I love the original. This surpasses it, and rarely do I think that is the case for covers or collaborations. Mary just kicks it into the stratosphere. Amazing.
I've never heard this version. Miss Blige's voice works so beautifully with the song.. Really lovely. I'm a rock girl but I love her and Method Man's version of "You're All I need to get by"..
This version with Mary J always brings tears to my eyes!! She brings such passion and soul to these lyrics! The message of the song speaks to me on the level of marriage, the idea of two people coming together as ONE, even though the two are not the same, but they "carry each other" in the marriage, which is what makes it work (even though there are are trials!). Could be interpreted on other levels, though!
U2 has done some great collaborations with other artists including this one. My favorite though is 'When Love Comes To Town' featuring the late great BB King. Definately worth a look.
Her and George Michael do one of the best soulful Stevie Wonder covers of his song "As". You will get up in your spirit with this cover. My favorite U2 song will always be"Sunday Bloody Sunday" the meaning and the emotion behind it gets me riled up, and I'm not Irish...lol but I can relate to a people fighting for their right to live and the suffering that entails.
The Joshua Tree album pushed U2 to the stars! It's my favorite album! In Gods Country Where the streets have no name I still haven't found what I'm looking for The list goes on! Phenomenal!!!!! And I live fairly close to the original Joshua tree on the album, I've made the trek 3 times and each time I get tears in my eyes when I walk up to it, even though it fell down in 2000 it's still a moving pilgrimage to see the writing ls in notebooks and tr8nkets left behind fr9m all over the world. Unfortunately it was vandalized right after the 30th anniversary of the 1987 Joshua tree tour, which was mind blowing! I wish people had more respect these days, but that's not the case.
“One” is a song inspired by U2’s guitarist “The Edge”‘s messy divorce. The song advocates unity even if two people are different. This song was written and composed during U2’s Aghtung Baby” album sessions which were recorded in Berlin Germany . The band had gone there right after the “unification” of Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The sessions were not going well and when Bono started playing this song, it changed all the band members attitude. “One” is also inspired by the reunification of Germany.
They also were not getting along and couldn't meet in the middle, they were close to breaking up until ONE was written, it saved the day! And Achtung Baby was born!❤👌
Wow, thanks for educating us all. You're so smart. You must be U2 fan club president. I'm so excited to finally know this I don't think I'll be able to sleep.!!!!!!
Wow......never heard this before. Love, love, love it. “Appreciated “ MJ, but not my usual listen......but she just took U2’s song to a whole new level. Thank you for being willing to take the paths less travelled.
Girl I’ve been watching your reactions for a few weeks now and I’m hooked on reaction videos but yours are the best 🙌🏻 this is one of my favorite songs of all time so I decided to search reaction videos and YOU MADE ONE 😍😍😍 I even caught my 70 year old father in law watching you!
It was a good when they performed the song together live but for me its only good now if you don't know the original song, I think Bono should have sang more in the song with Mary J Blige, if I wasn't listening to the original I would have pick the version Johnny Cash did over Mary J Blige version.
This is one of the very few remakes I think just done the most! It's so good and I love this one over the original. I'd very rarely say that, too. Maybe I'm just biased cos Mary, but so....
The philosophy of art I suppose....I believe that part of the joy of art and especially music, is that each of us can feel and react differently than even the artist originally intended. When I listen to this song, I feel it is not only about separation, but about unity of a people. Especially near the end with the line "Sisters and my brothers". That makes it more about ALL of us than just two individuals in a relationship. The song hints at that throughout while singing in lamentation for a break up. Why I think this is one of the most powerful songs in U2's repertoire. The chorus especially can have that double meaning. "We're one but not the same, we get to carry each other." Not only can be about a relationship, but us as a people as a whole. Because we are all ONE all people regardless of race, religion, creed or gender. We share this earth and as a people we get to carry each other." - So while Bono's intention behind this song is about separation. I believe that part of the beauty of this song is that it grew beyond Bono's original intent.
I'm happy you liked it. And man do you talk fast. LOL Mary does bring the song some strength and power the original was missing. the song is about ML King and the equal rights movement, and bringing everyone together. But the way the lyrics spin it can also be about a man and a woman working their relationship out after a rough spot. Gonna play around in your video lists to find some new music myself. I really enjoyed your video.
Great song and, as always, a pleasure to see how you feel the music. You should try U2 : All I want is you and Where the Streets have no name, live from Slane Castle. A very special concert for U2, back home to Dublin. Bono's father passed away a few days before the concert which made it very emotional. Here's a link
Im a big U2 fan and when i heard One was being redone in a duet I thought NOOO. But Marys vocals are just amazing and make a great even better, its just brilliant.
Holy crapola! Wow, thanks for posting this. Long time U2 fan, but never seen this performance before! Mary J Blige people! What a voice:) Great reaction, got you a new subscriber
Achtung Baby! The first time I heard the song was back in 1991 when Achtung Baby was released. It marked a return to form for U2. The first time I heard this version was watching the Grammy Awards back in 2006 when Mary J. Blige joined U2 on stage to perform the song. Was it awesome? You bet! There are clips of the performance on RU-vid. Check it out.
IT IS ACTUALLY u2 ft mary j.blige...this song was written words and music by bono (us2) ."One" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the third track from their seventh album, Achtung Baby (1991), and it was released as the record's third single in February 1992
This was a U2 song. As stated below by The Edge. When U2 started PROJECT (RED) one of the first things the did was redo the song with Mary J Blige. The results were perfection. PROJECT (RED) raises money for aids research, treatment in Africa along with fighting poverty there. Read up on U2 and Bono's getting some of the richest people in the world (Bill Gates, Warren Buffett) to sign their money over to charity. Incredible accomplishments have abounded from the project.
“One” was originally released in 1991 on the “Achtung Baby” Cd. Then re-released as a collaboration with Mary J in 2005. It wasn’t written about AIDS. The proceeds from the song were donated to AIDS research. Fun Fact this song is considered one the greatest love songs of all time.
The song is all about rebuking the devil. The unsaved are both good and evil and they carry each other until death. To satan: "You act like you never had love...now you want me to go without." "It's too late to drag the past out into the light" means she's born-again...a new creature in Christ. "You asked for me to enter" (angels that believed the lie and fell from heaven) "but then you made me crawl" (broken promises), and I can't keep holding on to what you've got (arm turn signals she's been turned from down to UP and is born-again in Christ Jesus) because all you've got is hurt. That's it. It's what this world is all about. You're an angel that fell, you got yoked with a demon and got born into Satan's kingdom and if you die unsaved, you go into the pit...and if you accept the free gift, you get turned up and get to go back home. Nearly every song out there is about one part of you...or the other. Free choice. Good. Or evil. Every movie, every song, every commercial speaks to this...they put it right in your face every day. Rise and shine, it's almost time to go home!
The song, I believe, was about a father and his homosexual son coming to terms with each other. And there views on the world. And mainly the father accepting the son, for who he is. At, least, I think. But, it could be interpreted probably a thousand different ways, depending on what your going through.
I'm a huge U2 fan and I've never liked this song. It's just flat out boring, monotone drivel. And the production values on the original U2 version make it sound like it was recorded in someone's basement using an old Tascam Portastudio.
This is just terrible. Blige absolutely murders what was great about the original which was beautiful, but also melancholy and subtle. Screaming the lyrics just destroys any genuine emotion they once had. Absolute travesty, stick to the original.
This is more like U2 featuring Mary J. Blige not the other way around. It is their song with her featured in this version.This is one of the greatest bands in rock history. You should really at least check out their Wikipedia page.
This is a song about the life cycle of relationships. You are supposed to be one, when you are in a serious relationship (title is a bible reference and there are references to it in the lyrics). But you are two people trying to fit against the puzzle edges of another person. There are sleepless nights, unhealthy repetitive arguments that don't seem to get resolved, assigning blame and hammering, making the other person crawl. Song reminds you have a choice let your hurt drag things down. Or to understand there is a higher law of love and that requires you to carry each other instead of dragging down each other.
This is very much a reaction video for me. I've never heard this song before now and I found I had to scroll down away from the video and just listen to the music itself rather than be influenced by the imagery. One problem I have with today's music (I'm in my mid-50's, so please indulge me) is if feels as if glamorization has been given more importance than the music and emotional/spiritual content of what's being expressed. I don't care about the fashions, the posing, the lighting, the instruments-- none of that. What I care about is what's being said and how the music is played. I do like the song itself so thanks for posting, India!
I'm sure U2 had to make it more suitable for Mary to go with adding a focus on style image sex and widen the net for more of what young audiences focus on and wanna see in her videos. I can say U2 have made many boring videos to countless legendary songs and probably what's hurt them, to be even bigger than what they are imo They also failed to make videos to many of their great songs also??? Ultraviolet, Silver & Gold, Exit, Running To Stand Still, Mothers of The Disappeared, Hawkmoon69, Heartland, The Electric Co., 11 O'Clock Tick Tock, October, If You Wear Velvet Dress, The First Time, Cedars of Lebanon, Kite, New York etc Way toooooo many songs to abandon and could have made them even greater making sure they had video artist able to capture their art without fail. You didn't spend a dime on clothes Frank Sinatra, (or video production) imo Now the directors of their videos suck along with u2 and Mary approving the editing and completion of their performance together to this classic. They want to take the song to another level obviously by sound but they always fail in the video production department. I never understood this
Bono should just leave this song to Mary. She has a fantastic voice, one of the few REAL soul singers left, I just wish she would sing real soul and not waste that voice.
I'm sorry , Mary J is great but this song is more powerful and soulful sung solo , the original got me through a nasty break-up and has more meaning to me but that's just my personal taste , ty
@Gahan2Vox Are you ok? Can you structure a decent sentence? I think maybe you should keep to your FOX hole and listen to delusional fairy tale lies.But please, keep it to yourself, the world is toxic enough without your filthy contributions. These music topics are a bit much for you to handle, your little short hairs are on fire dear.
I was in a band when this song came out and the lead guitarist for our band thought he WAS the Edge from U2 so after growing up with U2, as awesome as their music was and having to deal with a band member so obsessed, I had enough and didn't really give this duet version much of a listen. Now with all of the real garbage that's on the radio of the new stuff I can really appreciate this version.. Mary J SANG this song.. She didn't leave ANYTHING on the table!!!
