U2 has premiered the video of GET ON YOUR BOOTS, the first single to be taken from their upcoming album release "No Line on the Horizon". Its the twelfth studio album for the band and is set to be released on February 27 in Ireland and the United States on March 3, 2009. The Get On Your Boots video features U2 playing the song against a backdrop of colorful and abstract graphics including images of well known female activists, along with marching girls in high leather boots in the background. It was designed by video director Alex Courtes, who previously co-directed the music videos for "Vertigo" and "City of Blinding Lights". The video also makes reference to war as the
A bootlegged version of Get On Your Boots was previously released on YouTube. However, it was of poor quality and immediately pulled out. This is the new and official version that came out a couple of days ago. According to the U2's backing vocalist David Howell Evans, the video is based on the idea that men have screwed thing up so badly that its time to hand over the reigns to women. How's that for a message?
With regards to "No Line On The Horizon", this is what Wikipedia has to say about it:
Following the success of the previous two albums, which resembled U2's earlier work, No Line on the Horizon is reportedly more in keeping with the experimental phase explored in Achtung Baby, Zooropa, and Pop. "Get on Your Boots" is described by Q magazine as "demented electro grunge employs a proto-rock n’roll riff, but propelled into the future, before taking a sudden hip-hop twist midway through." Rolling Stone magazine has called it a "blazing, fuzzed-out rocker that picks up where "Vertigo" left off." Hot Press described the song as "[...] a thoroughly contemporary, intense electro grunge exercise, with Adam Clayton's powerful bass to the fore, which mixes hip hop influences with shades of the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and The Beatles."
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