear. Don't believe what you see. If you just close your eyes... you can feel the enemy."

The countdown has begun. We arrived to 'Acrobat', for which we wanted to make a really special, dark music video full of effects. This is perhaps the darkest-sounding song from the Achtung Baby record. For the song, our old friend Francis returned on guitar, and he played the guitar on the last song as well. This project is slowly coming to the end!

Let's celebrate the 30th Anniversary of U2's 7th epos called Achtung Baby.
We created this project to play the whole album through 2021. There are 12 songs on the album and there are 12 months in the year. What else could we say? Stay tuned and search for the other songs here on YouTube.

U2 - Acrobat | The Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project | 11 | November 2021

"Acrobat" is a song by rock band U2, and is the eleventh track on their 1991 album Achtung Baby. The song developed from a riff created by guitarist the Edge, and is played in a 12
8 time signature. Lyrically, the song expresses themes of hypocrisy, alienation, and moral confusion. Although "Acrobat" was rehearsed prior to the third leg of the Zoo TV Tour, it had not been performed live until its debut on the Experience + Innocence Tour on 2 May 2018.

Lead singer Bono was influenced by the work of Delmore Schwartz when writing the lyrics of "Acrobat", to whom the song is dedicated. The title of his first book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, is quoted in the final verse. Bono noted the book "was on my mind when I was writing the words... It's hard to wrap the book up in a few lines, but Delmore Schwartz is kind of a formalist... I'm the opposite. I'm in the mud as a writer, so I could do with a bit of [Schwartz], and that's why I enjoy him." The song was developed from a riff guitarist The Edge developed during a soundcheck in Auckland, New Zealand, on the Lovetown Tour in 1989. He noted that the beat is unusual for a U2 song, saying it "was the jumping off point, to try and do something with an unusual beat."

Producer Daniel Lanois became disoriented with the direction U2 took "Acrobat" during its recording. Bono noted "Daniel had such a hard time on that... he was trying to get us to play to our strengths and I didn't want to. I wanted to play to our weaknesses. I wanted to experiment." Bono noted that the end product "doesn't quite get off the ground the way I'd hoped it would." An early mix of the track was included on some versions of the 20th anniversary reissue of Achtung Baby. The mix, titled "'Baby' Acrobat", contained lyrics that were later modified to a different perspective ("You know I'd hit out if I only knew who to hit" instead of the final "I know you'd hit out if you only knew who to hit") or scrapped entirely ("If the sky turns to purple and the moon turns to blood / Will you dig me out when I'm face down in the mud").

"Acrobat" is played in a 12/8 time signature. The Edge noted "it's a very Irish time signature, it's used in a lot of traditional Irish music, but in rock and roll you don't really hear it that much."

In the time leading up to the start of the Achtung Baby sessions, U2 listened to records which had a "hard-edged industrial kind of sound", including works by KMFDM and Sonic Youth, as well as artists such as Roy Orbison and Jacques Brel. These influences led the band to seek the creation of songs which were harder musically than their previous work, while remaining personal lyrically.

More details you can find here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrobat_(U2_song)

U2 - Acrobat (Studio version) | Cover by The Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project

Original song is written by U2 from the album "Achtung Baby" (Islands Records, 1991)

The Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project are:

Bono | Ireland - Lead Vocals
https://www.youtube.com/user/U2official

Francis | Philippines - Guitars, Effects
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC83H...

Zoltan | Hungary - Bass Guitar and Bass Synthesizer
http://www.youtube.com/user/czibzol

Laurent | France - Drums, Percussion and Synthesizer
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZQX...

The Achtung Baby 30 Cover Project | 2021

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