Bono’s Blog

Have you heard about the female shark that impregnated itself? So this blacktip reef shark had no lover, no special someone to call her own, and she gets pregnant anyway. The world is truly a mysterious and beautiful place. But I have to admit, this has thrown me for a loop.

A lot of my songwriting comes from a special place between “A Man and a Woman” (as the song says). If mammals are going to start procreating solo, where does that leave my music? I’m no zoologist, but if our women won’t need us anymore, than they won’t need love songs, right? What will be the point of pop music at all? I can only write “Baby You Don’t Need Me, But I Still Need You” so many different ways.

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